How do you feel about the massive influx of users?
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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You're exaggerating, I can definitely see how Twitter users changed the general atmosphere of the Fediverse, at least on the instances that I have used in the past. As for Reddit, I think it will be something similar to that, not everyone is going to migrate but Lemmy is going to be significantly bigger, better and THE place to go if you want to ditch Reddit. Also, it's not like having a big portion here of social media audience is going to do a lot of good. I have serious doubts about people being able to give value to the community if they can't even figure out how to register on an instance other than the main one
Yeah Reddit's core users are pretty technical. At least the ones who joined before the big popularity boom in the last 5 years. The old school redditors will probably end up on lemmy.
lemmy feels more like reddit once did than reddit does now.
Right? I'm absolutely loving this shit because of that. Lol back over a decade ago or so I actually made internet friends in a few more obscure subreddits. Good luck with doing that now.
Was originally introduced to reddit by a calculus professor who set up a sub for the class to collaborate - it was a different time.
That's pretty badass. I remember hearing about cool use cases like that back in the day before it got solidified into what reddit is now.
reddit - built by the users, moderated and largely developed by enthusiasts, only to have the resultant content paywalled and mined by AI for the benefit of oligarchs. Truly a sign of the times.
That's why we should work towards decentralized technologies like this and make self hosting so easy that the corporate key holders of the modern internet become pointless. Reddit killed enthusiast forums by centralizing them in one location, no reason why we can't do the opposite to kill reddit, but this time the independent forums are federated together.
Oooohh ... he said the O word /s.
Seriously though, I think the best defence againt that is decentralization. It's not just ok for this to not be THE reddit sucessor. It's a positive good. Even more so now that I've realized you can follow most activitypub based things like mastodon from most of the others. Not only are none of the successors in completion, they're in symbiosis.
right, which is how things would be if the overarching objective of all software was to serve the needs of the general public - and to improve the lives of the users vs the shareholders. That is is how we end up paying a hundred or so a year to use some shitty web site to file taxes. Sorry I didn't know the o word was a no-no, I couldn't think of anything else more apt without swearing.
Sorry the o word bit was a dunp joke. I actualy prefer it over the usual coy alternatives like ceo.
Definitely.
You're talking about ~70% of reddit and you're probably right. Let's see. If lemmy gets an app with a better UI, it's going to be that way for sure. An embeddes image and video viewer is missing, for example
As a reddit refugee the image and video viewer has been the only speedbump for me. That is other than not being hooked up to a firehose of content, but i feel that will come in time.
It has been fixed in the last build
Regardig videos it doesn't really matter cause 90% of the time you have to open the video source with the browser or another app anyway. But re. images, since lemmy can view them in the post, why it doesnt just allow to put them full screen? I should look at the code
yep. it's about quality, not quantity - we'll reach critical mass easily enough, and that's all that matters for the short term.
You still need a minimum of people for things to work. And a lot of subreddit equivalent are still completely empty.
of course. but Lemmy really does have potential - it's a more accessible platform than Mastodon and reddit users are more aligned with the strategy of decentralizing via the fediverse. this fits.
we gotta start somewhere.
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