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Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit?
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this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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LW is already the largest community by far, to a point where geographically distant communities cannot stay synchronized
That is a software problem, I thought you guys were all computer experts.
If world wasn't so big, it would have probably not even been noticed, now it is hopefully getting fixed with the next update, if I understood that right.
Federation works waaay better than when the big reddit influx happened, that was kinda disappointing and I'm glad Lemmy will be prepared better for the next wave.
It's also a governance problem as well.
If a billionaire buys LW tomorrow for a few millions because they host most of the Lemmy active communities and users, and prevent instance migration overnight, how many users are going to go through the hassle of creating new accounts from scratch, create new communities? That could kill the platform, with the LW starting to show ads and only being compatible with an enshitiffied app, so most users would probably go back to Reddit.
Also, there has been some concerning behaviour from LW mods, which know they can just go with it as people are already on their communities and are not going to move: https://lemmy.world/post/20947890?scrollToComments=true
lol that is a new one.
Would you look at that, a mod of a big community for heated discussion said or did something that people took offence to. Surely must be the instance's fault, would not happen anywhere else.
Fair. I don't agree with most of your points, but you make a good argument.
I still think we over prioritize decentralization. Federation is important, but's not a primary feature to be sold to users. It's not because we need a thousand instances. It's so that if Gmail gets too enshittified that we have another email option.
World is where the activity is, and you do a reasonable job of balancing that.
It depends.
!movies@lemm.ee is more active than !movies@lemmy.world in monthly active users.
Same for !showsandmovies@lemm.ee and !television@lemmy.world, which also doesn't have any moderator besides bot accounts.
You are doing a good job there, also with advertising the community, but I'll say again that the world community looks more healthy to me, it's a variety of different users posting there, while the ee one consists half of emperors and your effort to try and force this, actually it is only three topics that have been created by non moderators on the first page.