I'm here a month now, from Reddit - got banned there after 14 years, and honestly, find it far nicer and more peaceful than the hot mess Reddit has become since the IPO.
I think if you're looking for tons of replies, the fediverse isn't going to be it - not untll the mainstream sites become so toxic that users bolt in droves. When I think of how nice reddit was at the start, and how sparse some subs were.. it just takes time for the user base to reach a critical mass.
Patience, grasshopper.
I think if you’re looking for tons of replies, the fediverse isn’t going to be it - not untll the mainstream sites become so toxic that users bolt in droves.
You'll start to hate Lemmy too if / when the great unwashed masses begin showing up. Those of us who've been around, shout to @kmirl@lemmy.world, have watched this play out over and over again.
When the norms start congregating in a single place you can be assured that place is going to shit.
When the norms start congregating in a single place you can be assured that place is going to shit.
While I don't disagree at all with that, the very nature of the fediverse sites means there won't be a single point of ownership that turns itself into an advertising platform.
Once the reddit algorithm started adjusting people's feed - including mine -about the time that the IPO dropped, it got really nasty, with the rage-bait subs that I never had even heard of, let alone visited, showing up on my homepage feed and then it turned bad really fast.
Straight up, it's what got me caught up in a snark-fest that got me banned.. which turned out to be one of the best things to happen to me online in a long time.
The poison on Reddit is real.
As a software engineer I love the idea of the fediverse [...] I use lemmy and mastodon daily but they just don't have the content or the people
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Can I ask how does Mastodon actually work? I lurk on lemmy cause it works like Reddit but for the life of me can't figure out how to have some engagement or anything at all on M (i'm on "mas.to")
He complains about there not being content on Mastodon while not even knowing how it works. Some software engineer he is.
I think the fact it has survived for so long with an early usage of strictly Richard Stallman clones, now populated by even more insufferable turbolibs like Bluesky who fled the enXittification of the hellsite, means it is in fact very resilient to being killed by poor practices. How many of the users or hosts even contribute to projects? In the case of mastodon, you can't even blame people for forking to escape the misery of no reaction federation, no search, and other generally horrible water and plain bread vibes. People measuring the success of it by how many users or widely federated connections between those users there probably have a mindset engendered by arguing about video game patch notes and later social media censorship (i.e. psychopathy)
I'd say that's the point, since the people will be diffused to different instances with different cultures and federations.
I mean, I'm fine here, really. Lemmy just needs a few more updates to it's core software (coming in 1.0) and the app ecosystem and it can compete with reddit in terms of certain communities that are much more tightly-knit/specific.
