Very rarely is superior tech remotely a factor in how good a product is or how well it’s received.
Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
E_coli42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s the point of this when Fediverse is technologically superior?
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think all of these platfroms live from the engagement of the users there. I like Lemmy, but I’m also still on Reddit, because in some communities, there’s just so much more activity on Reddit than in the same community here.
Technology, UI and everything is fine and important. But if the place seems rather dead it will also struggle to attract new users.
kazerniel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This, I follow a single Reddit sub on RSS because it just doesn’t exist on Lemmy 🤷 And in general, communities for many niche topics or smaller countries are nonexistent. But the conversations are much better here, so I hang out more on Lemmy nowadays :)
Kushan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Superior technology does not necessarily mean a superior product. History has plenty of examples where the inferior technology won out because the majority of people don’t care about having the best or most advanced technology, they want the easiest, cheapest and (most importantly) lowest effort.
To be clear, I don’t think digg is a superior product either, I’m just saying that how good the tech is matters far less than people want to believe. What truly matters is the implementation.