Cross-posted to Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/162keij/transitioning_rrust_to_the_threadiverse/
I tried using Lemmy, but it’s unusable. Every thread has <5 comments. It’s a ghost town.
I’ve seen this type of comment multiple times on reddit and I still don’t understand this sentiment. It just shows that the OP has not once sorted by active and “nobody is using it so I’m not using it” is a pretty weak argument if you claim to “really like the idea”.
Honestly, I agree that it’s generally pretty “dead” (esp. compared to Reddit), but to your second point, I still use Lemmy exclusively because I really do like the idea. Plus, it’s already good enough to be a fairly viable Reddit replacement imo.
“I don’t like this centrally managed, corporate controlled social network. I’m going to move to this other centrally managed, corporate controlled network. It’ll be different this time.”At some point, we have to stop blaming Reddit/Facebook/Google/etc and start accepting that some people really don’t learn from past experience.Lemmy sucks in a lot of ways, but it’s something we control and can improve according to our needs rather than the profits of some amoral megacorp. I’ll take that over yet another round of surprised Pikachu in a few years.
