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I don't know what Canvas is, but I JUST came to Lemmy because AI bots tagged me 3 times in one month. And I sat there, thinking to myself "Well.....now what?"

I thought to myself "There has GOT to be more people affected by this, and by all reddit's shitty decisions over the past 2 years...."

And then I started thinking "What if there WAS a reddit clone, except with some sort of balance system to ensure mods can't get TOO powerful, and run the whole site?"

Then I found Lemmy. And, other than userbase size, and demographic, I'm pretty pleased here. If Lemmy.World makes some boneheaded decision, I could just migrate to another instance. From a functionality standpoint, Lemmy is superior to Reddit in everyway...........except for the fact that Lemmy is still trying to cater to the Linux audience. Once you GET OVER that learning curve, and once Lemmy catches up with Reddit for not only number of users, but also general audience types, THEN it will truely be better than Reddit.

But I think a good barometer of if you've reached that point is, "Does Lemmy have an active community for women to discuss fashion?" and then "Does Lemmy have an active community for kids to talk about how much they love monster trucks?" and then "Does Lemmy have a place for men to talk about every single sports team that's ever existed?"

If Lemmy is going to grow, you CANNOT cator to certain groups of people, and ignore any critisism about how hard it is to use. Because the people who don't want to learn, will just not bother. They'll ask "well why should I use this, and not reddit?"

Because whatever you are most passionate about, whether it's the independantly owned instances, whether it's the interconnectivity with mastadon, and every other service, whehter it's the customizable apps others develop, or maybe you develop........with all that, you have to remember one thing. YOU care about that. The majority of people do not give a shit. They just want an easy place to talk about shoes, and monster trucks, and sports.

Now you can say "But you can CREATE any of those communities on any instance." And that's true. You can......but THEY won't. They want fast, free, easy, and active. You have to design everything around the idiot......because the idiots are everywhere. Linux has the same issues, but that's another topic for another day that's been said repeatedly for 20+ years and hasn't changed.

Question is, do you want to be like Linux, or do you want to be like Reddit? I don't care what your interests are. You can find already active communities for it on Reddit. Can someone else find whatever they're interested in on Lemmy?

Me, some of my interests are here. Not all. I want to help this platform grow, and they will come. In the meantime, the developers need to decide if they want a niche platform that cators to their kind, or if they want to grow and cator to EVERYONE with all interests.