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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] [S] 39 points 3 years ago (34 children)

Hmmm, on the bright side, with lemmy going mainstream maybe some of this culture (including privacy and FOSS) becomes more and more openly discussed.

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  • [–] 71 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    As much as I love Lemmy I don't see it going mainstream :/
    It's too weird for the general user

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  • [–] 44 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yeah I agree. Arguably reddit isn't even mainstream, and it is exponentially larger than Lemmy now and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

    I'm really loving Lemmy, but it is not even remotely a factor if we are having a conversation about things that are mainstream enough to reflect popular opinion.

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

    Arguably reddit isn’t even mainstream ...

    ... with just 0.91% of US social media visits this year in March this year, if this isn't wrong:
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/265773/market-share-of-the-most-popular-social-media-websites-in-the-us/

    FB 53.09%, Twit 16.25%, IG 13.85%, ..., Reddit 0.91% ...

    [Edited to fix my error.]

    [I have no affiliation with the linked site.]

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    That's US based. I don't have stats handy, but I remember seeing that huge amounts of Reddit traffic are outside the US, and from anecdotal experience, limiting the study further to younger demographics would drastically change these results.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Reddit was too weird for most people until they ended up being in their Google search results for most topics. It will take a while but the Fediverse will eventually reach a level of popularity and mainstream utility.

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  • [+] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    But your content would go over so much better in those places. Pretty sure you've already found that your Musk-loving, antisemitic, anti-lgbtq+, misogynistic, garbage is not going to make it very far here. "cancel culture" back at it again. Guess Musk isn't the big brain you think he is. I'm sure you'll be back with your braindead zombie tribe in no time.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Then why are you here "Generic User 1234"?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I'm sorry, I don't know if "general user" means what I think it means. English is not my first language.

    What I meant was that most people who use the internet and social media on a regular basis aren't exactly nerdy/tech-savvy. So as soon as you start talking to them about federated instances and whatnot, they lose interest.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (19 children)

    I mean I love Lemmy but I don't see it going mainstream :/
    It's too weird for the general user

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The irony of this comment duplicating 😅 but yeah you're right, there needs to be a lot of streamlining first

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Not sure why it’s weird, it’s just reddit but open source?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    Whole idea is weird and as of now its lacking features. Like no ability to look on the other instance local feed without registrating there (at least not in apps i use). Also needing to type whole adress with instance name if you want some community from other instance is unhandy.

    Also, as far as i understand, there can be the same communities on different instances, so you could subscribe to, idk, cat community on lemmy.ml, but not see anything from cat community on lemmy.world. If its true its kinda stupid, i think there should be a way to associate comunities across fedarated instances.

    Hell, even registration is kinda messed up. As lemmy.world shown, you easilly can sign up on overpopulated instances which would drop several times a day. Not sure, it probably fixed for now, but that was a problem when i started.

    So far i like the idea and want it to succeed and become popular. But with how elitist people here are usually towards users from other platforms and with overall roughness it kinda seems unlikelly. Maybe it will change when current apps get better, or reddit app developers make versions for lemmy, idk.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If you click the All, you can see that I am able to see posts from lemmy.ml even though I’m on lemmy.world

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago*

    Yes, but you would be seeing ALL posts from everywhere your instance knows about.

    I kind of like the idea of being on lemmy.world, filtering to say aussie.zone and getting it to show me local.
    Or being able to simply get a list of every community on another instance.

    These are cool ideas.

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

    But it does show feeds from other instances. Tick all rather than local

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

    No, i mean not all, but local from other instances. I dont remember why i needed it, probably discussion of more specialised instances out there. Most down to earth example i can imagine now would probably be trying to find instance on your local language (other than english, ofc).

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

    There are instances dedicated to other languages, but because they are new, and has not a lot of people, they won’t push at the top of your feed. The best thing for now is to help those instances grow by contributing to the instance and communities. As more activity sprouts, more and more specialized communities and instances will get pushed to the top.

    As a start, you can select Hot or New rather than active and see if there are specialized regional instances. Or try directly searching for it.

    If not start your own community in the language you desire. Bear in mind that lemmy only has 200k users. And most are probably from the US. So you’ll likely see more mainstream communities and in English.

    If that’s still not enough, the best I can advise is to wait until it matures. The more mainstream it gets the more lesser known communities and regional instances can develop or start.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, probably. Still hope it will be an option in the future. I think the biggest jump in popularity gonna heppen when there is gonna be more developed apps for browsing it, considering that some QoL problems could be fixed by those developers.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago

    I’m optimistic. So many apps are developing at an astonishing rate. Recall that third party apps offer better experience than official reddit. Given time, third party apps will do the same too.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    Agreeing that it's not a seamless transition in user experience from Reddit to Lemmy/kbin. But one thing that at least the instance that I'm on (kbin.social) makes easy is subscribing to various communities (or magazines, which is what they are called on kbin):

    I go to the Magazines screen in kbin.social, type.in the general topic I'm interested in (in your example, cats). The search results in kbin.social bring me all of the magazines and communities that have cat in the name, and I subscribe to them all. (Meaning, I don't have to type out the full community address.)

    Yes, a lot of it will be redundant and if I don't subscribe to specific communities I may miss some stuff. But I can say that now I have a ton pf.contwct that I'm interested in my "Subscribed" feed (similar to the home feed on Reddit).

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

    I dunno. Lemmy isn't all that weird outside the first little bit of choosing an instance and signing up for communities. Everything since that has felt extremely normal to me. Some more thought about that and a good instance onboarding workflow can be implemented, that seems like a solvable problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    I completely agree, I don't find it difficult at all. But I have already tried to recommend it to a couple of friends and just having to go through those first steps was enough for them not to want to use Lemmy.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago*

    Lemmy isn't weird at all. Now P2P platforms like secure scuttlebutt and aether, that's some weird stuff. I couldn't get them working at all (or maybe nobody is using these anymore). P2P is very confusing for me. I assume that a federated network is as confusing for many people as p2p social networks are confusing for me. I guess there will be someone out there who reads my comment and be like: "What? P2P networks are so simple, what don't you understand?" I guess people just have different amount of tolorance to being confused by complexity of something before they just give up. I couldn't figure out those P2P systems so I just give up.

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