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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.
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Lmao I didnβt even notice that. I thought this was new and was confused on the question lol
The nobody is on lemmy is quickly changing.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Just going to tell you that r/privacy, r/PrivacyGuides, r/opensource are largely politically agenda controlled subreddits by Americans and other Westerners, that often downplay the harms of Big Tech and CIA, and prop up and fearmonger and actively encourage hate against China/Russia. You can see top posts from the past 2 days about Beijing stealing and creating dossiers of data on every single American adult, for starters.
They will never come, and if they do, they must never come here. Growth of Lemmy at the expense of grifters is the worst kind of growth, no matter the desperation.
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.
I disagree, from years of experience. It is not personal beef, and I have documented their behaviour as a 4 year record. They have stolen thousands of dollars of donations which constitutes as an international crime, and they have repeatedly recommended Brave (while taking Brave Rewards) and even Apple to people.
Porn, hentai, edgy gamers, fascists, China/Russia/communism hate flourishes there. Liberals and conservatives, capitalists, Starbucks and iPhone worshippers are there. Reddit's userbase is 50% USA, 30% West EU, 10% East and rest of Europe, and the other 10% is rest of world.
Lemmy will never win such a race to the bottom. It should not.
You can already see those hideous racists onto other Lemmy instances like beehaw and sopuli, and onto Lemmy.ml that hate Lemmygrad with a passion.
There is no lack of Western edgy kids on internet that have Twitterati and PornHub type of brains. They just want to sip their CocaCola and munch on their lard burgers and fries and shitpost on the internet, in their dimly lit modern day caves with Marvel or anime women posters.
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.
For some reason I am downvoted, but I think I told truth about a lot of snowflakes. And I do not care.
Why did I say the above sentences? Because it is tied into this desire of expansion, of popularity, of needing and seeking internet validation. It is a disgusting parasite like phenomenon that latches onto every possible part of society, the desire to "capitalise" on everything and anything. They say to want to see Lemmy become a consumption platform, but why?
People do not learn.
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?
Yes I lumped them together because that is what the Reddit userbase consists of. Yes I do not care about people that are pissed. Their downvotes change nothing. This is not Reddit karma rat race. This is Lemmy.
Itβs like lumping together Nazi Germany and the USSR. They both had authoritarian governments and the Nazis were National Socialists
Why do you come to defend fascism everytime, pingveno? Do you love Hitler's grift or something? Or do you intentionally try to hide the fact that Hitler created the Natsoc/Nazi label to get votes from working class and differentiate themselves from monarchist conservatives? Because in reality fascists were always opposite of socialists. The correct term is Nationalist Fascist, or NatFash.
National Socialism is an incorrect word used by NatFashes for obvious purposes, even though national socialism is an oxymoron created by morons.
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.
Actually I never proved your point, you failed at reading comprehension and basic understanding. I elaborated on Reddit userbase, not your strawmanning and twisting drama.
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