Honestly lemmy specifically is good enough to scratch my Reddit itch. We may not be able to post our way out of fascism, but we can certainly post our way out of the centralized, enshittified platforms like Reddit where we came from.
I think it’s more difficult in applications where you want or have to bring a lot of friends to make the apps useful, but in the case of lemmy specifically if there’s a baseline level of activity that’s enough to fulfill 90% of what i used Reddit for (i.e. snarky memes and random back and forths with relative strangers).
AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 4 weeks ago
Couldn’t have said it better myself
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
Exactly! That’s how people usually argue against the Fediverse. People have literally been indoctrinated into believing the internet is centralised.
ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Personally, I prefer an intellectual barrier to entry. It’s one of the things that made the internet of the early days so much better than today.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Caffeinated_Sloth@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It would help to change the nomenclature. Joining a Facebook “group” makes sense to anybody. Change insider jargon like “instance” to seeker-friendly verbiage like “village.”
eta@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
I remember joining reddit when it had the old interface and thinking that it is super unintuitive and complicated compared to all other social media. This didn’t stop reddit from growing and i don’t think lemmy will be restricted by this in the long run. People generally are just not aware of the fediverse and how it works yet but they will get used to it.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
“Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit, you can visit phtn.app to have a look at the content. If you prefer an app, vger.app/settings/install has download links.”
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
lemmy.zip/post/33507041
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I jumped over here a couple weeks ago at the request of another redditor and it’s like a breath of fresh air.
I still check out reddit for a couple subs that just don’t have enough interaction over here “yet”.
I’ve mentioned lemmy a couple times over there and got replies like " it’s just too complicated " etc. and now that I think about it they were most likely bots 🤔
Ima go back to the cesspool and investigate
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Feel free to join us on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
AizawaC49@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Literally a breath fresh of air is what I can relate to. I also realized how it’s way way smaller in the size of communities and I appreciate it. My other favorite is no advertisement. I am as well trying to introduce a couple of my friends to move over the Lemmy. It is a little bit of a curve to learn, but it’s not as hard.
Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I lately have a saying: “If it’s not FOSS, it’s not worth your time”
witnessbolt@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Refugee here. Think I’d agree. A subconscious bias / misunderstanding we bought into
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Well said indeed
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I would argue it is closer to 60 years.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m the type to beat my head against a wall until the wall breaks. Then through that hole, I lead my friends. Fewer and fewer of my friends follow me through such holes. Last time I did such, I brought all my friends to discord (and now I regret it). It is hard as fuck to convince normies to adopt a new platform. If they’re not already invested, it will take a serious investment for them to give half a shit. I was able to get some people on discord by promising them that I was running a dnd campaign (I was at the time, but it fell apart shortly therefafter), and those people haven’t been on discord since.
How do I convince them that lemmy is the future? I don’t think I can. Fundamentally, lemmy is objectively better than reddit (not for features, but because lemmy won’t ban you for mentioning green mario and other similar administrative bullshits). I wasn’t able to convince them to use reddit back when reddit was good!