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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[–] CSharp@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Are we blaming the people and communities of Reddit or the actions of the IPO-minded business?

Inb4 "yes".

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are we blaming the people and communities of Reddit or the actions of the IPO-minded business?

It depends on the person, I think. I left Reddit because I was outright disgusted with its idiotic userbase, but plenty people are here because they know that the vulture capital will wreck that place.

And at the end of the day, we might as well ask if both aren't intrinsically tied - Reddit's userbase being so awful because of the business behind it. @z00s@lemmy.world mentioned the "shitlord mods", most of the time the admins behave in a rather similar fashion.

[–] Kikkertje@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

I left because of how they treated third party apps devs, Reddit mods, and users. Total disregard and disrespect. Which left me feeling the same.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

No, we're blaming OP for trying to make lemmy more like an ipo-minded business.

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Inb4 failed

It was the infamous groupthink, brigading, and shitlord mods that were responsible for the R enshittening.

All that business stuff was icing on the cake which was used as a scapegoat by the very people who made R such a shit place to begin with.

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

The IPO-minded business was unwilling to curtail and curate the userbase as every user was the equivalent to potential profit. There's many many many people from Reddit who should not find a place online to call home. They can stay with the capitalists until the capital runs dry.