i think besides the ‘what the hell is an instance’ problem, the main thing the fediverse (the ecosystem is not just lemmy) needs that reddit has is momentum.
it took reddit 20 years to get where it is. you cant just snap that user growth into existence even with exact or better feature parity.
that somewhat defeats the purpose of decentralizing social media.
I think youre not wrong in that we might need some larger instances to help users transition, but pushing a single instance is antithetical to our goals.
we also need to do a better job of spreading the content load.
lemmy.world is currently holding the brunt of the active ‘communities’.
those communities need to be spread across more instances so if lemmy.world suddenly goes dark (ala kbin.social), the threadiverse doesnt suddenly lose a majority of its content feeds.
I used to love r/askhistorians and that was a niche community. I think if lemmy gets big enough we can have the same type of niche communities and probably reddit will sue us but I am more than happy to donate to the legal fund.
We probably don’t want to do that. Lemmy.world already has too large a share of the Threadiverse’s user base. Centralizing around one instance is how we got the Reddit API fiasco last year and… Reddit overall.
Me and a lot of other people don’t respond positively to advertising. Actually, if I see an advertisement to buy something, or someone was bought to sponsor a company, I’m a lot less likely to buy the product.
Self-promo and just promoting stuff you personally like is different IMO. In that case, I am very much interested in what ordinary people want me to see. Hence why I’m subscribed to communities like [email protected] because these are humans with real opinions who aren’t just trying to make money off me.
But also…I block Internet ads, and IMO for your security everyone should be blocking Internet ads, so I’m not sure how taking out Internet ads in particular for Lemmy would be helpful.
I have not seen an ad in many years because i use ghostery. I am not talking of ads for lemmy more word of mouth. And through that way I think lemmy would get big.
i think besides the ‘what the hell is an instance’ problem, the main thing the fediverse (the ecosystem is not just lemmy) needs that reddit has is momentum.
it took reddit 20 years to get where it is. you cant just snap that user growth into existence even with exact or better feature parity.
What if we all got together and advertised lemmy.world acrooss the fediverse or other sites.?
that somewhat defeats the purpose of decentralizing social media.
I think youre not wrong in that we might need some larger instances to help users transition, but pushing a single instance is antithetical to our goals.
we also need to do a better job of spreading the content load.
How in your opinion can we spread the content load better?
lemmy.world is currently holding the brunt of the active ‘communities’.
those communities need to be spread across more instances so if lemmy.world suddenly goes dark (ala kbin.social), the threadiverse doesnt suddenly lose a majority of its content feeds.
I used to love r/askhistorians and that was a niche community. I think if lemmy gets big enough we can have the same type of niche communities and probably reddit will sue us but I am more than happy to donate to the legal fund.
We probably don’t want to do that. Lemmy.world already has too large a share of the Threadiverse’s user base. Centralizing around one instance is how we got the Reddit API fiasco last year and… Reddit overall.
Also… please no more friggin advertising lol.
how in the hell am I advertising?
Nononono you’re not advertising of course, but the comment I replied to suggested advertising Lemmy.world.
Hell yah I would advertise lemmy world I would shout it from the rooftops if it helped them out. Why wouldn’t I?
Me and a lot of other people don’t respond positively to advertising. Actually, if I see an advertisement to buy something, or someone was bought to sponsor a company, I’m a lot less likely to buy the product.
Self-promo and just promoting stuff you personally like is different IMO. In that case, I am very much interested in what ordinary people want me to see. Hence why I’m subscribed to communities like [email protected] because these are humans with real opinions who aren’t just trying to make money off me.
But also…I block Internet ads, and IMO for your security everyone should be blocking Internet ads, so I’m not sure how taking out Internet ads in particular for Lemmy would be helpful.
I have not seen an ad in many years because i use ghostery. I am not talking of ads for lemmy more word of mouth. And through that way I think lemmy would get big.
Okay then yeah we should definitely do that. I already have told the about three people I actually know about Lemmy.