Find me easier to access niche communities and I’ll be gone from reddit. I hoped Lemmy would blow up. Instead, reddit just shrank.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Why does anyone still use reddit? Why does anyone still use Twitter? Why does anyone still use Instagram?
littlecolt@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Voltage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Find me easier to access niche communities
Have fun trying to discuss anything that isn’t about linux, american politics or reddit/amazon/elon bad!!. Lemmy is just a decentralized circle jerk.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well i guess we should have seen it coming right. The people pissed enough with Reddit to leave were most likely to be technology proficient users and bourgeois hating leftists
JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Some us prefer not drowning in bots and pathologically hostile individuals.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Forgot people whose only opinion is hating the website they’re on.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Yeah I really wish people in niche communities would just migrate over. I honestly don’t understand why they haven’t yet.
fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Because Reddit unites everyone with the same interest in a single or at worst few subreddits. Lemmy has over 9000 instances with a bunch of communities each, half of which are defederating the other half without their users even knowing. If we thought reddit search was bad, lemmy search is non-existent. I really wanted lemmy to work, but even for someone with decent knowledge about tech it was a nightmare to figure this out. The main advantage of fediverse which is the decentralization turned out to be its main disadvantage with so much fragmentation and censorship in the form of defederation…
yamanii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This stealth defederating is the worst.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hoped Lemmy would blow up.
Blow up one server and three more will sprout.
pixelscript@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is basically asking why anyone would live in or near a city like Los Angeles or New York City when Minot exists and has everything you could possibly need.
If you had to look up where Minot even is, you’ve proven my point.
Say what you will about whether living near the proverbial big city is worth it or not. But it cannot be denied, there is a world of experiences on offer at larger platforms that a smaller platform simply cannot provide. Network effect can be a cruel mistress.
MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why not Minot?
pixelscript@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Season’s the reason!
RxBrad@infosec.pub 2 months ago
A lot of stuff ONLY has viable Q&A discussion there…
As much as I love the idea of Lemmy, try finding active communities here for: MAME or any other videogame emulation… Plex… The breed of your family dog/cat… Most any sort of non-Fedi-focused brand/podcast/personality…
Yes, I can create a new community. Then I just sit in it by myself, and occasionally deal with spam.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Discoverability is poor on Lemmy and isn’t helped by the low user count.
Would be nice to revisit an old idea from Newsgroups, where you could sub to gaming and see everything, or gaming.playstation.ps5 or gaming.emulation.mame or whatever for sub-communities.
But then the decentralised nature works against it there as well.
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
These comments are so braindead, Jesus Christ.
YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 months ago
You don’t know why someone would use a social link aggregator… and you’re lamenting about this on a social link aggregator.
Why are you here?
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Almost like they asked about a specific site and not the concept of link aggregators or something
YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Almost
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Exactly. Really incomprehensible why are some people amazed at some things. We’re all different, with different motives, different needs, different levels of coziness and different views on privacy etc.
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because people do not care. It is that simple.
thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, Reddit is not rhetorical ghost town I thought it would be after the mass exodus.
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Like we had a secret (or not so secret) desire for it to crumble so we can crack a beer and say good riddance. 😁
But in the end, business mostly as usual.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I don’t get why more people didn’t move to Lemmy or mbin
bluewing@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Inertia is a bitch. That’s why.
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Because most people did not use 3rd party apps and do not care about site′s management. Why move to someplace else if everything works great where you already are.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
In my case it didn’t work great. Without 3rd party apps reddit died. I see your point tho. Some people are fine with a buggy ass client full of ads
RxBrad@infosec.pub 2 months ago
It’s still active – save the communities that got kneecapped by mods during the revolt (and sadly, most of those are now Discord-based rather than having any appreciable activity here).
The activity there now is a lot… dumber. Like much of the internet, the ratio of real people to braindead bots on Reddit is a lot different than a few years ago.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 months ago
because their friends are there
or in reddit’s case, because they think their friends are there
HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 2 months ago
As someone who only recently joined Lemmy (as a result of getting booted from Reddit) it ultimately comes down to it being bigger.
You can talk regularly about series have been over for a decade. Just about any niche interest has a vibrant community. The reality is the average person doesn’t care about it selling our data, putting a fingerprint on our gear one step above spyware, it being overrun with bots, every level of administration being dominated by megalomaniacs. If you just want to look through some stuff you’re interested in while you’re bored, it serves a purpose that lemmy unfortunately can’t at it’s size.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For Twitter it really doesn’t make sense because it has become undebatably a “Nazi bar”, metaphorically since they aren’t an actual bar, but they still support and tolerate Nazis (and other manners of horrible people). Some people insist that it isn’t and there are “normal level headed people there” but that doesn’t matter, it’s still a Nazi bar, because it accepts and tolerates Nazis. How can someone expect to not be judged for going to and hanging out in a place like that?
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Most people don’t care. I’m sick of hearing about Reddit, I left because I do care but I don’t want to keep hearing about my ex, you know!
We are not important, we are the minority that maybe cares about these things and that’s ok, we should live our lives the way we want to and allow others to do the same.
corvuscache@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Agreed. Yes, it’s important to know what’s going on in the “big” world - but I wish all of us more interested in Lemmy, the small web, and so on spent more time and energy on creating, maintaining, and enjoying what we can build/use and less lamenting, bashing, or wishing for what we want to leave behind.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Exactly! It reeks of superiority; I prefer to just live my life and if people are curious about the decisions I make then I’ll try and enlighten people, but if they don’t care still then that’s ok. We can’t force people to be like us and wouldn’t want too either, because I wouldn’t want people to try and force me to go back to Reddit for instance.
Hamartia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
𝕴𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖙𝖔 𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖗𝖊𝖉𝖉𝖎𝖙!
sag@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Why does anyone still use Reddit?
Some niche communities and content to repost on Lemmy
Why does anyone still use Instagram?
Friends and memes to repost on Lemmy
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Because people dream of making it big, being viral, being an influencer with a ton of followers and money. That one second of fame is still tantalising to a lot of people.
Also a lot of these apps (not reddit, but the others like Facebook) are installed on phones by default. To many, they are just what the internet is.
Nana and grandad used to do email. Now it’s just racist rainbowflag-phobic reposting on Facebook and wondering why their grandkids that haven’t looked at FB in a decade don’t contact them.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Overall, because Lemmy is slow and boring mostly. I see headlines here and go to Reddit for the comments through the geddit crawler.
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I gotta disagree with you here. At least on the sub(s) that I still - on the occasion of big events - take a glance at. To me, Reddit comments are the epitome of staleness and predictability. Also, their user base seems like a bunch of 40-year-old dads that mentally peaked at 16, but keep getting more racist by the year.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tbh I cant ban subs so when I crawl R/all I get mostly bots, reposts and thirst traps which sucks but there is no long term discussion threads here. Nothing like a review thread on the movies sub or music subs, where there are hundreds or thousands of views to skim.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I use it for porn still
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
first Tumblr banned porn, then Reddit requires sign-in for 18+ content (I know old UI bypasses that), and now Twitter has become a walled garden as well. Bad times for gooners
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why does anyone still use chrome!
I get twitter and reddit because of the uniqueness of the platforms but chrome is just a web browser! Any other program can be used in its stead to view the same exact websites yet people continue to use it even being stubborn about it!
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because social networks are only as good as the people who are on them.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
reddit has half functioning search.
Old_Yharnam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe because they just want to???
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s wrong with Instagram now?
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Centralized and owned by meta. Harvesting your data constantly. Ads upon ads that track you. Proprietary.
Mwa@lemm.ee 2 months ago
i seen a few people still use it my friend,some random people in a server,etc
scoobford@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Reddit has an absolutely massive wealth of community knowledge. If you want to find a community for $thing or gain obscure knowledge on $thing, that’s where you go (assuming there isn’t an old forum post from before Reddit killed forums).
Twitter is where a lot of people still are. If you’re the kind of person to care what a particular person says, that’s where you probably want to be.
Instagram is used by young people who have friends on Instagram.
It isn’t a great system, but it is the system that we have today. This is why legislation compelling Meta/Twitter/whothefuckever to act in an ethical manner is important. Social media is to some extent a natural oligopoly, and unless we get extremely, extremely lucky, the fediverse will always be a niche community.