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"Teddit is Shutting Down. Lemmy is the New Reddit" (tedd.it)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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[–] 26 points 3 years ago (17 children)

So is Lemmy going to stick? Have daily users gone down? I hate to say I stepped back to Reddit because there just isn’t enough content on Lemmy for my taste yet.

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  • [–] 62 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Then advertise and market lemmy. Not by literally going on the street with cart boards “use lemmy Plox”, like even sending a link from Lemmy makes Someone question “why everybody is into Lemmy lately? What is it?

    That’s how I found out about Reddit anyways. Don’t underestimate word of mouth.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Oh I have been… or was. Then threads came along lol.

    But yeah I want to see Lemmy succeed… I love the Memmy app.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago

    Threads is not a direct threat to Lemmy and never will be. Neither Fedverse. The whole point is that it’s like in the old days, decentralized. You don’t like one server? You go to another. Or you make your own. And big communities will always exist that will want to fuck with whoever opposes basic standards. Just like what happened with Spez/Reddit

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Well, I'm doing my best to get the !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml community started. Once there is enough activity here, the critical mass becomes self-reinforcing and it takes off.

    And it's not as if all of Reddit will switch over right away - Twitter is still somewhat alive too; but Mastodon gained enough momentum now to actually matter and to be at a sustainable level.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That is the logic most people confuse with socially-focused spaces like the fediverse ecosystem. The point is not to create monopolies but to have a diverse information system so no one node controls the flows. Co-existence is the word. The tough bit is to create a space big enough to create healthy information flow without being too big as to monopolize the neighborhood.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago

    The tough bit is to create a space big enough to create healthy information flow without being too big as to monopolize the neighborhood.

    It's much easier when the administrators of the space have altruistic rather than economic motivations. We just need to make sure that the number of nodes continues to grow organically along with the userbase, and we should be alright.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    My guess right now is that it won’t be as big as Reddit. I think we’re in an environment where the network effect is so strong that it is extremely difficult for big players to fail. The type of failure and migration we saw from Digg to Reddit doesn’t seem possible now.

    But it might be big enough to be a good replacement for more hardcore users. I personally am using both and Lemmy is maybe 40% of my usage and growing.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Solution to this is to duplicate every Reddit post you create on Lemmy, and tell everyone else to do the same

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    better solution: instead of creating a reddit post in first place, do it on lemmy. this forces over the long haul people to move because the content and community is there.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    True, so how about this: create a Lemmy post, then post the link on Reddit. People eventually get tired of have load a new page every time, and create a Lemmy account

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    reddit already banned and killed aubreddits who just explained people how to migrate to kbin and lemmy. so i think if you would do that reddit would just start banning people and prevent us from posting any lemmy links. also most users probably wouldn't bother even clicking on the link since they want the infos directly without having to do a lot of clicks. so it helps more to recommend lemmy to users in comments etc.

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