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This is not going to be a blogpost about “Why do people still use Reddit instead of everyone moving to Lemmy?”. I noticed that even with Mastodon users, who already understand and like the advantages of decentralized platforms, the usage of Lemmy is extremely small, and more people use Reddit. Most of them haven’t even heard of Lemmy. To be fair, the Reddit usage also seems to be fairly low.

  • percent@infosec.pubEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    If I had to guess: the culture here seems unusual, and unwelcoming — sometimes even hostile — to diverse opinions (i.e. people who aren’t similarly unusual).

    I haven’t met many people IRL who would fit in here. For some visitors, that’s okay (I don’t fit in here, myself), but I think most people would just move along and forget that Lemmy exists.

    Being federated, Lemmy is technically capable of being more diverse. It’s a bit ironic that it still ended up being like this.

    Also, some images don’t load. I just ignore those, but still people might be put off by broken UX

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    6·
    5 hours ago

    People have lots of excuses for not using Lemmy. If I had to come up with one, I would say first impressions. The design / UI is not the greatest. It works, but it’s not the greatest.

  • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I think there are a lot of people who would use lemmy and enjoy using lemmy but just dont know about it. As an old reddit user I found the whole thing a bit confusing at first but after a few days it was fine. Lemmy is leagues above other reddit alternatives.

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    For something to be popular, you have to turn it on and you’re using it.

    That will always be the biggest issue.

  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    7 hours ago

    I kind of like this level of people as lemmy is less saturated and that’s a good thing. Quite often when I was on reddit you’d look at a thread and everything that can be said has been said, so there’s nothing new you can add.

    I find myself commenting on lemmy a lot more because it’s not saturated and that pun hasn’t been done, the perspective hasn’t been provided, the counterpoint to another comment hasn’t been commented etc.

  • darthsundhaft@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    They keep blocking me on VPN. I do NOT use Reddit. I can browse stuff on VPN but I can’t post. Piefed hasn’t started doing that, least not the instance I use. May change in the future…

  • blackberry28@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    9 hours ago

    Because there is no advertisement for it? Thing is, if you don’t go actively looking for a Reddit Alternative, chance is you will never have heard of Lemmy. At least, that was the case for me.

  • dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    9 hours ago

    Because there are a bunch of people on here that have a problem when you don’t have the shit of the world on your mind 24/7.

  • RBWells@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    11 hours ago

    I was on Reddit a long time, it wasn’t always huge. Usenet forums before that. I like following topics, not people, and like hosting communities built around topics but would hate to have “followers” of myself personally, that sounds hellish. So never used Facebook, etc, and don’t even love Mastodon, really.

    But apparently this is a minority view?

    • EastofEdson@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      I’m with you. I also come from the Usenet days and much prefer to follow topics over people.

      I do have some web forums that I visit from time to time but those have even less traffic than Lemmy.

      I don’t use Reddit at all now, so Lemmy is pretty much the only option for this style of topic based content. The ability to follow hashtags on Mastodon is kind of nice too. Unfortunately, people spamming unrelated hashtags on their posts can still be a problem.