I just wish more people were willing to try out the alternatives
I just wish more people were willing to try out the alternatives
I mean have they seen how good Ice Cubes and Mlem look? How can they choose the default Twitter and Reddit apps over those masterpieces.
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If all the average users were here, it would be just as awful as Reddit became when it hit mainstream acceptance level.
Remember that subreddits there were quality when small but sort of became too large to have character after a certain threshold, I seem to recall 300k subscribers and up being about where that delineation was.
Lemmy could stand to be more popular, but not too popular or it would attract the bottom feeders that make stupid one liner comments and upvote wrong answers.
Enjoy the smaller lemmy while it lasts
Edited for clarity, gotta drop the reddit shorthand
"The problem isn't corporate, the problem is audience size."
Shut the fuck up about this.
Lemmy isn't anything right now. No impact or relevance, no practical effect in terms of community and influence. It's just small conversations and mild entertainment.
If you enjoy that, go ahead. But don't campaign to hold the whole fediverse project back.
Just get together in a niche instance with your small town types and defederate if the project successfully becomes a full fledged alternative. The Internet needs a successful full scale alternative to corporate social media to have a chance at recovery from enshittification.
Both of you can be correct. Some communities (e.g. technical subjects like photography, self hosting, etc.) can work well at lower numbers. Some others might be more social were numbers might allow more organic interactions.
Here like Reddit, the best experience is achieved by trying to find the ones you are interested in and following them. It is more apparent here I think since there is not as much content.
Yeah, the issues I have with it it's that the whole project is pointless if we intentionally stop short of dethroning corporate social media.
It's not a campaign, its an observation based on whats come before. It'll come for lemmy the same as it did for reddit.
I'll adapt as it grows like before, but the fact remains that online communities are at their best when it isnt 3 million subscribers shouting over each other. On the flip side, 3 million users would likely spawn enough interest for super niche communities to self sustain themselves. The broad interest communities though, those will become just like reddit is now.
No it's not a campaign but it's a sizable unorganized proportion of Lemmy who wants to argue for soft isolationism and little to to outreach, recruiting and general onboarding/accessibility reworks that would make Lemmy too easy to understand and join.
Shut up and take my upvote.
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/s of course.
I seem to recall 300k subscribers and up being about where that delineation was.
Interesting number, but why not have it based on active users rather than subs?
Because that’s just an easy metric you can eyeball to gauge a subreddit community
I remember it being roughly true but I have no data other than anecdotal to back that up
No worries, thanks!
I think "subs" in this instance refers to subcommunities or subreddit, not subscribers.NM. Missed the word subscribers in the original comment.
My bad. Yes I meant sub as in subreddit, I need to drop the reddit shorthand lingo since I don’t use the site anymore and it’s confusing on lemmy