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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[–] lemmyng@beehaw.org 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No. Most large Reddit communities are toxic, both on the user and mod end. Let Lemmy grow at its own pace without repeating the same mistakes Reddit made.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best take. I'd rather organic growth, here people come here for actual content, than just shove a bunch of redditors over and repost reddit content

[–] Remmock@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

In some communities they’re already doing exactly that.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right now lemmy feels more toxic to me than reddit in many ways. I've never been on a reddit news thread where people were openly trolling and posting pictures of pig shit in response to comments they don't like.

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

Those get autodeleted, or are on instances that are explicitly been defederated across most instances outside of lemmy.ml

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Trolls and other idiots are part of humanity and its perfectly natural for lemmy to have its share. Reddit does as well. But taking one sub as a basis to say that lemmy seems more toxic than reddit sounds very far fetched.