It’s more popular than Usenet! Take that, nntp.
do you think lemmy will ever be popular?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by The__the@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No.
They just copied redit. That included some bad decisions. Even when redit would do it better in the future, it still does not help lemmings.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I sure hope not
accarezzu@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I wish
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
I don’t think the form of Lemmy as a federated service will be able to scale.
What I expect is that, if Lemmy is successful, it will be as a platform for various Reddit alternatives, kind of like how Truth Social is Mastodon.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I can’t foresee Lemmy specifically reaching levels of popularity comparable to platforms like Twitter or Reddit. Barring some very strange disastrous upheaval of the whole landscape they and their ilk will continue to be Leviathans even with decisions at the top that look like outright sabotage. There is so much inertia. Maybe those two examples might disappear, but only if they’re devoured by another just like them.
I can see Lemmy and similar Federated platforms with their quite sizeable yet comparatively miniscule user bases carrying on as they are and even growing a little bit and having some effect on the zeitgeist with the occasional piece of local culture seeping in to the wider platforms though people there will likely not know that’s where it came from. I also think efforts like Threads or likely something similar that comes after will be where the fediverse meets any mainstream success essentially becoming part of those bigger platforms in some way I can’t yet predict in detail.
The big appeal of Lemmy is ideological and technical, this will always limit the number of people drawn to it. If there weren’t already giants in this space that wouldn’t matter because there’d be a snowball effect that would draw crowds who came because of other people not because of any interest in how the platform functions or ideals to pursue and with those crowds could come more crowds until you have a critical mass. But with the situation as it is now, the big crowds that draw yet more crowds still, are elsewhere so you’ll only ever have enthusiasts or ideologues that go out of their way to be here.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I much rather that Lemmy remain the domain of people who want to use it because of how & why it differs from the commercial sites. Good! Then I can have a reasonable expectation of the demographics. The occasional shit mod notwithstanding.
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Which instance?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 weeks ago
Not unless it gets a good marketing team.
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Not with how federation works on Lemmy.