I leaved Google and Reddit in last two days. Continue my devalleyzation (Silicon Valley).
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2022
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Congratulations, keep up the good work. One day you'll run a custom operating system on your phone and your own social network on the internet if you want. :D
Just reading this gives me a happy rush
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All instances (mostly lemmy and lemmygrad) are experiencing a steady increase in usership.
Is lemmy like or the same thing as mastodon? Like ok, I LOVED reddit. However there are so many crazy, Whitney, and totalitarian moderators who shut you down for defending your position or saying anything that goes against the echo chamber. I always had this 'feeling' of pressure to watch what I say. So at that point, it kills the experience. If I say you're an ass kisser, I'm permanently banned? How can anyone last on there? The internet is the wild west, you should be able to say what you want
As one of the moderators on a subreddit with a tight, strongly enforced civility policy, it really is one of the few things keeping the sub from chaos. So much of political discourse these days is either in echo chambers or has degraded discourse. Sure you can say whatever, but the whatever slowly becomes worth less. We've been told by multiple users that the culture our rules foster has made it so that the users have a place to have serious political discussions with a broad range of people in a way that they haven't in a long time. That's important because many people have given up on political discussions with people who aren't like-minded.
Alternatively, I'll put it this way: it's possible to thoroughly discuss a political matter without touching personal insults. When there is nothing stopping personal insults, Internet discussions tend to be "won" by the trolliest trolls and the loudest yellers, not the best ideas. The people with the best ideas give up as they get drowned out.
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Also I think not having a huge amount of content is a drawback. Users are looking for that (including me).
Yea dude same. Even when I sort by new, they are the same posts
I sort by "top day", that seems to work fairly well for me... but I'm not very active either.
filter by All, but if you don't like communism, do not do that
This should be posted on the main page; it would help resolve people's culture shock after leaving walled media gardens
exactly
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Competition, reputation and federation. In essence, retention.
- Competition
There's a ton of social news aggregators out there and most of them are much better at advertising their site than the entire lemmyverse together.
- Reputation
Lemmy has a reputation among many as a far left, for some - extremist platform. A large mastodon user that boosts accounts actively warned about Lemmy in a pretty bad way a while back. The other day a public representative for a company withdrew their community the same day they created it due to the public backlash.
- Federation
It's difficult to grasp how federation, and particularly lemmy federation works for people unfamiliar with the concept. They might get a wrong impression of the lemmyverse after visiting just one instance, not realizing it's only a part of it. Or they could be stuck on an instance with few posts that interests them.
The other day a public representative for a company withdrew their community the same day they created it due to the public backlash.
This was probably Bitwarden on the Sopuli instance right? Could you perhaps share a link discussing this in detail?
we had to remove the Bitwarden instance for the time being, to review the flood of responses coming in to us from the community regarding information about the purpose behind Lemmy via the creators
What the heck? It's free software and a specific detail about free software is that it may be used for any purpose regardless of the authors ideas. That's some serious fucked up witch hunt.
it may be used for any purpose regardless of the authors ideas.
To be honest, I haven't seen the developers put any demands or anything on what people use it for. Just look at Wolfballs and how it's on https://join-lemmy.org/instances despite their home server blocking them. I think that's very respectable.
Thatβs some serious fucked up witch hunt.
I don't think so. It's just that a bad reputation lasts a long time, and the lemmy platform have had some rowdy representation for a while. Again, the developers have taken sensible steps when they started promoting Sopuli and Beehaw on the join-lemmy page, two seemingly wholesome instances that welcomes anyone.
@Catradora_Stalinism@lemmy.ml Sorry, can't reply directly. Check out these two links:
Its all right! Thank you for getting this for me!
god some of them read like bots on that mastodon thread.
what happened to them? I never heard about this.
Such a shame...
I was even excited to see them join a community as small as ours.
I know, it really saddened me. We need to discuss these things, work together to change the federated culture and become attractive to new users. But it feels like everywhere I look, people either want to compete directly or they can't see the big picture.
wait What happened?
If youre looking for a more general purpose instance, try out beehaw.org
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I hope at some point regular users like you would help us to churn out enough content for the whole day. So far, thank you for your post, don't forget to explore other instances and global feed.
Thank you. You made my day :'D I'm definitely going to
- Lemmy is newer than Reddit. Reddit has been up for over 15 years.
- Lemmy is a Reddit clone but less well known, thus, whatever advantages it has over Reddit, you can pretty much assume anyone who comes to Lemmy is someone who was on Reddit and saw some reason to leave. Or even still uses Reddit but is trying their hand here too. At least for now.
- Thus, the Lemmy userbase will, at least within the near future, be a small subset of current or former Redditors.
Social media is "winner takes all". People go to where other people are. It's very hard to break out of that.
We all were using reddit at some point without thinking about alternatives. Once thinking about alternatives, there are a lot of reddit alternatives out there.
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Chicken or the egg problem. Many people want a lot of (quality) content and diverse content comes from many people.
For the same reason a lot of people prefer cities over towns.
Clarifying question: what do you consider a lot of people?
I guess at least 200k
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