• halfeatenpotato@lonestarlemmy.mooo.com
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      I clicked the wrong comment section and thought you were replying to this post

      Brooklyn woman sues Subway, claims Steak & Cheese sandwich in ad has ‘200% more meat’.

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    I see folks posting on Mastodon, griping that it’s failing, that it’ll never be as popular as Bluesky and Threads because of X and Y, and I’m like, I’m over there chatting to people all day, having a fine time, following new people, picking up new followers, and generally enjoying it more than I ever really enjoyed Twitter.

    I don’t really understand why those folks want it to be more than it is.

    “Oh, but there are no journalists!”

    Good? I don’t want endless ragebait posted in my feeds. I just wanna be chill, share music recommendations, and enjoy more people interacting with my radio show than ever did on Twitter.

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      “Oh, but there are no journalists!”

      Good? I don’t want endless ragebait posted in my feeds.

      I don’t think that’s the kind of “journalism” your strawman desires.

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      Honestly I find it a little weird that Lemmy is so pro-Mastodon. Like a lot of people when the twitter implosion started I went and parked a username on a few potential replacements. And like a lot of people, when I saw that mastodon was all little specific instances, I didn’t bother because the whole point of twitter is that it’s a big public thing with everybody and everything. I haven’t really seen anybody outside of Lemmy mention mastodon in months. Everyone is going to bluesky.

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        It’s not that weird, given that they’re both examples of Fediverse software that can (in theory, though not well in practice) interact with each other.

        As for Masto being separate instances; I’ve never really had a problem with that. Follow a bunch of people from different servers and you’ll soon begin to federate and link up with other people.

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          It’s just a completely different use case. It may or may not continue to exist on its own but it will never replace twitter because it does not have the core thing that makes twitter special among social media (the fact that it is essentially “public”). “A bunch of small communities of nerds talking about niche topics” is something you can find friggin anywhere on the internet.

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    I don’t care, I just want a nice place to wander, nothing is forever, but the longer, the better, regardless of popularity

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      I was gonna say I think I liked reddit more before the digg folks came. Maybe Lemmy is right where it should be.

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      Right now, it’s definitely a good thing it’s not popular. We are not in any way shape or form ready for the spam that popular platforms receive.

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      It’s definitely a good thing. If someone wants to be on the popular platform go back to Reddit or Twitter. That’s what most people want. The Fediverse is the minority that wants something different.

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        I think a lot of people would like the idea of decentralized social media in principle but most of them just want to download an app on their iPhone and get going instead of learning anything.

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        I’d argue plenty of people are simply not aware such alternatives even exist, and don’t bother researching.

        Internet could be a different place if more people cared.

        With that said, even then we’d probably be in a minority.

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    I don’t want it to be popular. I want to have a good conversation, in the communities i choose to participate in, and that’s exactly what I found

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    I honestly can’t understand why most of the popular social media providers are popular. But, if that’s what it takes, could we not?

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    Lemmy doesn’t have to be Reddit. Lemmy is Lemmy. Keep coming here and giving it content and it will be all it will ever need to be.

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    We need to make it popular against all corporate forces like meta, X, bluesky etc. By creating more content and interacting with it more.

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    The Fediverse is only gonna get better. The other ones will all come and go.

    In some number of years after another social media debacle or two, once the Fediverse has had some time to ditch its FOSS clunkiness, it’ll be game over for anything else.

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    It’s popular enough for me already. I kind of hope it doesn’t become the online site because that will just attract trolls.

    I’ve also been using Trust Café (aka WT.Social) but I like the Lemmy UI a lot better.