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Do you want Lemmy to become mainstream? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some people might find the answer to be obvious (yes) but I've rarely found it so. In fact, this is a question I often find in the linux community (regarding linux going mainstream, not lemmy) and people are pretty split upon it.

On one hand, you may get benefits like more activity, more content, more people to interact with, a greater chance you'll find someone to talk to on some specific subject.

On the other, you could run into an eternal September like reddit, where Lemmy would lose its culture, and have far more spam and moderation issues.

I don't know, what do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that the more people that move to the Fediverse the better. As it gets popular Lemmy will be more and more populated with instances that can be curated to the user's wants. Don't like how one instance is running things? Move to another. Don't like how one community does things? Move to another. The more popular Lemmy is, the more options Users will have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Key is more people, not more corporations. We don’t want META to connect with the fediverse!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't understand that. If you don't like corporations joining the fediverse then just join an instance that is defederated from them or better yet just block them. Corporations are going to join the fediverse and that's ok because one of the major parts of the fediverse is you can choose to affiliate with corporations or not, you're not subject to them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You gotta think big picture. Meta joins fediverse -> lots of Facebook users can now interact with fediverse users (yay) -> Meta now builds proprietary code that only works on Facebook for the fediverse -> users en masse joins Facebook fediverse -> Meta declares other fediverse instances sub par and incompatible with Facebook -> Meta cuts off from fediverse completely -> fediverse becomes irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's giving to much credit to Facebook tho. Not everyone is just going to jump ship and join the Facebook fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They will if they have a better UX, computational resources, brand recognition, and can sign you up with your current Instagram account. Which seems to be the case.

Will everyone join? No. I'd rather go back to Reddit than to sign up for it.

Will the vast majority of people join? Yes.

The new Threads app had something like 10M users in 7h. The whole of Lemmy is 2M users.