yesterday .world had to turn off sign-up and even shut down shitposting community.
This is basically the front-door of Lemmy. And as others are starting to notice, 60K users after all the people seeking better and trying out things isn’t that many… And there are seemingly a lot of people who use multiple servers given the technical instability of Lemmy’s code… I am one of those people who spends 10 minutes a day on 4 servers, but I’m cutting back because content just isn’t there and it’s now often gaming topics and news making the rounds as duplicate stories over a 2 to 4 day period (besides memes)
Social media in general… there was so much Facebook hate for the past 8 years… but not much betterment came of it. Today looking over Reddit, it hasn’t really changed that much in the past 4 months… there was a group of dissatisfied people who don’t seem to want to actually build something better - just want to protest Reddit.
YouTube and TV advertising - that’s a huge topic. YouTube does have a lot of small-time original creators, but is the money the reason why? You can’'t make money on Reddit or Lemmy unless you have a business shop or something related to specialty topics (such as auto repair in a discussion community about same).
For a 4.5 year old project, Lemmy’s two core developers have pushed the idea that corporate media is bad and this is the alternative.
But Lemmy had so little content prior to April 2023… I’ve see single-topic BBS systems with far more content…
Hate-of-reddit isn’t exactly a foundation for original content out of goodness of people’s heart. Hate of Threads from Meta, hate of X rename of Twitter. So much anger at Elon Musk, media systems in general that’s been expressed on Lemmy these recent months.