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this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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Probably not, the vast VAST majority of average internet users are basically brain dead and want maximum convinence at any cost, including privacy and being treated right by the service as a user. They quite simply don't care what happens as long as they can still get their garbage content drip fed to them without any work, learning, or inconvinece on their part. Lemmy is great, but its nuanced and we all kboe how well the general population handles nuance. Decentralization and the fediverse can be hard topics for some people to mentally digest.
Comments like this are exactly why people aren't gonna wanna join Lemmy.
For reference: I'm one of the brain dead convenience seeking idiots you're describing. Lemmy isn't that hard to understand. What sucks about Lemmy is pretentious users like you treating it like something it isn't when in reality it's just another in a long list of average to middling message boards.
Anyone who doesn't join a service because they don't like someones opinion they saw should stay out of internet fourms to begin with. You think im being a pretentious prick for thinking most reddit/internet users don't have the technical knowledge to understand the backbone of lemmy's decentralization/federation and that they want mindless convinence at all cost? Good, its the truth regardless how much you don't like it or me for saying it. Eat shit and go find another 'average to middling message board'
I don't have the technical knowledge to understand lemmy's decentralized federated nonsense and I've been using it just fine. You think you need to understand how something works to use it? Or do you think idiots like me are too scared to use something we don't understand? Because I'm saying you're wrong on both counts. And if you don't like average idiots like me taking over your beloved platform then maybe you should just suck it up because I'm not going anywhere, and if this site continues to grow then pretty soon the average user will be a lot more like me than like you.
Its been growing in average users ever since reddit started with the spez nonesense and im fine with average non-technical people using the service. I never once said they couldn't. It takes all kinds of people to make a community after all. I just personally don't like being called pretentious for stating an obvious fact about the nature of average people and think you're being an argumentative asshat that took personal offense to a general fact of life. Regardless of how much new people come in, it will always be a drop in the bucket compared to the ones who will stay behind no matter what. Just like youtube, it doesn't matter what they do to the users because they provide a convinent service with 100% uptime and that is most popular in userbase.
If you don't want to be called pretentious then maybe you shouldn't spout pretentious nonsense like this
(I highlighted the pretentious parts)
This is fair, I could have and should have used kinder and less insulting ways of phrasing it even if the overall message is about the same. I apologize for the pretentious dickishness on my part.
And I apologize for being an asshole in response. I would say that I hadn't had my morning coffee yet but I've been trying to hold myself more accountable so instead I'll blame my overall addiction to caffeine
I don't know my experience using Lemmy with boost has been pretty seamless so far (apart of a small snafu of trying to log in to the wrong server)
Plus you just know once it finally goes IPO reddit will go down the drain significantly faster than it has as of late