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Will Lemmy ever replace Reddit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Owell1984@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was wondering what the point of lemmy was, if we can't get a certain number of people, we won't be able to thrive as a community and I don't see lots of people joining even though it is an open-source and decentralised forum unlike reddit.

There are many obvious things lemmy could do better, should I make a report about it? I think we are lagging behind and not doing things which are obvious. A better GUI for mobile website would be one of the top suggestions I have. thoughs?

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[–] marmulak@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's already better than Reddit. If someone doesn't want to use it, that's their problem, not mine...

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We're not even at feature parity. Wikis are something that communities use extensively and I do think growth requires Lemmy to provide an alternative to that. Improving on Reddit isn't as straightforward as improving Twitter, but sharing the burden of hosting costs and maintenance via proper decentralization, we could for example bring Reddit's paywalled features over to Lemmy without any ads or payments.

[–] marmulak@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Reddit also now has a lot of "features" I don't want and hope Lemmy never gets. As for the wiki system though, that might be an interesting addition.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A federated wiki would be a major project on its own. Doing that as part of Lemmy seems unrealistic (unless its very limited). Better to let another project implement that functionality, and make sure that it federates with Lemmy.

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Unfortunately I think it will have to be made to foster communities, especially hobbyist communities the way Reddit does.