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On the future of Lemmy vs reddit (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Please indulge a few shower thoughts I had:

  1. I wouldn't worry about Lemmy having as many users as reddit in the short term. Success is not just a measure of userbase. A system just needs a critical mass, a minimum number of users, to be self-perpetuating. For a reddit post that has 10k comments, most normal people only read a few dozen comments anyways. You could have half the comments on that post, and frankly the quality might go up, not down. (That said, there are many communities below that minimum critical mass at the moment.)

  2. Lemmy is now a real alternative. When reddit imploded Lemmy wasn't fully set up to take advantage of the exodus, so a lot of users came over to the fediverse and gave up right away. There were no phone apps, the user interface was rudimentary, and communities weren't yet alive. Next time reddit screws up in a high profile way, and they will screw up, the fediverse will be ready.

  3. Lemmy has way more potential than reddit. Reddit's leadership has always been incompetent and slow at fixing problems. The fediverse has been very responsive to user feedback in comparison.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google should be finding searches with "lemmy" keyword, but it isn't at the moment.

Lemmy needs some SEO people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think lack of SEO is the issue. There's just not enough content and brand/domain authority to get results from here high in SERPS.

There might be something fediverse related that would affect performance in search, but I'm not knowledgeable enough about this setup to speak to it.

I think it's just lack of content, general awareness/interest, and longevity that's keeping Lemmy low in search