I visit /r/Redditalternatives almost daily to suggest Lemmy to people looking for an alternative.
That sub is very quiet. My conclusion is that most of the people are happy with using current Reddit, be it with revanced mobile clients, or old.reddit on mobile.
Case in hand, Discuit.net, a centralized, easy to sign up website, has less than 200 weekly commenters. Lemmy has 42000 monthly active users.
That's probably how many people are actually interested in using a Reddit alternative. It's similar to the WhatsApp to Signal migration. The vast majority of the population does not care.
The key takeaway is that Picard_Maneuver, PugJesus, others and myself now try to post to !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com rather than the midwest.social version due to some powertripping on the admin.
You can have a look at other comments for details.
Unfortunately there was some miscommunication in this issue and we failed to get to the root cause. In fact the Lemmy backend has an option to delete all content when an account is deleted. This used to be the default behaviour but was changed in 0.19 so you need to set a parameter delete_content. We failed to add a checkbox for this parameter to lemmy-ui.
However the checkbox is added now in #2385 and will be included in the next Lemmy release. Other frontends and clients may also need to adjust the delete_account api call.
What a silly remark. Yeah, of course (percentage-wise) they slowed down. Do you think that would see 190% growth every month?
You were saying "one million every week". They hit 25 million users on 13 December. We are 4 weeks later, they still haven't reached 27 millions. Not sure why using the actual numbers is considered silly.
You are talking about the symptoms, but you are ignoring the diagnostic. The reason that Bluesky has a superior product at the moment is because they HAVE MONEY. They can go and hire people, they can invest in infrastructure, they can spend on marketing, they can go cut out deals with other service providers.
Bsky having money gives them an advantage, nobody is denying that. But Mastodon had a huge opportunity the first time Musk messed up with Twitter. They were never able to create an easy enough to use solution for people to jump over, especially when microblogging relies on "high profile" posters. If Mastodon had managed to solve the discoverability issue, and convince people that it's as easy to use as Twitter, the outcome could have been different. We'll never know.
The format of “popular social media” may change, but the fact that people will always have an interest in consuming, creating and sharing content will always be there.
How do you plan to host video content at scale in a federated way? And if your answer is "make every teenager pay 5€ per month to get access to the network", you'll never get adoption.
At the end, that's an unfair competition. We are competing with actors who can sell data and ads to make money. Most users don't care. Those platforms make money, get more users thanks to the network effect.
You really think those 3 servers would be enough if all of reddit decided to migrate?
All of Reddit is not going to migrate at the same time, that was June 2023. Nowadays, only a few people are interested enough to leave to have a look at subs like /r/Redditalternatives. Those few people can join those two servers without issue.
Should a massive migration occur, we could reassess, but that would be a "nice problem" to have
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I visit /r/Redditalternatives almost daily to suggest Lemmy to people looking for an alternative.
That sub is very quiet. My conclusion is that most of the people are happy with using current Reddit, be it with revanced mobile clients, or old.reddit on mobile.
Case in hand, Discuit.net, a centralized, easy to sign up website, has less than 200 weekly commenters. Lemmy has 42000 monthly active users.
That's probably how many people are actually interested in using a Reddit alternative. It's similar to the WhatsApp to Signal migration. The vast majority of the population does not care.