Just a little rant. When I first visited Lemmy Sites a couple of months ago it felt empty. Besides the really mainstream community pretty much everything else just felt empty.
Meanwhile though traffic has increased a lot and I feel well entertained by the traffic in c/hfy c/noncredibledefence c/keepwriting c/worldbuilding and so on. It is certainly less than Reddit but often quality is substancially higher and is “enough” to keep me entertained.
Also I like that you can actually post something without running into a bazillion deletes, bans and moderator shitshat because your post was two words to short, not NCD enough and so on.
Sure, the C64 community on Lemmy is laughable. So is the ARMA community. I still use REddit for that. Also I often check up stuff on r/hfy and r/NCD but since one week I have been prefering Lemmy for that.
Also my longer posts don’t get eaten up any more. God, three weeks ago most posts with 3k an more just got lost without feed back. Nowadays I have even manges posts around 20k without breaking them up. Though the editor is still lacking for longer posts. On Reddit I can copy-paste pretty much anything from Libreoffice into Reddits Editor (which is also pretty lacking but differently lacking). On Lemmy I have to run most text through a little perl script to get them even using correct line breaks perl -pe ‘s/\n/\n\n/’ and different sizes for Headlines are much to few to select from.
Not perfect, not even very good but definitely promising.
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Please for anyone reading, just be patient. Keep posting and commenting and it WILL grow. There are only like 1.2 million Lemmy users versus hundreds of millions of redditors.
If you follow the 90-9-1 rule, that leaves very few actual contributors and still Lemmy has a lot of good content daily. Just be patient and it will come.
Where are you seeing 1.2m users? This site says that it tracks all instances and only shows 0.96m users total and 62k users in the past month.
I can’t find it now. The number that I saw was 1.09 million, but I can’t find the site I saw it on now. I think a bunch of them must be purged spam accounts maybe.
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I stopped posting to Reddit because frankly it felt like throwing a pebble into the ocean.
I love the smaller approach here
I agree somewhat, I think Lemmy has a way to go though because there are some real big headlines that seem to be missing from Lemmy on certain communities, and often a lot of posts with 0 comments or very few. I know it’s early days but until Lemmy is a reliable source of news for my various hobbies I’ll still be using Reddit alongside. At least on Reddit for all it’s flaws, if there is something big happening in a certain scene, it’ll be there. It’s a one stop shop for all my information.
Just joined after sync for lemmy has been released to the public. As a sync user since it started a decade ago lemmy already feels more familiar to me than reddit. I don’t quite understand exactly how it all works just yet but I can definitely see myself using this over reddit.
IMO, sync for lemmy should be automatically pushed to all sync for reddit devices.
I still use Sync for reddit. (with the revanced mod where you can import your own API key)
It kinda did via a push notification, but IIRC Google Play ToS won’t allow a developer to suddenly change an app’s functionality significantly
No need to understand the details really. Just post, comment, and subscribe to communities.
Feel free to make an account on another instance like lemm.ee (a general sensible instance) or lemmy.cafe (run by a guy, new) or a country-based instance where people of that country congregate. You might do this to keep your interests or purposes for the accounts separate or in case the lemmy.world server is down (even for a short while), or to potentially access defederated instances and their communities.
Does your username automatically carry over to different instances? Or do you need to create a new account for each?
For now if you want another account, you just make another (with any username you want, I have an account with the same username on lemm.ee). It’s possible to port subscriptions and blocked users and communities to a new account using some software. While that is useful, it’s not a proper account migration.
However keep in mind you can mostly access most other instances from your home instance. In that case your username (and instance) ‘carry over’.
On the off chance lemmy.world has defederated from an instance, and you can’t access it, you can join another general, neutral instance like lemm.ee
I don’t understand the “slowly” part at all. I joined Lemmy about a month ago when Reddit third party apps went dark. Lemmy was largely a ghost town then, with most of the relatively mainstream communities I sought out having newest posts that were days or even weeks old. That desolation was gone after the first few days, with a ton more engagement from others who migrated over and a steady stream of new content. The communities I frequent have grown by leaps and bounds since then. “Slow” isn’t a word I’d use to describe Lemmy’s growth.
Yep, Lemmy is more active than tildes at this point.
Since the spike in content that came with the Reddit migration, I feel like things have slowed down. Maybe I’m wrong, I don’t have any stats to back that up.
Maybe “plateau’d” is a better phrase. There has been growth since the Reddit migration, but it has decreased since the spike. Not that that’s a bad thing
I wouldn’t say plateaued. Decreased. A number of the communities that I subscribe to seem to have fewer daily posts than they did a few weeks ago.
Maybe someone here already said this but if you find a community with not a lot of traffic here, make sure to post in it. Others might go looking for it and find nothing, just like you did. Perpetual cycle of I see nothing, I leave. If someone’s active, maybe someone else will be active with you. And then two turns to four to 8 and so on. Even if it feels like you’re screaming into the void, keep screaming. The void is infinite and someone’s bound to hear you eventually.
Not to sound like a jerk but I don’t understand what most people expected. All new sites start slow. Facebook was slow at the beginning. Reddit too. It’s not like they had millions of users and subs day one. We have the responsibility to build up this community. We want a site like Reddit but without the u/spez crap. So we better start building it up and complain less. Criticism is ok but saying “it’s slower than Reddit” is kinda useless and obvious.
Reddit got a burst of users when digg did stupid shit. Now Reddit’s doing stupid shit and…
Reddit was also like Lemmy is now when it first started.
Also it’s definitely not slower than Reddit. Reddit was tiny for a couple of years. I’m not certain, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we already have more users than Reddit did before the Digg/Slashdot migrations, and those took a few years.
Woah now hold on there mate, this is the internet, you can’t go making sense, it’s just not the done thing!
I reckon after all is said and done, the biggest issue I had with Reddit is that people felt they had to be heard. Like, we just needed to know that you also thought that certain thing (“came here to say this”) or that you are morally superior to everyone else (“oh but I don’t do it that way OP”). It’s 90% of the reason the content on Reddit had deteriorated, because people crave the attention, and thus the imaginary number going up.
Now I’m not saying Lemmy is different. In fact, I fully expect it to go the same way. But right now, there are far fewer people here who just have to give their opinion (I see the irony), and therefore less shit to wade through to get to actually good content.
As an example, look at the top comment on any default sub post on Reddit. It will have heaps and heaps of replies that are just valueless crap. This is what makes Reddit seem “faster” than Lemmy. The reality is that most of it is fluff, most of it is irrelevant to you.
This is what I wanted to say which is why I came here! Plz upvote me?
Reddit just makes it very obnoxious. Like, there are ways to let someone know you thought the same way, like naturally and organically continuing a discussion by saying “yeah I thought the same and yadda yadda yadda” something that feels like an active conversation is happening. That’s not Reddit, not anymore. Everyone has megaphones and they’ve got to announce every single thing that they’re doing, it’s about as obnoxious as FB users who feel like they’ve got to share where they checked in, where they dined at, what food they ate .etc .etc
Only, as you’ve pointed out, it’s with opinions and having this need to feel validated. It’s worse by how many ways a Reddit user wants to feel validated, particularly with their karma system. They feel the more karma they have, the more ‘superior’ they are.
I’ve said it before, for as gigantic as all of those platforms are. They sure do say a lot of nothing.
i disagree. Lemmy is quickly getting better.
As of this last month, Lemmy is my new “go to” for scrolling social media. My Reddit usage is probably 20% or less of what it used to be.
A part of this was Voyager’s Progressive Web App (https://vger.app), it made me feel right at home after Apollo shut down.
Here here, was a RIF user but after the blip, I haven’t looked back. More and more ppl are migrating over, and I really enjoy no ads!
I would suggest starting a community if one doesn’t appear.
Just migrated over from RIF as well, first post! Like the UI so far
Love this so much!!!
My third grade art teacher would be proud!
Snatching this for the future 😘
Thats awesome, thank you for doing this
Converted it to B&W to make it look like silver:
Lemmy World silver
I was an RIF user for a long time, I honestly haven’t looked back since the API thing. I’ve found connect to be easy to use and it scratches the itch for sure. Love to see it getting more traffic now, my only sense of loss would be the Google search with “_____ ,reddiit” to find someone who has spoken about what I’m looking for. Lemmy will get there, just happy to be along for the ride
I’m regularly seeing hundreds of comments on posts now and only a month ago it was rare to see a dozen comments on a post. I really don’t need more engagement on a post, that’s plenty. Lemmy still needs more users to sustain more niche communities, but in the places that people are it’s already great.
haha it’s funny i felt the opposite - when i got here at the beginning of the ‘exodus’ i already felt like Lemmy was a small but thriving little community that i enjoyed much more than reddit.
not sure why some want it to be just like reddit but the fediverse. i don’t and i’m glad it’s a smaller bunch of people and hope it stays that way.
I have other accounts on Lemmy but lemmy.world feels the most like Reddit imho. Check out some of the other, smaller instances, many have a different vibe and are more relaxed in pace owing from the smaller userbase.
@ruud@lemmy.world mentioned starting lemmy.world on a mastodon instance. I made a few communities to post some pics. reddit hords piled in 2 days later complaining it needed to be more like reddit. meh
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Slowly? Bro for years reddit was mostly pictures of delicious sandwiches.
Lemmy is orders of magnitude better than old reddit.
Reddits deaddit, it just doesn’t know it yet.
anyone remember the “melts vs grilled cheese” drama lol
So cheesy
I’m still getting my footing, but it does feel like what it was circa 2012 to me. I stopped engaging on Reddit years ago because even in the smaller subs it seemed like not as many people were there to talk anymore.
Is anyone else having trouble with the “show context” button? When someone replies to you, it only shows what they said. When you click “show context”, it… only shows what they said. The only way to see what you said is to copy their reply and “show rest of comments” and then search for it - that is if it isn’t on an instance that hides replies after the second level.
Yeeeeeeah. I feel like it used to work, and then something changed lately and it’s super unreliable. Or rather it never works anymore
Ironically it is now working for this comment.
Does it not depend on the app?
Experiencing the same, hope someone reports it.
I’m on jerboa and linking to the parent of a reply shows me the context, but the thread indenting is reversed - instead of replies being indented to the right, all the parents are successively indented to the left instead.
Little bugs here and there, but I’m an optimist so I think it will get ironed out in time.
I felt like it was working briefly on my instance and now it’s not again…
Just checked the issues and I don’t see anything about context for the latest version. I think the devs are unaware.
