To the people who want Lemmy to be more active, if you want that, you have to be part of it.
The internet adage is that on any forum 10% of users comment, and 1% post. Lemmy needs to break out of that paradigm, and users should be disproportionately active compared to user/activity on Reddit.
People like posting in places where other people are already posting. It’s a snowball effect. That’s why meme communities have managed to take off; the 1% of users can pump out a huge amount of memes in a short time and make the place feel more lively than it actually is, which in turn kickstarts it and makes it lively for memes.
I make posts mostly in non-meme communities because I think Lemmy should have that too. Some posts are just links but a lot of them are original content. I think it adds value but I simply cannot, as one person, post the kind of volume that memeposters can. These more niche communities need people to post.
If you are subscribed to an interest community, I strongly encourage posting new threads there.
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Politics? What politics?
The fact that the Lemmy devs, who also host Lemmygrad & Lemmy.ml, are Tankies.
Still on that yet? Move on dude, the commies instances are blocked by everyone, it is not like they even exist.
username checks out I guess.
That’s bullshit and you know it. Lemmy.ml is blocked by almost no one. I also see hexbear and Lemmygrad when I sort by New.
All the devs or a few of them?
The Fediverse feels a lot like the old Reddit from 10+ years ago , but I suspect that once it becomes mainstream the shills and bots will move in and ruin it like they ruined Reddit.
I love it because the apps are much better… The regular reddit app has too many notifications, and red reader is too boring, and laggy. I’m using liftoff and it is so much better
But Liftoff doesn’t seem to be getting updates.
When this happened I went back to Eternity, a fork of Infinity, the app I used for reddit. That’s also the beauty of Lemmy, there are lots of third party apps unlike reddit that banned every single one
Same. I was a dedicated user of Boost for Reddit (before the API Armageddon) and the only reason why I’m using Lemmy now is because they made an app for Lemmy (which I’m currently using).
Boost is such an amazing app and made Reddit tolerable
That app is amazing. Feels like I’m still using Reddit
Same. If they kept RIF I never would have known how crappy Reddit is and I left and never looked back.
I use it on occasion on mobile. Oh boy is the UX bad. UI is too cluttered as well but manageable.
The mobile UI before the exodus was fine imo.I use the full width/height card UI in Sync. The old style isnt my thing and I use(d) lemmy/reddit during lunch break.
Yeah, when RiF stopped working I just stopped using Reddit. I didn’t want their app with their random irrelevant notifications, nft shit and all the rest.
Can’t believe how many people went through the same steps. I miss reddit, but post RIF, it was unusable
I send Lemmy some money every month. Not a lot but what I can. I’m also learning Rust and once I get confident I’ll contribute. I like Lemmy and the fediverse in general.
Yes, but still far from being a competitor
For the average user it may have it may not be their preferred option but it’s certainly a competitor. Lemmy is pretty much a drop in replacement to the point that several third party Reddit apps at least for Android have simply modified their api calls to use lemmy rather than Reddit.
There’s not quite as much content but it already appears to be enough to be sustainable which is the most important part. And you can bet that whenever Reddit next messes up there will be further migration.
Lemmy its not just CCP propaganda anymore (sorry wumao)
If the fediverse sucks so much, why are Meta and WordPress and Mozilla making efforts to join it, hm?
Yes but, monetization of data and sucking balls can be orthogonal pursuits
It isn’t about “winning”. Lemmy can coexist with any Fediverse application, and that’s the beauty of it. Everyone on the Fediverse wins.
Not every “Reddit alternative” is on the Fediverse.
Honestly in the current landscape, any alternative to an already popular platform that isn’t federated in some way is doomed from the start.
True even for megacorps for Facebook; hence why Threads is federating.
I’m concerned with the amount of bugs cropping up between major updates. I looked at the repo and they have no unit tests. Eventually people will get fed up with the amount of bugs appearing.
I use a third party app and see very little. Over time it’ll get better also.
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“Some tests in the backend” would instantly get you fired from some companies. Lack of tests is a symptom of the programmers not being as experienced as they should be, when making a platform such as this.
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Lemmy still feels like beta (while Kbin is alpha), but it still is better than Reddit!
(no /s - I really believe that, b/c the people here vs. there make ALL the difference)
To all those who contribute code, thank you for making this micro-world a better place for us all!:-)
Which repo are you talking about? There are tests in the main rust repo. Rust puts its tests in line with the code. https://github.com/search?q=repo%3ALemmyNet%2Flemmy "%23[cfg(test)]"&type=code
I have no idea how complete these or or anything. But it’s not 0
Everyone in that thread has Stockholm syndrome. They’re so used to being force fed shit that they couldn’t possibly believe that an online platform could be run any differently than Reddit.
And, everyones total misunderstanding of the fediverse. Yea, no wonder it’s all tech people here, dumbass
And, everyones total misunderstanding of the fediverse. Yea, no wonder it’s all tech people here, dumbass
That seems like a lemmy problem. It’s not their fault they aren’t techy, it’s Lemmy’s fault for completely disregarding them.
For me Lemmy provides a value proposition that reddit does not: consent.
Care to explain? Reddit users also signed up and agreed to their terms & conditions.
Some of the people in that reddit thread are unreasonably angry that some people moved to Lemmy.
I’ll never understand loving a company so much that anyone who doesn’t like it is automatically deemed a bad person. Why is a stranger’s choice of social media so personal to some of these people? Why are they so livid?
I’m not even going to quote the specific comments I’m referring to just in case I get banned. One of them was comparing the entire lemmyverse to the subreddits that were banned over explicitly only having content about hating strangers for existing.
I’m happy I left if that what I’m “missing out” on.
I find it weird that they’re not more mad that reddit got ruined by a fuckhead CEO and horrible management.
The really confusing part to me, is that, though I haven’t personally read the comments, I don’t doubt your experience… But the post is in /r/redditalternatives… Which should be filled with members who are actively encouraging and discussing openly alternatives to Reddit… Right?
It confuses me why there seem to be so many Reddit die-hards in a subreddit about finding other sites that bear some similarity to Reddit…
Then again, straight Christians who are anti-LGBTQ+ show up to gay pride regularly too… Which is equally confusing to me. I get it, you don’t like it. That’s fine. Just go home Sarah, nobody wants you here when you’re just going to complain the whole time. (I know there’s more depth to this example than I’ve touched on, it’s not the point of the example, so I’ll just stop there)
While Lemmy is gradually growing and the whole federation is a pretty good concept too I have one question about lemmy and it’s future.
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Since it’s just two devs maintaining the whole project (I know there are many open source contributors but the project is on them right?) what if they get tired of the project or go MIA? Can a fork be made and that can be maintained as a replacement of lemmy?
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How are and will be the SEO of the lemmy’s instances? Reddit reached a wide audience due to that. It’s nice to have a niche set of audience at the start but that should not be the case forever right?
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Leaving reddit was a good idea, joining Lemmy, I’m not so sure anymore.
The userbase here is not really diverse in itself, so the whole platform gets this large echo chamber vibe. And with “not diverse” I don’t mean hostile or anything, just very homogeneous. Overwhelmingly left and far left on the political spectrum, embracing all things LGBT+, high nerd & tech factor; and if you don’t belong to or identify with either of those factions, you get downvoted to oblivion, and worse yet, mod removed and banned for no factual reason.
What made reddit strong as a platform was that you had the right kind of diversity and a big enough userbase to not spiral out of control, unless the top management fucked up.
On Lemmy, instance admins are (or become) often the worst offenders, making any interactions with users on their instance tiresome, unless you regurgitate the same stuff that has been said there over and over and over again.
I think you’re confusing your current instance for the Fediverse. You can join Beehaw or another federation with different viewpoints. Granted the “main” instances are largely like the internet of old.
Well, in defense of Lemmy, it’s nice to feel like I’ve got a lower chance of encountering Nazi rhetoric when in one of the anime/manga related instances
Oh I didn’t mean to say that Lemmy is bad or wrong, far from it.
Overwhelmingly left and far left on the political spectrum, embracing all things LGBT+
And that’s what makes it great. I don’t get this idea that it’d be better if that wasn’t part of the demographic. Like, what value does being anti-LGBT or neutral-but-whiny bring to the table, for example?
Bringing opposing points of view like that for the sake of it didn’t help Reddit, but only strained moderation and made the user experience worse when we had to deal with so many hateful bigots for no good reason. I saw one sub get overrun by these people and practically squeeze everyone out in a coordinated effort. One of those subs became unequivocally anti-trans in a matter of weeks. It was awful.
Like, what value does being anti-LGBT or neutral-but-whiny bring to the table, for example?
Anti-LGBT, none. But discussions here are increasingly centered on LGBT topics, which just doesn’t concern me one way or another. And yes, I simply avoid them, it’s just popping up in every thread, related or not. I’m not close minded or anything, I just don’t want to have every discussion drift into issues that don’t concern me.
On the political side, why is it either left, right, or neutral but whiny? There’s quite a large number of neutral and not whiny people out there. My issue is that when I try to point out that some idealistic leftist topics will never work in a material society, I’m being attacked for no reason, so I withdraw from discussions (or don’t even engage anymore at all); thus contributing my share to the growth of the echo chamber and the decline of post volumes.
I think you are right about the lack of diversity.
My own take on it is that lemmy is currently populated by early adopters. There might be a relation between beign open to try new things and being left-leaning, I don’t know.
But I do think that over time, if Lemmy survives it’s early day phase, more people joining should bring more doverse point of views.
