and is that a good thing or bad?
Of all the reddit replacements, Lemmy has the most staying power because of its federated nature. It’s not dependent on a single source of administration or funding. Voat, for example, went to shit because it ended up full of Nazis that got ran off of reddit and then they ran out of money. While this same fate could potentially befall any individual Lemmy instance, the platform as a whole can react and continue.
Nah. Lemmy/fediverse will evolve and then that will become the thing. Tech literacy is going down, so something either has to drive it back up, or people are gonna need a lazier solution.
Reddit actively removes posts mentioning lemmy. And google specifically pushes posts from reddit. It’s gonna be an uphill battle but slow and steady will win the race. the more valuable content that gets posted here the stronger lemmy gets. One thing hurting is a good native app for lemmy.
I think it’ll remain niche, but it’ll slowly grow in popularity
I actually don’t think they will, they’ll go for an alternative that has a big ass marketing budget and backed by a large corporation next.
Like they did to Teamspeak for like two weeks when Discord leaked private IDs
Yes, I think it will grow organically, and often in bursts when Reddit does something particularly publicly stupid or frustrating. We’ve seen this before, we’ll see it again. I don’t know if we’ll ever see a mass exodus. I don’t know if this will ever “replace” Reddit per se. Obviously it has for me, but on a whole, I think it will continue to be a niche community, and I’m fine with that. There are good people here, my kind of people, and I like it for what it is, not for what it could become. I really don’t need the tiktok-memelord-masses and the teenagers and the onlyfans trolls in my life. I think they’ll find their own places to congregate and feed off each other, and I don’t think it will ever be here, no matter how shitty reddit and tiktok and whatever other dumb apps they use become.
I don’t want the Fediverse to be massively exclusive but it doesn’t need to be massively inclusive either. Its nature means it can be inclusive, and I welcome any community who really feels like they belong here. But I’m realistic about who is actually going to feel included here, and I don’t think we need to go out of our way to “attract” more users, we just need to do enough that the people who want this sort of thing, can find it.
Probably not materially faster than they leave - over the long run.
This first graph is mostly dominated by mastodon obviously we don’t know who did or did not use reddit previously, but its a general pattern. https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=96
Similar pattern in monthly active users for lemmy specifically. https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=96
I don’t know about newer versions like pieface or whatever - but since the total fedi population is fairly stable any specific software is probably mostly shuffling the same people around.
Though maybe the dataset doesn’t crawl stats for newer ones, I don’t really know - but it feels pretty stable population with inflows and outflows more or less matching.
Lemmy can’t grow niche communities without significantly larger number of users.
Lots of users will not replace Reddit with Lemmy without access to the niche subreddits they’re active in.
Personally, I still use Reddit for niche communities that just aren’t present on Lemmy.
Although, if they ever shut down RedReader’s API access that would force my hand, as the official app is unusable IMO.
I use Narwhal 2 for now. $5 a month is a small price to pay for the largest aggregation of information outside of Wikipedia.
Once they force the proprietary app on me I’ll likely be out. It’s a bloated cartoonish app.
I like Lemmy a lot but like people are saying it needs more users. I try and post my own content to practice what I preach.
It’s nice to have an option that isn’t one of the corporate overlords. I want it to be successful, but I also don’t want it to be mainstream, because that brings mainstream level problems too.
I just did.
So far really enjoying.
Reddit i really changed… forcing the app
Welcome to Lemmy, glad you’re here!
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Some will, but if they haven’t left yet I don’t see why they would. We’ll continue to get stragglers that get banned from reddit.
There are dozens of us!
Dozens !
Bakers or regular dozen?
yes
I hope so. It’s a more open platform and in some ways the interface is better (but as with most of fediverse tools it requires a wee tiny bit of learning to undo the programming of using proprietary webpages).
I see this stated often but I switched to lemmy over a year ago and I’ve literally never had to use any sort of programming. The only thing that took me a minute was learning what’s up with separate instances, but even then, if people want to just stick with one it’s not the end of the world.
Want to politely point out that they didn’t mean computer programming. From context, they meant behavioral conditioning.
Oh lmao that makes a lot more sense thanks
I hope so. My only issue so far is the lack of content
They are moving very slowly, which is a good thing.
