• JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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    The Fediverse is only gonna get better. The other ones will all come and go.

    In some number of years after another social media debacle or two, once the Fediverse has had some time to ditch its FOSS clunkiness, it’ll be game over for anything else.

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    We need to make it popular against all corporate forces like meta, X, bluesky etc. By creating more content and interacting with it more.

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    It’s popular enough for me already. I kind of hope it doesn’t become the online site because that will just attract trolls.

    I’ve also been using Trust Café (aka WT.Social) but I like the Lemmy UI a lot better.

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    Lemmy doesn’t have to be Reddit. Lemmy is Lemmy. Keep coming here and giving it content and it will be all it will ever need to be.

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    very hot take:

    regular people will never get rid of twitter or meta, Facebook. YouTube. it’s incompatible with their psychology.

    they need to use what other people are using, they need to see “content” from their followed users

    switching to another platform will kill that for them for weeks and stall their “growth”

    to be forward thinking and to give up something you’ve had is too much for the average person

    which is why I’m on Lemmy: there’s nothing reddit offers to me that makes me “give” it up, it’s always been there but now that there’s competition it’s worth trying something new out

    I honestly think id anything Lemmy will have a slow decrease of users until it comes to a halt

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      I mean, noone used reddit 10 years ago. To a 37 year old like myself, that seems like the reddit shit blew up out of nowhere. Youtube is just a matter of time and outcome of future google break up cases before a legitimate competition comes for its industry share. FB will die with the boomers. The only one I see as a really unmovable object is Twitter because of the universal use by all major sports media/reporting/journalists. It’s the only one with end users applying the platform in any comercial sense outside of marketing. I think the question OP is asking will on the reliance of one of the other platforms falling.

      Just my opinion tho so take it with a grain of salt.

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        Everyone looks at mega businesses as immune to decay. They’re not it just takes longer.

        I think “x” may actually be the first to topple though. It’s losing money at an insane rate and that’s with a mega election year propping it up. That’s one of the reasons Elon is pushing Trump so hard, is for the government bail out he’ll get.

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      Hey, I had a conversation on Matrix that one time!

      And my Mastodon feed has TONS of content from George Takei.

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    How do you define popular? I think it already is reasonably popular, I see enough activity here that it prompts me to comment at least somewhere on most days. I think it’s going to become more popular over time.

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      If I saw this question posted the first time I visited Lemmy (some months before the Reddit app drama) with “popular” being defined as the current level of activity, my clear answer would be a loud and clear “probably not”.

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          I meant to say that I would never have believed back then that Lemmy would become as popular as it is today.

          My point is that it’s a moving target. Reddit has a billion active users. Instagram has two billion. I don’t think these make sense as targets.

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      I think people don’t realise how old Reddit is, it was smaller than Lemmy is now when I first started using it.

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        and no subreddits! i was there too! it really started gaining traction and losing technical users when the ‘image macros’ started… memes took over

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        Social media in general was also a lot smaller back then too.

        Until the iPhone got popular you had to use a computer to access it. And back then we didn’t really trust sleep mode very much so you had to wait 2 minutes for windows to boot when you wanted to go on the net. VS right now I’m standing in from of my clothes not getting ready for work for 45 seconds.

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          Wait to boot? Back then I had a dozen machines all running 24/7 lol. But I guess the average user on the consumer side yeah.

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        it was smaller than Lemmy is now when I first started using it.

        so now we know whom to blame for its enshittification

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    I really don’t think so. The vast majority of internet users just stick with whatever simple thing that serves their need. Lemmy isn’t the most difficult thing, but if reddit already exists and is more popular then people won’t be leaving that for this if they haven’t already.

    The boost in people coming here last year was a “last straw” kind of deal from people using reddit who cared enough about not supporting their shit decisions, but by now that has died down and we’ve seen from recent articles that reddit “won” and they have a metric fuckton of users.

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      Things need to be really bad at Reddit before most people would consider leaving. On the other hand, Lemmy would need to be amazingly good to produce the same effect. Neither of these have happened yet, so only few people migrated.

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        I think the only thing that would 100% kill Reddit is a paid subscription, anything other than that I don’t see it.

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          TV has proven that people are willing to tolerate an amazing amount of ads too. I wonder if you could crank up the ads to posts ratio to something like 90% and still have enough users.