this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
923 points (92.4% liked)

Open Source

31272 readers
404 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right now lemmy feels more toxic to me than reddit in many ways. I've never been on a reddit news thread where people were openly trolling and posting pictures of pig shit in response to comments they don't like.

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

Those get autodeleted, or are on instances that are explicitly been defederated across most instances outside of lemmy.ml

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Trolls and other idiots are part of humanity and its perfectly natural for lemmy to have its share. Reddit does as well. But taking one sub as a basis to say that lemmy seems more toxic than reddit sounds very far fetched.