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lol reddit is still kicking, people. Don't count your chickens yet.
So is Facebook and Twitter. This meme is premature in triplicate.
Twitter, despite Elon's best efforts, is not dead yet 😆
All while the fediverse still has low numbers.
I like the concept, but if your only selling point is "it's like email, you can use any instance" it's not going to be popular to most people.
Moreover, killing Youtube will be harder than killing any of these social media. Serving video content is very expensive.
The demands of video hosting is what makes me doubtful that decentralized YouTube could work.
It could work if everyone that used it was interested in decentralizing it, but that seems impossible from my perspective
It's a delusional circlejerk.
Big mainstream subs are shit but they always were. Cool niche communities are the same.
For some of my niche subs the mods just quit
mostly the same. I feel like even niche places get some of the annoying reddit mentality that has annoyed me for quite a while. There's still the hivemind and circle jerky stuff in small places. It's felt like less of that here, but also only a fraction of the people are on Lemmy so that will change when more people come.
I mean, the circlejerk is already here. This meme shows that. The amount of users saying "fuck spez", as if he gives a shit and is remotely affected is like...bruh.
Nope, sorry: no revolution for you.
I'm not disagreeing but it's still kicking. My friend who is on reddit said it was weird for a couple days during the blackout but it's back to normal now. He also wondered why I didn't use the official app. Like it or not, most people are like him.
I can't believe this. The official app is so bad, I am losing faith in humanity.
Even if you get rid of the ads (ReVanced manager is your friend) it still pushes weird content into your timeline. Like, you scroll and there is an interesting post that you want to comment on. Oops, posted 20 days ago. Why would you recommend that to me!?
Yeah he mentioned things like that were happening during the blackout but he said it's mostly back to normal for him now. He also watches TV and movies with all sorts of ads. For me, that's an instant pivot to find something else to do. My dad has repeatedly asked me if I want some product he sees in an Instagram ad. I eventually had to tell him to specifically never get me a product he sees in an ad. People on the fediverse aren't normal. We care a lot about things most people don't really mind.
Still kicking but...somehow not the same. It's something I can't quite explain. There's just something different about it now. I had to look something up on Reddit a couple of days ago. It was the first time I'd been back since they killed all the third party apps. It reminded me of going back to a city I used to live but my friends were all gone and my favorite places to go had changed. So, while it was the same place, and there were plenty of people around, it seemed exhausted and forced.
I know exactly what you mean.
Agreed. Friends in my discord group still bring up reddit posts daily, usually in subs with games and memes.
Yeah, I think that's because reddit just has the hugest communities for individual games and niche interests. There are some lemmy communities for some of the games I follow but there are like seven users in each of them. Lemmy is getting really good for broader topics like "games" or "technology" but isn't quite there yet for more narrow interests like "Dolphin emulator" for example.
I remember Voat and numerous other attempts to abandon Reddit.
I really hope that this one sticks but it needs to be very robust (in terms of moderation, server capacity, user friendliness etc) if it is going to handle a large influx of users without breaking down.
I managed to step on CM Punk's toe, now I'm ready to take on Jon Jones.