I don't think Lemmy is going to catch on. There's too much friction every step of the way, at least in my experience with it. I still enjoy using Lemmy, but I can see why the majority of people won't end up making the switch
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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But it will eat a share of the pie, which is kind of good for killing Reddit.
A lot of people think that Twitter as an example died overnight, it did not.
Mastodon took a good share of users out of it and then Bluesky came and finished it off.
Giant platforms don't die, they just keep bleading users till they become irrelevant(as Tumblr fer example).
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I miss being able to subscribe to posts. That's a good Reddit feature that I think we're missing.
I dont think i ever used that on reddit. I dont expect volunteer devs to meet my list of demands to make lemmy like reddit, i just want ideas like this to be considered by their merit instead of community members shitting on stuff solely because reddit is doing it and "we arent reddit".
We need to build a space for them to migrate into. Most of what I see on Lemmy is, frankly, whiny. If we want to grow we need to set a better example.
We just need to send them to a neutral instance and teach them the damn rules, especially about switching instances so they can go be in a place that fits their style. I vote Lemm.ee, as I agree with their “Administration, moderation, and federation policy”, and their site wide rules:
- No abusive language
- No bigotry
- No advertising
- No pornography
Apparently redditors who are too dumb to register should stay on reddit?
How else do you use a service but register? How are people supposed to help others that can't even register? Didn't they register for reddit? How can they register for reddit, but somehow fail at registering for lemmy?
It's like telling people "if you want to join lemmy, go to the join lemmy tent". People go to the "join lemmy" tent, see sign-up booths with "general", "LGBTQ", "French", "German", "Italian", "art", ... and just turn around going "OMG THIS IS SO COMPLICATED!!!!11!1!!!!!1!". Seriously, you tell me, what the hell can be done? Are they not self-filtering at that point? Do they want the server to be picked for them? They just open joinlemmy.org and are redirected to a random server or something? What if it's directed to hexbear?
Is having the freedom of choice really so complicated? I do honestly do not understand...
Perhaps if the differences between servers could be codified into one place then someone could create a "quiz" to help users narrow in on servers that are a good fit. Like this website: https://www.dumbphones.org/dumbphone-quiz
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My comments in other threads are not intended to be isolationist, and when I reas others I fear you misconstrue many.
We are not saying "let them stay on Reddit and other corporate media". We are saying "teach them, preach the benefit, and when they want to come, and are ready to come, they will."
That is how you nurture a growing community, vs "make line go up."