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

  • Frost Wolf@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hmmm, on the bright side, with lemmy going mainstream maybe some of this culture (including privacy and FOSS) becomes more and more openly discussed.

    • Torres@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

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

      • theragu40@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 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.

        • Torres@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 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.

    • Torres@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

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

        • Anoril@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Whole idea is weird and as of now its lacking features. Like no ability to look on the other instance local feed without registrating there (at least not in apps i use). Also needing to type whole adress with instance name if you want some community from other instance is unhandy.

          Also, as far as i understand, there can be the same communities on different instances, so you could subscribe to, idk, cat community on lemmy.ml, but not see anything from cat community on lemmy.world. If its true its kinda stupid, i think there should be a way to associate comunities across fedarated instances.

          Hell, even registration is kinda messed up. As lemmy.world shown, you easilly can sign up on overpopulated instances which would drop several times a day. Not sure, it probably fixed for now, but that was a problem when i started.

          So far i like the idea and want it to succeed and become popular. But with how elitist people here are usually towards users from other platforms and with overall roughness it kinda seems unlikelly. Maybe it will change when current apps get better, or reddit app developers make versions for lemmy, idk.

          • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I think what would help would be a way to create a multilemmy feature like the multireddit one where you can include communities together.

            cat@sopuli.xyz

            cat@lemmy.ml

            cat@beehaw.org

            cat@lemmy.world

            So long as they are all Federated with each other you could have a multilemmy feed for “cat”