Fediverse memes

It beat the simpsons bar one!

I've found a massive reduction after blocking only a handful of users. It seems there are fewer of them than it first appears.

Yeah a lot of people on here have sticks up their butts hehe

Feel free to chime in on this thread, it's a proposal to solve this exact issue: https://lemmy.world/post/24268267

People here are so out of touch here; it's super interesting

I told everyone in my family, and it was one ear and out the other.

My sister told me the other day, "I didn't know I could add reddit it to my Google search and get better results." All I could think is, "you figured that out right when everything went to shit, damn."

"The problem isn't corporate, the problem is audience size."

Shut the fuck up about this.

Lemmy isn't anything right now. No impact or relevance, no practical effect in terms of community and influence. It's just small conversations and mild entertainment.

If you enjoy that, go ahead. But don't campaign to hold the whole fediverse project back.

Just get together in a niche instance with your small town types and defederate if the project successfully becomes a full fledged alternative. The Internet needs a successful full scale alternative to corporate social media to have a chance at recovery from enshittification.

And you need to be a particular kind of weird person to sift all the random posts. The average user actually wants an algorithm.

Nah, people get overwhelmed by choosing a server instance.

Weird. That’s like my main kink.

Or any political content at all. Most people just want to look at funny cats or memes.

Other people want absurd humor without the racist degeneracy of other outlets.

I can't even blame spez for becoming that asshat. Trying to ride herd on something as large, diverse, and popular as reddit has become, requires someone who is willing to be an asshat.

If you ever find yourself in charge a group of diverse people remember that you will never satisfy everyone. And a lot of the time the best you can hope for is to piss off everyone equally.

To be fair, Twitter is so bad now that Bsky is an improvement.

And Bsky has to appear trustful as they need to attract users.

Mastodon is not a twitter clone.

Bluesky is a twitter clone, without musk. That's all these people want. They've never heard about the fediverse. They're not protesting corporate centralism.

They just don't like twitter being a right wing agenda. They want a twitter experience circa before musk bought it, simply because it was left wing before.

That's bluesky. That's not mastodon.

Bluesky is...fine. Currently, it operates the way that I wish Twitter did. It lets you curate your feed, it shows the feed in chronological order, and finally and most importantly it has a critical mass of users so there is actual content there, rather than every 5th post complaining about how everyone is on another platform or not using Linux.

Really, the only issue I have with it is that it is owned by a corporation. But like Twitter and Reddit, I am willing to abandon it for something else when it gets shittier.

This is the real answer. I forget the exact numbers, but the vast majority of people on reddit are just lurkers. When you have an enormous user base, that still translates to lots of content to consume. Lemmy has way less content and very small communities (if any) for most niches.

Of course you can point to bots on reddit inflating those numbers and that Lemmy has more meaningful interaction, but that's not what most are looking for that are on reddit.

Also, as others mentioned, there's no negative engagement algorithm drivers on mastodon like there is on Twitter. Fact is, a lot of people just like to be angry and combative.