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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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[โ€“] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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" ๐Ÿ˜‚

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

[โ€“] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

A lot of that is social media/algorithmic too. It wasnโ€™t until I start migrating to Lemmy (specifically lemm.ee) that I started seeing a lot of varied content.