Reddit is not going anywhere anytime soon. Their stock price might not be doing great at the moment, but there is no reason to think the platform will die. Lemmy has a chicken and egg problem. In order to draw users away from Reddit it would need sufficient content, but to get that content it would need more users.
Reddit will definitely see some shakeups soon, especially when they introduce paid subs, but I’m not sure Lemmy has what it takes to capitalize on that. I love Lemmy, but at it’s core it’s a more difficult to use, federated, reddit clone.
The fediverse deserves something new. Not a clone of a commercial network, but something novel that takes advantage of the federated nature of the network. I still very much believe in that 90’s internet dream of a democratized social space for all humans, but we’re not getting there with janky clones of anti-social media.
Even Reddit fifteen years ago had active niche communities, which Lemmy does not (because they’re all still on reddit). Lemmy has to compete where reddit didn’t. There was like a bbs before there was /r/spooncarving (or whatever).
We’re having this conversation on a community about an open source picture hosting platform. How much more niche do we need to get??
Before Reddit there was fark, slashdot, and a few others. They’re probably still around since dying takes forever. Reddit had to compete, but the user experience was better than the others. Now it’s not.
Reddit is not going anywhere anytime soon. Their stock price might not be doing great at the moment, but there is no reason to think the platform will die. Lemmy has a chicken and egg problem. In order to draw users away from Reddit it would need sufficient content, but to get that content it would need more users.
Reddit will definitely see some shakeups soon, especially when they introduce paid subs, but I’m not sure Lemmy has what it takes to capitalize on that. I love Lemmy, but at it’s core it’s a more difficult to use, federated, reddit clone.
The fediverse deserves something new. Not a clone of a commercial network, but something novel that takes advantage of the federated nature of the network. I still very much believe in that 90’s internet dream of a democratized social space for all humans, but we’re not getting there with janky clones of anti-social media.
Lemmy is just Reddit fifteen years ago. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Even Reddit fifteen years ago had active niche communities, which Lemmy does not (because they’re all still on reddit). Lemmy has to compete where reddit didn’t. There was like a bbs before there was /r/spooncarving (or whatever).
We’re having this conversation on a community about an open source picture hosting platform. How much more niche do we need to get??
Before Reddit there was fark, slashdot, and a few others. They’re probably still around since dying takes forever. Reddit had to compete, but the user experience was better than the others. Now it’s not.
Fark is better than ever honestly, though not quite as left leaning in the comments anymore but it is pretty civil
Digg is dead.
They said the same thing about digg right before the exodus…
Apparently Digg is trying a comeback?
They try it every few years but only manage to attract the kind of people that dragged it down in the first place. Digging themselves deeper it seems