I get there are still users but it feel empty at times compared “other” platforms.
Why isint lemmy more popular?
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This right here encapsulates exactly what my biggest complaint with this platform is. A news post about a controversial topic in a completely unrelated community. I’m literally on my knees, guys. I just want to talk about drawing fantasy maps and developing conlangs. Worst part is that worldbuilding/conworlding is a perfectly acceptable way to articulate your worldview, and you might even get people to listen to you if you’re creative about it, but nah that’s not blunt enough.
And yeah, it could have been posted in error, but given what I previously described about !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world, it very well may be on purpose.
Because Reddit exists.
Reddit itself didn’t truly take off to massive scale until some other players were out of the way. It was the underdog for a long time.
People aren’t here for Lemmy in particular. They’re here to avoid the others. If all you want is content, you’ll just go to Reddit. If you are here, it’s because you recognized something of the awfulness in corporate reddit but liked the format. Lemmy is Reddit for people who pay attention and care.
It’s a nightmare to even sign up.
Nothing else to it.
People will move en-masse to new platforms if the switch is easy. Nothing easy about using this platform.
Obv the people here are techy enough to surmount the initial hurdles, but don’t kid yourself, the average person doesn’t know a damned thing. Using tech and understanding tech are two vastly different skills. And you actually need to understand tech to even get started here.
Nightmare? It’s so easy to make a world account
nightmare
I love a bit of hyperbole as much as the next bloke, but come on…
“Nightmare”
Provide an email account, answer a logic-based question. Yes, “nightmare” indeed. /s
Same reason star trek and Linux isn’t more popular. It’s for nerds
star wars however is a digested version of trek, it just alot more drama and less “sci-fi” feel to it.
counterpoint, lemmy is popular enough
I’m okay with having a lot less people in lemmy if it means there less nazis and less toxicity
Cos we’re all losers and no one wants to sit at our table
Because we haven’t any friends in irl, that’s why we are doomed to scroll here without friends too.
That’s interesting. I never saw it that way, before. Now I kind of see it.
I always sat at the “loser” table at lunch, in school.
I changed schools many times and they - multiple different “loser” tables - welcomed me.
It’s also just where all the most interesting people were sitting, so I wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Maybe they were just more free to be their real selves together, because no one was trying to prove they fit some official cliche.
Anyway, I would be proud to once again be a member of a loser table.
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Because people still use Reddit (for some reason).
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Because it is fragmented and hard to understand how it works for average person.
- reddit has more larger and niche communties that arnt found anywhere else in such large numbers.
the only useful communties outside of reddit tend towards things like medical questions and drug usage forums. also spam/bot for income too on many SC.
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not advertised, not run by a for profit company
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.
Network effect. Reddit has more users and more discussion, drawing in more people and discussion. I’m not worried because enshittification and bots will run it into the ground
The verification aspect of signing up for an instance. People say they’ll leave Reddit but still go back to it. I was one of those until I remembered how they murdered my boy Apollo.
This is a really good question, and I suppose the answer is the same as to why Mastodon is not more popular.
I think it is a combination of several factors:
- Not many people know about it. Really, reddit is one of the most well known websites on the internet. Very few people know lemmy/mastodon.
- UI/UX issues. The more friction there is, the smaller the probability of someone using something. And Lemmy has TONS of friction. And the lemmy devs are not welcome to suggestions. Seriously, every suggestion that is made is probably answered with “I am against this”. If the idea did not come from their heads, they are probably against it. This has been my experience with them, at least.
- Lack of content. On reddit, there is tons of content. On lemmy, not so much. And people are generally not very principled. They want to consume, and completely ignore the ethics/morality of whatever it is they are doing.
I think this is not necessarily bad though. Lemmy DOES need more content and more users. But I hope it never becomes the size of reddit. Because reddit fucking sucks. People are stupid as fuck there now. The amount of low effort and low information content on reddit is astonishing.
Hopefully, Lemmy gets the smart, principled, interesting people and reddit keeps the influencers and onlyfaners.
Lemmy currently feels a lot like reddit used to in the beginning, when posts came from real people who just wanted to share ideas about things they cared about. I’d rather keep it as is than see it grow into the bloated bot farm of garbage and advertising that reddit has become.
somewhat. early reddit was a lot more mainstream. it was mostly a link aggregator for news stories in its early days and subreddits were not really a thing until later. i started using it in 2007 and it was much different by 2010.
the dominant ideology was also libertarian and auti-authoritarian, not extreme leftism of various flavors that are pro authoritarian. there was very much a lack of controlling the narrative and language policing… that didn’t take hold until mid 2010s as the reddit ‘scandals’ caused the admins to start cracking down.
Whaaaaaat? It has a far better signal to noise ratio than those ‘other’ platforms. As long as you’re into Star Trek memes and Linux.
I’m into Star Trek, and all set to switch to Linux this weekend!
Do it! I made the plunge and have zero regrets. Everything works, it’s fun, and I get to annoyingly pester friends, family, and strangers about the benefits of open source software!
Thank you. My only real concern point now is running Adobe stuff in a VM. Other than that I think I’m good to go.
How’d it go? Also, what sort of Adobe stuff are you running? I do hobby photography, and unfortunately lightroom is still by far the best option imo. But there are still some decent alternatives that run on Linux. I edited some engagement pics in Darktable in a pinch once because all I had with me was my laptop running Arch. It worked out pretty well.
Install has gone fine.
Having trouble getting OpenRGB working. Might just have to turn off lights in BIOS for now.And I’m also a hobby photog. Lightroom and Photoshop. I’ve tried Darktable and GIMP on Windows before. As much as I complain about Adobe, they’re still miles ahead of the OSS alternatives.
the linux content isn’t even that great on Lemmy
more just cheer leading; in a good way
or ecology!
…or have ADHD
…or are furries (though, they are surprisingly rare here)
I like star trek, but I’m very much not a trekkie and don’t care much for syar trek memes. This is hard here, I don’t really wanna filter them since I do understand some and get a laugh out of one every now and then, but its 99% meh or having no idea what they mean. Do like Linux memes though, and even programing memes even though I only have incredibly shallow programing knowledge and experience. They are definitely more approachable and mostly easy to figure out without deep knowledge, like it feels many star trek memes require.
Popular platforms have big expensive algorithms that monitor user behavior and present content they’re most likely to interact with when they’re most likely to interact with it. Participation in those platforms isn’t a deliberate act anymore.
