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

Is it reactions, or votes? Afaik only lemmy votes are federated. What other platform has up and downvotes?

[–] liwott@nerdica.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@dessalines Since you mention it, one issue I find with the federation of votes is that from Friendica I can see who the voters are, while I assume Lemmy users may expect their votes to be secret.

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

Yep, votes are anonymous in lemmy.

[–] liwott@nerdica.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@dessalines Up and downvotes from Friendica seem to work very well 😀

All I meant was that having a count of active Lemmy users that includes people who interact with Lemmy content may also be useful in probing the importance of the userbase. From example, right now I am directly only using Friendica, but it makes sense to consider that by replying to your comment, I am somehow using Lemmy.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

The site activity counts use a local = true filter, but the community active counts don't have that. Adding federated users to site activity counts would probably be wrong.