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Why Lemmy, Who Lemmy, How Lemmy (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by smitty@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I recently stumbled upon Lemmy from SimpleX github. This is my first interaction.

Why Lemmy? It seems to be an alternative to Reddit, but what sets it apart? I've explored, participated and built nodes in Nostr, which positions itself as a Twitter alternative, so I’m curious about what makes Lemmy unique and what it needs to succeed?

Who Lemmy? Like Nostr, the community here seems to define the platform. Without algorithms to shape the narrative, the vibe is driven by its users—radicals, dreamers, and wayfarers. Is that a fair read? Who else calls Lemmy home?

How Lemmy? What’s the vision here? How does Lemmy aim to change the social media landscape? Decentralization is intriguing, but what’s the endgame? Escape from algorithms is exciting but from what I see raw and unfilters humans have chaotic thoughts.

Where Lemmy? Where's the Lemmy Lobby? When folks onboard where do they go to connect? The communities Ive checked seem to have a variation of really old posts and infrequent posts. Are we that early or is this platform suffering from slow growth?

What's your perspective on the success of decentralized social media?

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

This is freedom. Stuff here is scraped like everywhere on the public internet, but no one is watching your dwell times and farming your every move, or experimenting on you to achieve targeted viewer retention statistics. The demographic here seems in flux at the moment. Reddit was like that too though. This is usually good book reading season for most social media and here is no exception. Lots of closed minded people and negativity pop up in my feed, but you can't fix stupid and that is everywhere.

[–] f2sfljLhdtTZ@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It seems that there are no search filters. That's making me stay away. In Reddit you can search and specify results to be from specific subreddits.

Here, where multiple instances can have similar topic groups i cannot search within them. That's keeping me from engaging.

Search is key.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy, and the Fediverse in general, is an open source social media made by people that have evolved past the corporate overlords.

The user base might be smaller than big social media sites, but the users tend to be more intelligent, far fewer bots, and no advertisements.

That's my take on it so far, I've been here over a year now.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’d love to add something original to this post, but you’ve pretty much covered it.

To your point about corporate overlords: many of us loved Reddit until we realized it was a cesspool (for any number of reasons) and moved on, and it’s almost a shameful thing to admit we ever liked Reddit at this point.

To put it more simply: we just love federation and we love the format. We could always jump ship to Mastodon or any other federated platform, but long form discussion is what I believe drives adoption of Lemmy in particular the most.

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is shameful about loving Reddit? Honestly asking.

Biggest red flags I saw was non-FOSS, beginning of enshitification, overall cringe and mean user base.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Reddit used to be FOSS :(. There used to be a badge for having a merged reddit PR