• HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    99·
    2 days ago

    There seems to be a neverending supply of complaints about the size and reach of the Fediverse and I’m just sitting here thinking this is about all the attention I’d like it to ever get. This is fucking nice. Doesn’t monopolize your whole day, always has at least some fresh content, users are free with the upvotes and discourse is downright civil most of the time. Does anybody really want this place to be like Reddit or Instagram?

    • bridgeburner@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      It should not get like Reddit, but I still wish for more users so that some more specific “subreddits” (what’s the term used here on Lemmy?) are getting more users and more posts.

        • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          1 day ago

          I just call them categories, cause with out exception. The terminology in use is basically stupid as fuck

          Lemmy and the entire system is basically just a over grown overly complicated for no reason forum.

          Each host is just a board, with a bunch of categories in it.

          Its fancy they can talk to each other. But frankly it’s almost too much and kinda dumb. Really the whole concept federation feels like a shitty long term idea that’s gonna fucking implode at some point.

          Instead of just a reliable known and useful format we took it, beat it half to fucking death and then shoved an unholy abomination into said corpse.

          Basically every open source social media platform is the same damn thing. Its just taking a corpo centralized system, attempting to decentralize it only to realize it’s just a clone of a older thing we had before the corpo centralization showed up. But everyone WANTS the corpo centralized system just with out the corpo. So we ignore the fact that the older system exists and it would be better to make a modernized version of that instead of a hack job of the centralized system.

          But logical is never been and never will be the thing that happens in reality I find.

      • zebidiah@lemmy.ca
        3·
        1 day ago

        Have you considered more fediverse to make up for that shortfall?

        If I run out of things on Lemmy that interest me, I switch gears to mastadon… If I’m getting tired of that shit, there’s pixelfed

        With a lot of these new, non-algo driven sites you only see what you sign up for, so whatever kind of mood I was feeling the day I signed up, will influence how the site works for the first few months until it normalizes, and you find all your communities. i.e. my mastadon feed is chock a block FULL of self hosting Linux nerds, AND ITS AWESOME!

        the biggest gap still seems to be sports though, especially niche sports (I live breath and sleep MotoGP, and there ain’t shit about MotoGP on Lemmy lol)

    • SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml
      14·
      2 days ago

      It’s unironically the meme of Donald Glover showing up with pizza and everything is on fire, every time I go on instagram.

    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      Anyone who was on ultra early reddit like I was knows the fediverse is like Reddit, very early Reddit, it was great, this is great.

    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      2 days ago

      I’d been using Instagram as my scrapbook of neat things I’ve done/made for several years. Mainly it’s for my own personal enjoyment but I left it public because artist types like showing off I guess. Anyway, I accidentally made a post that went mildly viral, 300k views and 8k likes, and it pretty much took the fun out of it for me. I guess I didn’t really want an audience, I just wanted to look in the river like Narcissus. Now everytime I glance I get a notification that ripples my reflection.

      I caught the tiger by the tail. What a world.

    • EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml
      6·
      2 days ago

      I don’t know Hal…ima banned Redfugee and I really do miss some specific subs. I’d like to see us grow just big enough to be what Reddit was (as far as niche communities) during its first 5-10 years.

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
      4·
      2 days ago

      Same exactly. I love this squirrelly little place. Reddit was great before it got huge and gentrified by bots, too. It’s been trash for a decade.

      I like your user name, too.

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
    39·
    2 days ago

    I get waaay more comments and replies on my posts here than I ever did on reddit around the API situation.

    There’s less people here, but your comments aren’t buried, and my posts are much much less likely to be removed by power tripping mods. (I’ve had posts about Stop Killing Games removed from the popular reddit gaming subreddits).

    This place is way nicer to interact with by far.

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    I don’t bother posting the content (porn, but silly) I create here

    On reddit, it gets a lot of traction

    I don’t care about the imaginary internet points, I like it when my fans tell me that they got a laugh from it

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        Great idea but there’s a reason why people have a hard time getting the GIF train rolling

        #1 being that GIF is turning into an ancient internet image standard that is sort of kinda maybe adopted and supported … it was supposed to be retired because it was an old format but it is surviving because of some strange attachment we all have to this format … and any site that offers to host a GIF is often technically not really hosting a GIF but instead a WEBM masked as a GIF … because to host an actual GIF, like the one from the top post of the highqualitygifs community … you have to load a 47MB GIF file from an image website (the same video file for the same or better quality could be contained in a WEBM or MP4 for about 4MB). (Don’t get me started on the whole WEBM / MP4 open source debate) The problems start in first creating the GIF file and to make it as high quality as possible while minimizing its file size … GIF is not very efficient are reducing file size … and whatever blood sacrifice, chicken entrails black magic you can conjure in order to make a great looking video file as small as possible and save it as a GIF is a dying art … and even once you get that magical GIF, you have to find a good hosting service to carry it and display it while also not severely altering it or rerendering it in whatever format is suitable to them because every platform has their own peculiar way of hosting a GIF … and then you run into the issue of which hosting site renders or displays a GIF is compatible with the fediverse platform you want to display it on and whether or not it will get displayed on the website browser or on a phone app (and also which app) or both or neither.

        I tried creating GIFs before and it is like pulling teeth from an epileptic shark … and creating it is only the first step … finding a way to have it uploaded and displayed properly on as many platforms and services as possible is akin to trying to pet a rabid hyena.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    13·
    2 days ago

    No, this isn’t right. Fediverse is on the edge of the pool, just getting feet wet. That’s a pre-Reddit user on a platform long gone.

  • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
    1·
    1 day ago

    I would rather use Reddit than Instagram. Holy shit have you tried to see your friends posts on IG lately? You can’t.

  • Sergio@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Put a label that says “ADVERTISERS” across the adult, and you’ve got something going.