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I get there are still users but it feel empty at times compared "other" platforms.

Why isint lemmy more popular?

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Reddit was like this in 2009, here's a random thread from there to illustrate, 35 score, no comment votes. The years prior Reddit was even quieter despite having only one community they had to post to, before subreddits were a thing.

Give it time, promote it on Reddit if you want to !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com, tell your friends. As far as I know we are growing slowly, it will only blast up if Reddit does something extra henious again. Though the knee-high barrier of choosing a server and learning the etiquette will take a little time.

I think it's okay as is, it doesn't have to be more popular, but if it does become more popular then I don't mind that either.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

no startup/angel/vc/pe funds to burn in advertising to capture the market.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com il people want to help

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Critical mass does what they do.

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

counterpoint, lemmy is popular enough

I'm okay with having a lot less people in lemmy if it means there less nazis and less toxicity

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

because at the moment Reddit is now mainstream, and reactionaries are taking over (FU spez). Therefore much of the far left and anarchists deemed "violent" by spez and Phony Stark have moved to Lemmy and Bluesky and made it their safe spaces for mostly politically-charged topics.

[–] solomonschuler@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Because I fucking hate my privacy, and Lemmy and other FOSS media platforms is like veggies on my dinner plate -- I don't want it.

I want people to know when I get my first boner, when I inevitably kick the bucket, and when i announce I got a new position (while users on the platform give context that I was hard the entire interview process). Because why celebrate with family and friends when I got the whole internets asshole comments to read and respond to."

This is my delusional interpretation of why users don't join Lemmy.

Advertising. I'm not going to elaborate, because it's all just going to come back to that. Grassroots, paid, you name it. Advertising.

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com -3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Because its got too much political bias and censorship which alienates one side and the centre. Elon did this by making twitter open all other platforms must be just as tolerant or cease to be relevant in the medium of the marketplace of ideas

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

If you think Lemmy is bad, then you were never on Reddit. Spez went full MAGA, and after the MAGA Inauguration, he permabanned all the active users who built the site. Now it's all MAGA trolls, novelty accounts, bots, Russian propaganda farmers, etc.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

he made it less OPEN, only allow right wing/nazism/zionism/transphobia to thrive, also astroturfing the "left"

U can go test this and find that it's unequivocally false. Your just scared that those things are winning in the marketplace of ideas

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