I think this place is too fragmented into instances to ever generate a front page anywhere near what r/all is.

If I understand this page right, https://lemm.ee will never show the top post of the day from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/, https://discuss.tchncs.de/, or https://feddit.uk/.

And the “front page/general” site is already split into several instances (https://vlemmy.net/, https://lemmy.world/, https://sh.itjust.works/, https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/ and https://lemmy.one/, all claiming to be “a general front page lemmy instance”)

So what’s the deal, which one are we betting on as the place to direct all the new traffic? What’s the contender for primary public internet bulletin board? Right now the arrow to an alternative is looking like this: https://i.imgur.com/L1XsBy6.pngd

I’m personally guessing the conclusion is already reached; We have no place we’re betting on. We’re disinterested in pushing for any particular result. We don’t expect people to migrate. Many might not even want them to.

  • TexMexBazooka@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Do you understand how Lemmy-and the fediverse in a broader sense-works exactly? It doesn’t need to compete head to head with reddit. See, back in ye olden days, reddit had a somewhat higher barrier to entry and catered to people who were more technically minded and moving away from increasingly commercialized social media platforms.

    Does this sound familiar?

    Lemmy has a long way to go, but coming in here and waving the white flag after less than a week is a little foolish.

    • Comment105@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      01·
      2 years ago

      Lemmy has a long way to go, but coming in here and waving the white flag after less than a week is a little foolish.

      Be honest with yourself. If lemmy was an attractive alternative, you would’ve seen much more rapid growth these last couple days. Lemmy simply wasn’t ready for prime-time when this opportunity arose, maybe it will be later.

      I’ll leave this here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/149cna4/like_all_blowups_on_reddit_this_one_will_pass_as/jo4ebot/

      A fun thing to point out is that this little comment has more engagement than almost every post on Lemmy. All but 10.

      • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        If lemmy was an attractive alternative, you would’ve seen much more rapid growth these last couple days.

        This didn’t age well ;)

      • TexMexBazooka@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        Be honest with yourself. If lemmy was an attractive alternative, you would’ve seen much more rapid growth these last couple days. Lemmy simply wasn’t ready for prime-time when this opportunity arose, maybe it will be later.

        Compared to the amount of traffic before people started migrating it’s doing exponentially better than it was prior lol. The fact of the matter is lemmy takes a little bit to fully understand, so there will be a barrier to entry that only early adopters will get over. Growth will be slow for sure, and lemmy might not take off. But the Fediverse as a whole seems to be the Internet’s response to a increasingly corporate run social media environment.

        A fun thing to point out is that this little comment has more engagement than almost every post on Lemmy. All but 10.

        You have no idea how Lemmy works

        • Comment105@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          01·
          2 years ago

          Go tell those spergs over there how Lemmy works, and see if that convinces them to change their mind.

          The results speak for themselves, this is a bad new user experience and will need thorough consideration and clever restructuring. I think you’re too satisfied with the fact that it’s functional at all.

          The Fediverse won’t be any kind of meaningful response to corporate social media until you stop being satisfied with just the front row audience.