people want a classical social media experience, and you will just not get that with lemmy.
Yep, to me the article indicates a fundamental misunderstanding.
They seem to want the same exact Reddit, just somewhere else. The commenters constantly mention “there isn’t a huge userbase” on the fediverse with no consideration of what a mainstream userbase is getting them.
They believe because Reddit (or Facebook, or Twitter, etc.) reached a certain mass, literally all social media has to do the same to be worth considering.
My guess is they’re the late reddit accounts when reddit is already big and shit. They weren’t around when reddit was just “small digg”. Tbf I wasn’t there as well.
I was there when reddit already have comments for posts and remember imgur is the image hosting site for reddit (with no culture and community of its own. Until the reddit file cabinet suddenly gained “sentience”).
I suspect it’s most likely those that cried about lemmy’s “bad UI” only joined after reddit turned into the vomit inducing non chronologically sorted reddit.
Side note I have never browsed r/all ever, but I concede it’s a necessity for the threadiverse. But it’s all just for me to further curate what I want to see. I was never into whatever dogfood sorting spyware algos tried to force down.
Though I admit it took me several tries to understand federation and how it works.
indeed, you make a good point. most of these people didn’t experience reddit when reddit when reddit had “no userbase” compared to other social media.
but reddit was unique, and that is what drew people there. sadly, lemmy does not have that much “uniqueness” to show (being a reddit clone), besides being federated and fully open source.
To me, it kind of does! Lemmy (with copious blocking) comes as close as I’ve ever felt to what Reddit felt like in 2010.
“All” still requires a lot of filtering, but I see interesting stuff every day.
And I came back to read the other person’s comment, and you had replied! The person I replied to, I remembered the username. And it’s a really thoughtful reply! This happens a lot on smaller communities on Reddit as well, but the whole thing used to feel like that.
I see that on the fediverse pretty much every day! It’s always all about the (preferably kind) communities you build around specific things.
Yep, to me the article indicates a fundamental misunderstanding.
They seem to want the same exact Reddit, just somewhere else. The commenters constantly mention “there isn’t a huge userbase” on the fediverse with no consideration of what a mainstream userbase is getting them.
They believe because Reddit (or Facebook, or Twitter, etc.) reached a certain mass, literally all social media has to do the same to be worth considering.
My guess is they’re the late reddit accounts when reddit is already big and shit. They weren’t around when reddit was just “small digg”. Tbf I wasn’t there as well.
I was there when reddit already have comments for posts and remember imgur is the image hosting site for reddit (with no culture and community of its own. Until the reddit file cabinet suddenly gained “sentience”).
I suspect it’s most likely those that cried about lemmy’s “bad UI” only joined after reddit turned into the vomit inducing non chronologically sorted reddit.
Side note I have never browsed r/all ever, but I concede it’s a necessity for the threadiverse. But it’s all just for me to further curate what I want to see. I was never into whatever dogfood sorting spyware algos tried to force down.
Though I admit it took me several tries to understand federation and how it works.
indeed, you make a good point. most of these people didn’t experience reddit when reddit when reddit had “no userbase” compared to other social media.
but reddit was unique, and that is what drew people there. sadly, lemmy does not have that much “uniqueness” to show (being a reddit clone), besides being federated and fully open source.
To me, it kind of does! Lemmy (with copious blocking) comes as close as I’ve ever felt to what Reddit felt like in 2010.
“All” still requires a lot of filtering, but I see interesting stuff every day.
And I came back to read the other person’s comment, and you had replied! The person I replied to, I remembered the username. And it’s a really thoughtful reply! This happens a lot on smaller communities on Reddit as well, but the whole thing used to feel like that.
I see that on the fediverse pretty much every day! It’s always all about the (preferably kind) communities you build around specific things.