I usually don’t get too salty about these things, but that seemed uncalled for, especially since I’m on their side.

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    1 year ago

    I agree. But like Twitter alternatives, two things are required. Products that that have feature parity and quick mass adoption.

    I have seen it happen twice to large sites. MySpace to Facebook. That happened fast. Then I saw digg to Reddit.

    Both those cases Facebook and Reddit respectively had feature parity(ones that mattered) if not more features. But as a heavy digg user, I still struggled with Reddit.

    Mastodon has struggled to get wide adoption and people are still using Twitter so I am not sure it will ever happen.

    I think if Lemmy wants to succeed and take market share from Reddit, the mobile apps need to greatly improve in the next month. I am not shitting on any of the current apps but they aren’t remotely close to having parity with RIF or Apollo. And that makes sense as those apps are really mature.

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      1 year ago

      I wholeheartedly agree, especially with the mobile app bit. That is the first thing I looked for when I found out about lemmy.

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        1 year ago

        I am bit delayed responding because things like notifications on the mobile app I used doesn’t work. I finally decided to use the web interface of lemmy and said this reply. This is exactly what I am talking about.

        Another thing that is going to hurt Lemmy is all the different instances of the same type of community. I don’t want to subscribe to 5 different “Technology” communities.