I think @lemmy @lemmyworld might not get the support Mastodon got because Twitter is more seriously used by some people and needed an urgent alternative whereas Reddit is still primarily used for entertainment
I think @lemmy @lemmyworld might not get the support Mastodon got because Twitter is more seriously used by some people and needed an urgent alternative whereas Reddit is still primarily used for entertainment
Wrong.
It has a way better chance because we don’t need to rely on popular people joining for it to grow. Anyone can start a community for any topic.
@trifictional I saw support for Mastodon and people moving to it.
Lemmy just hasn’t had that yet.
And its apparent why.
Unlike Twitter, core functionality of Reddit has still not degraded
Here’s my point though:
You follow people on twitter. If the people you follow stay on twitter, you are forced to use twitter to see what they post.
You follow topics on Reddit. If the community doesn’t leave Reddit, that’s okay. You can still find the exact same community over here or start one yourself.
That single distinction will make this platform more successful than mastodon.
@trifictional People are what make a platform.
Users submit content to fill it
Mods make it liveable
Lemmy has enough mods. But given that 99% of redditors weren’t affected by the changes, Lemmy just doesn’t have the urgency.
Big subreddits are protesting instead of switching to Lemmy.
One adv is that Lemmy can tap into Mastodon users. But even that I have not seen happenning.
I will be happy to be proved wrong tho. Let’s see…
Well duplicate communities can thrive both on reddit and Lemmy. You can imagine a community with several thousand users on Lemmy would still be relatively active enough to have quality content and discussions. In fact I’ve noticed this myself and it’s only getting better over the past few weeks.
Rather than all of nothing approach, just think of it as both can co-exist for now. Eventually let’s hope reddit will die its slow death it won’t be anything like the death spiral of Twitter.
When I do searches for common topic I often find 6 or more communities, looking at each I often find only one that has posts and replies consistently on a daily basis.
There is a critical mass before a community becomes viable, otherwise it is sort of redundant.
Eh? I see a lot of people supporting and moving to Lemmy / Kbin. I myself have shifted over to Lemmy as my primary way to engage in certain communities.