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.
Was originally introduced to reddit by a calculus professor who set up a sub for the class to collaborate - it was a different time.
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.
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
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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