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[-] pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org 3 points 1 year ago

Twitter and Reddit may have only lost a few million users to Mastodon and Lemmy so far, but these are nation-sized numbers, comparable to what Scandinavia is to the United States of America. The incumbents have allowed the fediverse to reach critical mass. It's only gonna get bigger, but it already works well enough that I've no need for any other social network. It's nicer here.

This resonates with me. Although they are still lacking for the long tail of small niche communities, Lemmy and Mastodon now have enough people and content that I rarely find myself going to Reddit or Twitter. The fediverse is not perfect and there is a lot of room for growth, but it is now large enough to be viable and hopefully sustainable.

[-] AbsolutelyNotABot@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

But I think there's a big difference here

I tried to use mastodon but I feel that microblogging inherently require some centralization, it's impossibile to find people to follow and the feed is always a mess with bunch of stuff that doesn't interest me.

On the contrary I'm using Lemmy since a while and it works much better for content discovery, communities act as a"human algorithm" the same way they work on Reddit and it help much with the federation approach.

What I arrived to realize is that some form of social media are more adaptable to the fediverse.

For example, I hardly see any decentralized version of TikTok

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Follow Tags. That way you may discover interesting people automatically.

[-] gabe@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

100%, following tags is really the only way to generate content. There is no algorithm, your feed is what you make it there.

this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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