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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[–] JerkyChew@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ransack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You find it unusable? How so?

[–] Krachsterben@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, then create some topics and communities

[–] Krachsterben@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, because I love talking to myself

[–] mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, it needs features from RES, Toolbox, highlight new comments, etc.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless I'm mistaken, highlighting new comments was a reddit gold feature, not RES.

[–] MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

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