Don’t get me wrong I’m a big fan but it seems like the fediverse could theoretically exist with like 5 users whereas a commercial company needs users for revenue. It feels like we are using the masters tools to try to destroy the masters house

  • tkcEnglish
    262·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I never get all these comments saying “if Lemmy wants to get big” it needs to do X (probably some Reddit feature), and " if Lemmy wants to succeed" if needs to do Y (some niche thing most people dont need).

    Like, it’s already successful doing exactly what it was intended for.

    Possibly Lemmy is a lot of peoples first foray into FOSS software, and being the biggest and best, and profits go brrr isn’t the aim.

    Capitalism is a hell of a drug when it’s all you’ve known.

    • RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      Very this :-\ Seems like most people think the whole this is just distributed Reddit and make a bunch of assumptions mostly based around Reddit (or assumptions themselves sourced or derived from Reddit)

      Also, this obsession like “number get big! Bigger number! BIG BIG NUMBER!!” is hella irritating and wrong. “More users” isn’t the answer to “how do we get active niche communities” and even some of the people acting like it is will admit that only a few users even contribute. Maybe we could hope for quality instead of just blindly chasing quantity. Maybe 80k active critters (just making up a goal and some numbers here, to illustrate) isn’t so much worse than 1M meme-bots and 100k active critters? Maybe this can be the place for people who are seriously interested in Community/Magazine topics and not just every bot or butthead who’s heard of, say, Arduinos or volleyball or woodcraft.

      In other words, instead of hoping for incidental gains by filling up with random bellends, maybe getting the ones who matter over here will leave us with a leaner environment of no less utility. … You know, after it’s been more than a couple of weeks since the initial exodus, after there’s been time for any kind of community or at least thread history/catalog/collection to even develop.

      • tkc
        5·
        1 year ago

        I think there are people coming from Reddit that miss the mindless scrolling content that only hundreds of thousands of users can create.

        I did this all the time on Reddit, hours and hours of lurking, looking at memes and reading bullshit stories. Just endless content.

        I don’t have that here, and I like it. I do miss it, but I’m not desperate for Lemmy to drop in and replace it.

    • Rakn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I think if this is what Lemmy is intended for it’s sad and will always a niche thing. I refuse to believe that this is what Lemmy is aiming for.

      • vaguerant@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, the front page is working just fine, what’s not as good is going to a specific community for a subject you’re interested in which currently has 1-3 posts and zero replies.

      • tkcEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        What’s wrong with it being a niche thing. It’s been around for long enough being just that.

        I’m not saying Lemmy can’t be more, just there’s nothing “wrong” with it as is. I jdon’t like people offering up the opinions I mentioned above.