I get there are still users but it feel empty at times compared “other” platforms.
Why isint lemmy more popular?
counterpoint, lemmy is popular enough
I’m okay with habing a lot less people in lemmy if it means there less nazis and less toxicity
Why isint lemmy more popular?
Submitted 5 days ago by Grumpy404@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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bender223@lemmy.today 2 days ago
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 5 days ago
For me I feel like to many instances to sign up to. Like . World. Ml .shit just works .etc…
cabbage@piefed.social 5 days ago
I think whoever wants to promote anything on the fediverse should probably just pick an instance they enjoy and promote that, without caring to explain how it’s all part of a federated network or whatnot.
Lasherz12@lemmy.world 5 days ago
To the biggest degree it’s comfort elsewhere and numbers attracting numbers. To a smaller but still substantial degree it’s the same reason the top 3 phone brands have less customization and a more plug and play experience than rooted phones. It solves a huge amount of the problems with Reddit, but reddit is simpler to join, simpler to understand, feels more secure, and has so many communities and active users that even inactive communities can look active by how many people mistakenly post there.
solomonschuler@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
“Because I fucking hate my privacy, and Lemmy and other FOSS media platforms is like veggies on my dinner plate – I don’t want it.
I want people to know when I get my first boner, when I inevitably kick the bucket, and when i announce I got a new position (while users on the platform give context that I was hard the entire interview process). Because why celebrate with family and friends when I got the whole internets asshole comments to read and respond to.”
This is my interpretation of why users don’t join Lemmy.
Blaze@piefed.zip 5 days ago
!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com il people want to help
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 5 days ago
Because its got too much political bias and censorship which alienates one side and the centre. Elon did this by making twitter open all other platforms must be just as tolerant or cease to be relevant in the medium of the marketplace of ideas
AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Meh. Reddit had a very strong political bias.
Lemmy doesn’t have the same polish, it’s a little more difficult to create an account, and doesn’t have any marketing. Also success snowballs.
I respect the crap out of everyone that pitches in to make Lemmy as good as it is. But if I’m being real, I’m here to spite Reddit. Few people have that moral give-a-fuck. Spite is easy, following through to do something that is more challenging and pays nothing is not.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
reddit also has legacy, established communities, for 10+years, minus the entertaining/intriguiging ILLICIT subreddits that were banned.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 days ago
If you think Lemmy is bad, then you were never on Reddit. Spez went full MAGA, and after the MAGA Inauguration, he permabanned all the active users who built the site. Now it’s all MAGA trolls, novelty accounts, bots, Russian propaganda farmers, etc.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
because spez thirsts for musk, when musk complained about whitepeople twitter, he started a purge, and then when he complained again spez just decided to continually purge people that are negative to right wing, plus a side benefit of getting rid of the lowest hanging fruit of bots/spamming.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
he made it less OPEN, only allow right wing/nazism/zionism/transphobia to thrive, also astroturfing the “left”
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 3 days ago
U can go test this and find that it’s unequivocally false. Your just scared that those things are winning in the marketplace of ideas
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Critical mass does what they do.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 4 days ago
because at the moment Reddit is now mainstream, and reactionaries are taking over (FU spez). Therefore much of the far left and anarchists deemed “violent” by spez have moved to Lemmy and Bluesky and made it their safe space for mostly politically-charged topics, topics that spez or fucking Muskhead would kill off.