Thanks to federation and open source software, this shouldn’t be an issue.
First of all, thank you! And yes, I agree with you here and I have indeed come to respect and understand that. It doesn’t matter regardless of one’s ideologies, we are all humans at the end of the day and I no longer believe that can negatively affect an open source and decentralized platform. I have to admit, I made a mistake with judging Lemmy based on that, as someone who grew in India, Mexico, Canada and now in the USA, I realize I’ve grown in countries that have been using a democratic system, hence learning about what a “tankie” is (funny I didn’t even know what that mean’t before) or idealogies that are radically different put me in unease, but now I’ve learned to respect that and it is clear one’s personal ideas such as that can’t affect a platform like Lemmy, especially when federation gives us choices in the form of instances.
I think a good starting point would be advertising Lemmy where possible on your subreddit, such as pinning an equivalent futurology community from Lemmy linked to a reddit post and pinning that, also mention your lemmy community on other places like mentioning Lemmy and asking users to consider Lemmy instead on the welcome message when new users join/subscribe to r/futurology.
Kbin has this figured out, they now have an in-built community request system.
That is terrible, so many of the communities I’d actually like to moderate and even move from Reddit (as I mod some of them on Reddit) to here is impossible as many of them are taken by inactive mods.
Ty for letting me know! Just edited it
EDIT: Oh, it’s a bot 😅
I already created the discord server a long while back when I was at r/RedditAlternatives, people knew what it was and many average users were already on the platform hence accessible, matrix is great but still not at a stage where the average person uses/knows it compared to tech nerds or enthusiasts, besides we already have around 100 people if not more on the discord server, reusing it made more sense for now although I wouldn’t mind creating a matrix in the future once the community grows to offer another way of keeping in touch with our community for those who have or are ready to go to Matrix :)