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I gotta be honest…I am hanging on by a threat. The communities that I was engaged with on Reddit before the Snoopacolypse were pretty niche. I wasn’t there for r/funny or r/videos, etc. I found similar communities on Lemmy, but they have soooooo little activity. I have to modify my sort just to see content, as its so old. When there are posts, they typically get very little discussion.
I am on Lem.ee, and I have the hardest time posting anything from mobile. It looks like it fails, and if I sort by new, it isn’t there and never shows up - HOWEVER, I start getting replies, so someone is seeing it somehow.
I detest what reddit did and is still doing - but Lemmy is not filling that void for me, and its frustrating.
I hear that, but also…
Well, I was doing the same, but noticed that even in the niche subs, the conversations seemed to be getting more and more… juvenile? Like prior to the Snoopacolypse (as you called it, and I love it! The term not the event in case that needs any clarification:-P), it was a point of pride for me that I had never blocked anyone in my life - whereas now I don’t think twice before doing that bc who has time to waste on someone not engaging in good faith!? Especially if they lack enough self awareness to even realize that fact about themselves while they are doing it. (Tbf, possibly watching Innuendo Studios’ analysis of GamerGate that uses many tactics of the Alt Right in America had something to do with my changing views as well:-).
Ymmv ofc, bc different subs means entirely different people & thus experiences interacting with them, but I’m just saying that rather than stick with the subset of that community that remained after Rexit, I eventually just find myself going or even wanting to go there less and less, instead enjoying engaging here more, even at the expense of not being able to talk about those matters. I haven’t posted there for months, nor even commented for a month, and barely go once a week to read. Bc I use Kbin and the mobile browser experience here is so horrible to write a comment, I find myself not commenting here often either - but when I do I have much more fun doing so, not having to be anywhere near as defensive as that other place that shall not be named.
I hope you find something that works best for you as well, wherever that may be.
Please take a look at https://fediverser.network and let me know what communities you are missing.
I think you may have misunderstood. I have FOUND communities, but there is not much engagement or activity. I have resorted to discord channels for most of them, but it is not the same.
Some of my most active subreddits were different 3d printing and 3d modeling groups, groups for games like Overwatch, and Payday. Different AI focused groups, but specifically groups like the Stable Diffusion sub, Subreddits that discuss my favorite shows, or styles of music. None of that is active here. It isn’t that they don’t exist on Lemmy, they are just ghost towns. I joined multiple instances and am very active and engaged on multiple accounts, on some of these groups - but there is not response. I was in the top 3% of karma earners on Reddit - and I did that by submitting and commenting a lot. That just doesn’t happen here (yet).
Let me put this another way: if I create an overwatch community on https://level-up.zone, would you be willing to contribute there?
Also: If I set up the alien.top bots to mirror content from the overwatch sub, could you use that as a hook to reach out to redditors and tell them how to migrate to Lemmy?
I have tried to jumpstart a few communities by posting and commenting regularly . I would try a new one, but if people do not find or join, it will get caught in the same cycle as the existing groups. I like participating, but am not interested in being the single driving force, or moderating.
To answer your other question, I cannot stand when I see auto mirrored content from Reddit. I usually ignore those posts, as I have rarely seen comments happening. When the content wasn’t created by somebody here, I don’t think anybody is invested in maintaining or participating in the discussion.
We need to start somewhere. The mirrored content (and by content, I mean posts and comments as well) is meant to be a way to help bootstrap the communities. I can help as well, but only by giving you the tools to make this easier and in avoiding the feeling you’d be talking to yourself.
I’m liking the “cosiness” of the discussion threads on most posts, personally. On Reddit a popular thread would have hundreds or thousands of comments already by the time I got there and it felt like my responses were just being lost in a sea.
I unsubscribed from all the subs that big years ago. It’s funny to see how people used Reddit so differently
Same for me. I browsed Reddit exclusively for a bunch of small but active communities about books and niche games or shows. Most of those either don’t have a place on Lemmy, or the place they have is a ghost town. Too little posts, and even fewer engagement. I frequently see posts with upvotes in the single digits and zero comments.
I don’t plan on going back to Reddit, but at the same time I don’t think that Lemmy is a valid substitute yet. Maybe it’s also a problem of discoverability? Like, I heard of Lemmy during the APIcalypse, but I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere else, and I don’t know how a normal person looking for a community online is supposed to find Lemmy, or even learn the existence of it.
Keep it in mind
We lost active users because of this
- beehaw has been defed from lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works and other instances
- some instances like lemmy.film and fmhy went offline
I was wondering what happened to lemmy.film.
Nobody knows unfortunately, but we created !moviesandtv@lemm.ee as a replacement
Well that’s sad. But I suppose we’re still in the new, rough period of Lemmy. The Wild West of federated, private server owned link sharing discussion sites.
I’d imagine Hexbear and lemmygrad ran a lot of people away as well.
It absolutely did. Instances should have acted on that day 1.
Day 1, most of the instances were down due to the massive influx
I’ve been registered on Lemmygrad. Got banned for saying Stalin is not a superhero and that he made both good and bad moves.
Noted, moved to lemmy.world
I’m not even on either and got an account banned from .ml for telling the Hexbear clowns that their little meme responses were childish and cringy.
You mean a pic of a pig w shit on it’s balls isn’t high-minded discourse?!
@tigeruppercut is that what “pigpoopballs” is??
I don’t see their images, just a line of text that I’m not about to click on. For some reason I was imagining little round balls made of poo, possibly in a pyramid shape.
yeah, it’s an old pic so you may’ve run across it before anyway, but for some reason the hexies think it’s the height of satire
there’s a know your meme page if you’re curious
@tigeruppercut thanks. That was underwhelming. I don’t know why they post it so often!
Right? Who’d have thought that a large community of children would be obnoxious and cringy?
I’ve had like three accounts banned from .ml for saying, among other things, that the US revolution didn’t involve kidnapping children. Trying to have any world news discussion here is completely impossible, and that’s one of the more active areas on Reddit. No wonder people try out lemmy and then bail.
Happy to see you’re now on SJW, it’s a pretty chill instance
Yeah, I was banned from world news for posting about jinping and uyghurs
Probably but people who make their account on Lemmy.world, the most common instance, also never see them.
I have an account there. I use it as my good news/no negativity scroll. The absence of that garbage is so refreshing.
buggy, infrequent updates, lack of content, an ideological hive mind…is anyone really surprised?
You just described some of the best years of Reddit
You mean fuck cars, fuck capitalism, look how cool Lemmy is?
It weeds out the dumb and the lazy 😉 . I like it.
11 million comments this month. 11 million comments from people smart enough to leave behind the other. 11 million comments, likely largely from actual humans.
Lemmy is thriving.
Plot twist: It’s all piped.video bot.
lol ive never clicked a piped link even once
Google’s shareholders appreciate your contribution.
I did, once. It didn’t work.
Yepp, that user was my first and only block ever. Yes, we get it. YT bad, Piped good. It was so annoying.
I feel dumb for having to ask but what exactly is “active users half year” vs “active uses monthly”?
Is half year just mean one or more comments/upvotes in the last 6months?
This graph is much more reassuring:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
We are stable, even slightly growing in the last few days.
The average comments is far more interesting. Constant growth. Active accounts is skewed by all the alts new people make.
Good point, but I feel like alts haven’t been used that much lately as instances have been stables for weeks now
IDGAF IM HERE TO STAY. LEMMY IS COOL AND WTF EVEN IS A SNOO 😤😤😤
I don’t know about you but I was just waiting for an excuse. I ain’t ever going back. It’s a brave new world for me, part of shifting my whole suite to FOSS. Leaving the old internet behind me.
In 2022 I was Windows + Twitter + Reddit. In 2023 I’m full-time Linux + Mastodon + Lemmy.
welcome home
Weird, because I feel like it is more populated that it was after the huge influx of users because of the APIcalypse.
The people who are here are more willing to post. So less of us overall but also less lurkers.
I lurked for months because of lemmy.world’s policy of only allowing real email accounts for registration. Reddit allowed anonymous accounts for years which encouraged easy participation at the cost of bots.
This definitely applies to me. I had a Reddit account for 5-6 years, but never made a single post and only wrote a handful of comments. I just feel more comfortable interacting here.
Yeah, it seems like the most logical assumption, anyway I’m happy here, hopefully it would not take too long for more niche stuff to kick in!
Depends on how niche. Some stuff unfortunately only comes from truly large user bases. At a guess, the further you go from a tech/liberal core and overlapping hobbies, the longer it will take for the content to emerge.
But at least the tech community is rather calm. I can have a different point of view with them and have a calm discussion with them.
Other groups aren’t like that.
Depends on how niche
Well, for me it would be sufficient for some communities about specific videogames or tv shows/anime :)
Lemmy is one of the healthiest fediverse communities. It’s starting to get to the point where it can emulate the hours of infinite scrolling people do on reddit. Whether that is a good thing is debatable.
It’s starting to get to the point where it can emulate the hours of infinite scrolling people do on reddit.
That is the case for me since Sync for Lemmy popped out.
Whether that is a good thing is debatable.
This reminds me of my mom watching TV novels back in the days when they aired daily, and now she watches the same novels but through streaming… Ahh some things never change
I’m really glad that it’s small. I’d rather see genuine posts about 3D printing or aquariums or mountainbiking rather than ragetext memes or influencer shit on the frontpage of reddit. I do hope we kinda dial down the copy/paste bot content from reddit though, especially the memes.
If reddit taught me anything, it’s that a growing network isn’t necessarily a good thing.
First of all, rooting for decentralized net 100%. Watching Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, etc. all get screwed over from the top down sucks. I really appreciate the strong community here - having it smaller and more engaging encourages participation and makes it feel a little more human.
However, I’m considering leaving Lemmy just because somehow it’s even more cynical than reddit, and I’m losing interest in opening the app if it’s just 99% downers. I mean almost every article is just crushingly bad news. The world is in a rough state for sure, and staying informed is really important! But trying to live on and find the good is near impossible here.
(Yes, I’m subbed to upliftingnews. That’s the 1%.)
Is this a demographics thing, or am I just subbed in all the wrong places? Maybe a bit of both?
I’ve been doing my best to add content. I’m currently working on a book review, a video game review, and a Battletech post. Unfortunately posts like that take time and are outpaced by the tempo of news articles and resulting arguments within.
If you want a more positive experience you should unsubscribe from all the news & politics stuff. Trust me, when you click on “frontpage all”, it will be there. No reason to also have it in your subscribe feed. Go into the creative communities and at the very least comment. Give some feedback, and ideally add something of your own. Lemmy is too small to simply expect content to exist without adding some of your own.
@setsneedtofeed this! We are building something here. Not sure where you post but I’m adding you to my follows so I’ll see your OC.
Latest Jerboa release doesn’t work with Lemmy 0.19 so i spend less time here
I don’t care that the fediverse has a ton of traffic. It may not have the most users, but it definitely has the best
Exactly. I don’t need the most users. The internet was better back when it wasn’t everybody.
People complaining about a loss of users are the same people that will complain about performance issues next time there is a huge influx of users that stresses the infrastructure for popular instances.
I’m way less mad about Kbin having issues than I ever was at Reddit
Quality over quantity. Reddit trying way too hard to capture the “normie” users is exactly what began its downfall.
Now that I’ve goten addicted to the block feature, I’m probably never going back to reddit. Dont like the content from specific servers while I’m browsing the top pages? Block, they stop existsing. Find myself getting baited into low effort arguements? Block and move on. I feel faaaarrr less stressed out lately
I feel the same way, my block list is massive. The app I use to browse, the lemmy version of Boost, also has a word filter option too, which isn’t on the desktop browser interface (I don’t think), so I can block names of certain people and current event incidents I’m not interested in seeing any more, without needing to block communities or users. It only works when the post actually has the words in the title, so ironic memes slip through all the time, but its better than nothing.
Oohh, that sounds pretty good! I’m a bit of an old man when it comes to apps though and try to avoid them unless absolutely necessary, that might tempt me into looking into some of the lemmy apps though!
