cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19004972
Let’s be honest, the real reason Lemmy build most of its traffic is because of Reddit users. But the thing is, outside of the mass exodus in the west that too from the PC era.. people discover and join Reddit not because it’s another social media like Facebook or Twitter that people need to reserve their usernames on like a brand or celebrity but because Google Search is kinda… actually absolute trash by SEO and machine learning crawlers.
Most of the world (I am from India btw, hello~) join or even discover reddit because they’re trying to search for actual solutions, recommendations, advice or even reviews by actual experienced people without having to go through another YouTuber which can stem from troubleshooting a router, finding an actual FOSS option or seeking immediate solutions to the recent CrowdStrike fiasco for example. After having to visit reddit every time whenever using a search engine including for education to career advice, I ended up directly signing up with reddit a decade ago.
Recently, Reddit even restricted its search results to Google only in a business partnership meaning those using Bing, DuckDuckGo to Ecosia or even SearchGPT wouldn’t be able to access Reddit answers anymore. Say, if someone searches for how to block ads on chrome as example - Solutions like uBlock Origin come into existence and continue to exist because of the combined community in Reddit that Lemmy is trying to preserve.
Unlike others, am not saying Lemmy would be dead but it would be pretty much like Discord-Telegram or Tumblr instead of wiping Reddit or correcting Facebook. Reddit is not something you discover from word-of-mouth or join from peer pressure unlike other social media which is even truer for Lemmy but because it actually helps and is useful to people.
Lemmy can’t be taking the path of 𝕏 (Alone Mask’s Twitter) but any of the good platforms were before the Enshittification with Facebook’s way~
Interesting and well written (cross)post. If you hadn't said you're from India, I would have never guessed. The only spelling error I spotted is right at the end where you said Mask and not Musk.
All good though, we're (almost) all human around here. That's one of the big reasons that more experienced and educated people are switching towards the fediverse..
Fuck Spez
I don't know OP's specific background but english is taught in most of the subcontinent and is the primary language for business and formal matters, so I wouldn't expect any issues with it
Honestly I haven't studied foreign languages all that much, but I've heard the accents that come from a variety of regions and countries.
The last time I got confused about anything spoken in English by an Indian man, I mistook 'tiles' as 'towels'.
I totally lost out on a tile installation job offer over that, because of a misunderstanding over what's basically the pronunciation of a particular vowel.
Like, in the back of my head, I'm wondering why this hotel owner is telling me he's updating his towels, when really he said tiles. He was offering me a job..
I didn't find out until he got others to do all the work ☹️
Vowels can be extremely important in communication...
Well exposure to different accents can make you understand these kind of things.