My experience is: no one cares. They don’t care about privacy, they don’t care about having all of their personal information sold to advertisers and AI companies, they don’t care about Discord’s incessant popups and fake notifications and they don’t care that the user experience gets gradually and perpetually worse.
Thats goes for all the Reddit users as well. They cared enough to stage a site-wide protest for checks notes 3 days, and they cared enough to say “fuck Spez” 50948209 times, but not enough to just leave the platform.
Every time I bring it up people laugh and tell me how weird and confusing it is and they say “but there’s no activity there” without realizing that it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
What Elon did is expose the fact that you can abuse and exploit your users all you want but the vast majority won’t leave, no matter what. Other platforms have taken note.
you can abuse and exploit your users all you want but the vast majority won’t leave, no matter what.
Digital feudalism. And people are allowing the same thing to happen to them with democracy. Imo they deserve what they get 🤷♀️
What Elon did is expose the fact that you can abuse and exploit your users all you want but the vast majority won’t leave, no matter what. Other platforms have taken note.
Sad but true.
Many of the subreddits started late and/or quit the strike early too.
Our local maker space has talked on discord. It’s like 3/4 people getting blue sky and the rest are fedi. Lately people discovered the bridge so now everyone is sharing posts from both. The good news is almost everyone is off xitter.
Pixelfed seems to be popular with both crowds. Peertube is being shared from time to time. We have been talking about using our huge server cabinet to self host services like sdf does.
Lemmy and Lemmy style of posts are popular, but it’s the same deal as reddit. Most are turned off on posting because of how much effort it takes to find communities. It’s not the most organic.
About communities discovery, feel free to have a look at https://lemmy.world/post/25353190
Thanks.
One of the things blue sky does well is it’s custom algorithm and starter packs. Both get a lot of people working on the platform day 1. Hour 1 on a platform will make or break it. And it feels more organic to find people/things to follow because it’s part of your feed 5 minutes in.
Piefed actually does something similar by asking you what you like, then giving you entire categories with similar communities. If Lemmy has something like that, it would greatly benefit the platform.
Piefed actually does something similar by asking you what you like, then giving you entire categories with similar communities. If Lemmy has something like that, it would greatly benefit the platform.
Reddit does the same and is actually something Lemmy should be doing as well!
here’s the Github feature request for this https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1807
Give it a thumbs up reaction so the devs know to prioritize it
I wonder if any 3rd party apps do this?
Thanks!
Thank you, interesting
Lemmy is not a good alternative to discord though.
For what discord is supposed to be, no
For what discord keeps being used for even though it shouldn’t be because of NUMEROUS problems with it, yes yes it is
can you give an example? what’s a circumstance where discord shouldn’t be used?
Used as a forum. It’s supposed to be for communication, not as a forum or for storing documentation.
Software projects that don’t want to use one of the normal hosting sites. I’ve seen this far too often where the only link for a download or documentation is just a discord link.
Most times I see this with “fan projects” like video game mods and remakes
Yeah but the Discord users still aren’t interested in anything more organized because it’s more work for them. The creators/admins might want Lemmy instead but it’s not going to work without the users moving too.
Agree, but on the other hand there seems to be quite a few subs favoring Discord rather than Lemmy, so it seems like some people still consider them close enough.
They are two different applications to fill different needs. There is some overlap but only because people try to make things what they aren’t designed to be. I tried Discord out when searching for a modern version of IRC, partially trying to find some nostalgia, but secondly to find discussion replacements for my niche Reddit subs. I wasn’t a fan, it’s too much and not easily navigable for me, so I take what I can get here.
Pinging @[email protected] as IIRC this is how you managed to get a few people to post to [email protected]
