Asklemmy

Everybody else doing it.

More content. More diverse content. And more diverse users.

There really isn't a lot of posts. A significant portion of posts are from bots. Similarly, there aren't many comments.

It feels like most content is doomer news, politics, Linux, Star Trek, programming, or gaming related. And that's my jam. But it gets old after a while.

And of course it would help to have more diverse users. I know we aren't all the same, but Lemmy has a lot of software developers and left leaning folks with post secondary degrees.

People are "lazy" and only social, today. They want to log in, info dump, and not think.

Before the nadir of social media, when reddit and twitter were coming up, the people online were predominantly young millennials and new tech was exciting. That was a time where netizens were more curious and accepting of online platform learning challenges. In fact, if it was beta or even just more hands on and generally nerdy, that often made the platform more appealing. Then everything became standardized. Mega social media squashed innovative smaller fun projects. Competition got absorbed. And with the mass standardization of the internet came the younger generations who came up just expecting shit to work as they've always seen. Streamlined and with an inclusion of 15 minutes of fame. But, in honesty the biggest snooze is the lack of innovation that drove the old internet drives today's general malaise.

Times are different. People are bored with internet tech and are therefore less curious. My younget gen z and y co-workers glaze over if I even so much as mention irc or playing around with your own web server. Gen y understands but doesn't care because Twitter and IG governed their highschool experience. Gen z doesn't understand and are kinda boomer-esque in terms of any software comprehension. I've had to teach my interns what Excel even is.

Times are different. Everything has being standardized, monontonized, monitized, predictable, and generally boring. I think the fediverse would have to become mainstream to appeal to the mainstream. And today's mainstream aren't interested in new platform learning curves unless there's something fun, compelling, and of entertainment value to them.

Just my old millennial lady take.

A faux front end that makes the fediverse appear centralised.

More active niche communities and better search for old posts

I didn't even know Lemmy existed until last week (when I specifically searched for a Reddit alternative) even though I heard about Mastodon.

And it might be confusing to decide where you need to register and what's the difference without reading up how the Fediverse works. Most people don't care about that.

Also if they are based on the same technology why I can't use a Mastodon account to login/interact with Lemmy (conveniently)

I guess if we ever have Nomadic identities most of the above could be solved? Except that Lemmy is still almost completely unknown for most of the people.

For me it was a combination of seeing that there was a lot of activity on the fediverse (no point joining a social media if there's no people on it) and also feeling the need to actually frequently use social media again, because I hadn't been using social media for a while outside of retweeting something once in a blue moon.

We're social creatures, so I'm sure the more people move to Fediverse, well, the more people will follow.

They won't. There are people are still on facebook. Best we can do is have a healthy alternative that people want to come to.

The Fediverse if a complicated concept, that looses a lot of the appeal that Twitter/Reddit has, we need more coordination between instances, and less of a scattershot approach to communities. This obviously goes against the goals of the Fediverse where you want several similar communities on different instances to make the system far more robust.

Then we need a killer community, a community that people has to have, that only really work on Lemmy, and not on Reddit.

Mastodon mostly just needs more users, especially celeberties, then users would come.

People who have been paying attention have already moved. Anyone who's left will need a missile dropped directly on top of their head by Elon Musk or Steve Huffman personally. They will leave when the websites can no longer support themselves and shut down their servers, forcing the users out.

It is entirely up to you; every set of eyes that reads this.

Every post, every community you participate within, every upvote, every positive interaction is helping this place grow. All we need to do is make a place people want to visit; add value to their and our own lives.

Yesterday I started Word of the Day !wotd@lemmy.world

I moderate !3dprinting@lemmy.world and a couple of others that are not active. I'm at 179 posts and 1485+1 comments. I'm here a few times at least on most days.

I try and post in as many other communities as I can and be as positive an influence as I can manage.

The best thing you can do is upvote and participate in absolutely every little niche you can possibly participate in. I'm a jack of all trades master of none, but I'll even go outside of my comfort zone to try and support everything I can. I don't just take from this place, I want to build it, to grow with it, to be a part of it. I am the fediverse. You are the fediverse. It is what you make of it.

I posted this when there were less than 5k active users on Lemmy and .world was a couple of weeks old: https://lemmy.world/post/36032

That post is still just as true today.

More diverse content and a better attitude to bringing on new people who would contribute to the community. I like it here but I do see a lot of slagging off the people still on Reddit, users of other social media sites, and even other instances. I am one of those people, I still use Instagram (I like to watch cat videos and people making weird music) and occasionally Twitter (for breaking news and storm chaser stuff), and sometimes it's a little disparaging to read lots of comments saying people like me don't belong here.

Why would you want them to? Look up the "September that never ended" and what that effect does to communities.

I occasionally go back to reddit for niche communities and for looking up some user generated information/answers. I think the niche community might not easily be solved until more people move to lemmy, but as for the information lookup, if we can port the more useful stuff from reddit I don't think I'd have much of a reason to go back to reddit (seriously, so much of the newer info in some subs are factually wrong but no one seems to care and it just seems to get worse the longer time progresses). The main issue is how to figure out what is the useful stuff. Idk about Twitter, haven't used them in years.

Have you seen Reddit and Twitter lately? You want those people here?

User interface.
OK miss/calc/shark key has it but mastodon is pretty rough, and lemmy isn't that nice. Yes I know for Lemmy Alexandrite is neater than the official app, but it's already some power user level, same for instances having the photon and old front-end.

Twitter is a celebrities' and public persons' playground. As well as organisations. Anyone else is on there either to gain prominence or to follow the prominent accounts. Until there's a suitable fediverse platform that appears as an advantage to those big names, nothing's gonna change on that front. In spite of all the censorship and cancellations.

Someone should make a comprehensive, easy to follow guide to Lemmy with the latest info and apps, and share it to Reddit including their r/lemmy. Same with Mastodon.

I've sworn off of Reddit unfortunately so I'm not going to post, but maybe if I make something I can ask someone to share it there for me?

More blackjack and hookers

I think we just wait, if it's meant to be it'll happen organically

Besides, do we really want to bring the entire internet in here? Not sure what reason we have for it and at the moment it's full of like minded nerds, which is just how I like it personally

That said it could probably do with a wider spectrum of political beliefs, it does feel like a bit of an echo chamber sometimes

I don't think it's going to happen over any single event. I think Federated platforms will remain small scale but very active, and that's all they have to do as mainstream social medias spring up, monetize, and collapse, over and over and over again.

Then one day in the future, the latest generation of cool kids will just realize that it's way cooler to be on the Federated platforms than it is to be on the mainstream sites.