Comment on Advertising Lemmy on r/place

• imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  99.999% of people never left reddit in the first place… this is our chance to get some of those people that either never heard about Lemmy or were discouraged by the complexity of the while thing the first time around, but might be primed to make the leap now

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  • Getawombatupya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, Nah. Fuck the joint. Haven’t logged in since the purge.

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  • Shikadi@wirebase.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are we sure about that? Many people exclusively used third party apps and wouldn’t use it otherwise

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    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s too early know right now. We do know that a very small percentage actually came to Lemmy. My assumption is that most of the people who cared enough to stop using reddit would have looked for an alternative, and other alternatives like Tildes and Squabbles are much smaller than even Lemmy.

      But I suppose its possible that a significant portion of users simply stopped using reddit without a replacement. I doubt it, but we don’t know for sure.

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      • Shikadi@wirebase.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I know a lot of people just use TikTok and Instagram and don’t care to find an alternative, but I don’t know what that number scales to outside of my personal circles

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      • med@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I evaluated both and decided pretty quickly that lemmy was the way to go.

        I bounced off of the sign-up and initial subscription setup a few times, unfortunately it was during that business with beehaw and I still have ‘pending’ subscriptions that will never be allowed or recieved :P

        All in all, the things that made me pick lemmy were:

        • The atmosphere in discussions (the agora on sh.itjust.works was having excellent back and forth)
        • Documentation for self-hosting and openness of the code
        • Selfawareness of problems the platform faced
        • The boom in 3rd party apps

        Even I have to admit, most of my reasons were lucky, timely and niche.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No they didn’t.

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      • objectionist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        i’m sure at least one person did

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