This is not going to be a blogpost about "Why do people still use Reddit instead of everyone moving to Lemmy?". I noticed that even with Mastodon users, who already understand and like the advantages of decentralized platforms, the usage of Lemmy is extremely small, and more people use Reddit. Most of them haven't even heard of Lemmy. To be fair, the Reddit usage also seems to be fairly low.

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[–] percent@infosec.pub 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If I had to guess: the culture here seems unusual, and unwelcoming — sometimes even hostile — to diverse opinions (i.e. people who aren't similarly unusual).

I haven't met many people IRL who would fit in here. For some visitors, that's okay (I don't fit in here, myself), but I think most people would just move along and forget that Lemmy exists.

Being federated, Lemmy is technically capable of being more diverse. It's a bit ironic that it still ended up being like this.

Also, some images don't load. I just ignore those, but still people might be put off by broken UX

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I blame some of the toxicity in the fact that a big chunk of lemmy users came here because they were banned from Reddit precisely for being hostile.

[–] PapaSkwat@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I blame some of the toxicity in the fact that a big chunk of lemmy users came here because they were banned from Reddit precisely for being hostile.

Totally this. Lemmy is a pretty toxic place because of it. I even have Lemmy stalkers because many Lemmys are the type that just can't let something go. And I'll get downvoted for saying it. 🤣 🤣

[–] pomp@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

About the images thing: half the posts on reddit are just [content removed by moderator] when you click into them

[–] B1tch_Pudding@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

That's actually the best defense of reposting I've heard