Do you believe Lemmy/Mastodon can become mainstream and fully replace their centralized counterparts?
What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i've been hopeful. What do you think?
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Well, bugs and UI aside, it seems like Lemmy can work but there's not a lot of substantive discussion right now. The most upvoted stuff are memes and other low effort content. I'm not sure how long a bean meme can sustain serious activity.
The most upvoted stuff, yes, but if you would block those meme communities (or aren't subscribed), you actually do get to the substantive discussion. The problem is the sorting algorithms right now,
hotranks recent 2 upvote posts much too high, whiletopignores smaller, less upvote-heavy communities.That’s my issue right now. Half the posts on the communities page are about how awesome Lemmy/fediverse is (many of which have been there for days). The rest are either trashing Reddit and Twitter or memes and shitposts. I have to scroll quite a ways to find any actual content, and there’s much less interaction on those posts.
I’ve found multiple communities I’d be interested in, but it seems like many of them had some posts a week or two ago and nothing since.
It’s already getting tiring to have to scroll past the same “Isn’t Lemmy awesome!” posts.
I'm finding it way better to go to specific communities right now instead of scrolling all. The "isn't Lemmy awesome" posts are to be expected until the honeymoon period ends. It'll be at least a month until it clears up.