I'm genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's the other way around, OpenStars suggested Lemmy to the people, the people had a look and were not convinced.

They usually have a comment where they explain it, but I can't find it now.

[–] Coelacanth@aggregatet.org 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That makes more sense. His phrasing did not convey that to me but it is probably a me-problem.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yeah as Blaze said, multiple conversations spaced apart. The first one I mentioned it, the second they told me they didn't like it, either the second or perhaps now a third they actively chide me for having mentioned it.

I did not realize that a Google search pulls up lemmy.ml. Fwiw, DuckDuckGo pulls up lemmy.world instead, as its top hit. Lemmy.world at the time had 80% of all Threadiverse users on it, but Lemmy.ml has legacy, and Google's search algorithm prioritized it over lemmy.world or some other webpage, like an explanatory one.

I also did not realize that, when you click the link to go there, lemmy.ml shows only Local rather than Global results by default, to someone without an account on it.

Combined together, a non-technical normal person is going to Google "Lemmy", and to the extent they don't find the actor, will see images that mostly portray how people who own stock or even simply store money in a bank account should literally, not figuratively but literally, be killed / beheaded (/ guillotined / Luigi'd, however you want to say it). Usually within the first 2-5 pages of posts too, and especially anytime that there is any election going on in a Western nation, the bOtH sIdEs SaMe campaigns are out in full force. Lemmy is pretty extreme - you can block it all, but when you simply Google Lemmy and see lemmy.ml's Local rather than Global content, the bOtH sIdEs SaMe content is extremely prevalent.

e.g. this one that just prior to the USA elections, subtly hints that Kamala Harris might not be the best choice to vote for:

Edit: regardless of whether the evidence fully supports their 2nd-hand assertion or not, my own statement is that 100% of the people that I have tried to introduce Lemmy to irl have actively chided me for its "extreme leftist" content. Of course, Reddit is somewhat leftist itself, so I feel that it is not quite a fair comparison, but it is something to be aware of. The definition of a "Nazi bar" is that regardless of whether we ourselves are Nazis, we allow such here and that makes people uncomfortable - although in our case not totalitarian right-wing fascists but totalitarian left-wing fascists instead (who claim to be socialist, seemingly without knowing what that word means). I probably should use less inflammatory language here, but my point is that "Lemmy" makes people uncomfortable. And rightly so, as the very name itself has a history.