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

Good answers. It seems to me that there is no need to replace Reddit, copy it and try to be like it. A copy is always a weak resemblance. As Steve Jobs once said: I don't want to do better, I want to do it differently. Lemmy have strengths, they need to be developed.

[–] Reverse@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you make a quick list of its strengths besides those that derive directly from federation?

[–] Evg@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I apologize for not answering for a long time. Spring, construction, constant moving.

It’s so hard for me to immediately write about strengths, I got a little distracted, but I can only give advice. This applies to those who create this platform, developers. Make it stand out from the competition. You know for yourself what the strengths and weaknesses are. Make it so that anyone who puts another script (and there are plenty of them on the net) knows that his version is not very good and there is a better one - Lemmy. People are such that they will prefer to use the best, especially since installation and support is not very complicated here. Just don't give anyone a chance. )

You can improve endlessly, any product can be made better and better, and you yourself know this.