I don’t know that there ever will be a wave of casual users like Reddit and Digg have. This space is filled with substantially more aggressive people than either of those spaces while simultaneously lacking the community of a range of fields that was the original draw for those sites.
I was referring to Linux nerds, piracy anarchists, privacy/foss fanatics, etc. All of which are great, but may scare off new users.
Tankies are definitely a bit of a problem, although they usually stick to their own instances. Luckily I haven’t encountered much if any racism on here. Where are you seeing it?
Im blocking people here daily for being racists. It’s really odd how much racism I see here. It’s not as bad as Voat was but I wouldn’t casually suggest most check this place out.
Im not sure what you are expecting here. Repeating racist statements isn’t something I think is beneficial andI have explained elsewhere in this thread the nature of the racism I see.
IDK, people will probably eventually leave Reddit, as they left Digg and Myspace and many others. Where would they go aside from the Fediverse? Almost all new alternatives being built are using the Fediverse, and it’s the only way to get more than 1000 users currently.
It might not be Lemmy, it might even be a platform that doesn’t exist yet, but they’ll be here in the Fediverse with us.
Most platforms die or never catch on at all, but the Fediverse allows the platforms to rotate in and out without losing the users or content.
Well yeah some of the people, but I think the majority (or at least a large portion of them) will want a similar alternative to switch to, along with an entirely new generation of people
I half agree but also I think with every extra step reddit takes like banning people for upvoting posts that mention Luigi we see more people interested in a freer alternative.
What lemmy needs is some new use cases reddit doesn’t have, I’ve been thinking about making an adversary debate platform that basically just offers a different format to a thread designed to make understanding events easier. Also I want to try making gamified chat modes where the main image is altered based on agreement or disagreement in the thread, basically an info graphic of the thread.
I’d love to make some game experiences on it too, I was thinking of a similar collaborative experience where user interactions in the thread alter the main image gameboard - would be great to use the existing floss infrastructure to make something open and fun.
I don’t know that there ever will be a wave of casual users like Reddit and Digg have. This space is filled with substantially more aggressive people than either of those spaces while simultaneously lacking the community of a range of fields that was the original draw for those sites.
The average comment on Reddit seems more aggressive than the one on Lemmy. Of course, depends on the community
I think there are more “intense” people here (in a good way), but reddit can more aggressive and negative in general on the big subreddits.
I don’t think it is in a good way. Im blocking a LOT of racists here especially racist tankies.
I was referring to Linux nerds, piracy anarchists, privacy/foss fanatics, etc. All of which are great, but may scare off new users.
Tankies are definitely a bit of a problem, although they usually stick to their own instances. Luckily I haven’t encountered much if any racism on here. Where are you seeing it?
All over this place. Most often it’s people who consistently highlight the race they presume the other person to be while attacking them.
Im blocking people here daily for being racists. It’s really odd how much racism I see here. It’s not as bad as Voat was but I wouldn’t casually suggest most check this place out.
Any recent example?
I report it and move on. Im not looking to highlight it here.
Okay
Im not sure what you are expecting here. Repeating racist statements isn’t something I think is beneficial andI have explained elsewhere in this thread the nature of the racism I see.
I think that due to reddits size, individual people had less overall work to do blocking bad actors.
IDK, people will probably eventually leave Reddit, as they left Digg and Myspace and many others. Where would they go aside from the Fediverse? Almost all new alternatives being built are using the Fediverse, and it’s the only way to get more than 1000 users currently.
It might not be Lemmy, it might even be a platform that doesn’t exist yet, but they’ll be here in the Fediverse with us.
Most platforms die or never catch on at all, but the Fediverse allows the platforms to rotate in and out without losing the users or content.
There’s no reason to believe they will move on to another version of reddit. There’s no reason to believe they will interact with the fediverse.
They could simply stop browsing news aggregators
Well yeah some of the people, but I think the majority (or at least a large portion of them) will want a similar alternative to switch to, along with an entirely new generation of people
I half agree but also I think with every extra step reddit takes like banning people for upvoting posts that mention Luigi we see more people interested in a freer alternative.
What lemmy needs is some new use cases reddit doesn’t have, I’ve been thinking about making an adversary debate platform that basically just offers a different format to a thread designed to make understanding events easier. Also I want to try making gamified chat modes where the main image is altered based on agreement or disagreement in the thread, basically an info graphic of the thread.
I’d love to make some game experiences on it too, I was thinking of a similar collaborative experience where user interactions in the thread alter the main image gameboard - would be great to use the existing floss infrastructure to make something open and fun.