KssioAug

Not sure if I understand the thread, but it seems to me it was trying to find out how many people actually reply to posts on Lemmy, rather than just reacting or seeing and ignoring them. And what it seems to find out, is that Lemmy is actually very active. According to it, the median community replies to 74% of all posts, which doesn’t look bad at all imo.

It also seems to compare the numbers to Farcaster, and concludes that Lemmy’s lack of rigged algorithms, focused on chronological feed, creates more active communities with higher visibility and replies. It also seems to conclude that the chosen server heavily impacts the response rate (Lemmy.world with 93% of active threads, compared to 56% on Lemmy.zip).

The biggest problem though, is that it compares Lemmy to Farcaster, which are completely different platforms. Farcaster is a microblog like X / Mastodon / Bluesky, that, by design, is a whole different beast, and also way too niche. Without comparing it directly to Reddit or other comparable social networks, I don’t think it actually means anything that useful (at least not in a comparison).

Also, the data is too short (1 day, 50 posts each community) to draw conclusions, which makes it fundamentally flawed. If the data was extended for an entire week or a month, and done in different times of the day (considering that time zone matters), the conclusions could have been much more interesting.

I think people tend to be naive about Steam.

I mean, I DO think that Steam is miles better than Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Epic and I would say they’re probably one of the biggest responsibles to make Linux that much more popular (both for consumer and for devs) in the latest years.

But I don’t know what’s gonna happen to Steam after Gabe Newell leaves. I think there’s a huge risk for a dramatic shift in Valve / Steam monetization and culture. Things are fine now, but that’s still a corporation, and shareholders will want to get the last drop out of it just as these shitheads do to everything else.

But was he prepared to be under their overwatch?

It might as well be his doom (pun intended). Can’t Activision file a lawsuit against him for uploading that on Github?

Do they want to make the switch? If they don’t, they won’t.

You can’t force or convince the mainstream to get to the Fediverse when pretty much all of their connections are on the mainstream network.

That’s why I think Lemmy/Piefed are the ones that have the biggest chance of sticking, because they’re aimed to a public that’s not necessarily mainstream.

I know they exist and I totally respect it, but I’m not even sure if it makes much of a sense an Instagram/TikTok alternative on the Fediverse, considering these social media are aimed around getting visibility either by personal relationship or by popularity (volume over quality). And I don’t think that the Fediverse public as of now is looking to become that.

No thanks. I don’t need a closed source browser from an USA company, promising about privacy. I don’t trust them.

The pro-consumer pitch is typical of these startup.

I don’t even see the point of paying for their search engine, which honestly feels to me just a viral market stunt on social media to make people believe it’s that much different from the dozens free alternatives we already have.

Who would have thought that Stremio, after adding paid subscription, would not just not improve but actually get worse. That’s shocking.