It would be good I think but it would mean server hosting requirements would skyrocket or small instances would need to really think about which instances to network with.
Yes and no. It’s more I want the big socials to have competition and shrink
Do we want it to grow to the size of traditional social media?
I want people here, not US politicians, the Pringles social media account and three bots.
It’s possible, but I don’t hope for it. There are tradeoffs for everything. The more the population expands, the more content, yes, but the number of negative encounters goes up too.
I’m good with where it’s at now, but do recognize that I’m not necessarily average because I don’t stay on my phone for extended periods.
Don’t put that evil on me Ricky Bobby
Realistic? Yes. Especially since Reddit is going far down the fascist rabbit hole gargling those Trump balls while allowing power tripping mods to dictate everything.
Desired? No. As the bigger Lemmy gets, the more likely enshittification will happen.
Considering piefed launched a bunch of people went there… No I don’t think so.
Could the fediverse? Yes I hope!
If it becomes like the others, I’ll just move on again.
I like how left Lemmy is and, as a result there’s a lot less dickheads.
…apart from me of course
Be careful what you wish for.
I don’t know that I’d call it a hope personally: Any place that gets really big starts to get shitty too (see Digg, Reddit, etc.) . Federated stuff might be more resistant to the effects, but it is not completely immune.
That said, I think the Fediverse in general stands a chance to really take off with the general public, it may or may not be Lemmy that is the platform that does it.
No, because it takes slightly more effort to understand and interact with than centralized social media without the firehouse of content.
I liked the variety and sheer volume of content on the other one, but I have had a lot less of those horrible interactions on Lemmy. I kind of like it being small town.
I would like to stop being banned arbitrarily for “ban evasion” when I was never banned in the first place. That hasn’t happened here yet lol…
The bizarre hostility of Reddit users is baffling. It’s like they’ve never interacted with a human being in real life and have no idea how to process an opinion that isn’t a 1:1 match of their own.
You could say something like “I love waffles! :D” and get a response that is like “Oh, so you hate pancakes then? Wow, you didn’t need to shit on every person that loves pancakes.”
Precisely this. The more people come here, the more of the judgemental shitheads are going to come too. I’ve encountered a few on here already but nothing like back there.
I’ve also yet to come across censorship favoring fascists here.
There are downsides to small-town life, though. Some of my views don’t match the ones that are prevalent here, so I either end up getting hammered with downvotes or self-censoring when certain topics of discussion come up. And unlike Reddit it’s not a big and diverse enough place that I can just go find a sub-community that is more tolerant.
I’ve definitely seen more trolls and significantly more racist/transphobic people even in just the last few months which is worrying. Maybe it’s like Baader Meinhof effect cause I started tagging them, but it’s certainly frustrating because this site used to feel a lot more friendly.
The idea that some people may have me tagged makes me a little nervous, and feel like maybe I should behave a bit more.
Still cant help shitposting…
I’m gonna tag you as “unwilling tagee”
Also if it helps, I don’t only tag rude or racist people, I also tag people that say something I enjoy or makes me laugh so one day when I see them again I can give them a compliment.
I’ve tagged you as Chronic Tagger.
It’s not an equal comparison because there isn’t a single Lemmy. And I say that from a non-Lemmy account (Mbin), furthering the point. Most people from the Reddit migration probably came here because of the decentralization factor. Think of Lemmy and the rest as subreddits but without the domination of the main site. The best any community (subreddit) can do is decentralize other groups that they see as problematic, but that’s all that’s needed.
Imagine the Fediverse structure, but there was a single controller that any instance had to go through to filter external content, and had to obey when told to filter external content. It’s a new Reddit. The freedom for anyone to set up instances with whatever content or filtering they want makes it totally different. But to the point asked, that’s why you can’t talk about Lemmy in a singular manner, it’s not one thing. And that’s good.
I wish decentralized platforms could be the future, but realistically, corporations hold the power and the momentum, and they will do everything they can to keep it that way. Even when one platform does enshittify too hard and die, users will go to the next corporate platform with the biggest advertising budget.
Still, I’ll do what I can to help build this corner up for those who want to try.
