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It's time to take advantage of Reddit's decline (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Much the popular posts in lemmy are memes, shitpostings, or politics/technology news which we can easily obtain from other media. The way I see it, lemmy lacks experts, scientists, doctors etc that that can bring interest and credibility to the posts or threads. They can help generate quality contents, what lemmy lacks till now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fr, the best part of reddit were the ultra talented people, storywriters, artists etc. Also don't forget the most popular post on reddit is "The senate" and a picture of palpatine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You're right that lemmy primarily needs content, and it doesn't have to be just credentialed experts. It will grow in appeal the more there are real communities discussing whatever their subject of interest is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is something lemdro.id focuses on as an instance but to technical content. Particularly the [email protected] community is ran by the same mod team as the r/android subreddit and what comes with that are the AMAs with industry experts, various authors of android content on XDA and more, and other various things. [email protected] is the premier source for Android news and technical content with the subreddit redirecting to there where reasonable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I moved to my own forum because the alternatives are:

Trust that the lemmy instance I choose won't do the same thing reddit did.
Host my own Lemmy instance.

For #2, Lemmy isn't polished enough, so I went with a traditional forum option that's been around for a while.