Because reddit coddles nazis and lemmy doesn’t.
Also niche communities exist on reddit that lemmy doesn’t have the population to support.
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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I just don’t get why people would stay in reddit when lemmy exist :(
Because reddit coddles nazis and lemmy doesn’t.
Also niche communities exist on reddit that lemmy doesn’t have the population to support.
I disagree. If Lemmy was plagued with Nazis, it would down the shitter pretty fast.
We got tankies on here, though. Not much better.
Too bad centrists think everyone with any criticism whatsoever of anything they do is a tankie.
What’s a tankie and what makes them close to Nazis?
I don’t want nazis here either and I’m glad that lemmy remains hostile to them. I was responding to someone who asked why people stayed on reddit. Given reddit’s userbase, they’re staying because they’re welcome. We shouldn’t welcome nazis.
Not true. I’m pro Trump, pro ICE and pretty transphobic/homophobic, all those stuff that you liberals consider nazism, but I get banned all the time.
Truth is that any opinion that may offend anyone is banned on reddit. Reddit is gone
Lemmy is great in the techy/gaming, memes, and news/politics fields, but doesn’t have strong secondary communities. I no longer have a reddit account but still lurk to keep up with news focused in Ukraine, Japan, Korea, music, history, minecraft, etc.
Also, social media uses the same tactics as casinos to keep people hooked. I remember a podcast in which they compared the new algorithms to slot machines where sometimes you “win” by getting content you’re looking for, sometimes you lose by getting fed random crap you didn’t search, and mostly you break even & get fed the same repetitive crap (this makes the times you “win” seam more rewarding.) Social media is an addiction and cancerous to modern society.
I think the reason is similar with Windows and Linux.
Linux is actually a superior operating system with real benefits.
Lemmy’s only benefit is more freedom of speech, which is valuable, but lemmy’s userbase is so much smaller that it’s kinda meaningless
Personally, I like the smaller userbase. Higher levels of freedom speech are still valuable even if only 1000 people may see your post/comment, rather than having you blocked by incompetent AI filter with no way to fight back.
Reddit is bots. People are on tiktok or Instagram or whatever.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because Lemmy, to this day, doesn’t do what Reddit does. Yes, the UI is similar, but there’s two big downsides to Reddit. One that’s important now, and one that’s important later.
This horrible scalability means that right now instances are getting close to their limits (see e.g. lemm.ee closing down exactly due to these reasons).
Lemmy has 40-50k monthly active users. Reddit has 5.16 billion monthly active users, so about 100 000x. If everyone on Reddit were to move over to Lemmy, Lemmy would be done. Just one day of Reddit-level traffic would be enough to jam up the history of Lemmy content so much that nobody could ever afford hosting a Lemmy instance again.
Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I don’t know if you’ve convinced me to stay or go, but you’ve certainly convinced me of either or.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wasn’t trying to convince anyone of anything. Just offering a reality check.
Lemmy vs Reddit is like this meme where the one side says “I hate you” and the other side says “Who are you?” (or was it “I don’t even think of you”, can’t remember).
Lemmy is cool. It being small has benefits and I like the political direction here much more than on Reddit. I like that most people I interact with on Lemmy genuinely are humans. On Reddit, that’s much more difficult to be certain of.
But Lemmy is not Reddit, it’s not a Reddit alternative, it’s not even a Reddit competitor. It’s a nice little niche forum, a little anti-capitalist experiment, that kinda copied the UI and UX of old Reddit. That’s totally fine and it’s got it’s value. Otherwise I wouldn’t have >3000 comments on this platform.
But it’s a factor of 100 000x off of being on the radar of Spez and his crew.
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day ago
Eh, if the original instance removes the CSAM - the ban and removal federates out to everywhere else, so this isn’t always true.
As for the scaling of Lemmy - absolutely, but it’ll never get to Reddit sized levels.
That’s not why lemm.ee closed down. It wasn’t financial.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But if it doesn’t, then other instances removing the content on their side doesn’t federate. So you can either trust every instance that you federate with with your legal security, or you will have to moderate everything yourself as well, just in case someone missed something.
This would be extremely important, but I don’t know if such a low level conceptual change can still be performed with a reasonable amount of work. Remember, for such a change you need to get every instance on board. That would be difficult now, and only more difficult later.
Tbh, it would have been much smarter if the setup would be basically a bunch of independent phpBB-like boards with federated single-sign-on and an app that transparently connects you to whatever instance hosts the content you are looking at.
No, it was specifically because of the moderation issue: lemmy.ca/post/45390962
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day ago
Sure, you’re right there - but an instance that kept having problems with removing CSAM would find itself defederated.
Well it would be built in from Lemmy or Piefed. The devs would have to spearhead it. But were the load ever to get to that point, I suspect that would be the obvious move.
Yes, so not financial. You seemed to be implying it was financial.