I’ve been telling a lot of people about it, but everyone’s a skeptic. I’ve heard a lot of people saying that they’re just going to wait to see which Reddit clone comes out on top before switching. Most of them haven’t heard of the other parts of the fediverse like mastodon. I’d like to leave fb/instagram, but like many others, all my friends are on there. I’m not against defederation from meta to preserve the sanctity of what we have. (Although I know many of you might be for it as well.) But in a perfect world, I wish that meta would fall apart and all of my friends would switch from instagram over to pixelfed and we would have a great, non corporate internet again.

What do you think?

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    No, even on Reddit I wasn’t trying to let IRL people know that I was on Reddit. I don’t want them figuring out my username and seeing any of my comments. Not because I’m like ashamed or anything, but because I enjoy the freedom of not “having an audience”. I write differently if I know that potentially people I know IRL are reading it vs whoever the hell you people are. Anonymity is freedom.

  • dbilitated@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    no and i’d struggle to recommend it. it seems to be mostly talking about being on the fediverse and hating other social media… hopefully we’ll get to a point where there’s more discussion outside of just being here and why.

    • codyofficial@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I had the same opinion about Lemmy until I took the time to find the same wide assortment of communities that I subbed to on Reddit. Now that there’s a wider variety of content to read, I don’t have that “please stop talking about the fediverse” thought anymore. I will say that tech and tech-adjacent communities on here are still really heavy on the meta discussions (i.e. as in posting on Lemmy about Lemmy—not about Zuck’s website).

      • dbilitated@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        i’m sadly finding communities with only one or two posts mostly, but i’m staying the course and i’m hopeful!

        • codyofficial@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Hang in there! I highly recommend using something like https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities. Lemmy (and most other parts of the fediverse) are a double-edged sword: you’re not being algorithmically fed content, so you’re able consciously curate what you devote your attention to, you’re not being surveilled for marketing, etc. However, because of this, it’s harder to accidentally find an interesting community because they’re not actively presented to you.

          I just started using the search above to type in keywords of interest. I’ve found some established Lemmy communities I don’t think I would have stumbled across otherwise.

  • Lotus Eater@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Ideally we would want people to switch because they want to, not because their preferred one died imo.

    The only way I can see convincing the average person would be if we have a thriving community and content.

  • Hazzard@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    I’ve recommended it to my friends, but they’ve instead chosen to take the fall of Reddit as an opportunity to just… step back from the internet. One friend just… isn’t browsing Reddit at all on mobile anymore, and is instead just using old.reddit.com on desktop, and culled most of the subs he used to follow, keeping only some small communities.

    I respect it, but still feel something like Reddit has a place in my life, but have no faith whatsoever in Reddit itself, and the apps are better here, so I’m completely switched over. I imagine they may still move here in time. Lemmy is a part of my life now, so I’ll continue to mention it and share links to things from it, but I’ve no desire to force the issue.

  • wanderingmagus@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    I’ve successfully gotten a single coworker to join Lemmy. Most of the others barely even know what Reddit is. My family also very rarely uses social media other than YouTube, and there simply is not enough content on PeerTube for them to be convinced to switch.

  • irkli@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    2 years ago

    I’ve given up. My friends are all brain-stuck on faceblerk, even though they all claim to hate not even one will consider changing. I just abandoned them there and talk to them on the - gasp - phone once in a while.

    It’s the goddamn internets. Change is all it is. I don’t get the big deal. Just fkm move.