I was skeptical at first. Decided to give it a shot and, while obviously not perfect, I like it a lot so far.
I think my biggest issue before is actually a feature rather than a bug. I used to think, “federation is too confusing for the average person, it’ll never take off”.
But considering how hostile the average comment is on Reddit, keeping the “average” user away might be the best thing about Lemmy.
While the idea sounds great in the short-term, sites like this need a huge community to actually become useful. It’s cool as a little nod back to the old style of internet communities, but without a large following it’s too easy for stuff like this to just fade away. Losing a single server like lemmy.world wouldn’t shut down the entire system now, but imagine what would happen to the average user if their endpoint for news/media just disappeared and they were forced to make a new account and find all of their old communities again.
It’s still neat, and I intend to give it as fair of a shot as I can, but we’re ultimately going to “need” an influx of non-contributing-cat-picture-lurkers to push a few of the top servers up to the levels of involvement needed to support a persistent community.
The idea behind this place is pretty cool but I’m with you. Neither this place, nor are the users, ready for migration “today” to flip from Reddit to this experience.
It actually takes effort to understand what to do here. I deal with idiots at work all day, the first hint of effort or difficulty with anything, especially entertainment, people will walk.
It’s like how the internet was great when it was mostly nerds. Sure, there are plenty of asshole nerds, but I’ll take a smart asshole over a dumb one - especially since a lot more of them are dumb than not.
I was skeptical at first. Decided to give it a shot and, while obviously not perfect, I like it a lot so far.
I think my biggest issue before is actually a feature rather than a bug. I used to think, “federation is too confusing for the average person, it’ll never take off”.
But considering how hostile the average comment is on Reddit, keeping the “average” user away might be the best thing about Lemmy.
While the idea sounds great in the short-term, sites like this need a huge community to actually become useful. It’s cool as a little nod back to the old style of internet communities, but without a large following it’s too easy for stuff like this to just fade away. Losing a single server like lemmy.world wouldn’t shut down the entire system now, but imagine what would happen to the average user if their endpoint for news/media just disappeared and they were forced to make a new account and find all of their old communities again.
It’s still neat, and I intend to give it as fair of a shot as I can, but we’re ultimately going to “need” an influx of non-contributing-cat-picture-lurkers to push a few of the top servers up to the levels of involvement needed to support a persistent community.
The idea behind this place is pretty cool but I’m with you. Neither this place, nor are the users, ready for migration “today” to flip from Reddit to this experience.
It actually takes effort to understand what to do here. I deal with idiots at work all day, the first hint of effort or difficulty with anything, especially entertainment, people will walk.
It’s like how the internet was great when it was mostly nerds. Sure, there are plenty of asshole nerds, but I’ll take a smart asshole over a dumb one - especially since a lot more of them are dumb than not.