I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.
The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.
Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?
Thanks for hearing me out.
TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.
Make the posts you want to see. I’ve posted some questions in some niche communities here and I get well thought out responses and discourse.
Don’t let your dreams be memes as they say it today
A lot of people (like myself) need to step out of their comfort zones if we want Lemmy to get more conversations going. Yesterday I made a game thread in the community for my favourite NFL team; I was the only one who commented. But I’m going to try and make one for the game next week.
I’ll join you during regular season.
Well done, what is the community? !nfl@lemmy.world ?
Thanks. It’s a smaller instance for the Steelers, !Steelers@lemmy.world
Ah no wonder you had no discussion
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I see. If I may, you may want to comment on a larger community, as a way to get more people reacting.
I used to post to !fantasy@sffa.community , but now I do it in !fiction@literature.cafe because it will have a larger audience.
Lemmy is still a small population, so you might to go to the larger common denominator
Thanks for the advice, there’s definitely a lot more people on the NFL community but the Steelers are generally not viewed well by the NFL fans at large haha.
I ended up subscribing to the Athletic since they have a discuss section. Any sports threads on lemmy are small af rn unfortunately
Not only are they small, they keep appearing in feeds and people downvote them because they don’t want to see sporting content instead of just blocking the community.
Not at all. The only thing taking time to build here are the art communities, but they’re growing. So I’m patient and am trying to contribute
EXACTLY
there’s just not enough in depth stuff on here. i love shitposts, i love memes, i love a chill tone. but we need people posting interesting posts, you know. i’m not even sure how to put my finger on what’s different or why, but there’s just less…stuff here. it needs to be seasoned, or something.
For me it’s just too much political stuff. On the other hand, if I block some keywords, I might only be left with memes and shitposts.
Doesn’t matter how good the content is if I have to fight the interface to get to it.
https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
several lemmy instances host this port of the old reddit interface at old.example.com
The lemmy interface is fine. It’s the reddit one I’m sick of dealing with.
I’ve been off of Reddit since they announced the API changes, and I had been a daily user since 2012. I don’t miss how toxic a lot of the site became, but I wish Lemmy were a bit more active. I tend to browse /all and the site just doesn’t turn over as much. It’s led to me picking up reading again, but at times I find myself sort of just refreshing my phone. Which is a bad waste of time. Not sure what to do about that.
Haven’t gone back to Reddit since. But what I do miss most is the sorting algorithm. I don’t know if it was just the abundance of posts, or better sorting. But on lemmy I keep seeing the same posts over and over again, regardless of my sorting setting. But I’ll be patient and hope that it gets better.
I’ve been using relay for the past month or so since it’s still up, and honestly a lot of content on Reddit feels like bot posting now. The communities seem to have gotten nastier as well, with incel type posts and hateful propaganda being the main themes I’m seeing there. I hope Lemmy can become a last bastion of content for me, but maybe I should just touch grass lol
I am of the opinion the algorithm is fine, these are just the dominant posts both in subject and engagement. And this is the problem. The place just isn’t big or diverse enough.
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I really am wondering if there’s some sort of sorting issue, or even a self inflicted feedback loop.
If you keep Lemmy on “active”, you end up with a bunch of 1, 2, even 3 day old content. This seems to be noticeably worse in the last few weeks.
However, if you use top 12, there’s enough content to keep it fresh. Not a lot of comments, but that’s alright
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The thing about social media, is that once enough content and eyeballs are on a platform, it pulls in even more. Posters and audiences are drawn to wherever everybody else is, like a massive object draws things in with gravity.
Currently reddit is drawing people in by its mass, not because people care about the platform. This can shift to lemmy, but it will take years. And dedicated posting😉
Its still early. This is the first time there has been a legitimate alternative to reddit and thats honestly only because 3rd party apps like sync have made it usable.
Reddit started when Digg changed its site and everyone went to reddit. There has also been multiple attempts to leave reddit, but no similar alternatives. Now there is a good alternative and there will be more things reddit does that will make people look for alternatives.
But the Reddit switch happened fairly quick. And there was content doesn’t seem to be the same with Lemmy. It’s all just memes and complaining about Reddit. Most of the communities I followed are a couple posts a day now and some are dead now.
I’m experiencing the same thing, so I’ve been doing the following:
I made a new main account on a different instance so I can get content from communities that were defederated from lemmy.world
I regularly toggle my main feed sorting from “active” to “hot” to get new posts
I actively post to some stagnant communities that haven’t taken off yet on Lemmy in the hopes that it starts to snowball
The preponderance of Lemmy users are currently disenfranchised former redditors (myself included) who have been able to figure out the fediverse. Memes and complaint discussions are relatively easy content to produce, and Linux/FOSS posts just come with the territory when a user base is technically savvy. No complaints on this front from me, however!
Really the only communities I’m currently missing are posts from my fellow JDM and German car enthusiasts and a few podcast communities.
What are your interests?
Sync did not do shit. Us OGs made this platform free of right wingers, 4channers, prevented raids, worked on sign up systems, and so on. Lemmy is also lean to self host and run.
I am not a developer, but I can count on hand 5-10 people besides me, that were not admins, that help in various ways like stopping trolls and raids, moderation, advising on every single thing that is wrong with Lemmy, and so on.
The biggest problem with every single reddit alternative to date, apart from Lemmy, has been the “freezepeach” trope aggregating the same kinds of dogshit extremist users nobody wants to interact with. This is why I never adopted any alternative platform before this, and this is why I was sent by someone to support Lemmy 3 years ago. Bunch of us made Lemmy what it is today. I am proud of it.
because low density of content, i browse lemmy by all and just block spammy communities im not interested, my home looks too empty for now, but still don’t feel the need to hang out on reddit
I’ve tried to do that so many times, but I just get inundated with such a massive volume of porn that it’s difficult to wade through to get to discussion communities I’m interested in.
Sure, Lemmy allows you to block NSFW content as a whole, but I don’t like doing that. I still want to see things like NSFW memes or NSFW discussion topics. Going nuclear and blocking all NSFW doesn’t really help the problem.
Try sync, there’s a multitude of block options. By instance, domain, user, community, etc.
There’s the porn, and then there’s some bot instances, right? And then there’s the pornbots that bring you a little mix of both.
Maybe it’s a lesser issue on world, but on some other instances I’ve found that bot instances are arguably worse than porn by sheer volume of posts, but they can be pretty close.
I was disappointed the first couple of weeks after I moved here, but the communities that interest me have filled in quite well and I feel quite at home now.
Good luck.
The most sticky subreddits have been ones that are niche and not tech-related. The most likely users to make their way over to Lemmy have been technically inclined ones who were using third-party apps.
My reddit usage is 99% mobile app and 1% desktop. Since there are no more suitable reddit mobile app. I stopped. The only time nowadays that I visit reddit on desktop is google search and reddit is on top result.
I still have a Reddit account, but I only subscribe to the communities that aren’t replaceable yet.
But I refuse to use the Reddit app, so I only access on desktop, with adblock, maybe 3 times a week just to check in.
Being unsubscribed from the mains keeps it from being a rabbit hole.
You can still use TPAs (Boost at least) if you’re a mod. Just create a subreddit, set it to private and NSFW if you want and enjoy your fully functional TPA.
Redreader still works, apparently they could prove their indispensability for the blind community.
I’m about 90% all in on Lemmy. The only thing I go to Reddit for now is old posts with useful information about tech stuff or some random things.
I basically use it as a knowledge base now, instead of using it to interact with others, post stuff, or follow the daily feed.
All my active/daily posting, reading, and news stuff is on Lemmy & Mastodon now.
