Memes about the Fediverse
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I mean have they seen how good Ice Cubes and Mlem look? How can they choose the default Twitter and Reddit apps over those masterpieces.
Yeah people don't want rotten fruit, cocaine is way funnier and comes with ONE website, one mobile app... etc.
People do try it and then are turned off by how crazy the hivemind here is. Wild conspiracies about musk is fun for me to scroll through and laugh at, but lots of people run in the opposite direction.
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lemmy.ml
Have you ever considered trying another instance?
That coke-rush is just temporary and afterwards, leaves you feeling like this:
Obligatory reference to SNL's parody take, though more for Oscar the Grouch: https://youtu.be/kqpak5lFxvs.
If all the average users were here, it would be just as awful as Reddit became when it hit mainstream acceptance level.
Remember that subreddits there were quality when small but sort of became too large to have character after a certain threshold, I seem to recall 300k subscribers and up being about where that delineation was.
Lemmy could stand to be more popular, but not too popular or it would attract the bottom feeders that make stupid one liner comments and upvote wrong answers.
Enjoy the smaller lemmy while it lasts
Edited for clarity, gotta drop the reddit shorthand
"The problem isn't corporate, the problem is audience size."
Shut the fuck up about this.
Lemmy isn't anything right now. No impact or relevance, no practical effect in terms of community and influence. It's just small conversations and mild entertainment.
If you enjoy that, go ahead. But don't campaign to hold the whole fediverse project back.
Just get together in a niche instance with your small town types and defederate if the project successfully becomes a full fledged alternative. The Internet needs a successful full scale alternative to corporate social media to have a chance at recovery from enshittification.
I seem to recall 300k subscribers and up being about where that delineation was.
Interesting number, but why not have it based on active users rather than subs?
Because that’s just an easy metric you can eyeball to gauge a sub.
I remember it being roughly true but I have no data other than anecdotal to back that up
No worries, thanks!
~~I think "subs" in this instance refers to subcommunities or subreddit, not subscribers.~~
NM. Missed the word subscribers in the original comment.
My bad. Yes I meant sub as in subreddit, I need to drop the reddit shorthand lingo since I don’t use the site anymore and it’s confusing on lemmy