My only issue with Lemmy is that it’s not a true Reddit replacement, especially when places keep defederating from one another. Like I spend far less time here on Beehaw because it’s defederated from some of the major instances - I understand the administrators’ concerns about moderation but over time a lot of the activity will center itself around the most active instances (i.e., users may come from a diversity of instances) but only interact with content on Lemmy.world.

Normies are confused by Mastodon and how it works. Tried suggesting it as an alternative on /r/worldnews and most people just said that it was too confusing; one guy said that he couldn’t login but turns out he forgot which instance he had signed up for originally.

FYI, as great as Mastodon and the fediverse are, there are issues that prevent their mainstream adoption:

https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/

People should develop a federated video hosting service. It will be expensive but I know the community can do it.