What do you think is responsible for lemmy’s growth over other alternatives like KBin and Tildes? - eviltoast

Is it speed? Features? Ease of development? Just curious why lemmy is seeing more activity as opposed to other networks.

  • cerevant@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m curious about what aspect of Kbin is similar to Facebook / Tumblr? I can’t tell the difference between a post and a thread, but both seem to be posted in magazines (communities).

    • Frost Wolf@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      You can also follow people which is more twitter territory but facebook allows that too. It has a private messaging feature too. I guess those along with the microblogging features can make it a viable competitor to facebook if given the chance to mature. All it needs perhaps is a dedicated friends list and magazines can be repurposed to groups. Maybe pages and it would be a full fb experience.

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        1 year ago

        I think for me, the killer feature for a Facebook alternative is being able to limit the audience - there is some stuff I want to share with friends and family that I don’t want to be globally public.

        • Frost Wolf@lemmy.worldOP
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          1 year ago

          Ahh that’s the FB feature that I’ve been taking for granted. I guess I’m so used to always posting “public” in my facebook that I don’t think about it. My more private photos are on instagram and that’s on private, too. I mostly use facebook for professional uses. Well that and I am deligent with my friend list.