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Doubt it, it's expensive to host and creators won't have ways to ways to monetize it as easily as YouTube.
Also, I wouldn't really call the Twitter and Reddit cases "exodus". As much as I would like to see the fediverse succeed, the number of users on mastodon and Lemmy are just a blip on the radar.
I still see the same links on my Lemmy frontage days after they have been submitted, it's far less active than Reddit.
I hate this notion that a platform isn't successful unless it has a billion users. As long as there's a critical mass of people, it's fine. One thing I've realised browsing lemmy for the past week is just how much of my Reddit experience was defined by the same handful of Twitter screenshots and rehosted tiktoks being reposted over and over again like every week.
I agree, I just don't think lemmy is at critical mass yet.
Maybe it's just me, but it feels like most of the discussion is still centered around how bad reddit has become. Only after reddit stops living rent free inside people's heads, will lemmy be able to develop its own culture, IMO.
I don't disagree, but it's been less than a month. The story is actively unfolding, and it is a big deal for people who spent a lot of time there. I give it maybe one more month, during which time the API is getting killed and all the 3PAs will shut down, after that, there won't really be much new to say. People are going to keep finding their way to the fediverse, and they're going to want to talk about how much it sucks that Reddit killed Reddit. But give that a few weeks and they'll get tired of that and just want to talk about actual stuff. And the communities will be here.
Heck, they may be small but I've already been able to get questions answered about some topics of interest just by posting on a relevant board and waiting a day.
The lemmy front page default sort is currently broken IIRC. try sorting by new comments.
I tried sorting by "New", and while that does show me new content, it won't show me new content that the community thinks it's good (that's the whole point about having a voting system).
I've changed from the default (i.e. "Active") into "Hot", but the frontpage is still very stale.
One reddit feature I do miss is the ability to automatically hide posts that you already upvoted or downvoted. That would keep my frontpage relatively fresh.
The good thing about Lemmy is that it's open source. Community requests are easy to make and will be discussed. Creating third party apps should not be an issue either.
The bad thing about Lemmy, on the other hand, is that it's open source. There's no VC funding to hire hundreds of overpaid developers to fix things quickly, so we just have to be a bit patient and give the devs time to make the necessary changes.
Yes, I'm fully aware of that, and I'm OK with waiting. I've been favouring the use of open-source software for a long time, and that's not about to change.
Just pointing out some areas that could potentially have a large ROI when it comes to the devs' time.
That problem stopped the instant I switched to Kbin. There is a ton of activity happening that you are missing.
Are there any plans to federate instances across both platforms? (i.e. allow for subscriptions)
Or has this been implemented, and I just missed it?
EDIT: Nevermind, found it. It is possible.
I think this is because of the default sort. I switched to "Top Day" and have found it to be a better mix of posts with engagement and freshness.
Use sort by Top -> Day. The algorithm for that one is working.