Lemmy

Platforms like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and other are precisely the way social media should work in my opinion. The internet was always intended to be a decentralized system that's not controlled by commercial entities.

We have mountains of evidence that commercial social media platforms are manipulated to serve the interests of the companies that own them, and this manipulation is harmful to the users of these platforms. There is a conflict of interest at play on commercial social media platforms between the interests of the companies that own them and those of the users of the platforms.

Not enough people, or not enough participation by current members. Basically not enough activity/liveliness. This will probably solve itself given enough time.

It reminds me of when Reddit was first starting to kick off before the digg exodus. The fact that it brings those feelings leads me to be hopeful that things will go well.

Lemmy is working great on the web (desktop + mobile) but it should be noted that some people are still complaining about the app. Furthermore, genzedong might turn away some new people and repost are frequent on some lemmunities (lemmy communities). But discussions are different (in a good sense) from the one on reddit. I think the lemmy is great and I hope it will have a bright future

I think the software, even though we've been adding and working on it a lot, is in a really good place. As others said below, we just need more users, and non-tech-oriented communities.

The only large growth that the lemmy federated network experiences, is when reddit messes up, and there's a large exodus of users to a new instance. We really have to do a better job of bringing over reddit communities, or encouraging them to start their own instances, as they can fully control their content.

I like some parts of it (showing how many upvotes and downvotes you got beside just a sum is good).

But it's mostly less good version reddit (It does not have it's ecosystem, Like the excellent RES that makes it possible to incrementally read a post , no multireddits , and of course no big communities with good content like on reddit) .

I feel like improving the platform is the way to make it a more worthwhile use of most people time (As it should among other things will bring more people).

I think it would benefit from specific communities or content creators adopting it. As long as it's only general topics (technology, Linux, ...) it has basically the same info as Reddit/Hackernews/... but less up to date and less commented. It is useless if you already use those other platforms and probably can't get ahead this way.

I could see Godot/Blender/... adopt it though. Blender already uses PeerTube. That would help kickstart this place.

The software is great but the people aren't there.

too much tech ppl

I think the software is great!

If we could follow people, post to our own profile, and host/play videos, then it would be the only fediverse website anyone needs!

Lemmy could be compared to the comment section on news sites or YouTube, with the added advantage of allowing for more interaction between users in threads that are more structured

It's pretty great. There's a lot more content than when I first joined. Plus, the software itself is very fast and usable.

mostly i like the sense of community here. people are actually interacting with me lol

As always, nice discussion and interesting info on a variety of subjects from sorting by new, especially coming from lemmy.ml, plus a small dose of lemmygrad for my political needs (although genzedong is sometimes too based even for myself...).

Yeah, I think it's cool. It has filled the niche that Reddit filled for me before, and I don't need to deal with all the Reddit drama.

But there's also no shortage of Lemmy drama. People talk about defederation, Nazi/tankie mods/communities/instances, etc. Hopefully this is all excitement over a new platform and not a sign of how this platform will continue.

I just want a link aggregator where people discuss articles, and having a place for other discussion is nice too. But it seems that even the most technical communities discuss irrelevant drama.

But on the whole, I'm enjoying it. I sub to the communities that interest me and ignore most of the stuff I don't like. I've even contributed to some lemmy-adjacent projects, and I'll probably contribute to Lemmy itself eventually.

There's enough content for some of the biggest communities but it will take quite a bit more migration to fill out some of the niche/hobby ones.