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submitted 2 years ago by Blaskowitz@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

It really whips the llama's ass. Post says it all. Foreveralone. Take my upvote. Are we in post-social media yet or what?

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[-] preppietechie@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 years ago

My hope is that someone (Mozilla? Apollo devs?) stands up a Lemmy instance “for the average user” similar to what Mozilla did for Mastodon. It’ll take moves like that to get some degree of critical mass and help the average user switch to federated apps like Lemmy. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

Mastodon has a flagship instance for normies before mozilla. Lemmy doesn't

[-] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

Is Lemmy.ml not the flagship instance? Or is it just one of the larger ones?

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

It's the one the devs run and so is often treated as such, but they discourage it in order to encourage decentralization and because they don't want too much moderation overhead.

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[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

To expand on morrowind's answer, here's the long response about not being a flagship: https://lemmy.ml/post/70280

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Yes, if mozilla makes an instance the game will be changed. The biggest problems I'm seeing people on reddit say is that making an account is awful and picking an instance is too hard. Please mozilla

[-] Kerrangutan@lemmy.one 22 points 2 years ago

Upvoted for WinAmp reference

[-] kinther@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago

I think for certain technology and privacy focused individuals, Mastodon and Lemmy are the way forward. Some people will always prefer a centralized solution or just don't care enough to make the switch. They will continue to be the userbase of websites like Digg, Reddit, and Twitter.

[-] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 15 points 2 years ago

And to be honest, I don't see that as a bad thing. I find the content here is actually worth reading through almost every comment, whereas on Reddit/Digg/Twitter I'd scroll past hundreds at a time because of how low-quality they looked.

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[-] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

I just want to know if we call communities sublemmies? Or sending else?

[-] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 13 points 2 years ago

And are we lemmings? I've wondered what the term of what the users will be called will be

[-] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

I mean, I followed people over here from reddit so I guess we are lemmings

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Well, if we decide we like the official name, we call communities "communities". Hence the /c/ in "https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy" and the link up the top.

[-] sup@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

I like "communities" :)

[-] bahcodad@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago
[-] JungleGeorge@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago
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[-] fratermus@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Reddit is Dead, long live… leddi- lemmy?

Earlier this year I s/twitter/mastodon/ to good effect. I don't think s/reddit/lemmy/ will happen anytime soon; the numbers are too small for any real network effect.

For example, the subreddit I spend the most time in has >2million readers. There are enough posts daily that my niche interests come up regularly and I contribute to those discussions.

[-] nullthegrey@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Everything started somewhere. I think (could be way off here) that Reddit became popular because of some unpopular stuff Digg was doing.

[-] sotolf@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Yup, that's how I ended up on reddit back in the day, when digg did some stupid shit, that I don't even remember wat was any more, but something similar to what reddit is doing now.

[-] Blaskowitz@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

Tbh I have no idea, I stumbled across Lemmy from a random Reddit post. However, getting out of Reddit for a bit and looking around what's here now, it reminds me of the early days, and maybe I'm just old, but I think they were better. Maybe at Reddit's scale + the way the web is now just isn't something that scratches that itch for me. If not Lemmy I hope to find another alternative for that. But in order for this to work, you're right, it does need a certain number of users, we'll have to see how that pans out I guess.

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[-] Kichae@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Reddit is well structured to spur and better support larger scale migration, though, since subreddits are operated somewhat similarly to how Fediverse instances are run. They're structured such that they have hegemons and formal "leadership". If the mod teams of a reasonable number of medium sized active subreddits just decided to spin up their own lemmy or kbin instances, it would make fedi aggregators a real destination for Reddit folks overnight.

This is different from Twitter, where communities were informal structures, and no one had any kind of editorial control. It's way more structured.

The key is to sell mods on it, rather than individual users.

[-] fratermus@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

If the mod teams of a reasonable number of medium sized active subreddits just decided to spin up their own lemmy or kbin instances, it would make fedi aggregators a real destination for Reddit folks overnight.

That's a compelling point.

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[-] autisticaudioguy@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Love the winamp reference! No other software has a better start up sound IMHO.

[-] mFcGlNBcfr@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

It actually makes me realise - back in 2016 when thedonald was constantly making its way to the top of reddit, none of the people at the top did anything.

Now with these API changes, you barely hear about them despite the threads being heavily upvoted.

I look back on that shitshow with even more pennies dropping.

[-] fernandu00@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Loved the winamp reference!

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