cinoreus

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[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I mean, I too prefer being on lemmy over reddit. I was just wondering about the EUs current push for open source alternatives, if they can ever succeed in their pursuit.

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, without a recommendation engine, or a for profit model, fediverse is destined to stay an enthusiast space.

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Truth is, fediverse's more fragile than people wanna Admit, that's my opinion from using it for a week. Firstly, everything works on grants and donations, there's no for profit model that's running these servers. That's bad because running social media is expensive.

Second fediverse's still utility first, user experience second priority. there's no recommendation algorithm on mastodon or most other fediverse servers.

Third, this is coming from a security stand point, fediverse is vulnerable to both centralised architecture, and decentralised architecture attacks.

Also it's just, for 90% of people, if they want to have a website like tiktok, they will just go to tiktok. Especially in case of tiktok. Very few people want to try stuff that's not as fully baked as corporate owned social media

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Exactly, fediverse tikrok gives a lot of "eco-friendly cigarette" vibes.

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am gonna be able to see this post after 2 weeks😭

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not only is it ruining the experience, the geoblock is easily bypassable via a free vpn. Idk whatever they are trying to achieve could be achieved if the geoblock is this bad.

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Not working. Feddit.org is inaccessible, only when I am using vpn I can access it. It does look like they have geoblocked certain parts of Asia.

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

So I looked it up. Feddit seems to have blocked most parts of aisa because of Alibaba scrapping data. Someone from Saudi Arabia too reported being geoblocked.

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I am using boost

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

Thanks, but unfortunately I am using lemmy on mobile. I cannot access network logs here

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yup I am. Why are they geoblocking India?

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)
 

So I just simply compared the top posts of lemmy r/all and reddits r/all. Currently this month's top 5 r/all posts are somewhere between 228k - 142k upvotes, while lemmy's are between 2.2k and 1.7k.

The monthly active user count of reddit is over a billion, while that of lemmy is 1.2 million(edit: no it's 40k. It's looking even worse for reddit). If we just compare them by these metrics, reddit has 1000x the users but 100x engagement. And this also held true when I compared the meme subreddits using the same metric, but news subreddit was an outlier where the subscriber to upvote ratio was equal between them.

It's extremely crude calculation, but since I observed this pattern, I felt I need to share this somewhere. What I feel is that as social media platform gets larger, the number of lurkers, people who don't engage, increase. could there be any other reason?

 

Hey, I am curious, are people working on storing fediverse data off the servers? Like using bittorent protocol or ipfs?

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