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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I don't know if I want it to get as big as reddit is today. I went to Reddit from Digg and I think the sweet spot of people was around 2014-15 right before all the bots and corporate shills showed up. When they started advertising is when it really started going to shit.
If Lemmy ever gets too big I'll prolly leave for something smaller again.
Part of the fun of Lemmy is it can be as big or small as you like. Just find a smaller instance that blocks any of the big places if that ends up happening.
I see where you're coming from, I don't like advertising and in order for Lemmy to really get as big as Reddit it would probably need a more robust monetization model eventually. I don't care to pay for good services as long as they are useful and don't steal my data. However since it didn't start like that it's never going to work out, many people won't go for that.
I don’t mind paying for it either even ads are fine as long as they aren’t as bad as they were on the Reddit App.
Lenny is pretty good so far. Glad theres an alternative.