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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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[–] demesisx@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did this with /r/Cardano mods back before Reddit was blocking all mention of the fediverse even in PM’s. I managed to get one of them to help mod my Cardano communities. I’d wager that it’s exceedingly hard to get in touch with mods over there now that Huffman is blocking fediverse recruitment.

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They are actually blocking links to fediverse based websites, especially lemmy. Some of the larger lemmy instances are having their links deleted and people posting them warned/banned

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] gabe@literature.cafe 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. Especially the NSFW instances.

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

To your point, I know when I was last on reddit, 1 month ago, lemmy links did not work