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Idk if I think lemm.ee is a good alternative. (lemm.ee)

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

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I think this place is too fragmented into instances to ever generate a front page anywhere near what r/all is.

If I understand this page right, https://lemm.ee will never show the top post of the day from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/, https://discuss.tchncs.de/, or https://feddit.uk/.

And the "front page/general" site is already split into several instances (https://vlemmy.net/, https://lemmy.world/, https://sh.itjust.works/, https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/ and https://lemmy.one/, all claiming to be "a general front page lemmy instance")

So what's the deal, which one are we betting on as the place to direct all the new traffic? What's the contender for primary public internet bulletin board? Right now the arrow to an alternative is looking like this: https://i.imgur.com/L1XsBy6.pngd

I'm personally guessing the conclusion is already reached; We have no place we're betting on. We're disinterested in pushing for any particular result. We don't expect people to migrate. Many might not even want them to.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be honest with yourself. If lemmy was an attractive alternative, you would’ve seen much more rapid growth these last couple days. Lemmy simply wasn’t ready for prime-time when this opportunity arose, maybe it will be later.

Compared to the amount of traffic before people started migrating it's doing exponentially better than it was prior lol. The fact of the matter is lemmy takes a little bit to fully understand, so there will be a barrier to entry that only early adopters will get over. Growth will be slow for sure, and lemmy might not take off. But the Fediverse as a whole seems to be the Internet's response to a increasingly corporate run social media environment.

A fun thing to point out is that this little comment has more engagement than almost every post on Lemmy. All but 10.

You have no idea how Lemmy works

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Go tell those spergs over there how Lemmy works, and see if that convinces them to change their mind.

The results speak for themselves, this is a bad new user experience and will need thorough consideration and clever restructuring. I think you're too satisfied with the fact that it's functional at all.

The Fediverse won't be any kind of meaningful response to corporate social media until you stop being satisfied with just the front row audience.