As someone else mentioned here, these other centralized platforms often advertise heavily on subreddits like /r/RedditAlternatives, and they do seem to have some people on there. Does anyone know if they are attracting a lot of people or why people prefer to join other centralized sites before joining e.g. Lemmy? Are they a “threat” to the growth of fediverse platforms like Lemmy, Mbin or just experiments that’ll fail sooner or later?
They are sometimes reccomended above lemmy, as they are centralised, but they have very few active users. The “vibe” on all of them is pleasant, and most of the discussion is high quality, but the same is true here.