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

submitted 3 years 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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[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 years ago

The fact that large instances hit more downtime than something like reddit will always be a detriment.

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 19 points 3 years ago

lemmy.world really needs to close signups and the creation of new communities, until they can improve their uptime

or they should at least be removed from https://join-lemmy.org/instances maybe it could track the uptime and use that to build the list?

but Reddit actually does go down pretty often too

[-] southernwolf@pawb.social 3 points 3 years ago

They said themselves the issue isn't signups or server capacity, it's that they've been under multiple rounds of DDoS attacks.

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Yeah but why give new users a bad experience, you're just gonna drive them away from Lemmy and they never come back

Also we're overly centralized on them, we need to decentralize better, both users and communities

[-] southernwolf@pawb.social 2 points 3 years ago

I mean, that could happen to any other Lemmy instance too, unfortunately. And even if you do decentralize, a server going down still deprives the rest of us of that content, so it's never not going to cause some issues. So I wouldn't hold this against Lemmy.world.