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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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[–] 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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