Here and there we see people earning and losing career over Twitter, Facebook posts, even if illusionary, it makes news.
When would Mastodon, Lemmy posts get enough traction to get into news?
Unlike them, Reddit has zero credibility, but still has many articles about it and internal reddit dramas.
Where would we as a fediverse reach the point ArsTech and others would refer to our post and comments as a proof of something?
We have a wet dream of them all relocating from X-itter to free platforms and self-hosting, but the first breaking point would be if they refer to us like we are real. When and how it would be? I don’t know.
It depends. Instances like Mastodo may start having some weight in future but I don’t think that Lemmy will loose his ‘niche’ status anytime soon. Discord have more users as well, but you never hear of him in the news, people know Discord but is still not mainstream.
Discord chats are deeply private (not for the owners), and we are googlable. Where it needs to be something big, like a child abuse case to make some news about Discord, discovered through other means, we have a more open content platform.
As far as mainstream is concerned. Discord is known as “That platform where moderators groom kids” since that’s the only things that ever reach the news
the only thing I hear about it on the news is the occasional War Thunder leak
It did create a bit of a splash back when Mastodon got together and played a huge part in saving the Texas Observer.
As for being used of a source of what random people are talking about, I think that’s further off for three reasons:
- The biggest platform is a better source
- It doesn’t go well with decentralisation - you want to report what’s going on inside one big, centralised service
- It tends to be pretty worthless lazy journalism. The journalists who have been converted to Mastodon tend to avoid writing sloppy pieces about what people are talking about online - they rejected Twitter for a reason.
It already does. Mastodon is mentioned every now and then. Some journalists know about it, since the twitter exodus happened. But I’ve searched for famous people on Mastodon and it’s still only a handfull. For example Stephen Fry and Greta Thunberg. So it doesn’t play a role in most people’s daily lives.
Lemmy is just small, niche and has currently too many bugs/issues so it doesn’t attract new users. (My oppinion)
George Takei is on Universeodon (on AP fedi) and Bluesky, as well. He or his management seems to be the type to try out new platforms.
Honestly, i think if people did videos here and there mentioning lemmy and the info they found in here (similarly like how reddit is shilled sometimes) there would be a bigger growth in user count in the Lemmy instances over time
I think everybody who’s anybody is on Threads but nobody uses it
something will probably just break out from time to time, like 4chan. although, something breaking out of here is more likely to attract more long-term users than 4chan I assume, this place is a bit more welcoming
It’s not a credible source without some form of identity verification.
It wasn’t for Reddit too. There were interviews of mods referenced just by their handle. There’s just some feeling that that site have weight.
I hate to say it but it’ll basically never happen. The whole reddit uprising ended uo being a big nothing burger and I can’t really see anything bringing an equal migration/influx.
A lot of people here seem to actively reject popularity and want the fediverse to stay small, too
Not quite - organic growth is welcome. What we don’t want is a mass migration of 100 Million Reddit users.
A lot of people’s justifications for not liking threads being part of the fediverse was because they didn’t like the idea of the fediverse becoming mainstream.
Fair. Though, I think the difference between the two hordes is that the Lemmy user experience feels a lot like Reddit. Reddit’s userbase would arrive, take one look at the place and treat it as the same place they came from.
Lemmy is not like either Facebook or Insta - so I don’t think their users would be so inclined to simply take over culturally.
I wouldn’t say that. If it wasn’t for the whole reddit fiasco, I would’ve never even heard of Lemmy. Now I use it more than reddit.
Hopefully not before things balance out a bit. Things get a bit to polarized here. I’m not too sure I’d want to have the current snapshot be what represents Lemmy.
Best to keep out of the public eye until it’s a bit less embarrassing.
