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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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[-] Mereo@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

instances are like countries with their own constitution (rules) and police (mods). This means that two communities in different instances may seem the same, but they are not, because they have to follow the rules and culture of their instance.

Just like a Technology club in Japan will not be the same as the Technology club in the US because they will be culturally different. I think it will take some time for the Fediverse to think this way.

For me, this is better. Instead of having one giant technology community where your comments and posts are drowned out, we can have different technology communities with their own culture and norms, just like we visit different countries. Your comment and posts will be not drowned out.

It is a different paradigm to the centralised one of Reddit.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Yep, if you're not from the US, instances are vastly superior.

Imagine all the times people from around the world asked for plumbing help on Reddit and got hit with "that ain't up to code, buddy, get to ass down to Howm Deeepo" 😂

Americans do tend to assume the internet revolves around them, as they're a bit insular and don't see that it really, really, really doesn't