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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[–] noodle 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't disagree with that. Reddit will keep burning bridges with it's oldest users. old.reddit will be the next on the chopping block and that will be the death knell for desktop Reddit for a sizable number of people.

But I think you're underestimating the average modern Redditor's reluctance to jump ship. 3rd party apps were not even something they knew existed. Most never used reddit before the redesign. They already used the app. You cant miss what you never had.

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I agree on all points. But I‘d say both things can be true at the same time.

Maximize attention brought to lemmy as an alternative so that the last salvageable soul on reddit gets the message while not shooting for copying reddit (like actual copying of posts for example and recreating every sub etc).

While I am very much in agreement with your arguments, I feel like your rhetoric is a little black and white albeit entertaining. Yes, there will be people going to discord because mental load, yes there will be people unwilling but some might still not have gotten the message.

So I say keep telling them but don’t try to „sell it“ if that makes sense.

Edit: fixed half finished sentence

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

Maximize attention brought to lemmy as an alternative so that the last salvageable soul on reddit gets the message

Have a look at this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1507unf/post_why_dont_reopen_here_completely/

People were being told to move to Lemmy, but they fiercely refused, sometimes being utterly agressive.

And this is a Unixporn community, which is supposed to be aware of FOSS.

Reddit users don't want to be solved.

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

I have made similar experience with the community I moderate (linux specific).

There is an easy explanation for this:

A lot of people in IT are autistic (as am I) and we don’t react well to change (often). That plus reddit can be a cesspool at times explains why they react this way. But although I hate change, I got the message because people didn’t give up on me. I was subjected to arguments without being lectured all the time so I could explore in my own pace. So I won‘t give up on others. Easy as that. :)

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You make a good point, that could be part of the issue.

Happy to have you here in any case!

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

That’s very nice of you to say. Thank you. I‘m very glad to have found this place. And I like it a lot more than reddit for multiple reasons. :) have a good one.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, you too! :)

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have looked at old.reddit.com recently and I loved it. Though I had never used it in past.

Now I can understand why people like it so much.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Old.lemmy.world is similar. There are other Lemmy reskins that get at that Internet of 10 years ago look.

There are some compromises with old.Lemmy that I expect to get ironed out over time but for typical use, it is nice and minimalist.