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Do you want Lemmy to become mainstream? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Some people might find the answer to be obvious (yes) but I've rarely found it so. In fact, this is a question I often find in the linux community (regarding linux going mainstream, not lemmy) and people are pretty split upon it.

On one hand, you may get benefits like more activity, more content, more people to interact with, a greater chance you'll find someone to talk to on some specific subject.

On the other, you could run into an eternal September like reddit, where Lemmy would lose its culture, and have far more spam and moderation issues.

I don't know, what do you think?

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[–] tmpod 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That being said: I kinda want to see more PeerTubers. That’s the only popular implementation I’ve seen that doesn’t have a blossoming community yet.

Yeah, PeerTube is rather lacking there, but it's also due to the "limitations" in practicality. Even more mainstream/popular platforms (Odysee, DTube, BitChute, etc) struggle to tackle the massive monopoly that YouTube has, but at least they offer a very easy experience compared to PeerTube. On the latter, you either have to run an instance yourself (which isn't neither trivial nor cheap) or register an account on an instance with a pretty limiting quota. Instances with unlimited quotas are few and none of them have a properly good watching experience.

It's a shame, I'd love to see PT flourish, but the reality is that video hosting/streaming is tricky and expensive, which severely limits the growth of independent platforms.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For peertube, there is also the lack of any easy way for creators to make money, due to the lack of built in ads, or equivalent of youtube premium. Money is incentive.

[–] tmpod 1 points 2 years ago

Also true. The best it has is a little customizable sponsor/donate button, which is neat but far from a good solution.