After all the BS from /u/spez?

  • Daniel Jackson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reddit is profiting a lot from the network effect. By now this reddit is a known brand, has a lot of content is already there, has a lot of people (especially non-technical users) are already on reddit, and they’re there to stay.

    All the other reddit alternatives, including lemmy and/or the fediverse suffers from:

    • Bugs (I love lemmy, but gosh, have you seen how buggy and sometimes unresponsive it is?)
    • The complexity of “servers” (don’t get me wrong, federation is the way to go IMHO, but it is confusing to non-technical users)
    • Lack of content
    • Lack of users

    Everybody is talking about the Digg exodus, but nobody is saying that it didn’t happen in a day, it took ~1 to 2 years.

    • C3ltic@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The complexity of “servers” (don’t get me wrong, federation is the way to go IMHO, but it is confusing to non-technical users)

      I’ll admit the technical stuff is probably the most off-putting. Most major social media got where it is by being idiot proof. The whole set-up will need to be much more streamlined if they want to really dip into Reddits user base.

      • Daniel Jackson@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I think the solution is a central registration which selects a random server from https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

        For example, join-lemmy.org should do this, IMHO, without any technicality. Just transparently register to random server, with a curated cross-servers pre-selected list of subscriptions. Once users are distributed across servers, people will just recommend friends/family to join their own server, then the centralization of join-lemmy.org won’t become an issue. But I might be utopian.