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Reddit probably hasn’t even noticed the drop in traffic. Lemmy is a very niche site that is a peanut compared to Reddit unfortunately. I don’t see it becoming mainstream any time soon because it’s too complicated to understand for the average Joe.
This isn’t a bad thing though
I consider myself to just be an average Joe and I don't think Lemmy is too difficult to figure out. Moreso just a getting used to. I think the majority of people are just too lazy to put in the effort to get used to a new system, even if it is better in some areas than the previous system.
If you are already on this site, have an account and are actively participating you are way beyond the average Joe. The average Joe will only find out about lemmy a year from now 😂
Isn't that ideal though? Surely the "above average joe's" would help, and contribute to shape the place into what it can be to reach it's full potential? It'll give the server hosters more time to fix everything up. Certainly a lot of the people already here are going to be a lot calmer in response to bugs and glitches. Whereas if everyone joined straight away, it'll just be like a massive urinal with huge amounts of stress on the servers.
Exactly lol
The only thing I find difficult with Lemmy is the political part of it such as who defederated who and so on, the technical part of it is relatively easy.
True, but reddit has automod bots that will ban people if they participated in [bad sub] even if they never posted there, so there is an analogous defederation on reddit
As a new user is there somewhere I can understand more about this defederation stuff? I'm just picking it up as I go and trying to piece it together
Last report I saw had traffic numbers to their ad space still down about 20%. That's definitely an amount they notice, though I'm sure they hope and believe it'll go back up.
I definitely do not think they are calling any of us back per se, but on he other hand the way spez talks is definitely like someone who is in denial about being dumped.
Reddit isn't going to die, but as they shed their core user base the platform will have less and less to contribute until the only users left are extremely boring profitable drones. Just like Facebook is today. I don't want those users, reddit does. Win-win
yeah i just hope it doesn't become abandoned like all the other reddit alternatives that came before
It really isn’t complicated though. If someone can understand email, they can understand Lemmy
Sorry for an unrelated question, but I have a doubt about instances. If I have this username and email for lemmy.world, can I use the same username and email for another instance? When I tried creating an account with these credentials on kbin.social, it didn't work and said those values were taken.
You don't need to create another account, just search/click on the communities you're interested in from your own instance and subscribe to them.
Is reddit really calling us back?
True. I just got a call from the CEO of reddit a few minutes ago begging me to come back.
You too ?
He promised me a publuc apology if I return. But idk, kinda sounded like a threat to me.
Nahhh it’s gotta be for the meme hasn’t it
Or promising to change
It's only gonna get worse lol; they're removing old.reddit next, going after nsfw and increasing ads.
The ux is already better here within the last few weeks with clients like Memmy and Connect; Boost and Sync are gonna be awesome when they're out in a few weeks
Can we stop it with the low tier memes
Welcome to 196. You must be new around here, low tier memes is all we've got. Enjoy your stay. :)
196 is better than popular character pointing to sign memes. And the whole act of making a meme to post here defeats the spontaneousity the rule calls for imo
Joke's on you, I've never made a meme specifically to post here. I just post my most recent one when I visit, as per the rule. It just so happens I make a buttload of trash-tier memes.
OK then
I think it adds to the nostalgic old internet feel that this site already has. I like it.
I would only come back if Apollo did :’(
wefwef and Memmy almost feel like Apollo already; it's crazy how fast they're being developed.
definitely, I’m on Memmy and I’m really liking it. still, reddit’s community is bigger so if Apollo came back I would use it to browse subs I haven’t found here yet
Reddit: surprised Pikachu face
The right wing shirt will kill the page