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I get there are still users but it feel empty at times compared "other" platforms.

Why isint lemmy more popular?

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[-] karashta@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Having to choose a server before you know what that means or the differences between the slightly different versions of federated networks makes it more confusing.

Yes, "it doesn't matter which server you choose," because you can see the posts from anywhere, in theory.  Except, it also kind of does matter. Places defederate from each other. If you pick a smaller instance, it may suddenly just go down and then you're back at the start again.

Honestly, I've made... 5? 6? different versions of me on different instances. Kbin went down, didn't get into Mastodon, lemm.ee went down, didn't like Mbin as much as Kbin, tried fedia.io sort of liked it, ended up largely on piefed.social, but also like being on sopuli.xyz because it's defederated from less and has more global content.

It's confusing and niche. I honestly really love it even when I kind of hate it. I end up ahead of the curve in a lot of tech news because of the hardcore enthusiasts on here.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

after lemee.ee almost everyone dispersed, so less content overall on lemmy. plus the amount of blocking one has to do from trolls and extremists comments.

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I have two accounts that went dark. The main mastodon website with the list of all instances really needs to filter by popularity and longevity so people can make an informed choice!

[-] elevenbones@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago
[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

most of them are still addicted to reddit thats why, when you have all under one house, its hard to beat, and thier communities there is still large and eclipses lemmy.

plus most niches have been on reddit for decade+, it will be hard to convince like 20k-100k people to move to lemmy.

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[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 and Phony Stark have moved to Lemmy and Bluesky and made it their safe spaces for mostly politically-charged topics.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'd say because it's still new and the content is very nerd heavy as you have probably seen from all the Linux posts. Also, most user's here come from the reddit exodus after the removal of third party apps.

One other thing is that when you link content from Lemmy you can just link the image directly instead of sending a link to Lemmy with a login screen. The adoption rate from people linking will be a lot lower since Lemmy is not sacrificing quality to increase numbers.

Either way, I like the size and it suits me, I can "finish" my Lemmy for the day in a reasonable amount of time and I get my fix of Linux news, memes and shitposts so it's just a win for me.

Advertising. I'm not going to elaborate, because it's all just going to come back to that. Grassroots, paid, you name it. Advertising.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Lack of marketing.

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 1 points 1 week 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 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

reddit also has legacy, established communities, for 10+years, minus the entertaining/intriguiging ILLICIT subreddits that were banned. you arnt going to find r/soccer, /music users in large numbers other than reddit.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week 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 1 points 1 week 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 0 points 1 week ago

he made it less OPEN, only allow right wing/nazism/zionism/transphobia to thrive, also astroturfing the "left"

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

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