Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn’t the thing that makes a social media site, it’s the engagement

So even if you’re used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!

If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they’re more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they’ll just go back to reddit

  • vepro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think, for mass appeal lemmy will ultimatively need communities for popular topics (games, trends, etc.), which can bring in lots of new users. From what I’ve seen so far the topics are still rather niche, or can’t compete with identical communites on major platforms. When the traction starts getting big enough, it might just run on its own.

    This comment is also more or less a test, trying out the platform.

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      we all know its going to take a while, but the years of work behind ActivityPub and real world implementatiins like Lemmy are beginning to bear fruit - for the benefit of us all.

      you’re here right now. that says a lot.

      • vepro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I first saw lemmy a few months ago, but forgot about it. The recent Reddit events have sparked interest again, and I am feeling adventurous. Major Social media platforms seem to collapse / mess up one after the other now, and the concept behind federation is very intriguing (especially that part that even different applications can communicate with each other thanks to ActivityPub).

        • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 year ago

          abuse of the user is pretty much baked into every corporate owned, centralized service. I mean, it literally creates an abusive power dynamic. walking away is often the only option and, without alternatives, that can be difficult.

          Federated social is important because it offers and alternative that breaks the cycle of abusive and empowers the content creators and consumers again.

          my apologies for using possible trigger words and concepts above, but I am so sick and tired of the same cycle time after time. we need this change.

          • vepro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Another problem I see is monopolization. If there is only one platform with no competition, there is no incentive to innovate. Good example is YouTube. No one can just afford tbps of bandwidth and exa or even zettabytes of storage, so federation (PeerTube) is a way to balance and distribute the load over many individual servers/nodes. (PeerTube also uses a p2p streaming mechanism to reduce strain on the server)

            • pain_is_life_is_pain@beehaw.orgEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Wow, there’s so many new things to play with! Never heard of PeerTube before, but excited about the idea of a federated YouTube challenger!

              And it looks like there’s no shorts on PT? Awesome!

            • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              1 year ago

              exactly. the internet was historically much more decentralized. laziness, ignorance and apathy got us to the centralized mess we are in today.

              we (the unwashed masses of the world) cant directly compete on raw dedicated bandwidth and storage, but we can complete on quality and raw decentralized accessibility. the decentralization helps to mitigate the centralized storage and bandwidth advantages of the big players.

              with enough federated instances, we will have a massively redundent medium through which like minded users can congregate and share ideas in a federated and self organizing way. the possibilities are pretty damn tantalizing.