What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i’ve been hopeful. What do you think?
How much horrific awkward teenage shit did Reddit have to go through to get where it is now? Bacon narwhals at midnight, rage comics, bullying an uninvolved brown kid into suicide after the Boston bombings, reluctantly removing CP adjacent subs only after being called out on cable news, the /r/fatpeoplehate nonsense, /r/antiwork mod humiliating xirself on Fox News, the woody harrelson rampart ama, fumbling the bag by firing Victoria, probably 20 more.
I do actually
It doesn’t need to replace anything, that’s a sports mentality applied to the free flow of information. What this decade has taught us is that the doomscroll is all there is. Reddit, Tiktok, Twitter, etc. all have constant scrolling through content as their main feature. It’s a feature that’s extremely reproducible. What the fediverse does is take power away from the corporations that want to make money off of the flow of user-created content. By the fediverse’s existence, whenever some company wants to rate-limit or ban 3rd party apps, the people can now just say: “Nah.”
Having more users does not (always) mean a good thing… so I hope not. It’s good enough as is, thank you very much.
Lemmy has a long way to go in terms of user experience before it can effectively compete with Reddit. The majority of new accounts in the last weeks have been spite users. That is, they’re here not because they love Lemmy - but because they hate Reddit.
That’s not a bad thing, per say. It doesn’t matter how people get here. It’s more important that they have a good reason to stay.
And the average user doesn’t care if something is federated or centralized. They just want a product that works and is simple to grasp. In my opinion, app developers are going to be the gamechanger Lemmy needs Stuff like Memmy (on the iOS app store today!), Mlem, Liftoff, Thunder are pretty much better than the official Reddit app. And that’s how most people consume content these days. When there’s no enshitification ads or microtransactions - there’s clearly going to be a winning experience.
It’ll take time, but as more Federation communities build - the less Reddit is necessary. As well, it usually takes a long time before people start catching on that the tools they once loved have turned to into bots and spam.
Mastodon is in it’s 7th year, and has like 8 million active users. Twitter had 200 million users by it’s 7th year. On one hand, Mastodon is the biggest Federation app. On the other, Twitter was 25x as large. Of course, Twitter is no longer the relevant “town hall” it once was - and is hemorrhaging users and respect. So who knows. It only takes a few celebrity endorsements to get countless folks switching. Who knows
Mastodon with the meta thing no thanks .lemmy ? Maybe but for that we need more instance . At least local one for each country .
There is a path but a lot of work needs to happen and a established community directory needs to be established so people can find what they are looking for.
It’s possible but we need to be careful with META, they can mess things up
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-launch-twitter-like-app-threads-2023-07-04/
https://fabulous.systems/posts/2023/06/meta-is-a-danger-to-the-fediverse/
https://fediversereport.com/meta-plans-on-joining-the-fediverse-the-responses/
Yes. Facebook/Meta is attempting to get in on the ground floor. It’s important to tell people that there are safer, open, free alternatives to Meta attempting to infiltrate this space. Now’s the time to spread the word and stop these corporations.
Becoming mainstream started the slow strangulation of Reddit for me. The conversations became more polarizing and stiffling. The takes less thoughtful, and the unoriginal comments more prevalent. So I hope Lemmy doesn’t become mainstream.
I do think Lemmy can grow, but if the recent events were not able to slow down the Reddit juggernaut; I do not see another platform coming to rival Reddit.
It’s possible. I think the biggest obstacle is that the corporations feeding on people’s data are not going to just stand by while it happens.
It would need massive UI improvement.
No I don’t think that it will. It doesn’t need to. I’d rather it stay less mainstream and be like reddit was long ago.
Yes and no. Keeping the spammers away yes, but there is still so much more useful stuff that appears on Reddit.
I honestly couldn’t care less. I rather hangout with you cool degenerates than the rest of the mainstream.
Hey! Who are you calling “cool”?
God I hope so, I’m so tired of every aspect of our lives being monetized or having an ad shoved into our faces.
