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Coming up in 3 weeks on HN: Why did Lemmy migration fail? (65 comments) (dead) I'm leaving Lemmy (0 comments) The social website without users and conten
by not_your_vase 3y ago
Coming up in 3 weeks on HN:
Why did Lemmy migration fail? (65 comments)
(dead) I'm leaving Lemmy (0 comments)
The social website without users and content (128 comments)
Yeah, I'm snarky. All of Bluesky's, Lemmy's, Mastodon's (etc) only appeal seem to be that they are not BigCorp, but without any of the benefits (and content) of the existing platforms. They flare up quickly before users go back to their origin. Hard to see how Lemmy is different at this time.
- haunter 3y agoI hope it will be different with Lemmy (it won’t) but on Mastodon I see very specific type of users, mostly activists and hackers. There are no normies at all. No Kpop stans. No football fans. No gamers arguing which console is the best etc. I follow /r/soccer which has not just the userbase but people posting goals in _real time_ a lot of times even before happened on your regular broadcast. There is no replacement for that.
- guerrilla 3y agoYou're probsnly stuck in a buble. Maybe you just don't know how to find other people. Discovery is a problem. Follow hashtags. There are a ton of serious scientists and other academics. https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
- LittleShaman 3y agoThat isn't at all true for Mastodon. Despite a very significant drop a while after the influx from twitter, looking at a few different sources it has twice as many monthly active users now (~600k before influx to hovering around ~1.2M for a few months now after the slump.)