That’s how all new things like this start. Tbe early adopters are those who are “plugged in” to the tech world for a long time or otherwise hear about from said people.
Lemmy isn’t owned by a big corporation, it’s entirely independant so of course it doesn’t get much advertising. It spreads only via word of mouth and obscure tech blogs as of right now
When reddit doesn’t like something they always pull out the “accuse them of being white supremacists” card.
Honestly they’ve used that card so much I’m amazed it hasn’t crumbled into nothing. Sadly a lotta people still just blindly believe it.
Very true, but, is that a bad thing that Lemmy won’t be as big as Reddit?
I was a young man when the internet was still the wild west and all sorts of shit went around. But now it’s so conglomerated and dominated and so fucking “safe”, the more a major website balkanises and splits into many different parts, the better imo. Even if that means Lemmy stays niche, is that really a bad thing?
More like they’ll be looking for features they can claim were “stolen” from reddit so they can sue Lemmy into bankruptcy.
True, but a lack of engagement and lack of new signups is a ticking time bomb, as new accounts will be made but the majority of those will be bots or mass upvoting/downvoting programs with no real engagement.
That’s a ticking time bomb because, much like when Musk bought Twitter and found out the true amount of bots being counted as users, the shareholders will realise how grossly overvalued the company is and will flee en-masse.
Tbh Facebook is still pretty big, like one of the biggest sites around. Though a lotta people just pop on there to look up local businesses that list their Facebook page as their website.
Reddit is undermining everything that made it successful in the first place. Facebook didn’t do that, they just lost growth because once everyone’s grandma joined nobody under 40 stayed active.
I tried posting this on reddit too, specifically on the r/randomthoughts sub but, surprise surprise “oops we encountered a problem” typical.
Yes I am salty, how did you guess?
Watching him flail about and fail at every turn is never not funny to me.