Sadly, many people I have recommended it to have acted like it was the most difficult thing in the world to understand. The initial learning curve really wasn’t that bad, IMO but it seems like a lot of people want to be spoon fed.
It may or may not take off to the point of replacing reddit, but I think the exodus if people now and especially after the end of the month will lead to it having at least the same amount of users as Mastodon. Maybe more, since the average reddit user is probably more tech-savvy and more willing to migrate to a different platform than the average Twitter user (since they follow subreddits rather than individual users). And a roughly Mastodon sized lemmy is more than usable to replace reddit imo
Before Elon, it was about half an million, now it’s about 4.5 million, though about a million of the new users made an account and then immediately went back to Twitter, so it’s more like 3.5 million
Still, nothing to sneeze at. Glad reddit is going through the same thing right now. If peertube or whatever other YouTube fedi analogue takes off I think we could see federation of social media take off and really become its own bubble.
I’ve been considering recommending this to a few friends, but I’m worried about a response like this. I definitely recognize there’s a learning curve, and I’m still picking up a lot just a few days in, but man it took me maybe 15 -20 minutes max to figure out enough to sign up to an instance, find some communities, and post (I think all those words are right…).
Sadly, many people I have recommended it to have acted like it was the most difficult thing in the world to understand. The initial learning curve really wasn’t that bad, IMO but it seems like a lot of people want to be spoon fed.
It doesn’t matter that it’s not that bad, just that it’s harder than staying on reddit.
It may or may not take off to the point of replacing reddit, but I think the exodus if people now and especially after the end of the month will lead to it having at least the same amount of users as Mastodon. Maybe more, since the average reddit user is probably more tech-savvy and more willing to migrate to a different platform than the average Twitter user (since they follow subreddits rather than individual users). And a roughly Mastodon sized lemmy is more than usable to replace reddit imo
Do you know what the user population of mastadon was before and after Elon’s takeover?
Before Elon, it was about half an million, now it’s about 4.5 million, though about a million of the new users made an account and then immediately went back to Twitter, so it’s more like 3.5 million
Still, nothing to sneeze at. Glad reddit is going through the same thing right now. If peertube or whatever other YouTube fedi analogue takes off I think we could see federation of social media take off and really become its own bubble.
Do you know what the user population of mastadon was before and after Elon’s takeover?
I’ve been considering recommending this to a few friends, but I’m worried about a response like this. I definitely recognize there’s a learning curve, and I’m still picking up a lot just a few days in, but man it took me maybe 15 -20 minutes max to figure out enough to sign up to an instance, find some communities, and post (I think all those words are right…).