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I was just reading this post https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1gmv76n/is_reddit_going_to_remain_the_primary_space_for/ and many barely see the fediverse as an alternative and they seem to have a negative bias towards it. Super ironic when it comes to the self-hosting community. Yes, some instances are problematic, yes, some devs might have had problematic views. But it doesn't really matter when it's federated and FOSS. I think it's clear-cut that the selfhosting community on Lemmy is a perfect alternative to reddit. Why is there such a negative bias?

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[–] Rakenclaw@fedia.io 16 points 5 days ago

No idea, quit Reddit over a year ago for fedia/lemmy. Never used x/twitter either, i use mastodon.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

we are like their penal colony in revolt, maybe

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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Seems to me most people in that thread seems relatively open minded? The people dismissing Lemmy completely appears to be downvoted, and people seem to have a nuanced understanding that it's a better platform in theory but sadly less active.

I'm sure they're right. I'm a slow person who thinks there's plenty of activity over here, but if you're used to the adrenaline of Reddit it must feel a little small town-y.

To be honest except on things like sports and politics, reddit kind of feels like a ghosttown too. So many posts with huge amounts of upvotes and like 2 bot generated comments. The power commenter types seem to have left after the exodus and been replaced by lots of people who scroll and like but don’t really venture much into comments.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Main reason is people are too lazy to change their ways and don’t want to feel like they’ve been making the wrong choice all along.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The feel of Lemmy communities is a little different than Reddit, even if the software features are mostly analogous and there are many Redditisms used.

Your average commentor/poster will stand out more in a small community, there's less of being able to post and then slink away.

People have gotten used to a lot more comforting features of modern Reddit, Lemmy in both the users and in the software has more of a "Reddit 10-15 years ago" feel to it.

mbin is a bit less hostile (native reddit) looking than lemmy

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The higher-score comments there don't seem to be particularly hostile to Lemmy. They talk about legitimate concerns like whether Lemmy as it exists now could deal with a Reddit-size volume of data, The top comment at this time speaks favorably of !selfhosted@lemmy.world.

Of course people who are still using Reddit are more likely to view Reddit as favorable or acceptable and alternatives as problematic, or not quite there yet. I'm actively Fediverse-first in my use of social media, but I still end up on Reddit quite a bit for niche interests because that's where the most people are.

its a chicken and egg thing. the fediverse cant scale if we arent pressured to fix scaling issues. we need users to highlight the pain points so we can fix things that allow those users.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Us vs them too. It's different, people hate change. So now there is a them and an us..

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

We aren't Russian bots?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Anyone still left on Reddit is either too ignorant about the alternatives to Reddit to even have an opinion or is actively trying to keep people on Reddit for Reddit.

[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I left reddit after a cyberbully situation because I defended a nonbinary person in a post in the sega dreamcast subreddit.

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[–] PoseidonsWake@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

For the same reason Youtube is doing with Odysee and Peertube - money - walled garden.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago

Grumpy young boomers

Get off my internet!

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