• Jaysyn@kbin.social
    2062·
    1 year ago

    It’s because the Fediverse doesn’t have investors, which is the way I want it.

    • Solivine@sopuli.xyz
      931·
      1 year ago

      Honestly I’m thankful lemmy isn’t in the media, or this place would grow out of control. I think a steady growth is much healthier.

      • qooqie@lemmy.world
        44·
        1 year ago

        I’d be super okay with it getting a bit bigger so smaller communities can flourish and then not getting any bigger after that. Reddit is so big it’s a dreary and dead place in the comments and posts

  • Mr PoopyButthole@lemm.eeEnglish
    1211·
    1 year ago

    I don’t see this as a problem, the media is terrible at understanding/caring about real cultural trends.

    The fact that I have a better time on Lemmy than Reddit on my phone, despite the huge difference in user numbers, says it all to me.

    Reddit has been seeing a meaningful and lasting decline since they decided users don’t matter, and there’s no coming back from that.

    Just like Facebook has suffered a permanent user loss and failure to grow, so will Reddit. It won’t be overnight, but newer generations are increasingly tech-literate, even when they aren’t more media-literate.

    I never thought Mastodon would become a place to be, despite always hoping. Never imagined a real Reddit alternative would start to form, but here I am.

    Cambridge Analytica laid the foundation of general disdain for centralized social media, and Elon Musk single-handedly exhausted the public’s patience with corporate bullshit.

    I think decentralized options are here to stay, and I think the only centralized platforms that will take longer to upend are video-dependant ones.

    All in good time.

    • anticommon@sh.itjust.works
      392·
      1 year ago

      To be honest Lemmy is just the right amount of content for me, and generally high quality.

      It has also gotten me out of my doom scrolling habits that were causing anxiety issues. Thank God for that.

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy needs moderation tools and then a big domain name. Then it’ll be ready to go.

        The single most important thing it needs is to send delete requests when a post is deleted from the original instance. (Either by a moderator or the user.)

        And something to clean up unused files would be nice, but that can be kicked off manually for now.

      • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
        4·
        1 year ago

        Honestly I agree wholeheartedly about “just the right amount of content.” It’s enough for me to get a healthy smattering of interesting and confusing memes without sucking me in and letting THE SCROLL take over.

    • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      16·
      1 year ago

      Being underground is the best way to make sure that we can form and mature as a community.

      Getting big too fast and being in focus too soon will nip our community in the bud.

      Just like music. New trends trend to brew underground for years before they break out and take over from the current mainstream.

      Though I would prefer that we remain under the radar. It’s more fun that way.

      • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy for me is a detox from a hyperactive hyperreal world that by making itself exclusively about fun entertainment, allows one to be picked up and taken with the wind.

  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    481·
    1 year ago

    Mass media controlled by a handful of billionaires is simping for social media controlled by a handful of billionaires. Color me shocked.

    These media giants will never let fediverse become big

  • NGC2346@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    Honestly im really enjoying Lemmy for what it is right now. There’s not a ton of content, sure, but its quality content.

    • DrDickHandler@lemmy.world
      165·
      1 year ago

      I fucking hate this statement. Where’s this “quality” content everyone is talking about? I just see endless bots reposting the same old shit.

    • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      We may just grow really slowly, thats fine as long as theres good people, theres people who dont know and would be glad they joined because theres good people. Theyll find us eventually if their looking.

  • NewPerspective@lemmy.world
    274·
    1 year ago

    We’re only a couple weeks out from a child pron incident and we’re constantly in-fighting/defederating with communist communities brigading other instances so… I get it.

    • Tony Smehrik@programming.dev
      9·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, the CSAM stuff is abhorrent and has no place on any social media site. It demands powerful moderation tools and moderators that are active and able to quell that content and user base. Not to mention it should be immediately tagged for federal law enforcement depending on who has jurisdiction.

      • NewPerspective@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        I think it was handled well, all things considered. But it could easily have run off a lot of people that might have been keeping an eye on us.

    • Nurgle@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      I will absolutely not use Twitter so I’ve tried to give threads a chance but yeah it’s worthless. How can you still not search for topics and stuff on there??

    • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      So its “manufactured concent” for bluesky being “the hot new app to jump to”. So it will theorecically be the home for those confused by the reddit drama and that get there news from the corprate jounalists or from their friends and those they trust that do.

  • Lexam@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I like Lemmy. It’s not overwhelmed. And seems to be keeping steady.