rimlogger

Lemmy.world feels like Reddit in its early days. It skews very male and the most common interests are either IT topics or gaming.

My only issue with Lemmy is that it's not a true Reddit replacement, especially when places keep defederating from one another. Like I spend far less time here on Beehaw because it's defederated from some of the major instances - I understand the administrators' concerns about moderation but over time a lot of the activity will center itself around the most active instances (i.e., users may come from a diversity of instances) but only interact with content on Lemmy.world.

Not on here as much. But on Lemmy.world it's still very much a topic subject of discussion.

I hate to sound negative, but right now growth in the fediverse (especially Reddit clones like Kbin and Lemmy) are being driven by people who no longer want to use Reddit. But over the past few weeks, most discussions are still circle-jerking about how bad Reddit is and how glad people are to be on Lemmy. You can only beat a horse for so long before you need other content posted on here to keep most people engaged.

Ever since Beehaw defederated from the major instances I've noticed less activity here. I much prefer Lemmy.world these days. I feel like the Beehaw admins should have asked for feedback from the community before defederating. Communities live and die through their users.

Normies are confused by Mastodon and how it works. Tried suggesting it as an alternative on /r/worldnews and most people just said that it was too confusing; one guy said that he couldn't login but turns out he forgot which instance he had signed up for originally.

Yeah but normies are what make platforms thrive. I fear Lemmy may just become an anti-Reddit circlejerk but then die out due to lack of content.

Thanks for the information. It's really helpful to see whether or not such sites are possible to run on donations/goodwill alone.

FYI, as great as Mastodon and the fediverse are, there are issues that prevent their mainstream adoption:

https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/

I tried signing up for an account on the main instance of Mastodon but couldn't because they were having technical difficulties.

Have you guys reached out to the Lemmy developers to give feedback on their new UI changes?

While I understand that most of Beehaw's administrators are not programmers, I think it would be helpful if you reached out to the developers and ask that the Lemmy software offer greater levels of configuration when it comes to the UI. Making a vague post about "issues" on your own forum ensure that whatever issues you have will never be heard by the developers.