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It's because the Fediverse doesn't have investors, which is the way I want it.
- Who wants to bet that all companies will open up instances once they get wind of it?
  
  Isn't that exactly what Facebook did with Threads?
  
  I want to bet, anyone who wants to bet against it?

I feel like Lemmy is doing a great job at treading water
- Honestly I'm thankful lemmy isn't in the media, or this place would grow out of control. I think a steady growth is much healthier.
  
  I’d be super okay with it getting a bit bigger so smaller communities can flourish and then not getting any bigger after that. Reddit is so big it’s a dreary and dead place in the comments and posts

I don't see this as a problem, the media is terrible at understanding/caring about real cultural trends.
The fact that I have a better time on Lemmy than Reddit on my phone, despite the huge difference in user numbers, says it all to me.
Reddit has been seeing a meaningful and lasting decline since they decided users don't matter, and there's no coming back from that.
Just like Facebook has suffered a permanent user loss and failure to grow, so will Reddit. It won't be overnight, but newer generations are increasingly tech-literate, even when they aren't more media-literate.
I never thought Mastodon would become a place to be, despite always hoping. Never imagined a real Reddit alternative would start to form, but here I am.
Cambridge Analytica laid the foundation of general disdain for centralized social media, and Elon Musk single-handedly exhausted the public's patience with corporate bullshit.
I think decentralized options are here to stay, and I think the only centralized platforms that will take longer to upend are video-dependant ones.
All in good time.
- To be honest Lemmy is just the right amount of content for me, and generally high quality.
  It has also gotten me out of my doom scrolling habits that were causing anxiety issues. Thank God for that.
  
  Lemmy needs moderation tools and then a big domain name. Then it'll be ready to go.
  The single most important thing it needs is to send delete requests when a post is deleted from the original instance. (Either by a moderator or the user.)
  And something to clean up unused files would be nice, but that can be kicked off manually for now.
  
  Honestly I agree wholeheartedly about "just the right amount of content." It's enough for me to get a healthy smattering of interesting and confusing memes without sucking me in and letting THE SCROLL take over.
- Being underground is the best way to make sure that we can form and mature as a community.
  Getting big too fast and being in focus too soon will nip our community in the bud.
  Just like music. New trends trend to brew underground for years before they break out and take over from the current mainstream.
  Though I would prefer that we remain under the radar. It's more fun that way.
  
  Lemmy for me is a detox from a hyperactive hyperreal world that by making itself exclusively about ~~fun~~ entertainment, allows one to be picked up and taken with the wind.
- Same, I don't really care what the media thinks, I'm having a good time.
- newer generations are increasingly tech-literate
  mmm... 🤨
  
  Thats fucking scarry, reminds me strongly of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Tv Show, Episode 6. (Its the 2nd "season"'s finalle. So you should watch the full thing first.)

Mass media controlled by a handful of billionaires is simping for social media controlled by a handful of billionaires. Color me shocked.
These media giants will never let fediverse become big
- Federated social media is extremely dangerous for them
- If the fediverse is good, it will persist.

Honestly, I’m 100% alright with the media not being terribly interested in this.

Honestly im really enjoying Lemmy for what it is right now. There's not a ton of content, sure, but its quality content.
- I fucking hate this statement. Where's this "quality" content everyone is talking about? I just see endless bots reposting the same old shit.
  
  You, my Lord, have just posted somme quality content.
  
  You can filter off the bots account in the setting.
- We may just grow really slowly, thats fine as long as theres good people, theres people who dont know and would be glad they joined because theres good people. Theyll find us eventually if their looking.

WTF is BlueSky?
- BlueSky
  
  Thanks I hate it
- I just looked it up, apparently Jack Dorsey made a new Twitter like chat service and everyone is bending over backwards to see. Its a new twitter clone made by the guy who made twitter.
- https://piped.video/watch?v=aQUlA8Hcv4s

Meh. I don't care if medias don't talk about Lemmy

We're only a couple weeks out from a child pron incident and we're constantly in-fighting/defederating with communist communities brigading other instances so... I get it.
- I think it was handled well, all things considered. But it could easily have run off a lot of people that might have been keeping an eye on us.

I want more fediverse drama dammit, people crying out about Hexbear stuff was entertaining
- I've gotta say my 'all' feed is a lot more enjoyable since I blocked Hexbear

Bluesky and threads suck. Discovery is awful and engagement is low.
- I will absolutely not use Twitter so I’ve tried to give threads a chance but yeah it’s worthless. How can you still not search for topics and stuff on there??
- So its "manufactured concent" for bluesky being "the hot new app to jump to". So it will theorecically be the home for those confused by the reddit drama and that get there news from the corprate jounalists or from their friends and those they trust that do.

There are some amazing journalists over on Mastodon.
By far the best for breaking news is Steve Herman of the VOA. https://journa.host/@w7voa
For analysis, The Conversation. https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS
And if you just want a curated feed of interesting stuff going on, follow Lisa Melton. https://mastodon.social/@lisamelton

Also, Apple crap everywhere

I like Lemmy. It's not overwhelmed. And seems to be keeping steady.
- hope it stays this way. the less, the merrier

Hey, if people want to give Jack their data and time again, more power to them, that motherfucker is never getting any of mine again.
- Jack got bullied off Bluesky lmao. He hangs out on Nostr now.
  
  He's still on the board though. So user or not, he's profiting off user data.

What's the one on the trashcan?
- threads by meta
  
  *facebook
  
  Thank you!
- Lmao the trashcan I did not even notice!

Gotta keep Jack Dorsey relevant somehow.

They desperately miss the mid-2010s when "here's what someone said on twitter" and "missing plane still missing" were the only stories anyone was expected to pursue, and neither required any legwork.

Bluesky confuses me, how do I discover anything without hashtags? Maybe I've been on mastodon too long?

I'm OK with this.

Imagine valuing what the fuck a bunch of companies think about you.
lol.
Yarbb harbb ibb lovebb mybb newbb homebb

Thank Musk, teh fediverse is growing a lot. Mainstream people continue in Bluesky, Meta, Reddit...etc., but the interesting people go to Mastodon, Friendica, maybe Diaspora, Lemmy, or Matrix. Quality is better than quantity.
- Indeed

To be honest Lemmy is just the right amount of content for me, and generally high quality. I found this website to be a high-quality content for AI. tools, such as face swap tools

is x previously twitter also in the bin
- It IS the bin.

I've said it before Mastadon is an awful name. No-one knows it's an animal. It just sounds like Don mastrubating with a fat mast.
- Maybe we don't want people who have never paid enough attention to learn what a mastodon is on Mastodon. It's not THAT obscure of an animal.
  
  Weren't they going to bring them back in Siberia before the Ukraine war broke out.
  I wonder how far along they've got now. (the science of de extinction)
- Have you even tired to seach Lemmy online?
  
  Naming Fediverse apps after rock icons is a cool thing. If only PeerTube was called Dream Theater (well, before Petrucci "gave a chance" to Trump).
- Wow. I mean I don't have a lot of faith in people, but you honestly believe the majority does not know what a mastodon is?
- Mastodon, the metal band. That's all I hear.
- Why is it still being called "Mastadon" doesn't it go only with an o?