Lemmy needs a middle logical layer to really take off. If a local server moderats it as such, the default view for say /c/technology shouldn’t be slit across a dozen instances. Instead it should be merged into one view.
Without it you have a bunch of largely stagnant communities.
As a lurker I mostly just vote. But gotta post every once in a while to add to active users stat!
I don’t know why, but it never occurred to me that you need to comment to be counted as “active”
I would have thought votes would count as a unique interaction to count towards being active
Is this actually written somewhere?
A stat for logged in users would be nice.
Yeah same, well here’s my active status for the month.
Dude I was away on vacation chill. :-)
How dare you. Do you want reddit to win?? /s
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I’m okay with it being smaller. I don’t think I want this to be Reddit-sized. I would like more users for sure but not that many.
I’m actively lurking, I just have nothing of value to share 🌝
To be honest, I do the same thing. A couple of simple rules to keep the web entertaining:
- Filter everything that triggers you
- Ban porn
- Never, never look at comments on politics, religion and family. You’re like to want to erase humanity afterwards
We’ll see how it goes, hopefully it keeps growing, but a user loss seems to be quite common after the initial wave of new users for new platforms
I’m to tired to make quality posts. Props to the people that can do that every day. Best I got is a few mildly opinionated comments.
Even lurkers are still part of the community.
I started out looking for an exact replacement for Reddit (where I mostly lurk). Initially I thought the lack of content and traffic on Lemmy was a bad thing, but I now see it as early days of a community and lack of content means I have a chance to make a post or comment that is valued and gets engagement from other users. Reddit was so mature that anything I wanted to post was either already there, not welcome or buried under an ocean of other content/comments. If you use both you could even find good content on Reddit to crosspost on Lemmy.
It’s quite nice being part of a small community now. Even just an up/down vote from you will be worth more here. It’s great.
I used to be a reddit lurker. I would go into a thread for a post and look for the thing I would have posted, and upvote it.
I can’t do this on Lemmy, I actually have to write stuff now I guess, otherwise it doesn’t show up. I don’t like it.
Feels weird man.
I try to comment when I can. Even if it’s not insightful. A small compliment keeps a community going.
I try to browse and upvote in new also
Lemmy has already hit equilibrium as far as I’m concerned if your on lemmy world I suggest changing instances my instance midwest.social was down alot in the beginning when lemmy was getting alot of new sign ups but has since then been updated a few times and been rock solid since now it only occasionally goes down for maintenance
Lemmy world has been shit the last few days.
I hopped instances a couple of times (and it’s a little annoying that there is no simple way to migrate subscriptions), but so far I’m happy with sh.itjust.works because that’s what it does. I also feel like it defederelizes less aggressively than other instances, with some I was almost surprised by all the content that I couldn’t access.
Sh.itjust.works is great. It’s exactly what the name says and that’s all I want from my instance lol
You have to do your research the same thing happens on sites like Twitter except there you have no control over it and can’t do anything about it
No worries, Lemmy is alive. Lemmy and Fediverse in general is better to grow organically.
Some dropoff after initial hype is normal. Now we just continue as usual until reddit pisses people off again.
Here! I’m another active user!
same here ;)
annoying that only posts and comments count :/ I’m your classic lurker and up/downvoter
The big problem with lemmy is that some niche communities did not migrated so when you Look for example for fairphone news you Look to reddit beacuse lemmy dosent have equivalent. Likewise i havent seen something similar to r/tailsof. You know the niche communities that were the bread and bucket of reddit with the few exceptions ( programers and Linux communities fully migrated and are obviusly standing out beacuse those pepole are always first to move to opensource alternatives )
Once Boost for Lemmy releases, 10, 000% growth will occur over the coming weeks afterward 😉 (IYKYK)
Sync is already out and their user base is higher than boost
Thats the case for most new platforms you get a surge of users and then some titer off and stop using the platform. But don’t look at the small dip look at the massive growth compared to a few months ago.
Might as well post here as my first one. Hi, Lemmy. :)
Yo, there’s two of us!
Welcome aboard!
