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Why Reddit is ‘walking a tightrope’ with its IPO
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At what point do we declare that it already fell off the tightrope?
Probably when they do something drastic like ban NSFW content or require age verification. Even then something will need to replace Reddit like Reddit replaced Digg. I am not sure if it will be Lemmy necessarily even though it's probably the smoothest transition.
It's not a smooth transition. Lemmy has huge downsides that are played down each time someone says something. It doesn't have a large developer base. The UI is confusing and moderators of certain communities are powertripping. Certain instances need to be instantly blocked for best user experience. Most people won't care enough to 'give it a chance', they are on reddit to kill 15 minutes of boredom, not to setup their experience in a confusing way.
Of those
Fair but not a huge issue (until it is ofc)
new reddit lol. Also most folks are on apps.
redditors are used to that.
redditors are used to that.
The big lemmy issue is that it isnt active enough to bring people who would make it active enough to bring more people and start the upward momentum of activity.
One of the lemmy devs thinks Rust is easy because he powered through it to a working code.
Aint no senior dev gonna work with this.
See how I mentioned that issues are being played down every time people mention them? Yeah.
maybe they are being played down because they really are small issues
They are absolutely not small issues. They are issues that drive users away all the time. Why do you think so many people left when all the api stuff happened? Huge peak of users, then it all went away in four months. Because Lemmy has issues, toxic communities that are extremely visible.
I mean, you’re not wrong. There is a huge disconnect between „lemmy works great for what it is“ and „lemmy works for the mainstream“. The first one I wholeheartedly agree with but the second is nowhere near and might never be. But I dont think thats a bad thing either. I donated the largest sum I ever donated to the lemmy devs recently to put money where my mouth is but I have no illusions that other fedi places might surpass it. So be it, I say. Have a good one.
So maybe kbin?