From purely practical point of view, what is the selling point of Lemmy for the average user who does not care about the theoretical benefits of software or the open source software movement?

Assumptions:

  • The average user will never host a instance.
  • The average user is not interested in volunteering or moderation.
  • The average user is not looking for NSFW communities or any controversial communities.
  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    231·
    4 days ago

    I wonder if that’s because there’s a load of bored nerds waiting around to help people, lol

    • credo@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      Maybe it’s a population bias thing. All the helpful people left Reddit for Lemmy. I.e., being helpful may be highly correlated to the set of ethics that drove those Redditors away in the first place

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I installed Ubuntu and have it all set up. It came with Gnome. But now I kind of wish I went with KDE. How hard is it to switch?

        • Scheisser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Years ago when I used it, it was just installing package kubuntu-desktop and selecting kde as the default environment for the user. Not sure if it still works like this.