Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?

  • HousePanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com
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    1 year ago

    The goals of federated social media and corporate social media. Unlike siloed corporate social media, the fediverse platforms are not meant to compete with one another for being the ‘top dog’ so to speak. The idea is just diversity amongst the platforms and different options for people with different preferences. Since the fediverse is not concerned with revenue or appealing to a venture capitalist, competition is unimportant and I hope it stays that way.

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      1 year ago

      The more users the more content there is though which is ultimately what I want as a user.

      This is even more important for more niche communities a lot of which are still very quiet/dead/non-existent on Lemmy relative to reddit.

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        1 year ago

        Having been part of a couple of subs take off, the key is to engage yourself. If a sub starts or you start it, add content that’s authentic and appropriate and then discuss things. Don’t force it but don’t let someone else do it either. It’s the only way. There were are a ton of dead subs at reddit too, usually because people stopped engaging for whatever reason.

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      In a way they do. At least the instances don’t compete, but the users do. Example, there could be a meme community on two instances. Users will probably gravitate towards one. The downside is that smaller communities get buried. Most of the smaller communities I’m subbed to on Lemmy don’t ever pop up in my hot/active. Reddit was a bit better I think and smaller/less active communities popped up in my front page more often and felt more balanced. I think the hot algo in Lemmy could be tweaked to be more balanced like that, would also help the competition.