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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    1 year ago

    I think the problem was Lemmy didn’t have the apps in place ready to take advantage of reddits API deadline. Loads of people come to Lemmy but it wasn’t up to scratch yet. So they went back to what they already knew.

    Now big apps like sync are on board. If they give lemmy another go I reckon they will stay this time.

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      1 year ago

      They open Sync, they they see they can’t post, they leave again.

      I know post is coming in the next hours, but it’s the same for multireddits, instance blocking, account migration, etc.

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        1 year ago

        Assuming the prerequisite of joining Lemmy doesn’t skew this, people who post would be a small minitority. Might be similar for the other features you mentioned.

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      1 year ago

      This was basically me. Looked around for an app I liked, couldn’t find one for Lemmy but there was an okay-ish open source one for reddit. Used that for awhile but kept an eye on Lemmy.

      My only issue now is that i want to ignore an couple instances (lemmynsfw, and the like) but I can’t… Can I? There isn’t enough content in “subscribed new” and find I’m going to “all new” but there’s too much NSFW… Maybe I’m on here too much.

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        1 year ago

        I had a similar experience.

        I’m using “Connect.” For every post I see, there’s both a “block this community” and “block this instance” option. After I started making use of these, my feed (while still limited) became much more palatable. Presumably other apps have similar functionality, but I cannot comment definitively.

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          I use Voyager and have had the same experience as you. I blocked some communities from lemmynsfw and now even my feed from all of the fediverse is pretty good.