Comment on Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative

Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actually I have heard of some insane mods

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuckimg gallowboob, is he still a thing?

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s an ecosystem of entire instances with crazy rules.

    The fact that Lemmy just doesn’t become unusable with all this brokerage tells a lot about the benefits of a distributed system.

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  • Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are some power tripping mods, thankfully there are only a few

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• Gorilladrums21@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean Lemmy shares a lot of the same issues as Reddit even if it’s decentralized. I think Lemmy as a technology is better than Reddit because it’s more privacy focused, but most people don’t care about any of this. People put up with Reddit’s shortcomings because it has a massive community that is always active and fills every niche. Reddit’s daily active userbase is over 73 million. That’s hard to replicate in general, but I don’t see Lemmy getting anywhere near that mainstream. I see it as a more stable and active version of Voat, but still a niche platform nonetheless.

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  • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is probably best to think nothing on Lemmy is private. Any instance with at least one user subscribed to a community will receive updates (messages and votes) on the community. Instance admin can go into the database to see any private message between any user on that instance.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol dude got the exact things wrong about Lemmy - clear they haven’t spent much time here. Fediverse is NOT privacy focused, in fact it’s the opposite. You blast your content out to everyone. The only privacy is your username, and that aint much. It’s user owned, that’s the saving grace, that corporate doesn’t own it. We sacrifice fake corporate privacy for open standards.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reddit didn’t get to 73 million overnight. It took them decades. Lemmy only gets 1 year?

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    • Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also, 73 million seems exaggerated, or that’s counting the bots

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  • Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Niche <> bad.

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    • Gorilladrums21@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not bad, but niche is just that. For a platform to become a genuine alternative to Reddit, it needs to appeal to the mainstream.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You do realize that’s why Reddit went down the shitter right? Appealing to the mainstream is literally what got us to the point that everything is filled with ads and misinformation.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do kind of miss the private clubs. I had worked my way up through 100K, 150K, 200K and 300K karma clubs before I bailed and came here.

  Centennial Club was just the best. It was like Century Club, but way nicer!

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