I think the no third party apps on Reddit is the best thing ever for fediverse - even if I wanted to return, I can’t :)

I feel like if you go through the effort of learning about and registering in the fediverse you have a higher chance of staying just because of the invested time.

I’m currently not interested in going back to Reddit but “quantity has a quality of its own”. Yeah there were bad spots on Reddit, but so many well developed communities, and most niches found enough people for regular activity. I have yet to find anything like r/askHistorians anywhere. r/CastIron was active an interesting , vs practically dead here, etc

I think Lemmy specifically doesn’t fall victim to the issue of certain news agencies and personalities being exclusive to the platform as much as Mastodon does with Twitter. You can get the same news here as long as someone is there to post it, but that’s where Lemmy is a bit behind at the moment: we haven’t hit that critical mass of users such that smaller communities have enough content to sustain themselves. Maybe the platform isn’t ready for all those people quite yet either; I think the software has a little maturing to do before mass adoption would happen.

I know I’m definitely not going back to Reddit. Ever since I found and joined Lemmy, I’ve been happier than I was on Reddit.

According to numbers shown on https://fedidb.org it basically already has. Monthly Active Users is only about 17% of total users.

This kind of retention rate is not uncommon in free social services.

I think thread’s number of users was because of how much instagram has made it’s name in the social media market. A lot of the users were there because it was new so the larger userbase was already weak. On the fediverse however, you (at least right now) have to put in a little bit of effort to learn about federation, clients, services etc. It’s there as an alternative to the bigger players rather than a polished packaged shitbox by them.

As @ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world said, they will be there because of the invested time. I personally like it because it gives me close, tightly knit little communities on the web.

I think social media is going to be in freefall for the next year or two until a new platform rises above the rest, and I don’t think it will be any of the current ones.

Lemmy, kbin, and mastodon are kinda crap and basically help up on a ideal that will equally hold them back. None of us want to be here, we just don’t want to be THERE either. The fediverse might take off, but these iterations are just a stopgap between more user friendly and successful platforms.

Tildes is a little light on content and somewhat elitist, it’s the most reddit-like platform but it’s also a walled garden and doesn’t want to be anything else.

Twitter is a dumpster fire but everyone is too entrenched to leave it, Threads is shackled to Insta and Facebook so most people don’t want to commit to that ecosystem and give Zuck more of their privacy than they already might have.

Reddit lost its soul, I think everyone is more wary of it now and just expect it to continue to get worse and farther from what we all used to enjoy it for.

I think the majority of people who spend a considerable amount of time online are going to bounce around between all platforms instead of primarily using one until a new Core platform pops up to fill the void.

It’s probably healthy for us to be fragmented for a while though.

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What is threads, never heard of it

It’ll be 90% by then.

tommorow’s post title: Threads Has Lost More Than 85% of Its Daily Active Users

He’s a robot.

I’d like to see similar data for Lemmy usage, before and after the Reddit fiasco. How big was the bump from Reddit? How quickly did it peak after the initial excitement? How many stayed?

it didn’t even come out with a following feed

Wait, what? You don’t have a feed of accounts you follow?

heres thr thing about us, we are 100% in a golden era of lemmy before corporations, bots, and dumbasses who shouldnt be able to vote come. the quality, kindness, and general common sense of the average lemmy user is bound to hurdle eventually. look at reddit for godsake people are openly pedophilic there. the userbase here generally is filtered by those with the motivation to join a foss network / know-how. moderation, botchecking, etc. doesnt need to be hard cause it isnt yet an issue but it will become one and the experience will decline. i suggest federating by time of user creation lmfao

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Duh, but also the app is literally titled “Threads, an Instagram app”. Using the proper name and not the singular word names Instagram.

It’s stupid, but it’s Zuckerberg’s stupid. Also there’s a ton of people helping run the business, it’s just an ad business, not a social media one.

Sheryl Sandburg was hugely influential at Facebook, the part of the business that prints money is largely her doing (she took the Google model over there and removed every limitation).

Unless Google goes down, free internet doesn’t have a great outlook.

You do understand that Meta actually releases a ton of FOSS right? The LLM API that most machine learning algorithms use is based off Meta’s open sourced language model. I don’t like Meta as much as the next guy, but they do SOME good things every once in a while.

The problem with Twitter is that it’s slowly turning to a pile of crap. The amount of spam & NSFW gallore has been wrecking havoc on the platform.

You mention any company that deals with finance and soon your tweet is bombarded with these spams and more. Makes it very difficult to use now.