Why did Mainchan fail to attract more users from Reddit exodus?
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anonymous
10 months ago
Why do you think Manichan failed to attract more users, while Lemmy managed to get significantly more users?
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from what I've seen because it has the "chan" name
The chan is definitely too frightening for a lot of redditors. I was even hesitant to join at first because of the name and the crowd the "chan" implied would gravitate to the site.
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>Feeling warm fuzzies from another man
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no . . .
oop.. annd here it is.
yeah, this. When I tried to get people to go, they said blah blah blah bigots and racism.
it's still a pretty small and slow site, so people looking for an active community probably wouldn't be too interested. There's also the fact that this is a free-speech platform, which many Redditors took as a bad thing since they're retards. In any case, that won't be the situation this site will be in forever. It will probably take awhile, but I can definitely see this one outpacing most other reddit alternatives due to the anonymous posting feature and content creator program.
>There's also the fact that this is a free-speech platform, which many Redditors took as a bad thing since they're retards.
If I ever come here and half of /s/All is Nazis then I'll leave.
idk man, I don't even see anyone mention Mainchan in
r/RedditAlternatives, Even an unknown site called kbin seems to be more successful in attracting users.
Well like i said, it will take a while, and a decent portion of redditors aren't going to appreciate a place like this so their won't be a lot of immediate traction, but give it some time and i can definitely see this place doing fantastically.
kbin is huge now
As the others mentioned the main reasons are probably that it's too small and slow compared to the decentralized alternatives and the chan in the name scares away some people.
IMO not every place need to be huge as long as it has enough people that create some interesting content and its self sustaining, I think it's enough. Granted mainchan has still a long way to go.
Lemmy was a communist cesspit full of tankies and that's all anyone brought up about it for like a month. The reason why everyone went to there and kbin is because reddit pissed off a lot of people and Lemmy has been thrown around as a reddit clone.
>slow compared to the decentralized alternatives
The Fediverse doesn't even sync shit properly between instances. It makes communities virtually dead if you're browsing them from outside their motherinstance. Redditors are slowly realising it and they ain't happy.
I think he means slow in terms of content. The reddit main page is different each day.
What instance are you on? This hasn't been my experience？
Basically all of them? I've tried with lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, exploding-heads.com, and even kbin.social.
There, I randomly opened this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/356793 (that's 66 comments)
Same thread, but on lemmy.ca: https://lemmy.ca/post/792170 (39 comments. Look for the guy talking about "WWaterloo", for example. You won't find him, yet he's from lemmy.world.)
But hey, at least the thread is there! Sometimes it doesn't even show up, or only 24h later. The OP, that is. There's no guarantee the comments will be there.
I could go on with different threads, but you get the problem.
Because Redditors are insanely leftist and refuse to use sites that aren't explicit left-wing echo chambers.
I think this comment is what sealed the deal for me. right this second.
Obama.
I believe mainchan has potential still. Give it time.
From what I was told it's because this is a chan site.