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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[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the main issue that will ultimately hurt Lemmy versus any other platform that comes along is that Lemmy’s selling point of defederation is only a selling point to some people.

I agree, and that's why I think in a few weeks/months people here will realize we can only have so many active communities at the same time.

We'll probably gather around a few core communities, and that would be it.

Lemmy is the Linux of the link aggregators, and as we all know, Linux desktop year is next year

[–] YaketySax@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago

I think some really general-purpose communities like films or books are good to be one per large instance, as they'll be busy enough to have plenty of content without them getting so big you have that Reddit thing where it feels pointless trying to contribute unless you're early.

Smaller, more niche communities definitely are harmed by being spread out as they get too quiet to survive.