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

submitted 1 year 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 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 20 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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.

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't hold it against them, it's just unfortunate that they've been having so much downtime recently, certainly more than most other good instances

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Why are they being DDoS'd though? I thought it was because they're the biggest instance and thus shutting down still helps

[-] southernwolf@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Well, by that logic, if they shut down, the the next largest will be targeted, and then the next largest, etc. That's not a winning game for anyone involved...

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Right but we'll be more decentralized so any such attack won't affect the threadiverse as much. Right now every time .world goes down the entire fediverse feels half dead because it's so large.

But if this happens 7 times and there's now 7 major instances, each will only take up like 10% of the total and attacking it won't affect much.

In that sense, getting more decentralized is basically a natural evolution of the big instances being attacked. I'm just trying to speed it up.