• De Lancre@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I wanted to post my photo in a dress on lemmy’s r/femboy alternative. Searched: one of the instance blocked, second one have 8 months gap between posts (basically dead). There whooping 2.5 users on lemmy, who are interested in femboys and I’m one of them.

      While most people agree with you on paper - no one wanna switch, cause there no real alternative. Similar with google, youtube, windows, nvidia and all other IT monopolistic crap.

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        1 day ago

        It’s just inertia, nothing else.

        Make your own community, start posting, promote it, and people will cum.

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          12 hours ago

          I meant, I like your joke at the end, but it’s not how it works. There literally no audience as for now, that willing to use lemmy in general. Some even moved back to reddit. Promote to whom exactly?

          inertia, nothing else

          Sounds like a copium in this context, considering that reddit still very active, while lemmy slowly dying

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            12 hours ago

            Dying only because people are giving up.

            It’s not easy to set up brave new worlds. It requires time, unfortunately.

            However, unless we invest in it, it’s never going to happen.

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        2 days ago

        Agree i got banned on reddit and have create new account every once in a while then had to fight shadow ban , I wouldn’t think twice before switching but most communities that I follow specially local once are basically non existent only the super popular or some niches with technically sound user base were able to shift rest all stayed at reddit

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          I was a terminal redditors for over a decade and that last year or two I was getting site-wide bans at an accelerating rate. I’m off there to avoid a permaban and I’ll only post there if I need a question answered no other way.

          I’ve been on Lemmy for 19 days so far and feel like it scratches whatever pseudo-social itch Reddit scratched before; even though the communities aren’t as niche, the community and moderation isn’t so consistently obnoxious.