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Does anybody here still wish the Fediverse just had more people? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I know and can accept the response that say I should register to X site if I want more activity. I do plan to, least with Reddit, just biding some time before I make yet the 20th disposable e-mail and probably the 100th account before it gets banned again if I cross a glass person. Glass person being someone who's so fragile on opinions and things that they'll scream 'BAN THEM BAN THEM!'.

I've been on KBin Social, Lemmy World (least 2 dedicated accounts), KBin Run, Mastodon, Blue Sky .etc

And I'd stay for a good while but I also found myself bored immediately. I check for questions to answer, it's the same questions I've seen days and weeks prior. I check around for things that are reported and they'll be hours old and some of them can be years old.

I love the idea of the Fediverse, I like some of the features that are implemented. Especially when you do ask questions on here and you're allowed to expand on it. Unlike AskReddit for example, they don't really like that and will remove your post because explaining what your question is about and backing it with an example is just unacceptable to them.

I don't know. 43,000+ people sounds a lot on paper, but in practice, it feels like you're dealing with 50 people at any given day.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you guys feel like the federation hurts Lemmy?

Like I see its benefits, but for an average user, the feel of Lemmy as an app is less intuitive than reddit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Lemmy currently has 45k monthly active users: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Centralized alternatives:

There was a thread yesterday on /r/RedditAlternatives talking about "how do you attract users to a new alternatives", most of the comments where about how difficult it is: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1g4zcdi/for_those_of_you_who_started_your_own_alternative/

Based on this, I would say that Lemmy allowing everyone to open a server helps in that regard. Instance admins are more confident in the platform as they have control on this. Users trust admins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Ya I definitely don’t wanna take away from what Lemmy has accomplished

It’s definitely the best alternative to Reddit that I have seen. But the federation does add another way of complexity that I wasn’t used to coming from Reddit. Whenever I join a new community now, they may be across different federations and it seems like the popularity of these communities almost compete with each other, which detracts from having a big user-based community to ask questions to

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do, but only because the UX around federated entities isn't great at the moment. There's no doubt that it could be made way more intuitive and streamlined for the average user, and that more effort could be put into migration between federated entities so that it doesn't feel like as much of a chore to jump between instances. The average user won't care about federation, and they just want to quickly get some content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

migration between federated entities so that it doesn’t feel like as much of a chore to jump between instances.

Migration takes two clicks from the account settings, are you referring to something else?