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Update: post deleted Most popular thread on /r/Redditalternatives is promoting Discuit, despite it having 185 weekly active users compared to the 44k on Lemmy. Feel free to chime in (old.reddit.com)

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Also, if you have doubts about brigading, Discuit have a brigading post on their meta community: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/pTyw2MZw

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People find the "which 'Gaming' community is the real one?" issue very frustrating, because they currently have the illusion that they have access to everything all in one place. The idea that you can't have a discussion with a million other people is meaningless to them, totally crushed under the weight of FOMO.

They look at Reddit, and they look at Lemmy, and they see that they're different, but don't really care why. They see that different (not more, just different) effort is required to navigate the space. They don't care that they just need a different mental model to understand the space -- they don't want one. And the design language of the space communicates to them that they don't need one.

I'm not going to get up on my soapbox and rant and rave about this today -- I'm too tired, and it's too busy of a week -- but this is what I mean when I keep saying we can't win against centralized social media by aping the UI. "Lemmy" just isn't a Reddit replacement in the same way that another centralized service is. A Lemmy-based website, sure. But not the network of them.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

totally crushed under the weight of FOMO.

Wouldn't they have FOMO by not following /r/Gaming, /r/Games, /r/Videogames, etc. as well?

And the design language of the space communicates to them that they don’t need one.

They don't really need one. They can just open https://vger.app/ , see that it's quite similar to what Apollo used to be, then have a look around and see if they like it. They don't need to understand federation to lurk. They don't need to understand federation to install an app.

If they click on the vote or comment buttons, Voyager suggests them to register an account on Lemm.ee. Again, no need to understand what federation is to get it running.