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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 1 year ago (1 children)

personally, i'd go for some stability and allow lemmy to create/develop it's own vibe. it doesn't need to grow and get big. those who seek alternatives will easily find it. let the people come to us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I think the platform is pretty stable if you take out the outages caused by DDoS. Let's also be honest, would anyone be shocked if those DDoS's were actually sourced by a competitor who lost users to this platform?

It takes a ton of time and effort to be able to build robust DDoS mitigation strategies, even for Fortune 500/100 companies. Sure, you can throw yourself behind a known mitigation company, but their out of the box rules don't always work for you. Most of the time you go behind them in a "transparent" mode and begin slowly deciding what is and isn't a real threat. Volumetric attacks are easy to deal with - "hey, that's fake traffic, block it.". Attacks like the admins of lemmy.world have talked about are application layer and require much finer tuned filters. You can't just immediately say "block this" because you may block legitimate traffic.

I think it's more about getting the time to be able to develop the features mods want after dealing with how to protect the site, than it is about "stability of Lemmy"