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What's so great about mainstream appeal? These services are designed for folks who do care about those issues, and the folks who are mainstream already have out
by rnd0 4y ago
What's so great about mainstream appeal? These services are designed for folks who do care about those issues, and the folks who are mainstream already have outlets catering to them. I don't see them flocking over if Lemmy is dumbed-down.
As usual when chasing "mass adoption" I think that the target demographic would simply be chased off and the project with wither on the vine.
- matai_kolila 4y agoIf you're billing yourself as a "Reddit Alternative", you definitely care about mainstream appeal.
- rnd0 4y agoNot necessarily. Reddit itself changed to cater to a mainstream audience and by billing itself as an alternative the pitch isn't so much to folks who like the changes reddit made but to folks who think reddit was better "before september came". IE folks who want what they remember (right or wrong) as being a small, niche site that was ruined by chasing the mainstream.
- matai_kolila 4y agoThat's a very "snapshotted" view of Reddit, one that doesn't hold up to scrutiny once you consider what Reddit is today.
- rnd0 4y agoor even if you consider what went down on reddit "in the good old days" -yet, I think that's thew view of reddit (real or not) that they're trying to appeal to.
- matai_kolila 4y agoWithout specifying that, they’re at best doing a poor job of explaining what their technology does, but more likely they are trying to mainstream it.
- mariusor 4y agoIn my experience most of the people that want reddit alternatives can be split into two camps: those that want to be able to say naughty things unchecked by mods or admins, and those that want to go back to the "good ol' days" of early reddit. I belong to the later camp, and I suspect the grandfather post you're replying to does too.