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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[–] billionsandbillions@piefed.social 23 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

It's because everything that becomes popular starts with people in the 14-20 year range.

Myspace, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Tiktok...

The Fediverse will eventually grow once something triggers a snowball effect due the nature of connectivity and federation. Until then, the way to make it grow is to have young people make it popular.

Edit: There also needs to be more "fun" here. I think the Fediverse is a more "serious" place which isn't what those other social media sites offered. "Serious 24/7" isn't that enticing for young people.

The other day I was imagining a game or game service that has you make a Fediverse account of some kind. You get people to signup with a username that automatically creates a "@fedi.games" account. That account can have access to Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed etc.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

what, you don't think it's fun endlessly memeing about doomerism and murder?

[–] billionsandbillions@piefed.social 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There's not enough politics IMO. No fun at all.

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

People need to spend more time on lighthearted issues like Palestine and the evils of capitalism