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!
We aren’t going to get mods to promote us. That is just silly.
We should buy advertising though, definitely.
When the API thing happened, several of the subreddits I frequented had threads about finding an alternative to move to. Lemmy was mentioned, but but discounted early on.
One problem was that people found out the main dev was a tankie and didn’t want to be associated with the project because of that.
They ended up going to discords, or self hosted forums, or just staying on reddit.
If we’re talking about the same discussion, I think I remember a thread on either the modcoord or redditalternatives sub.
From what I remember, the disagreement was that the only communities that were shown in the splash page were extremely edgy commie stuff. Blatant propaganda communities. There was a pro-Russian invasion community in the top 5 communities and lots of “Death to America” type stuff. ’
Compounding things, the initial response to these complains was a dismissive “Redditors aren’t smart enough to work out how instances work!” which really didn’t make people want to persevere.
I’ll admit, I was in two minds because of this. But gave it a go out of curiosity for the tech.
I saw several threads and may be mixing them up, but at one point someone dug up a link to an interview with desselines where he claimed that the uyghur genecide and the tiananmen square massacre were both hoaxes. There was also some worry in one of the discussions about security and the inability to delete comments. Also something about private messages being stored in plaintext on the server.