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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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[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People know about it already, they find it confusing, hard to use, you cannot block an instance, there are no multireddits, Sync is still in beta, the main instance is down half of the time.

All of these points should be addressed for Lemmy to become mainstream

[–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You make it sound like one blocks another, but we already have a lot of people and there's no reason why we can't attract more. You're here despite these issues.

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

I am, but I'm very tolerant for bugs and this kind of issues.

Early adopters are probably all here. To convince more picky users to join, those issues have to be fixed.