With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

  • Torres
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    731 year ago

    As much as I love Lemmy I don’t see it going mainstream :/
    It’s too weird for the general user

    • @[email protected]
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      441 year ago

      Yeah I agree. Arguably reddit isn’t even mainstream, and it is exponentially larger than Lemmy now and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

      I’m really loving Lemmy, but it is not even remotely a factor if we are having a conversation about things that are mainstream enough to reflect popular opinion.

    • Very_Bad_Janet
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      121 year ago

      Reddit was too weird for most people until they ended up being in their Google search results for most topics. It will take a while but the Fediverse will eventually reach a level of popularity and mainstream utility.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      We could have it both, where big instances like LemmyWorld or BeeHaw becomes the well known public interface, while they maintain federation with smaller instances.

      • Torres
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        41 year ago

        I’m sorry, I don’t know if “general user” means what I think it means. English is not my first language.

        What I meant was that most people who use the internet and social media on a regular basis aren’t exactly nerdy/tech-savvy. So as soon as you start talking to them about federated instances and whatnot, they lose interest.