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It's no secret that Lemmy is shaping up to be a viable alternative to Reddit. The issue it faces however is that it's still relatively niche and not many people know about it. I propose that we change this. By contacting the mods of large subreddits and asking them to make and promote relevant Lemmy communities we could substantially increase the amount of people who discover the fediverse. What's more, I don't think this is would be a hard sell considering many mods are already pissed off with Reddit due to their API changes. I believe that this is the time to act, so this is a call to arms, to help grow the fediverse into the future of social media!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (10 children)

So, for my two cents: REDDIT was my go to for very biased but usually non-corporate info. For example, Baldurs Gate 3. In the past, I would research 'BG3 builds reddit' and just check out different builds people tried. It was always much better than going to a crappy corporate owned 'gaming mag' type website, where most of them just copy/pasted info from reddit anyway. It was a pretty good repository for info like that, and reddthat (or lemmy I guess) has not reached that level yet. I tried doing some searching on here for bg3 builds, almost nada.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, given the Fediverse's much smaller amount of active users and its shorter history, it barely has niche communities nor a wealth of specific knowledge. Anyone who wants the Fediverse to be able to support that role that Reddit currently fulfills of non-corporate information has to know that there's a very large road ahead and it needs active building.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

In my experience, reddit mods are completely hopeless

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to call out a few QoL things here that will help lemmy:

  • There are a lot of read-the-headline-not-the-article commenters which is natural in an aggregation feed of links; there are numerous posts a day where people rewrite the news' headlines to fit their agenda where the actual article and articles headline doesn't reflect ANY of what they're suggesting. if you run these sub lemmies for news on your server, I encourage you to use a bot or enforce rules for news that simply scrapes the title out of the link. Otherwise people will post news links that lead to a real source but have a false headline.
  • There is a staggering amount of people pushing for oddities like child porn acceptance and I keep seeing it. Unless an entire server is compromised, reach out to the mods and ask to get subs cleaned up. Give moderators the benefit of the doubt and a chance to act without breaking federation completely. Its important Lemmy moderates content but also communicates well amongst each other when something is going wrong.
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did this with /r/Cardano mods back before Reddit was blocking all mention of the fediverse even in PM’s. I managed to get one of them to help mod my Cardano communities. I’d wager that it’s exceedingly hard to get in touch with mods over there now that Huffman is blocking fediverse recruitment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They are actually blocking links to fediverse based websites, especially lemmy. Some of the larger lemmy instances are having their links deleted and people posting them warned/banned

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You are asking a moderator of subreddit to destroy that subreddit. Why would they do that?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

On one hand I can't say that we shouldn't try. On the other hand, If we let nature take its course it gives us time to scale. Until they pull a full-on dig 2.0 which might be very close, It would be kind of nice just to have a gentle increasing onslaught coming into our breach.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The main reason I'm still posting and reading on Reddit is that I belong to a lot of small subreddits that haven't had any reason to migrate elsewhere. You can dislike what Reddit leadership is doing, but lots of people belonging to small subreddits haven't been impacted as much.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm just happy that there is a non-mainstream alternative where I don't get to interact with your typical Redditor.

Do we even want Lemmy to become mainstream? Because Reddit progressively went further and further down the toilet as it became more popular.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm really not interested in this being a Reddit clone. Several of the subreddits I wanted to be rid of have already popped up, here, while the better side of Reddit isn't really showing up, especially since Reddit re-opened and purged pesky mods so they could all get back to their scrolling.

Oh, yes lawd, that's what I need. I need fucking antiwork to shit up the place with their misery vibe while 196 goes skipping back to Reddit and takes all the fun times with her. Sign me up.

I wanted to become involved with a completely different community, with different mores, a different feel, and its own vibe. Fuck Reddit. I left that place looong before the blackout thing, I got tired of its toxic culture that sucked the life out of me after a few minutes.

Now that's starting to leak into Lemmy and I'm frankly eyeing the door.

If you liked Reddit, you need to go back there. I didn't like Reddit. I don't want to go back there. I don't want there to come here, either.

The joy of the Fediverse is that growth is nice but we don't NEED growth. A lot of you can't understand that. You can't understand that the platform will NOT fail if it doesn't get the kind of exponential, runaway growth that you associate with social media success. We do not actually need to hit TikTok numbers, ever. We need steady, slow user growth from people wanting something different, that's what. If the Fediverse becomes the Linux of social media, fine.

So no. No to this idea. Let Reddit stay on Reddit, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh when I'm reading comments on Lemmy I'm seeing way more negativity than what was in Reddit discussions.. this comment is really an example of that too. It was a nightmare reading discussion here when Sync was released. I'm trying to like this place but I find the community here to be a bit exhausting, it seems if you don't conform to certain ideas/opinions you're just going to get torn apart in the discussion. Not to mention I'm seeing a lot more politically right leaning attitudes around here than I'm used to (which doesn't HAVE to be a bad thing but unfortunately usually ends up being so).

Not saying all of Lemmy is like this, but from what I see get voted to the top of discussions more often than not, it seems to be the vibe here. Reddit had it's issues of course but at least it still seemed to carry a lighthearted attitude in the community. I hope more people come here still and the community vibe changes.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I think lemmy will have an eternal September moment eventually when the platform improves. Mastodons will likely be soon. It's not a good thing nor is it a bad thing. There will be both benefits to it and negatives as well.

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