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That feels a little inaccurate.
For any individual user who switches, there is a stunning lack of content, a loss of the niche communities etc. Even things that should be fairly mainstream have pretty small communities.
Yes, if all the users switched, great. But getting any group of thousands to do one thing is difficult, let alone the users of one of the most popular websites of all time.
I dunno, I think acknowledging and understanding the very real issues encountered by anyone trying the fediverse is key to actually solving those issues and helping it grow.
We're all aware of network effects. Merely knowing about them won't help you solve them. But when they're literally forcing you to lobotomize your own comm and you still cannot switch, well then you're just asking for the abuse.
Apologies, I should've outlined the bit I disagree with.
Like, no, for majority of users, switching to the fediverse isn't too much effort, it's just for what they want, switching to the fediverse sucks pretty hard.
"Oooh, I can't wait to see what fun memes the fediverse has about the Toronto Blue Jays going into a game 7! Oh. Almost nothing? Cool. This is uhhhh. Yeah. Why am I here again?"
Yeah, reddit has all sorts of nonsense but to a casual user, it's also got the content.
That's not opposing what I said. Switching to the fediverse is too much effort because building up the communities here requires effort, and they just want to consume. Eventually reddit will enshittify to such a degree, that even having an active Toronto Blue Jay comm won't be enough and they will switch, but for me, it just points to the abuse people will tolerate for comfort, which as I pointed out, has parallels to the rise of fascism.
Okay, I just mean when you say:
It came off like you were saying a user simply had to log onto lemmy instead of reddit which they are too lazy to do.
For most people, minor inconveniences like "oh no, my sopranos doesn't have politics any more!" Or "oh no, I have to use a new app!" are trivial compared to the hassle of growing an entirely new social media ecosystem.
Yes, it has always been a death of a thousand papercuts, like with fascism. By the time you realize how bad it's gotten and decide to take action, it has become harder than ever.
I think equating everything to fascism is partially how we got into the current mess but to each their own!
Like, the first Voat exodus kids also decried fascism because they couldn't be horrifically racist anymore. By your theory, everyone should have left and built a new community in Voat which would have been terrible.
I wasn't equating, I was making an analogy to the way people are passive about an worsening situation.
The problem with voat was that is was a non federated freeze peach nazi bar, so no, this would not be according to my theory
Yes. So to some, the worsening situation was back whenever the Voat exodus was.
To you, it's now.
To others, there's a barely perceptible difference. "Oh, I had to get a new app?"
Fascism is VERY different. There are clear signs, clear dangers and serious threats. Fascism requires people to act to save others. A social media website getting less good is vastly different. (Also, stopping it in the US was way easier than creating a new social media ecosystem, people just had to vote for the non sketchy party.)
I agree. In my case it was a necessity, so I spent a bit of time actively looking for a Reddit alternative.
I half-heartedly joined Lemmy on a random instance (is that what they're called? I forget). Anyway, it was Lemmy.pl and it went offline for a bit before I could get anywhere with it.
I tried again with lemmy.world and then stumbled across Boost, which was my favourite app for Reddit before they locked everything down and forced everyone on to the inferior Reddit app.
Anyway, the experience now is great. Just like old times. I confess I've no real interest in the fediverse as such, although I'm of course greatful that others do and that it exists. I'm just glad to be able to easily interact with communities that seems to be free from oppressive moderation and cold, automated admins that ban longtime users for accidental missteps.
You don't to convince everyone, just the biggest porn posters. People will go where the porn is, just ask 4chan!
Is there anything porn can't do?!?
Let me tell you, it's even worse for NSFW comms. I still infrequently moderate one on Reddit only because of the disaster that was my attempts to move it. There are only two notable instances that allow NSFW content, and the first one became incredibly hostile to 2D content, while the second made a name for itself hosting underage content (not real csam, but still too fucked up to associate with). And during the couple of months I was actually able to run the comm, I was literally the only person who posted despite clearly advertising to the reddit users and cross posting to other relevant fediverse comms.
Lemmy has a... Strange aberration to anything porn/hentai in general, I know instance owners who live in certain countries can't allow it due to legal reasons so they defederate anything sexy, but really close to the reddit exodus one of the most prominent complains were how people didn't want to see anything sexy in their feed but didn't want to turn on the nsfw filter because they still wanted to see news with graphic content in public.
Every now and then you can spot comments here and there about how people who like sexual things (like mods in their games or as a wallpaper in their pc) are bad and shouldn't be enjoying it freely.
Or every time the lack of artists comes up, they don't care about the fediverse because they know they will get shunned if they draw things a little too sexy.
The fediverse so far is prudish, bland and mid.
Great example. The thing is that technically, reddit's not difficult. The mind bogglingly difficult is getting that user growth.
I'd also be concerned about the physical capacity of the Threadiverse to handle such a huge influx of users all at once. A lot of instances might get overwhelmed.
Good point. I doubt many instances could handle suddenly having 100x the users.