Social network Reddit recently began blocking mobile visitors to its website while pushing them to download the official Reddit app, and it's fair to say that the move is not going down well with users. If you visit reddit.com on your iPhone today, you may see a new popup that can't be dismissed, asking you to "get the app to keep using Reddit".
Because there is an actual user base for niche interests. Lemmy is great but doesn’t have nearly enough users to support communities for a lot of topics.
In fact you don’t even have to get too niche to find that a topic is non-existent on lemmy. Sports for example.
I had to go back to get Pokémon Fire Ash working on my R36 emulator. That was literally the only place I could find any information and I still had to do a bunch of debugging after getting the starting point. Then I interacted helping another set of people stuck at the same spot. Only found it through startpage, not Reddits search
Especially hyper local communities.
Lemmy is great and that’s the only place I’m posting.
But yeah, if I’m looking for a past conversation on a niche topic, I’ll probably find something to read on reddit.