It’s almost exactly a copy of reddit issues but most people that use reddit haven’t heard about it.

  • linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    It’s almost exactly a copy of reddit

    The magic of reddit isn’t just the structure of the website, it’s the fact that there are so many people posting to diverse niche subjects. Although one structural thing lemmy is really lacking is the wiki and post flare components; those help give experts a reason to make effortful contributions as they do not fade into the ether after a few days.

    That said, if reddit was new in 2025 or 2020, I don’t think it would take off as much. It gained popularity in a previous time of the internet and is now coasting off that.

    • Killer_Tree@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Reddit greatly benefitted from the DIGG implosion (Reasons include issues with power users, censorship, redesigns, etc.) around I want to say 2012 +/-. Similar to how this site benefitted from the Reddit API implosion the other year. For social media applications, success usual comes from a halfway-decent platform + lucky timing. (This is all from memory, so apologies for any inaccuracies and generalizations.)

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    The joining process is too cumbersome and a few things like cross posting across instances are way too complex for people to easily understand.

    • olbaidiablo @lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      Like the early internet. It gatekeeps by requiring a certain level of technical know how. I like it, it keeps out a lot of stupid.

    • laranis@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      Not sure why you’re getting down voted… These things are true. Maybe amended to “way too complex for most people to easily understand” would be less controversial.

      The vast majority of people’s relationship with technology ends with an email address and a credit card. Here on Lemmy there tends to be a more sophisticated understanding of social media and the underlying social and technical aspects. But the idea that you have to do anything more than decide to join something and at most you need an email and a credit card would be a significant barrier to entry for most.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    5 months ago

    Its hard to break into peoples minds with no advertising budget.We can’t tell people on reddit about Lemmy because reddit bans your account.

    Lemmy got a ton of traffic after the api black out and it did an incredible Job at retaining a lot of those users. There were 200k active users and Lemmy was much more unstable at the time. Active users did fall off as expected but 50k stayed for 2 years. Thats great in my opinion. If we had another migration wave I reckon the retention would be even higher.

    For someone to switch from reddit to Lemmy three things need to happen

    1. They need to know it exists

    2. They need to dislike reddit or centralised corporate controlled social media on an ideological level.

    3. They need something disruptive to happen. Either a ban or a change they dont like.

  • frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    This isn’t an issue of Lemmy itself, but I realized after I made the switch that I personally am a bit burnt-out from the Reddit model in general at this exact moment.

    I’m using other Fedi apps more at this moment in time. I’ll probably be more active later in the year, but it’s a nice little break being on the smaller Fediverse apps where things are a bit more personal with the people I’m interacting with, which has been fun for me.

    I think Lemmy/Piefed will grow to get more Reddit sized with time. Personally, I get like 10x the engagement on comments and posts here than I ever did on Reddit, which to me makes it much more joyful to be around.

  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The hard-core leftist/communist/anarchist slant scares a lot of people away. Im a left leaning liberal but not a leftist. If I were conservative I think this site would drive me crazy.

      • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I reckon that is one of the reasons. Lemmy’s (and the entire ActivityPub/Fediverse ecosystem/graph) attracts people with a positive, progressive attitude.

        Advertising is based on passive attitude and thrives on negative attitudes.

        There was a lot of negative being accepted (and sometimes actively pushed) on some instances, but most other instances defederated from them.

        • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Advertising is based on passive attitude and thrives on negative attitudes.

          This is a nice-sounding story that flatters our egos, but unless scientific studies corroborate, that’s all it is.

  • tyler@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    Reddit removes (or at least did at one point) any lemmy links or posts trying to get people to switch to Lemmy.

      • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Not the only case of this happening; Corporate Social Media providers do not want the Fediverse to succeed at all.

        Instagram (and Fascbook, and WhatsApp, and Threads) all censor references to PixelFed.

        If you cross post, it is best to watermark your photos with your PixelFed address.

        • comfy@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          Watermarking is great when there is a strong enough community to make original content. I’m sure there are communities like that, but I’m not in many of the hobby communities here.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      My posts and comments linking to Lemmy have stayed up, and received comments.

      Maybe it’s true for some subreddits as a mod choice, but it isn’t true for all subreddits.

  • dreamos82@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Because in my opinion people are used to reddit, and is the biggest one, baiscally everyone else is there, why changing for a platform where you have evem to choose " an what? An instance?"), with a fraction of the users.

    I stopped using reddit after the api rules changes, i quit twiitter as sson as that nazi guy bought it.

    The main socials I use are mastodon and lemmy.

    How many of my friends are on madtodon? 1 or 2, how many of them are active there? 0. And i think my nbers are even higher than wjat i think they should be because most of my friemds works in the IT

    People unfortunately just wants everything quickly, without hassle, and are not prone to change.

    A question on reddit? Probably you’ll get an answer in few hours. On lemmy? You are luckynif you’ll get one.

    I have a small crafting page, that I’m trying to spread using only mastodon, it’s much harder. These are the reasons I think.

    And most people don’t even care about the content of if their timeline is 85% ads and suggested pages.

    They will just scroll. Algorithms are shitty, but who cares. Everyone is there…

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The network effect. It’s big enough that small forums get enough posts to stay active which keeps more people using it.

    For example Lemmy has a 3d printer forum that has a few posts a week. Reddit has forums not just for 3d printing but for every specific model of printer and each gets a much activity as Lemmy’s generic forum.

    If I’m searching for something, Google will show Reddit content but not Lemmy because there isn’t an answer on Lemmy.

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    As long as it stays semi-obscure, the powers that be won’t notice it much so maybe it’s a blessing and not a curse. Reddit didn’t start as a shithole, you know. 😕