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It's time to take advantage of Reddit's decline (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by ToadCultist@mander.xyz to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] Dimok@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago

So, for my two cents: REDDIT was my go to for very biased but usually non-corporate info. For example, Baldurs Gate 3. In the past, I would research 'BG3 builds reddit' and just check out different builds people tried. It was always much better than going to a crappy corporate owned 'gaming mag' type website, where most of them just copy/pasted info from reddit anyway. It was a pretty good repository for info like that, and reddthat (or lemmy I guess) has not reached that level yet. I tried doing some searching on here for bg3 builds, almost nada.

[-] SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, given the Fediverse's much smaller amount of active users and its shorter history, it barely has niche communities nor a wealth of specific knowledge. Anyone who wants the Fediverse to be able to support that role that Reddit currently fulfills of non-corporate information has to know that there's a very large road ahead and it needs active building.

[-] No1@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hope you posted your bg3 build on Lemmy after that....

[-] Dimok@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

I don't have one, that's why I'm trying to look for one! But when I find a good combo I will be posting it, yes.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, almost all useful info for BG3 is in reddit and it sucks. I haven't even seen a community for BG3 on Lemmy, but I'm sure it exists somewhere.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I've been looking :)

[-] Dimok@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

I found this one, and checked it out a few times. It's not where it needs to be. Is there a way to maybe sticky or have sub-topics specifically for things such as builds, or quest faq, or things like that? I think maybe some nesting or stickied topics would help. Some type of sub-categorization inside the actual (not sure what we call these, topics?).

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

Probably something to suggest over there, all of your points make sense

[-] Dimok@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, good idea. I did. Not sure if it's even possible with the lemmyverse though, as I have yet to come across a well organized 'page' like that yet.