No one migrated en masse to Lemmy because making an account here is too much work for someone to just hop on over and check out.
On the plus side, Lemmy doesn’t force you to make an account in order to view it. That’s becoming increasingly rare these days. It used to be normal to lurk for a while and get a feel for a site before taking the jump to making an account, but so many places won’t let you view a damn thing unless you sign up (and then when you have an account, they try to force their app onto you. Because of course.)
At least with Lemmy, newcomers can browse around and decide if making the account is worth it. The choices involved in picking an instance might not draw in crowds, but hopefully it’ll draw in those who actually want to engage with the site. Quality over quantity.
You can browse digg and reddit without an account.
I agree with some quality over quantity, but we really need a bigger base than 50k to get more people on. With only 50k there’s pretty much no user base for any instances\topics that aren’t very popular.
For instance, there’s no user base for an instance about yo-yo’s here. But reddit is so big that \throwers has a subscriber count as large as the entire user base of Lemmy. We don’t need 50,000,000 people here, but having a couple million would make a world of difference.
The user base on Lemmy is 40k to 60k. It’s held there for the past year. Lemmy did get a big increase compared to the sub 10k a few years ago, but a total of 50k users is still miniscule by comparison.
If digg opened up api calls (no idea what they’re at on this right now) and has better implementation for keeping out bots with fewer ads; all the sheep will enjoy being a part of a mass exodus.
It was less bad on digg around 2010 or so when everyone bailed from there to reddit, than what reddit currently is right now.
It’s still stupid easy to make an account and create a sub. I’ve been on the internet since no one owned a cell phone and a modem gave you less than 3KB\s speeds. I’ve watched a lot of .coms that seemed unstoppable become worthless in a manner of a few months. If a few million people decide to head over to digg, the other 40 million will happily follow. It will be fun for them to do. It happening is anyone’s guess.
There was a time when aol owned the internet, dogpile was the greatest search engine, Yahoo was the defacto email provider, Craigslist was the only and best way to make local sales, and MySpace was where you put yourself up at on the internet.
That’s pretty nonsensical logic.
By that logic, reddit never would have been a thing, because they didn’t have the content or the users, because they were all on digg.
No one migrated en masse to Lemmy because making an account here is too much work for someone to just hop on over and check out.
Reddit started in a VERY different online landscape, Lemmy got a huge boost from the APIpocolipse, and is still pretty small compared to reddit.
Reddit was nothing but an unused digg clone untill digg screwed themselves so everyone just moved over.
On the plus side, Lemmy doesn’t force you to make an account in order to view it. That’s becoming increasingly rare these days. It used to be normal to lurk for a while and get a feel for a site before taking the jump to making an account, but so many places won’t let you view a damn thing unless you sign up (and then when you have an account, they try to force their app onto you. Because of course.)
At least with Lemmy, newcomers can browse around and decide if making the account is worth it. The choices involved in picking an instance might not draw in crowds, but hopefully it’ll draw in those who actually want to engage with the site. Quality over quantity.
You can browse digg and reddit without an account.
I agree with some quality over quantity, but we really need a bigger base than 50k to get more people on. With only 50k there’s pretty much no user base for any instances\topics that aren’t very popular.
For instance, there’s no user base for an instance about yo-yo’s here. But reddit is so big that \throwers has a subscriber count as large as the entire user base of Lemmy. We don’t need 50,000,000 people here, but having a couple million would make a world of difference.
Lol wut. There has been massive migration to lemmy.
And the content quality dropped after.
The user base on Lemmy is 40k to 60k. It’s held there for the past year. Lemmy did get a big increase compared to the sub 10k a few years ago, but a total of 50k users is still miniscule by comparison.
…for varying definitions of “massive.” I can basically guarantee that reddit didn’t even notice.
Ok, let me add this to the logic: reddit is not bad enough for most users to move away from it.
Most people leave Reddit involuntarily, when they suddenly get permabanned for no reason, because a mod was in a bad mood that day.
If digg opened up api calls (no idea what they’re at on this right now) and has better implementation for keeping out bots with fewer ads; all the sheep will enjoy being a part of a mass exodus.
It was less bad on digg around 2010 or so when everyone bailed from there to reddit, than what reddit currently is right now.
It’s still stupid easy to make an account and create a sub. I’ve been on the internet since no one owned a cell phone and a modem gave you less than 3KB\s speeds. I’ve watched a lot of .coms that seemed unstoppable become worthless in a manner of a few months. If a few million people decide to head over to digg, the other 40 million will happily follow. It will be fun for them to do. It happening is anyone’s guess.
There was a time when aol owned the internet, dogpile was the greatest search engine, Yahoo was the defacto email provider, Craigslist was the only and best way to make local sales, and MySpace was where you put yourself up at on the internet.