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[–] Mike_Hunt@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

if you mean all the niche communities, then sub Reddit could provide a link to a lemmy alternative but no sub Reddit allows promotion so it's pointless.

since being banned from Reddit, i have felt there is something missing since i can't interact in my niche communities any more sadly

[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Keep the light alive as Reddit further enshittifies

[–] TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I understand the motive, I too am on some niche communities that sometimes didn't have posts for months. For that i use reddit (but the old interface). Now let's see your question.

No, we can't make lemmy as popular as reddit, but we can turn lemmy into a reddit twin, and make it popular, by pushing only one instance like .world.

The social media that popularised fediverse the most was mastodon, and yet it's because they pushed mastodon.social as the default, making a large part of the userbase think that mastodon is only mastodon.social.

People do not even notice things more complicated than buttons "join", "login", or "post". They are lost on join-lemmy.org because they don't know why they should choose a server, read description, understand whatever is federation, and they'll prefer going back to their comfort zone.

But hey, social media experience enshittifies as the userbase gets bigger, and i came here by fleeing reddit so please don't

[–] francisco_1844@discuss.online 4 points 4 days ago

People do not even notice things more complicated than buttons “join”, “login”, or “post”. They are lost on join-lemmy.org because >they don’t know why they should choose a server, read description, understand whatever is federation, and they’ll prefer going back >to their comfort zone.

Agree on this 100%. When I first found Lemmy I had no idea what instance to join, why it matter, or.. why it really didn't matter all that much.. It was just confusing.. and the first instance I joined ended up closing.. which was less than an ideal experience as it was without notice and the instance just disappeared. Took me days to even find out why they had closed. Then took me several more days to find the next instance to join.

Federation is both a weakness and a strength in that there may be people who get turned off by that initial complexity.

Then, some people who join may see low volumes on communities they care about and end up not joining.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

lemmy is better than reddit, popularity will ruin it.

[–] olivier@lemmy.fait.ch 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I don't know how ethical it would be, and maybe it already exists, but a tool to replicate a Reddit post directly on a Lemmy instance could be useful

That's what feddit does ig

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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Why do people always go for Reddit as this comparison? It's not even the most popular social media. Is it because the question "How can we make Lemmy as popular as Facebook" makes it clear why that isn't something the users would want?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

I imagine it's because Reddit is closer to the format of Lemmy and it's something we're more familiar with. I also wouldn't have known that Facebook was more popular because it's not something that anyone in my circle uses, but a lot of them use Reddit.

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[–] bluecat_OwO@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

only time and reddit can do that.

Banned my 8 year old account for spam. God damn the account was not even active for 4 months why did you ban it reddit? And no replies from mods either. I liked reddit but lemmy is nice too and niche!

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[–] Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 4 days ago

I don't think the majority of people here would be happy if that happened.

[–] hdnclr@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

Why not a fifth or even just an tenth as popular as reddit? I get wanting it to be more active, especially for the niche communities to feel more active, but the last thing I want is to go to the "All" tab here and see anything remotely like /r/all on Reddit.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Keep using it? Share links from it? How did you get on Reddit in the first place?

I don’t want lemmy to become as popular as Reddit

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Keep bringing it up on Reddit.

When I'm on Reddit, which is only if I fully exhaust myself on Lemmy that day, and I see someone complaining about Reddit, I make a point to let them know about Lemmy.

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