Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…
Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…
I got a lot of people from the r/place Fuck Spez movement to switch over. I also got really enlightening advice from one of our supporters. They told me that people will come over once we become easy to use and well established, which we’re nearing but not there yet.
With all the third party apps we have gotten like Liftoff and Voyager, things have been a lot more accessible. However, we still have lots of work to do.
Until we become easy enough to use that you feel comfortable telling your family members to sign up and they use it without assistance, we will primarily be a community of tech savvy individuals.
As long as it doesn’t end up with a bunch of bad actors leaving reddit for here and bringing their shit with them, making this place as bad as reddit has become.
It will. I think it’s inevitable, unless Lemmy development starts focusing on automated mod tools as soon as possible. You don’t want to deal with hundreds of thousand of users without a good content filter, it’s basically impossible. And it will be even harder due to the federated nature, since it’s easier to sneak unmoderated content into the network.
We’ll be fine as long as there isn’t corporate or financial interests. More humans of all kinds is fine. Making Mastadon and Lemmy unfriendly place for “profit”, (marketing and advertising) means that greed won’t drive people’s behaviour. Greed for clout is still greed.
I hope more center and right wing people will come so conversations become more interesting.
Clearly some people don’t like diversity.
There are some UI issues like clicking see context brings you to an actual foreign Lemmy where you aren’t logged in, that for example is a problem. What’s nice though is that Lemmy seems to do great with pulling federated content from other servers unlike mastodon.
I hope to donate some time to the web apps/phone apps/servers for both lemmy and mastodon in the months coming to fix these things. It should squash a lot of problems I’m running into.