People stay on mainstream corporate platforms no matter how badly they enshittify because that’s where everyone else is. They don’t want to jump ship unless everyone else will jump ship with them, and so nobody makes the first move.
Lemmy isn’t more popular because Lemmy isn’t more popular. Lemmy wants to be an alternative to Reddit, but the best thing Reddit had going for it was all the niche communities for fandoms, hobbies, and other interests. That’s something that just can’t exist here, because if you take a niche thing and multiply it by a niche platform, I’ll bet that I might very well be the only person on this platform who is into some of my hyperfixations. So people who want to talk about topics that have no community here, leave and go back to bigger platforms.
I’m still here to try and push for a better future, but I honestly don’t know how we can grow this place to the kind of critical mass it would take to really get the ball rolling.
reddit has all the drama too, like r/art, or another sub people will visit those subs, and "drama about youtubers and livestreamers. also the politics/news is probably the largest communities.
Yeah I miss a lot of subs. /r/worldbuilding was really fun, getting lost in other people’s imaginations. The counterpart !worldbuilding@lemmy.world is super quiet, and I feel like I’m the only regular poster.
Reddit was so huge that you could find a sub for literally anything. Wanna look at funny ginger monke, than go to /r/orangutan. Wanna pretend to be a caveman? Then go to /r/talesfromcavesupport. Lemmy is way to small to support stuff like that.
People stay on mainstream corporate platforms no matter how badly they enshittify because that’s where everyone else is. They don’t want to jump ship unless everyone else will jump ship with them, and so nobody makes the first move.
Lemmy isn’t more popular because Lemmy isn’t more popular. Lemmy wants to be an alternative to Reddit, but the best thing Reddit had going for it was all the niche communities for fandoms, hobbies, and other interests. That’s something that just can’t exist here, because if you take a niche thing and multiply it by a niche platform, I’ll bet that I might very well be the only person on this platform who is into some of my hyperfixations. So people who want to talk about topics that have no community here, leave and go back to bigger platforms.
I’m still here to try and push for a better future, but I honestly don’t know how we can grow this place to the kind of critical mass it would take to really get the ball rolling.
You need to game the system.
Create OC here then post that to other social media sites.
That directs people here. Without that Fediverse will take a lot longer to grow.
reddit has all the drama too, like r/art, or another sub people will visit those subs, and "drama about youtubers and livestreamers. also the politics/news is probably the largest communities.
Yeah I miss a lot of subs. /r/worldbuilding was really fun, getting lost in other people’s imaginations. The counterpart !worldbuilding@lemmy.world is super quiet, and I feel like I’m the only regular poster.
Reddit was so huge that you could find a sub for literally anything. Wanna look at funny ginger monke, than go to /r/orangutan. Wanna pretend to be a caveman? Then go to /r/talesfromcavesupport. Lemmy is way to small to support stuff like that.