With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

  • TorresEnglish
    73•1 year ago

    As much as I love Lemmy I don’t see it going mainstream :/
    It’s too weird for the general user

    • @theragu40English
      45•1 year ago

      Yeah I agree. Arguably reddit isn’t even mainstream, and it is exponentially larger than Lemmy now and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

      I’m really loving Lemmy, but it is not even remotely a factor if we are having a conversation about things that are mainstream enough to reflect popular opinion.

        • fmstratEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          That’s US based. I don’t have stats handy, but I remember seeing that huge amounts of Reddit traffic are outside the US, and from anecdotal experience, limiting the study further to younger demographics would drastically change these results.

      • @eweEnglish
        2•1 year ago

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    • Very_Bad_Janet
      12•1 year ago

      Reddit was too weird for most people until they ended up being in their Google search results for most topics. It will take a while but the Fediverse will eventually reach a level of popularity and mainstream utility.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      We could have it both, where big instances like LemmyWorld or BeeHaw becomes the well known public interface, while they maintain federation with smaller instances.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        But your content would go over so much better in those places. Pretty sure you’ve already found that your Musk-loving, antisemitic, anti-lgbtq+, misogynistic, garbage is not going to make it very far here. “cancel culture” back at it again. Guess Musk isn’t the big brain you think he is. I’m sure you’ll be back with your braindead zombie tribe in no time.

    • @RookiAEnglish
      -7•1 year ago

      Then why are you here “Generic User 1234”?

      • TorresEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        I’m sorry, I don’t know if “general user” means what I think it means. English is not my first language.

        What I meant was that most people who use the internet and social media on a regular basis aren’t exactly nerdy/tech-savvy. So as soon as you start talking to them about federated instances and whatnot, they lose interest.