I mean have they seen how good Ice Cubes and Mlem look? How can they choose the default Twitter and Reddit apps over those masterpieces.
I mean have they seen how good Ice Cubes and Mlem look? How can they choose the default Twitter and Reddit apps over those masterpieces.
Lemmy doesn’t have much to offer compared to the “billionaire run” social media.
This is not entirely true, at least as phrased here.
So all of this is not “nothing”, even though yes it is also not “everything” either.
The quality of discussion is the exact same. Lemmy isn’t more elite, hell I’d say an average user is more angry in general than on reddit. As for the rest - a regular (non-power) user doesn’t care. The privacy angle is bogus - you can get everything you want by hosting your own instance. Even more so - things that should be private, aren’t (reports, upvotes). The only “good” thing is the modlog, but that is also debatable.
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.
Good point, if I just wanted to lurk reddit would be fine for that purpose. But the users are so wretchedly toxic that commenting is a no-go.
Voyager, Thunder and Arctic blow the Reddit app out of the water
The problem is that the app doesn’t mean much to people if it’s not serving up the content they want.
As you said elsewhere, chicken and egg problem