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I think Alibaba and Aliexpress are less tightly connected with the Chinese government. They also ship stuff from China, but they aren’t specialized in the cheapest of the cheapest. Plus as far as I know they’re more a marketplace platform. They handle the money and connect you with an individual seller in China. The platforms are a bit less convenient to use. I think it’s a bit like eBay vs Amazon, if you want to compare it to western companies.

Because people like cheap stuff. Need a phone case? Harry Potter merchandise knockoffs, socks, a brush for your arts project? TEMU has that for $0.61, delivered to your door.

And as far as I know it’s sponsored by the Chinese government. They chip in with forced labor camps. And they also invested massively in advertising and making it a thing.

I wouldn’t buy from them. As far as I know the app is also spying on the users etc. But yeah, enough people seem to buy stuff there. I suppose it’s cheap and convenient and people don’t care. It’s kind of depressing. I agree.

Just read the government is currently also on a VPN banning spree. I guess that list is going to change frequently now, if people continue with watching Youtube, Instagram and Twitter.

My top apps are all shopping apps, discount apps, WhatsApp, ChatGPT, TEMU, video streaming and TikTok is there, too. VPN comes further down along with dating apps and then it gets quite random. Guess in Germany our biggest worry is to save some money when grocery shopping…

Is that because of the political situation? Like repression, internet censorship… Or an unrelated trend?

Why not a linked list? Or a hash-table?

Well, Lunduke is making hour long nuanced content just with baity titles. And he doesn’t spend a portion of his days on banning people and sending snarky comments. This is mostly shitposting, ragebait and wrong factual claims…

But I guess the admins can overpower any mod, so it could be them as well?!

Who did this? The mods themselves? I mean they’re entitled to do whatever they like in their community… within instance rules… Or is this some intervention by someone else?

Nice one. Though, I think as one of the Linux nerds here, I should be wearing a hoodie and saying “Lemmy users are normal people”. And I do get good answers here, regarding computer stuff. But it doesn’t feel they’re nearly as loud as in any single computer forum… Maybe the bell curve is closer to me. And the users who complain that it’s too much Linux content are wrong?!

But it’s peaked this March, and we’re in constant decline since then. We’re losing a few hundred users each month, not growing.

Most Lemmy users and the developers say they prefer slow growth… I mean you’re right. My point is just, it does look more like active decline. And I’m not sure if that’s healthy.

You’re right. That’s a good thing. At the same time it has a lot more “normal people” than other places on the internet, I frequent.

We will grow organically, or not, and it will be fine.

I think that’s pretty much settled by now. Judging by the stats, the graph has homed in on a steady line of 45k monthly active users. And there hasn’t been any movement for some time now. It’s going to be the “or not” part.

That’s exactly what I’ve been telling for some time now, as well.

I think we should be nice and welcoming and provide a good atmosphere. Maybe a unique (in a good way) community that can’t be found anywhere else. I mean we need something that sets us apart. If we’re just another low-key social media platform that is bad as well, just in a different way, we won’t attract any users.

And we need to offer something useful(?) to (new) users.

Plus we need to solve a few technical issues. The onboarding process needs to be a lot easier. It has to be clicking “Next” a few times and maybe choosing a password. Not learning about instances etc and then you also get to sort through the communities and put in a lot of effort to make it useful.
And I’ve heard admins complain, so there might be a few other issues with performance, reliability and other details.
I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people. And there needs to be constant and visible improvement, maybe useful new features every now and then. So it looks active, and provides some novelty and innovation.

Maybe even some “Wow”-factor.

Furthermore, maybe a bit less drama. And it has to be obvious that Lemmy is a nice place. I mean it is. But most people I’ve showed it to, didn’t notice this at first glance.

What a shitty idea.

Ah okay. I wouldn’t know. I played Minetest instead of Minecraft. And the community there seems to be nice albeit a bit small. I learned a bit of Lua and contributed some smaller fixes to some mods. But I guess the gaming and modding community for propriety games is a bit different than the open source community.

Most open sorce licenses do, not just the GPL. I’m not sure what Minecraft modpackers do. But in the free and open source world, you’ll always find that attribution. Sometimes they have a list who wrote the software and who maintained it for what timespan.

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