• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    7 days ago

    I’m not certain that’s true anymore. The early times of the rexxodus were something else. Most of the people doing outreach are not suggesting L.W anymore and power users like blaze are constantly agitating to move comms away. Plus the fact that the mod team of l.w. is rapidly losing quality and trust is also pushing more and more people away. I just don’t think L.W. hoovers everyone anymore. The paradigm has changed. In fact lemmy as a whole is not gaining as many users as piefed.

    And if that were true and people defaulted to l.w. right now, defederating would be even worse, as these wouldn’t even know we exist.

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        6 days ago

        Reddit and Xitter has shown us that humans are extremely “sticky” creatures unfortunately. It takes a lot of effort and pain to get people to change their habits.

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      I am recently new to Lemmy as a whole. I didn’t understand what federation meant or how different instances worked and my first instance was .world. It was not a great experience and nearly turned me away from Lemmy as a whole because it seemed just as bad and corrupt as Reddit (although, with less bots.) Someone explained to me how it worked and convinced me to go to a different instance. I think if I had come to a different instance in the first place, I wouldn’t have had that experience. I wonder how many people were like me and weren’t lucky enough to have someone tell them to just move?