Most of the posts that are frequently featured in the homepage are about social problems or styles of life common to that country (or most first world countries), and even limit to only United-Statesian media discussion. They do not appeal to someone like me, who has different thoughts, different people, different problems. It’s hard to find something relatable in (most) non-local communities, because it’s just about this style of culture. It doesn’t helps with the poor website discorverability, making me limited to these same repetitive and unfunny posts.

  • Snoopy@peculiar.florist
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    5 days ago

    @oce
    I’m not sure if they really have 2.1M readers on Reddit. I don’t trust those numbers due to bots, inative accounts…

    And if Lemmy was really connected to the fediverse we wouldn’t have 1K users but lot more.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Even if we can’t trust those numbers, you can just check their frontages and see the number of posts and comments per day, it’s much more active.

      And if Lemmy was really connected to the fediverse we wouldn’t have 1K users but lot more.

      How could it be more connected?

      • Snoopy@peculiar.florist
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        5 days ago

        @oce
        Well mastodon/iceshrimp’s users can’t see you. I can only see you there because i met you in jlai.lu first and added your account to my iceshrimp one. So right now, they can only see your jlai.lu account through me.

        Outside my iceshrimp account or lemmyverse, you doesn’t exist in the fediverse.

        ActivityPub, as i read should work that way : whatever the software is, we should access any content and interact with.

        So, Lemmy is somewhat limited. Small support of hashtag, and we can’t follow people, nor react to their post. If ActivityPub worked well, those number as 1M would be irevalent as we should count the whole french fediverse community.

        Same for Mastodon that doesn’t support forum style format.

        I hope my explanation was clear. It’s still a wip project and i hope those barriers will be lowered and see software merging in some way. :)

        • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
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          5 days ago

          I guess there are issues with the post formats, micro blog and forum styles are quite different, and there’s probably a cultural friction between people who like community based pseudonymous forums and strongly personified social media.
          Let’s hope we can one day have a common share place for information with UIs adapted to every tastes.

          • Snoopy@peculiar.florist
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            5 days ago

            @oce
            That’s what i hope they will achieve one day. Both are good. And if they don’t see the forum structure they won’t notice. :)