Here and there we see people earning and losing career over Twitter, Facebook posts, even if illusionary, it makes news.
When would Mastodon, Lemmy posts get enough traction to get into news?
Unlike them, Reddit has zero credibility, but still has many articles about it and internal reddit dramas.
Where would we as a fediverse reach the point ArsTech and others would refer to our post and comments as a proof of something?
We have a wet dream of them all relocating from X-itter to free platforms and self-hosting, but the first breaking point would be if they refer to us like we are real. When and how it would be? I don’t know.
It depends. Instances like Mastodo may start having some weight in future but I don’t think that Lemmy will loose his ‘niche’ status anytime soon. Discord have more users as well, but you never hear of him in the news, people know Discord but is still not mainstream.
As far as mainstream is concerned. Discord is known as “That platform where moderators groom kids” since that’s the only things that ever reach the news
And leaking government secrets in vc (ahem war thunder)
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the only thing I hear about it on the news is the occasional War Thunder leak
Discord chats are deeply private (not for the owners), and we are googlable. Where it needs to be something big, like a child abuse case to make some news about Discord, discovered through other means, we have a more open content platform.
Honestly, i think if people did videos here and there mentioning lemmy and the info they found in here (similarly like how reddit is shilled sometimes) there would be a bigger growth in user count in the Lemmy instances over time
I think everybody who’s anybody is on Threads but nobody uses it
It’s not a credible source without some form of identity verification.
It wasn’t for Reddit too. There were interviews of mods referenced just by their handle. There’s just some feeling that that site have weight.
Just because they’re only referenced by a handle doesn’t mean there isn’t a verification process.
something will probably just break out from time to time, like 4chan. although, something breaking out of here is more likely to attract more long-term users than 4chan I assume, this place is a bit more welcoming
I hate to say it but it’ll basically never happen. The whole reddit uprising ended uo being a big nothing burger and I can’t really see anything bringing an equal migration/influx.
