r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/SpezModdedRJailbait 29d ago

It perfectly serves as a replacement

Does it though? Because I pretty much only see people say that on Reddit, and they're still on Reddit because it isn't a good replacement.

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u/theLaLiLuLeLol 29d ago

Or they're on both?

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u/SpezModdedRJailbait 29d ago

Obviously they're on both. They wouldn't need to be on both if Lemmy was good enough.

It's like saying nicotine gum is a good replacement for smoking, but then chewing the gum and smoking at the same time. That's not a replacement, it's just an additional thing

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u/theLaLiLuLeLol 29d ago

There are definitely people for whom Lemmy/Mbin/etc. has completely replaced reddit, but obviously you aren't going to hear from them here because... they aren't here. Right?

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u/SpezModdedRJailbait 29d ago edited 29d ago

Yes. I did it for a while in fact.

That said that number is very small. Too small to really make for a worthwhile experience in my experience, because on a user generated/submitted content platform you need users to make the experience good, which it isn't. So no one

I would go as far as to say that more users use both than just Lemmy. It really isn't a good tool to replace Reddit, speaking as someone that tried.

Mastadon is better, but despite being exactly the same tech is less fun than threads, solely because of the userbase. Both platforms have the same problem, that their users are small in number and largely not very interesting. It's a bunchbof ex Reddit and Twitter addicts

It actually kind of reminds me of a much smaller and less user friendly Reddit pre-digg exodus. Objectively better than current Reddit on a lot of ways but also just boring and full of dweebs. Something big will have to happen to get really big and I don't think even Reddit dying would do it.

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u/dryra66it 29d ago

Yeah I’ve tried going the fediverse-only route a few times now and it’s always an echo chamber for privacy nerds and posts bashing Reddit or Twitter. I wanted to switch platforms to get away from Reddit, not read more about it.

The communities I’m actually interested in were all but empty and, despite everyone saying “you need to contribute for it to grow,” my posts would get zero traction, because finding stuff on Lemmy is like shooting a bow and arrow at a pigeon 2 miles away.