What would they be migrating to? Neither Lemmy nor Tildes seems to want to take on a mass exodus. Both have said they are not Reddit replacements and they don’t want to be either. I’ve been trying to figure out where people are actually headed to. Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, outside?
Lohrun
joined 1 year ago
Yeah I’ve tried to figure out Twitter and Mastodon multiple times but that format of content just doesn’t make sense to me. With how my experience with Mastodon went it made me wary of trying Lemmy out when I heard about it.
The web ui and apps for Lemmy leave a lot to be desired but I hope they will improve in time as the user base grows.
I basically never post on Reddit because it feels like not just the content of your message is picked apart but so is the grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. Or there might be nothing wrong with your post/comment and you still get downvoted to oblivion because “reasons.” It feels a lot more welcoming on here to join in on the discussions.
I’ve seen some discussion already starting about that. The general answer I’ve seen is, “if you don’t like the rules or how it is being run, join or create a new instance.” Which like… I understand that is a “benefit” of federated content but that answer to governance leaves a lot to be desired.
I think that having more than a handful of mods and the users having a way to remove a troublesome mod would be a couple potential solutions. Reddit has that issue with their mods, if you have a mod causing trouble pretty much the only thing you can do is make a new subreddit. (I suppose that is true here too, you can just move to a new instance but that seems like a drastic solution)
It’s why Apple is popular, ease of use for the average person is important. The more streamlined and fool proof you can make things, the easier the adoption is. (Apple might have been a bad example because their whole thing is much more complex)
Having been on Reddit for about 10 years now, I would say the need/want for Mastodon/Lemmy/etc to be bigger is to have more variety and more volume in content.
That being said, I also remember my early days on the internet participating on small forums. There was a sense of familiarity and community that I simply haven’t felt on big social media sites.
I also work in software, I’m still trying to wrap my head around the federation concept. There are a lot of buzzwords thrown around.
I remember when I first signed up for Reddit it just asked for a username and a password then boom you were in.
To get started on lemmy, the process isn’t quite so straightforward. I’m new here, like 20 minutes new, and I’ve already seen some people suggest that we should push new users into looking for new instances to sign up on (push them away from lemmy.ml and beehaw.org). There already is the knowledge hurdle of instances, accounts, communities, local/all, federation, etc. It’s not going to be easy to grow the user base if the vibe is that it is set up like some tech bro crypto scam.
Gotta convince some of the tech guys coming over from Reddit to spin up their own Lemmy instances so we can properly be distributed and share the load.