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poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Reddit has been declining for years as well and basically just lives on momentum from earlier days when forums or forum-likes had their heyday.

Lemmy is trying to get a cut of a shrinking user base and is doing do by being a very close copy of Reddit. It’s not exactly surprising that it only “grows” when there is a wave of people annoyed with Reddit for some reason.

Your suggestions are fine, but the internet as a whole is moving to semi-private communities and Lemmy is not going to stop that overall trend.

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nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I am planning to implement private communities soon, hopefully it can help with that. Then maybe Lemmy can become an alternative for Discord and other platforms too.

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- countrypunk@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A lot of people on Lemmy are also on matrix, which is an FOSS alternative to discord.
  
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- BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  what do you mean by private communities?
  
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  - nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Users need to be approved by a mod before they can follow, browse or post in the community.
    
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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don't know. I halfway agree and halfway disagree. We've always had things change. I always found a comfortable niche. Lots of Free Software exists, despite the odds being against them. I almost exclusively use software that respects my freedom. At least in private. The important thing is we pick up the fight. And concerning the services I use, we regularly succeed.

I don't really care for Reddit, or all the people moving to Discord. And their millions of users. All I want is a nice niche with an atmosphere I like. And enough users who are aligned with my interests so I can talk about what I like.

And I think you're right and Lemmy -as is- isn't stopping any trend. Because we can see it's stagnating. It'd have to change to do that. Provide anything meaningful to users that they don't have some place else. Whatever that is, great software functionality, nice people, good content...

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