How's it going for centralized reddit-like platforms like Tildes, Discuit, Squabblr?
As someone else mentioned here, these other centralized platforms often advertise heavily on subreddits like /r/RedditAlternatives, and they do seem to have some people on there. Does anyone know if they are attracting a lot of people or why people prefer to join other centralized sites before joining e.g. Lemmy? Are they a "threat" to the growth of fediverse platforms like Lemmy, Mbin or just experiments that'll fail sooner or later?
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Duscuit seems to have around 200 weekly active users, so.. Not really
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A centralized solution is just going to enshittify
Tildes is sooooooo boring. That seems to be it's shtick though, mostly very long comments by not very interesting people. I just went and had a gander for the first time in a while (very easy to forget about the place) and found 2 or 3 comments per post all many paragraphs long, except the Captain America thread that had quite the conversation with 60+ comments. I think even the people that like the place are bored there.
That's kinda harsh... Some of the comments are pretty insightful, but since it's not curated sure, some are gonna be average.
What kept me away from there is it's just a bit too small... I think Lemmy hits that sweet spot size-wise.
Yes, you are right, that was overly harsh. I guess what I mean is it seems populated by one type of person. Where art and culture is science fiction and video games. I have a similar view of lemmy but tildes is even more so. And small as you say.
Yeah tru iirc I tried controlling the Tildes communities I was subscribed to, but then there was basically no discussion.... Lemmy is just big enough that you can subscribe to communities that don't fit that demograpic and then browse by subscribed... e.g. many of the communities listed here: https://ponder.cat/post/1349429
Man, forgot those things even existed
We should go advertise the fediverse on them, they're holding us back as a society
Thats like going to bluesky to evangelise mastodon. It won't work imo.
I learned about lemmy on reddit?
I know, but reddit has far more users than these tiny sites, who may already be devoted to them.
We could, but I think effort would be better spent on Reddit, which has the largest userbase to draw from.
anyone has a guess or estimate how many users does raddle have? it doesn't look like a lot
Well, at least I respect raddle for what it is. I like their agenda more than... Whatever agenda the rest have (usually to someday enshittify and try to make a coin)
between that place having slow burn drama between all of 10 actual active posters + one perpetually banned and re-registering usual suspect and their head admin using alts to stir shit for their own entertainment (they ended that, months ago for some years now, if you want to believe them) i'll have none of that, thanks
They are sometimes reccomended above lemmy, as they are centralised, but they have very few active users. The "vibe" on all of them is pleasant, and most of the discussion is high quality, but the same is true here.
Fuck ‘em