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I'm glad to be here with the rest of you old fogeys (lemmy.world)
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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

On Reddit there’s a lot of “lemmy’s too complicated to be adopted by the general public”. Ik we don’t all have the same tech literacy but it doesn’t seem that complicated, like, do you understand emailing? Then you understand most of what lemmy is… (also you don’t even have to understand the intricacies to enjoy your experience there)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    I don't think its just complexity, its a semi-ghost town if you venture out of the political topics.

    I mean, there was never a GoT community, The Expanse Community, Rick and Morty, Squid Game, or like even a GTA community. Inactive communities with 1 post every 3 month doesn't count.

    Like this is really just a place to vent about life, and for general everyday discussions, not for topic-specific discussions.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Maybe part of why Lemmy skews older is because this is basically what "old" Reddit felt like.

    Before Reddit became the Walmart of internet forums that put all the little guys out of business and gained enough critical mass to have a niche community for every topic under the sun, it was just a quirky place that catered towards tech, politics, and this exact sort of "general everyday discussion" you're talking about.

    I loved that era of Reddit, and I love that Lemmy is providing something that's close to that experience.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    sick.

    I wonder how Lemmy and other parts of the fediverse or alternative web like Gemini Protocol would be if it gets adopted by let's say 1/10 of the world.

    I think: pretty much as amazing as the internet in the 90s/early 2000s.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    i think lemmy skews older because of the more complicated sign-up process and people being more tech-inclined around here and a bit more mature than the general public. and i love that, btw. less shallow "entertainment" and more memes and especially based arguments about things.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Frankly I think it's simply that the public doesn't particularly care to figure it out. As an analogy, people use Windows because that's just what their computer came with, and therefore saying that Linux is free (as in price) is a meaningless selling point to them. You don't convince Windows users to switch by saying that Linux is free, you convince them by saying that Linux is more convenient, stable, and less annoying.

    In the same way, you don't convince the public into using Lemmy by arguing about why open protocols are better. You convince people by saying that Lemmy is basically like Reddit but not overrun by bots and spammers

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