100% of online respondents have confirmed they have access to internet.

Because there is no advertisement for it? Thing is, if you don't go actively looking for a Reddit Alternative, chance is you will never have heard of Lemmy. At least, that was the case for me.

99% of non-lemmy users give up right before they start using lemmy

I just assumed it was named after Lemmy Kilmister 😂

Mastodon doesn’t really have those types of algorithms, it’s all just the people you follow in the order they posted, like Twitter in 2008

Because there are a bunch of people on here that have a problem when you don't have the shit of the world on your mind 24/7.

Hi. I'm Nobody.

Oh, hi Odysseus.

why does this matter.

No. You're just some guy.

I kind of like this level of people as lemmy is less saturated and that's a good thing. Quite often when I was on reddit you'd look at a thread and everything that can be said has been said, so there's nothing new you can add.

I find myself commenting on lemmy a lot more because it's not saturated and that pun hasn't been done, the perspective hasn't been provided, the counterpoint to another comment hasn't been commented etc.

As long as instance owners moderate, the trashy people will be forced too flock to instances that allow that type of behavior and then we can block those instances individually.

I left Reddit because of how the moderators got pissed on, not the community. I just never went to /r/popular and enjoyed my life. My mod tools were removed from me and I can't be assed to get their shitty app. I'd rather put my time somewhere that I'm not being used for free labor while also being sold as a product.

definitely, it would help setup default subscriptions, and even default blocks would be very nice

yea the tiered/hierarchical moderation is a great feature, if an instance sucks then it will get defederated or at least blocked by users (or even as a default block for new users that can be removed on a per-user basis in their settings)

Hidden from Google search results

They keep blocking me on VPN. I do NOT use Reddit. I can browse stuff on VPN but I can't post. Piefed hasn't started doing that, least not the instance I use. May change in the future...

1. If you are just a basic prole who wants to use a forum and discuss today's issues, Lemmy seems to be a smaller version Reddit. How does it stand out?

2. The name is awful. Twitter grew regardless of the name, so maybe this point is dumb. Also, avatar looks like a rat.

3. Rainbow. If you want more users, expand your market. Rainbow in USA means Democrat LGB. Would you like more Christians and Muslims to join? Hindu?

4. I'm a moron, not a programmer... but wouldn't a lot more users destroy Lemmy? From my reading of what other smarter people have said, too much growth would lead to exponential costs and isn't really feasible. I am not well read on this topic, so apologies.

I would guess that the founders made these design decisions to exclude normies, maybe that's also why they picked the name and selected the rat icon. In which case, everything is working as designed and all is well.

rainbow means democrat LGB

You’re missing letter there

It is

People have lots of excuses for not using Lemmy. If I had to come up with one, I would say first impressions. The design / UI is not the greatest. It works, but it’s not the greatest.

Lemmy say that this whole "name dumb" thing is idiotic and completely subjective anyway. You should really go outside and take a look at the names of products people use.

The main issue with reddit, as with every other large platform is the quality of the people using it. They are made worse by the platform itself, but the platform would not be able to be so bad, if the people were not predominantly trash.

Don't forget about the cats!

Bag 'm and tag 'm folks, get this psychopath out of here. If we allow this, what's next? We'll allow people who use friendica?

Im glad bots dont use lemmy as they do reddit.

For something to be popular, you have to turn it on and you're using it.

That will always be the biggest issue.

I'm with you. I also come from the Usenet days and much prefer to follow topics over people.

I do have some web forums that I visit from time to time but those have even less traffic than Lemmy.

I don't use Reddit at all now, so Lemmy is pretty much the only option for this style of topic based content. The ability to follow hashtags on Mastodon is kind of nice too. Unfortunately, people spamming unrelated hashtags on their posts can still be a problem.

I think there are a lot of people who would use lemmy and enjoy using lemmy but just dont know about it. As an old reddit user I found the whole thing a bit confusing at first but after a few days it was fine. Lemmy is leagues above other reddit alternatives.

Quadruple moderation.
Moderation is waay waay worse on lemmy

https://lemmy.world/post/51345527.

Basically this. Quadruple moderation on lemmy is stupid.
Reddit agents easily ban content and active contributors

How does the topic consolidation work, exactly? Does it only consolidate cross-posts, or does it also consolidate all posts from communities that have exactly the same name? The only documentation I can find is at https://join.piefed.social/features/ which just says:

Consolidated Comments – View all comments from multiple related posts on one page (example).

I don't like the way they said it, but I do see their point.

I don't get banned from places often, but I've literally had a guy just decide they didn't like my face and ban me from an instance.

And people 100% do sometimes act like you have to be completely in their comfort zone or you're a terrible person.

If I had to guess: the culture here seems unusual, and unwelcoming — sometimes even hostile — to diverse opinions (i.e. people who aren't similarly unusual).

I haven't met many people IRL who would fit in here. For some visitors, that's okay (I don't fit in here, myself), but I think most people would just move along and forget that Lemmy exists.

Being federated, Lemmy is technically capable of being more diverse. It's a bit ironic that it still ended up being like this.

Also, some images don't load. I just ignore those, but still people might be put off by broken UX

What would you consider "the greatest"?

A lot of us are sick of it, too. Not happy about being stuck on this ride.

This is a great point and it does speak to the Fediverse being more resilient for sure. I still do not wish for numbers like Reddit has, somehow life uh... finds a way (to make everything shit).

Having seen and experienced the different platforms, I'd say Facebook and Twitter/X have much larger userbases but vulnerable to manipulation, while Reddit is supposedly for people believing themselves to be "smarter" and above those social media platforms, and then Lemmy and Mastadon definitely more niche and heavily on the activist progressive side.

Me too! It's interesting how different they all are.

I use Lemmy and Mastodon, so I'm not really a great person to ask.

But I think all federated platforms have branding issues. "You should use Lemmy." What does this mean exactly? What site do you join? What app do you download on the phone?

Been on Mastodon for several years. Just now trying Lemmy.

A lot of people do use Lemmy. I dont get why so many people think something has to have literally everyone on earth using it or its dead. You see the same thing in games, too. Id rather there not be a singular monolirh even with lemmys fediverse design. The internet was better when it wasnt this way.

I dunno about that... aren't there hundreds of thousands that gave up after seeing what Lemmy is all about?

No, you're confusing partially subjective with completely subjective and the two are vastly different.

I agree, Reddit's name isn't why people use it, but critically it doesn't hold people back from using it.

Reddit is a satisfying enough word, doesn't disparage it's users or sound like a childish joke, and doesn't conjure images of rats or rodents.

I don't love it but it is a much better name than Lemmy.

who am I? am I nobody? ...yeah I guess I kinda am

Exactly. Be grateful that all of reddit is not here.

About the images thing: half the posts on reddit are just [content removed by moderator] when you click into them

I haven't logged into my bluesky account since like ages. Mainly because I'm using my real Identity there, which I'm not comfortable with talking online. I love anonymity. I speak a little more off my mind because I'm anonymous.

Boiling it down to 3 things:

1. Content Scale & Variety - Lemmy has a lot of content but it's very tech/political heavy. It doesn't have much to offer outside of that domain. Meanwhile, there's a whole shitposting subreddit dedicated to an NFL conference -- I don't even closely follow professional American football, but it's glorious.
2. User Experience Friction - You can't just sign up, you need to pick a server. You've already lost a significant amount of people in that step.
3. User Base - There's nice folks on here, but some really sour the experience for the rest of us by being straight up hostile if we don't agree on every little detail.

From what I've heard of more technical people on here while lurking discussions, Lemmy isn't scalable.

If everyone from Reddit were to move over to Lemmy, we'd be in big trouble.