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On the future of Lemmy vs reddit (self.fediverse)

submitted 1 year ago by fresh to c/[email protected]

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Please indulge a few shower thoughts I had:

I wouldn't worry about Lemmy having as many users as reddit in the short term. Success is not just a measure of userbase. A system just needs a critical mass, a minimum number of users, to be self-perpetuating. For a reddit post that has 10k comments, most normal people only read a few dozen comments anyways. You could have half the comments on that post, and frankly the quality might go up, not down. (That said, there are many communities below that minimum critical mass at the moment.)
Lemmy is now a real alternative. When reddit imploded Lemmy wasn't fully set up to take advantage of the exodus, so a lot of users came over to the fediverse and gave up right away. There were no phone apps, the user interface was rudimentary, and communities weren't yet alive. Next time reddit screws up in a high profile way, and they will screw up, the fediverse will be ready.
Lemmy has way more potential than reddit. Reddit's leadership has always been incompetent and slow at fixing problems. The fediverse has been very responsive to user feedback in comparison.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm trying to, reached 300 subscribers, but three of them posted once, several commented once and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What community is it, maybe I'll try to plug it whenever it's relevant to my comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's rare that it could come up in conversation outside the topic of photography, but here it is: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, nice, I'll be a member and will be an OC poster as well though I rarely bring my sony mirrorless. It's it okay to upload mobile photos?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am of the opinion that cameras don't really matter, beyond a certain technological level. Does it take pictures? Then it's a camera, capable enough to use. There was a quote in Michael Freeman's book on visual photographic literacy that I found quite interesting. He wrote that only ameteur photographers obsess over camera technology and settings.

So you're more than welcome to post on there!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much.