Mildly Infuriating

What are you on about with a war? Fuck reddit lol

Also, reddit is a great shit magnet, let's leave that in place so they don't come here.

I wasn't aware Lemmy was competing with Reddit.

What war? And I'm pretty fine with much of the people on reddit staying there. They're a good part of why I came here.

It's all about awareness, people have to know there's an alternative before they can switch.

I didn't know lemmy existed until I went searching for a reddit alternative.

Soooo... what? Buy ads on reddit? LOL.

What war? Dafuq are you talking about?

I left Reddit because I strongly dislike what it’s become. This place is better. Why should I want it to be more like Reddit?

Platform growth does not matter here. We legitimately do not give a shit. The fediverse, in entirety, is not now, and never will be, beholden to shareholders, because of the very nature of its OSS underpinnings. We will grow organically, or not, and it will be fine. We don’t need a huge influx of users. In fact, a huge influx of users would kinda suck for a lot of admins, because it would cause a HUGE spike in OpEx, and potentially necessitate the purchase of more infrastructure, which admins probably wouldn’t love.

I don't think Lemmy folks care about Reddit. Maybe also vice versa. You can't have a war if there isn't any conflict.

Let the masses fuckimg burn. Too many people make things shitty. Bubye reddit.

The bar isn't high, keep improving the platform while Reddit shits itself over and over, rinse and repeat.

I find it hard to believe that those communities don't allow most new posts. Are you sure it's not a you thing?

We need Reddit to quarantine the assholes

I've had trouble posting in r/showerthoughts and one other I can't remember. But that's it.

Imo:

• Create more active communities NOT centered around politics or Linux. I swear there's more things to talk about
• Stop berating people who use consumer electronics like Android or iPhones
• Get the word out, basically no one knows about Lemmy

The mods over here are also turning Lemmy into echo chambers

make communities, tell people about them on Reddit, about all you can do. "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink".

Why? I like how lemmy is now, why would we want to bring the people here that can't find their own way?

I wish there were more people here, too. But I don’t think it can ever realistically be, nor does it need to be a competition. As long as there are a default millions of people willing to spend their valuable attention contributing to corporate ad-powered social media companies, the more socially responsible platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon will always be a niche corner of an aspirational web that at least attempts to trust and respect its users. I’d flip it around: the smallness of these mostly positive communities on Lemmy reflects how content the huge crowds at reddit, meta, twitter etc are at being surrounded by utter shit. If the last few years haven’t shown them that there are better places to spend their time online, I’m not sure what will. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m also starting to be okay with the size and scope of things over here.

I think we should be nice and welcoming and provide a good atmosphere. Maybe a unique (in a good way) community that can't be found anywhere else. I mean we need something that sets us apart. If we're just another low-key social media platform that is bad as well, just in a different way, we won't attract any users.

And we need to offer something useful(?) to (new) users.

Plus we need to solve a few technical issues. The onboarding process needs to be a lot easier. It has to be clicking "Next" a few times and maybe choosing a password. Not learning about instances etc and then you also get to sort through the communities and put in a lot of effort to make it useful.
And I've heard admins complain, so there might be a few other issues with performance, reliability and other details.
I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people. And there needs to be constant and visible improvement, maybe useful new features every now and then. So it looks active, and provides some novelty and innovation.

Maybe even some "Wow"-factor.

Furthermore, maybe a bit less drama. And it has to be obvious that Lemmy is a nice place. I mean it is. But most people I've showed it to, didn't notice this at first glance.