So now I just gotta build up a new feed from scratch, that’s the part that sucks the most. So many nice niche communities I’ve discovered over the years on reddit… But it was time, reddit has been going downhill for years.
I’m in the middle of doing the same. Its a shame when you go through your list of subreddits and can’t find an equivelant community on here. Nevermind niche subs, there will still be plenty of 1mil+ subs which are missing from here.
Nor do I want to create and be the only mod of about 20 different subs. I feel like that requires a special sort of person lol.
I am building my wall of
Subscribe Pendings, which I tend to like a butterfly collection.
the interface is just so clean. it feels like early internet and I love it.
Were you using new reddit? I don’t find it that different from old.reddit (which is fine by me).
Exactly! I’m so happy it finally seems to be an alternative to Reddit, which has mutated into such a weird monster
Wow, amazing to see and experience the community grow and become so active. I love it! :D
Hi all, here from Apollo.
I’m glad I caught this username
I don’t doubt there’s a great amount of user growth, but it appears that many of those are account creation spam on instances with 1 active monthly user though.
Edit to add a comment I made on another post Basically there might be about 200k real users right now including lurkers, growing at a rate of basically 13.5k per day.
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Yes, I expect some instances to have some difficulty coping with the traffic in July
I sometimes go to Reddit again, mostly by habit, but once Relay stops working, I’m done.
gas gas gas
Thanks I will have that stuck in my head for the night.
Unfortunately most of the communities I’m interested in are ghost towns
The best way to solve that is post some links and get the ball rolling. Can’t get engagement without something to engage with. (I am guilty of not posting links myself lol)
I’m doing that but I don’t know for how long if I’m the only one doing the effort
Unfortunately, there’s no real way of knowing. But for any community someone’s gotta take that initial leap of faith and build it up from just a few people, even if it sounds like you’re talking to yourself sometimes. At least until like-minded people start to show up and be drawn in to what you’ve built.
Even for the community that I’m trying to start up here, !presidents, it might just be my friend and I making posts, and it might stay that way for weeks, or possibly months. But that’s a possibility you have to be okay with when starting up a community.
Try and talk to other individuals who are as passionate about your community’s premise as you are. Friends you know irl, or people you’ve met in a similar community on Reddit. Having even just a few other people to engage with can make the process seem a lot less lonely and futile.
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This is my first comment on Lemmy , excited to be here as we embark on a new journey away from Reddit.
I’m excited for Sync coming to lemmy , my go to app for reddit browsing was Sync.
And obligatory fuck spez
Just heard the news about Sync and instantly registered here. I’ll still be hoping for Boost to cross over, but Sync is infinitely better than Reddit’s app. A decent client was all that was missing for me to make the plunge, let’s hope that’s the case for more people.
And yes, fuck Spez
Lemmy is fantastic
Whatever the number, I’ve definitely noticed in the past few days that there are getting to be enough people having conversations and posting content for this place to feel like a legit community instead of a ghost town. I’m really glad to see more people joining and taking part.
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For example, your comment is the first one I have seen that has over 30 upvotes since I came on board a week back.
It’s been amazing to feel like we’re part of something that’s growing so fast. I’ll miss Reddit but I expect Lemmy will fill in the role sooner rather than later.
The growth is insane, fediverse is coming!
I’ve been on Lemmy since last Monday (like 10 days). It’s meteoric!
Back then, simply posting ANYTHING automatically meant you made the front page.
Cool, but how many are bots?
Oh man, I hope this server can maintain. Support if you can. There is no CEO but there is a server admin who has to pay for us to be on it. No centralization means its up to us to keep it going. I don’t know the history of lemmy world and I’d hate to see it go because it was too expensive for it’s popularity. Something to think about.
Maybe the bot makers want us to spend endless time and comments talking about bots instead meaningful interaction… Mission accomplished
