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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A point I haven't seen mentioned yet is the lack of an accessible Automoderator equivalent on Lemmy. Moderators of larger subreddits use it to implement spam filters, remove commonly asked questions, handle multiple reports and sticky important information to the tops of comment sections. Not having a feature like that built into Lemmy can be a dealbreaker for those moderators.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is Lemmy even considered a stable platform yet? Some of those feel like nice-to-haves once the platform is stable software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Lemmy is definitely software that is under constant development. I feel that Lemmy would need some automated moderation tools if it gets busier, even if it is just a simple word/regex filter for removing posts and comments automatically.