I mean, I too prefer being on lemmy over reddit. I was just wondering about the EUs current push for open source alternatives, if they can ever succeed in their pursuit.

Yeah, without a recommendation engine, or a for profit model, fediverse is destined to stay an enthusiast space.

Truth is, fediverse’s more fragile than people wanna Admit, that’s my opinion from using it for a week. Firstly, everything works on grants and donations, there’s no for profit model that’s running these servers. That’s bad because running social media is expensive.

Second fediverse’s still utility first, user experience second priority. there’s no recommendation algorithm on mastodon or most other fediverse servers.

Third, this is coming from a security stand point, fediverse is vulnerable to both centralised architecture, and decentralised architecture attacks.

Also it’s just, for 90% of people, if they want to have a website like tiktok, they will just go to tiktok. Especially in case of tiktok. Very few people want to try stuff that’s not as fully baked as corporate owned social media

Exactly, fediverse tikrok gives a lot of “eco-friendly cigarette” vibes.

I am gonna be able to see this post after 2 weeks😭

Not only is it ruining the experience, the geoblock is easily bypassable via a free vpn. Idk whatever they are trying to achieve could be achieved if the geoblock is this bad.

Not working. Feddit.org is inaccessible, only when I am using vpn I can access it. It does look like they have geoblocked certain parts of Asia.

So I looked it up. Feddit seems to have blocked most parts of aisa because of Alibaba scrapping data. Someone from Saudi Arabia too reported being geoblocked.

I am using boost

Thanks, but unfortunately I am using lemmy on mobile. I cannot access network logs here

Yup I am. Why are they geoblocking India?

I see

I am talking about feddit.org

It’s specifically feddit.org. exactly the one where it looks like you created the account, I cannot load images from there on my lemmy feed for some reason, .do you mind if I use your feed as an example?

For some reason, I cannot load any images that are posted by people who made their account on feddit

Semrush is supposed to be not that inaccurate. It’s a data analytics platform. I don’t have the subscription to it to verify this myself, but it’s a huge issue if they are posting inaccurate information.

So it’s the thing with all big social media giants? Why it’s surprising is because with 40-35k mau, lemmy feels like it’s thriving, especially compared to reddit

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Yeaa, I misread the information. 1.2m is the total users. Real mau is 40k, 35k specifically for this month

One of the weirder information I found. The website seems to have quoted semrush here, so idk, but monthly unique users from America is more than America’s population