Ask Lemmy

More then likely because you follow the heard, as do most sheep. So go figure the welcoming arms.

Lemmy will never become 'big' look up some of what the developers have said in AMA posts. They're goal is to prevent centralization.

Centralized = Makes money aka profit

Decentralized = Doesn't make profit, social media for hobbyist, provides no revenue but that doesn't matter because no advertising. No one investing in it or backing financially.

How to fix that ? Become centralized. That won't happen.

look at the Stark differences. centralized social media starts with a CEO who is either backed by investors or is Rich like Elon Musk and can buy his own fucking social media site and become the owner and ceo.

Ultimately they're making a profit doesn't matter if it's less than what it was before Elon Musk bought it in terms of Twitter it can go up and down.

But with decentralized social media it's open source so it's available for anyone to create their own instance you don't have to be an expert on anything hell you can even hire someone to do it for you to set it all up for you.

All you have to do is be a politically obsessed admin and press the band button in your basement.

There are no ads that brings in no money therefore admins server admins don't get paid for their time.

There is no incentive for anyone to want to get involved and make decentralized social media like Lemmy popular because there's no money in it.

And if let's say lemmy does become popular well guess what you're going to start seeing ads and your precious admins and mods are going to start asking for people to cut them checks and they're going to be told straight up the only way you're going to get paid is if you become centralized.

And you know what they're going to do?

They're going to agree and become centralized and then y'all are going to be mad that Lemmy is now centralized and not decentralized anymore.

It's all about fucking money dude people don't do shit for free especially if lemmy becomes super popular you think admins and mods aren't going to be sitting there asking for a piece?

I mean come on dude sorry to sound like a fucking asshole I just mean don't be so naive if you want something to become popular like a social media site you need to appeal to a vast variety of an audience not just one little piece of an audience.

Lemmy's favorite audience is leftist democratic obsessed political bullshit okay you're never going to get big doing that crap.

Lemmy doesn't even participate in non-political communities there is no growth in that regard. so this just appeals to all the politically obsessed people on the left all right I don't know how you can't see that