Can they make another android competitor?
Since software is cheap nowadays. I’m sick and tired of Google shit

God I hate nyc, such a shithole

they cant change fundametals - device working against me is not my device.
which is why - doesnt matter if they rewrite everyting in rust, it wont sell.
people know nowadays

Duh. Ofc. But not many people do as they don’t know they can do it. Interestingly this prick opted in to do it

Massie unveils Flock-Off Act aimed at restricting surveillance cameras

btw - Flock CEO got his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow.
Remember this. this is how they feel about their privacy and yours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467750

it dont matter if you left or right - budget deficit will kill us all if we dont fix. Trump import taxes were correct move - but he should have just done it through congress. now its stupid and out of the window and people are pissed only corporatios got their refunds

I think hes doing it now mostly because Trump funded his oponent and kickded him out of congress. hes gone from there January 3, 2027. trump never forgave him voting against big beautiful bill

he would probably much more likely to support no minimum wage and no universal healthcare overall.

he might run in 2028

Lemmy is never going to be as big as Reddit. It financially cannot be.

Why not? That’s exactly the kind of assumption I’m questioning.

Federation is supposed to make scaling easier to distribute. More users can mean more instances, more admins, more donations, more infrastructure, and costs spread across the network.

“It can’t grow because we can’t afford growth” isn’t some fundamental property of federation. It’s an infrastructure problem to solve.

And “it doesn’t want to be” keeps coming up. Lemmy is software. It doesn’t want anything. Different users, admins, and developers clearly have very different ideas about what it should become.

I’m interested in seeing how far it can go, not declaring its ceiling in advance.

is that why lemmy has no hardware resources - they all communists?
also - are non communists allowed to join?

That’s just semantics. An alternative competes for the same users.

Your own source says Lemmy was created because Reddit was banning their communities. The whole point was giving those people somewhere else to go.

Call it an alternative, competitor, or communist escape pod. 😂 The question is the same:

What good is an alternative to Reddit if almost nobody adopts it?

because while I can - it wont do anything if lemmy is at 35k MAU. need distribution and volume. has to be onpar with large plaeyers

at the momen 35k MAU is 4x less than my wife cookie blog monthly sorry

comes election when reddit sabotages all news and only ships corporate propaganda you dont have to have an independent influence?

see issue is - most non techie people wont even understand why they being banned. thats the problem. me running my own instance solves issue for me, does nothing for others.

I dont want corporate control. I like lemmy. but its not working - it needs to be much much bigger to really affect reality

people are not happy with it. most people leave.

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Jesus Christ, everyone here seems to have invented their own definition of what Lemmy is.

Lemmy doesn’t have competitors. It isn’t competing. It isn’t what you think it is.

Except the actual Lemmy developers describe it as:

“a decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators”

They’ve been calling it a Reddit alternative since at least 2020.

So no, I’m not imposing some imaginary “corporate framing” onto Lemmy. I’m using basically the same framing its own developers used to explain why they built it.

And “there is no manager or corporate goal” doesn’t mean adoption suddenly becomes meaningless. If you’re building an alternative to corporate-controlled link aggregators, whether anybody actually adopts the alternative fucking matters.

Otherwise what are we celebrating? Software existing?

And that’s why 35k MAU matters to me. Reddit has spent years handing alternatives opportunities on a silver platter, and Lemmy hasn’t capitalized on them.

You can personally define success as “35k enthusiasts are happy.” Fine.

But stop pretending your definition of Lemmy is the official one while telling everyone else “you don’t understand what Lemmy is.” Even the developers explicitly called it a Reddit alternative.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you’re interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to forums on any other server, and can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.

It is an easily self-hostable, decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators, outside of their corporate control and meddling.

I wanted to leave reddit. but ther is nothing and noone here that why

trust me - I really wanted it to work. but lemmy is really this bad.

MAU measures whether people actually use the platform.

And Reddit has spent those six years practically begging users to leave:

• Killed third-party apps
• Locked down its API
• Pushed logins and the official app
• Increased ads
• Monetized user data
• Pissed off moderators and communities

Yet Lemmy is still around 35k MAU.

At some point “we’re still new” isn’t an excuse. Your biggest competitor keeps shooting itself in the foot and you’re still not growing. its not working chief