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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[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 218 points 1 year ago (52 children)

Have a look at this post, we had a similar discussion there: https://lemmy.world/post/3074361

Long story short, the platform still needs a bit of work before being able to really move communities. Some examples exist (lemdro.id, piracy, startrek) but those are tech savvy audiences, there would be a lot more friction with more generalist communities

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (12 children)

It also needs about 1000% less hostility when it comes to anything beyond superficial discussion. Basically every news thread just gets brigaded by idiots trolling with pictures of pig shit. I get it, internet is not serious business, but in terms of actual discourse at the moment, this place is worse than Facebook.

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Wow, my experience is very opposite this. It sounds like you're describing reddit to me honestly. I've seen way less hostility here compared with Reddit

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I don't see that either. People have disagreed with me politely and intelligently here which is just good conversation.

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