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!
I’ve been a reddit user for at least 15 years. I’ve been a Lemmy user for a few months. Lemmy has a long way to go before it’s a “viable Reddit alternative”. Right now it’s barely usable.
You find it unusable? How so?
Any topics outside of memes, IT and politics are nearly non-existent.
This place is heavily skewed towards a specific niche of mostly males that are chronically online
Well, then create some topics and communities
Yeah, because I love talking to myself
Isn‘t the approach from OP tackling exactly that problem? Or do you think it will be too much for switchers to set up a community here?
They could tackle that problem exactly by creating an instance that reposts whatever gets posted to reddit subs. Asking reddit mods to help is just pathetic and won’t work.
And you forgot leftists.
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Sure bub, “every single” website… surely you’re talking about leftist media that covers for the president left and right, refuses to take hardball questions - your ilk are encouragable. Always accusing others of what you yourselves are guilty of. It was your party who supported slavery, and your party who breached the California capitol in the 60s with firearms. It was your party that shot up the congressional baseball game.
Always censoring what you can’t stand to hear … you are the minority but cry the loudest. Red wave.
You think Biden is a leftist and have an elementary school understanding of the American party shifts? Surprising.
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lol more insults. I’ve seen what makes you cheer.
Yeah because trump is going to solve those problems, man GTFO the republican and conservatives are a complete joke, as flawed as the democrats are and as amazing as presidents lincoln roosevelt and eisenhower were, the republicans of today are literally just a joke clown army for putin.
Your beliefs in the scheme of things mean nothing really. Everyone around you thinking the exact same mindless zombie thoughts does not constitute a majority, even if in your head.
I know most of your inspirations likely do spring from your own head, just like whatever undoubted mental health issues you’ve got going on.
Sure, so because I don’t see trump as a savior im mentally unhealthy. Great logic you got going there.
It’s usable, but has a userbase thick with FOSSbros. The kind of folks that take a moral stance on whether you play mario vs supertux.
On an internet that’s already skewed male, this place is even more male. Not a bad thing inherently, but again, it means lots of tech junkies.
For me, it needs features from RES, Toolbox, highlight new comments, etc.
Unless I’m mistaken, highlighting new comments was a reddit gold feature, not RES.
Yep, that’s why I listed it separately. I used a script for highlighting comments on reddit: https://archive.fo/kgsfz
Perhaps it would be simple enough to modify it to work on lemmy.
EDIT: Saidit has it built-in.
You cannot block an instance, there are no multireddits, Sync is still in beta, the main instance is down half of the time, searching for contents is difficult, the discovery of new content is drowned among duplicates of existing communities.
I’m a heavy Lemmy poster, but all of these points should be addressed for Lemmy to become mainstream