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))) The tankie reputation (even though it's not justified at all) strikes again.
I think people just don’t want to make the move, and are making up excuses to stay where they are. I see a lot of that in that thread.
Obviously anyone serious about finding an alternative would be here or on Discuit/Tildes.
I have seen some users on that sub complain in every single thread that there is no alternative for the last two years and a half. Really makes you question how much they actually want to leave.
True. Comments saying “build your own application” were more popular than comments suggesting Lemmy.
Even if you wanted to “build your own Reddit” you’d be better off starting with Lemmy source code anyway.
Also possible that Reddit buries the Lemmy posts. You can’t see the up/downvote counts. After all.
About once a week there's a post saying "Hi, I built a new reddit alternative!" there
And it's usually just utter rubbish. Like yes, it works but it's barebones and basics. What is it they are expecting?
Even if you don’t want to participate in the Lemmy, just steal the source code and rebrand it and use that as a starting point.
That’s basically what Truth Social did with Mastadon.
https://clubsall.com/ tried to use Threadiverse content without federating back.
Seems like the project died, which is a shame because their frontend was cool
The people who want to leave, did. The only ones still there have dug in their heels.
I always point to Piefed nowadays
My first server was hexbear (it was advertised as broadly leftist), seeing Stalin thirstposts on the timeline was pretty jaring
Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml attract the most users but their (lack of) meaningful moderation really helps prevent users from staying, imo. Most users don't understand that joining a smaller instance is often a better experience. And why would they stick around the Fediverse if their experience is worse than that of Reddit?
To be honest, I would say moderation problems are between LW and ML are not comparable.
I would even argue there isn't any instance-specific issue with LW for new users.