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

submitted 1 year ago by ToadCultist@mander.xyz to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] ShooBoo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Lemmy and Mastodon require some extra thought processes that most people do not want or can't work through. They want instant, fast and as much of it as possible.

Somehow this has to become so easy to understand and use that even the dimmest bulbs in society will have no trouble using it.

Upside? This will bring more usage and adoption. Downside? This will bring in more trash.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

One nice (yet sometimes annoying) thing about Lemmy is that you can have multiple communities of the same thing.

What I think will happen is that a few instances of Lemmy will become the big ones and their communities for memes, news and politics will dominate.

I can even see something happening to remove duplicates. Perhaps lemmy.world and lemmy.ml agree that /politics is on lemmy.world and /news is on lemmy.ml

App developers will make those default communities easy to find. Kind of like how reddit used to have 50 or so default sub reddits.

Less popular instances will have shadow communities that will be more difficult to find, but where there will be a more hardcore group of contributors and members.

[-] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I honestly think the combining of the same communities on different instances will happen more at the app layer. It wouldn't be hard to group them all in the same category for convenience and it allows for more granular control. Downside being that it makes an already complex platform more complicated but hey, that's kind of the point and reason people come here to lemmy in the first place. I want more people to join lemmy but I also know that it's going to be a niche platform for quite a while if not the rest of it's existence.