I love lemmy so much more.
Not to mention reddit banned me lol but for some reason it felt like a weight was lifted.
Why do you think lemmy hasn’t ‘gotten up there’ yet like reddit?
The only thing that makes me sad about lemmy, is there arnt many posts.
Unless I’m filtering wrong.
Do you guys have any lemmy sub/community suggestions?
What do you think of lemmy?
It’s not really that deep - it’s a combination of network effect and inertia.
Because there’s “nobody” on Lemmy, people don’t join Lemmy. Because nobody is joining Lemmy, there’s “nobody” on Lemmy, and so on and so forth.
Furthermore, Reddit (and other big social medias) already have “everyone” there, so to the vast majority of people they’re just superior platforms as it’s easier to find both people and content. Moving to another platform means giving that up.
I agree with this. I love the fediverse and have been using it in some form for quite a long time. I’ve checked in on lemmy periodically over the last year or so, but ultimately I spent a lot of time reading topics on somewhat niece subjects and so the lack of posts has been a huge factor.
It feels like it takes one of these self-imploding events to really cause people to move as one to something else.
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Lmao I didn’t even notice that. I thought this was new and was confused on the question lol
The nobody is on lemmy is quickly changing.
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Reddit is a private company founded in 2005, valued at $1.8 billion dollars and employing around 350 people. Lemmy was founded two years ago and is run with relatuvely little funding (I would say approximately two paid employees and a dozen or so volunteers, distributed around different instances). That’s not comparable. At all.
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Most people aren’t banned from reddit. Your personal experience is rare. If someone isn’t banned from the biggest platform, they need a motivation to leave. Why would they leave? I know why YOU would leave, but why would THEY leave?
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Most people coming here, not all but most, are doing it because they were banned from reddit. As a result, they just try to recreate reddit here, instead of making something better, a better culture or a higher quality of community. Lemmy is treated by the majority as a ‘free speech reddit’ and nothing more.
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Strong political bias in the popular communities may be distasteful to the majority of people who would use a reddit-like site, who tend to be pro-capitalist liberals.
We’d love to be able to start a proper open-source programming collective, with the ability to hire more programmers than just the two of us to add features and make lemmy better, but the money just isn’t there. Its difficult to compete with a multi-billion dollar company that’s able to pay high salaries and mobilize hundreds of skilled programmers ( even tho I still am veryy proud of what we’ve been able to do with our limited time, and all the contributions people have made to lemmy ).
Its not a specific problem for us either, all open source projects need more funding than theyre currently getting to thrive. Twitch streamers make more money than open source devs, its a pretty sad state of affairs.
IMO pretty much the only reason reddit is beating us, is the first-mover advantage. I noticed a long time ago that adding more features doesn’t improve the lemmyverse’s user count. Its only when reddit alienates certain groups, that we see large influxes of users and new instances. Otherwise people are happy to stay on reddit, because that’s where communities already are.
/r/piracy is probably the next big community that could migrate to lemmy. Reddit keeps banning then unbanning piracy-related communities, and file-sharers will see that their position is precarious there. /r/privacy should move to lemmy, the reddit redesign is a bloated mess of spyware.
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Hey I know you have “drama” with them but the PrivacyGuides community is solely centered around the concept of technical privacy, non-contextualized, and is agnostic to every other topuc. They’ve criticized (if not attacked) many FOSS projects but only from the lens of privacy and so I would understand their sometimes odd behavior. That being said, it would be unbiased of you to accuse them with such conspiracy theories.
On the other hand, I’m perplexed by the fact that they prominently use the spyware crap that Reddit is for communications.
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donations are not theft lol 😄
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unless you are using an app, the user interface is quite terrible. Reddit has good previews, we can see the post, we can see the link and much more. lemmy is basically reddit in it’s infancy and I feel like they are not even trying to make it better. So heck, who cares. I want this website to have more people but it is what it is.
I do want to devote more time to lemmy-ui, because I agree it could be better. I do need to know of specific issues with it tho, so I can improve it.
I’d rather be working on the android app I made tho for lemmy, jerboa, because kotlin as a language is hundreds of times easier to use than typescript.
hello, will send the issues someday as I am quite busy right now. I think you need to make this site profitable first for yourself. Maybe nerdy advertisers would pay a buck or two to advertise. Generate money hire more people would be my suggestion.
Definitely never gonna have ads, or paid features, we’ll only ever be donation funded. But there might be better ways to structure that.
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Lemmy will never win such a race to the bottom. It should not.
Perhaps so. We sometimes get blinded by the desire to expand indefinitely, but I’m content with the current activity on lemmy and the slow yet sure growth.
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For some reason I am downvoted, but I think I told truth about a lot of snowflakes.
You lumped together fascists, liberals, conservatives, and other groups. You’re lumping together a wide variety of people, many of whom mutually despise each other. So yeah, you’re going to get a few downvotes from people that are offended at the comparison.
It’s like lumping together Nazi Germany and the USSR. They both had authoritarian governments and the Nazis were National Socialists. Surely they were practically the same, no?
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National Socialism is an incorrect word used by NatFashes for obvious purposes, even though national socialism is an oxymoron created by morons.
Thank you for proving my point about people not liking to be tossed in a bag with other groups that they despise.
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I’ll start posting more hentai just for you
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