yeah, but why give a fuck about redditors like that and their opinion? why would we even want them on the fediverse? we already have enough idiots here of our own(including me). let him stay on his beloved rotten, dead internet ass plattform with overinflated user activity statistics.
I’m not arguing against more users. But that should have been apparant from the part of my post you didnt quote. Just saying we shouldnt focus so much on users who activily try to find reasons to stay on the corperate hell hole that is reddit.
Yeah, the current userbase is pretty skewed towards the techliterate who in large have a tendency to be not that much into sports. Having more “normies” as the general userbase would be pretty healthy for the fediverse. But tbh there still is just too much friction to use it. It improved a lot over the years. But i believe it has similar issues to linux where you have a lot of needed knowledge and choice frontloaded. I really think there is some analysis paralysis going on between lemmy, mbin, piefed and all the instances on top. I also think(!) the federated nature has a lot of upsides but it also fragments the smallish userbase even further. Like i’m subscribed to 7 linux communities and only 2 really uniquely distiguish themselves. But thats a topic which is pretty important to me right now.
I like watching movies. But i dont like movies so much that i seek out yet another sub on the topic. I mean movies@piefed is the smallest community on that topic when i search for it. I know why thats the case and how new the community is in comparison to the rest because of the lemm.ee shutdown. But thats kinda an important detail you left out.
I’m one of the few active posters on !movies@piefed.social, and !football@sopuli.xyz
Two of the probably most popular topics on the planet. Yet it’s less than 5 of us keeping those communities active.
Having more people would at least make sure some of those very generalist topic can stay active on their own.
I can’t help you on the sport front but I’ll see if I can make a nuisance of myself on the movie front!
Feel free to help!
I’m not arguing against more users. But that should have been apparant from the part of my post you didnt quote. Just saying we shouldnt focus so much on users who activily try to find reasons to stay on the corperate hell hole that is reddit.
Yeah, the current userbase is pretty skewed towards the techliterate who in large have a tendency to be not that much into sports. Having more “normies” as the general userbase would be pretty healthy for the fediverse. But tbh there still is just too much friction to use it. It improved a lot over the years. But i believe it has similar issues to linux where you have a lot of needed knowledge and choice frontloaded. I really think there is some analysis paralysis going on between lemmy, mbin, piefed and all the instances on top. I also think(!) the federated nature has a lot of upsides but it also fragments the smallish userbase even further. Like i’m subscribed to 7 linux communities and only 2 really uniquely distiguish themselves. But thats a topic which is pretty important to me right now.
I like watching movies. But i dont like movies so much that i seek out yet another sub on the topic. I mean movies@piefed is the smallest community on that topic when i search for it. I know why thats the case and how new the community is in comparison to the rest because of the lemm.ee shutdown. But thats kinda an important detail you left out.
Most of the subscribers on LW are dead account, active users is a more relevant metric
fair enough!
Are their other /c/ ? I gone this one of the issues, not being able to “combine” multiple into one feed
You’re on Piefed, so the comments from crosspost from different communities would show up on the same page
There are also feeds that you can create that combine multiple communities https://piefed.social/feeds