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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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The biggest issue is normies are stupid. That’s basically the gist.
Yeah but normies are what make platforms thrive. I fear Lemmy may just become an anti-Reddit circlejerk but then die out due to lack of content.
I'm hoping it at least sticks around as a niche nerdy corner of the internet now, I'm kinda over the Reddit thing already and am now just using lemmy for the same stuff I used to use Reddit for.
Community closer to the first wave of reddit users (when I joined) seemed very friendly but I think with the massive infux of redditors it's gone back to Reddit culture
This is literally the attitude that will kill fediverse alternatives chances of competing with Twitter and Reddit. Bluesky seems to be on the right track by focusing on product first before introducing the complexities of instances.
What if I told you we don't need to compete with them?
I hate to sound negative, but right now growth in the fediverse (especially Reddit clones like Kbin and Lemmy) are being driven by people who no longer want to use Reddit. But over the past few weeks, most discussions are still circle-jerking about how bad Reddit is and how glad people are to be on Lemmy. You can only beat a horse for so long before you need other content posted on here to keep most people engaged.
I'm not seeing much at all of that currently. A week ago? Sure. Now it's been consolidated to a mega thread.
For real? Who do you consider a “normie”?
Mainstream users are why any social media thrives and has content. Not sure hostility towards anyone is going to help when they check it out and see this is one of the top comments…