There’s enough content for me here, and metric FUCKTONS less toxicity; so there’s jackshit Spez could offer, to get me back.
BTW, I detest the repost bots linking directly back to that cesspool. At least provide archive links, just to fuck with Spez’s engagement numbers.
There’s a lot of nice people, that’s for sure. It’s a night and day difference.
I find Lemmy quite a bit more toxic then Reddit and that is bothering me. Was on a post where a cop was full up ambushed and murdered and every single post was praising it. And there was over a hundred posts so not just a couple of wing nuts. Then you got the tankies and a great number of immature posts. Then you got the extreme left leaning slant attitude on every subject that pretty much creates echo chambers along with mods that will shadow ban. Technically working well, administratively and quality wise the experience is pretty low.
And if anyone misses the toxicity (of our city, of our ciiiiity) from Reddit, we can totally emulate that here!
Ummm… I disagree! You’re a butthole because my opinion is different. Also, I didn’t actually do any research, which makes you a double-butthole.
Maybe it’s just my feed, but I miss the diversity, lemmy is biased towards tech-nerd people
Well even if I wanted to go back to Reddit, I couldn’t use it without a decent mobile app, and all of those no longer exist.
Communities don’t spring up fully formed, they grow over time with many rises and falls in activity along the way. Lemmy is still young and we can all do our part to help it.
Yeah the thing about Lemmy is that people immediately expect it to be a reddit clone with all the same niche communities. Reddit didn’t start off with thousands of communities on Day 1. It started off as Reddit. Then they added NSFW and pics. It took decades to grow. People that expect Lemmy to appear with all those same communities overnight but it’s just not gonna happen. You’ve got to give it time. Instead of posting in your favorite football team’s community, you might have to post to the NFL community. Eventually as we grow, more niche communities will spring up.
Now I’m sure that the number of users is lower than a few months ago, but I wonder how many people are just lurking, never commenting/ posting.
Probably a lot, lurking is how I use both platforms. There’s the 90-9-1% rule for a reason
Pretty heavy lurker here. Maybe I need to start doing my part and raise those numbers
Does it matter if Lemmy is losing users? I haven’t noticed my feeds losing active users even if it’s down across the fediverse. Besides they’ll be back the next time Reddit has another unpopular decision which should take about another 3 months
Exactly. I would never have guessed Lemmy is losing users if every other meme wasn’t about it. Stuff still seems just as lively now as it was a couple months ago.
I think it very much matters WHY Lemmy is losing users. If it’s a fixable problem, well then we should fix it gahdamnit
I think it’s hard to maintain a critical mass in an anonymous social media/aggregator. You need enough fresh content to satisfy users, and you need enough users to provide that user driven content.
If you’re only in the popular Lemmy channels then you probably wouldn’t notice the users leaving, but the small communities are the first to go.
Users who made multiple accounts across multiple instances to deal with constant outages are just not using their alts as much. No need to.
The amount of regular posts has gone up, too, so that means the people who are staying are more consistently interacting
Hello! I am one of these people.
Can we leave the cringe self censorship behind? Lemmy isn’t beholden to advertisers and thus has no need to be “family friendly”
Honored to have my meme reposted. Fuxk Spez
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This is how I would feel about it. Stoked someone liked it enough.
There’s not QUITE enough content here for my short-ass attention span, but I DO come here first and I’ve stopped all posting on the other place.
Without RIF, I don’t ever go back when mobile. I also don’t spend much time on my desktop leisurely, so I’m barely there these days.
With Jerboa, I’m here multiple times a day.
I’ve switched from jerboa to eternity and am liking it better.
Any noticable differences?
I’ve gone from 20+ hours weekly on a third party app, to 30 minutes weekly on old.reddit. it’s such a shame, because I was really enjoying the niche communities and especially the f1 subreddit.
I DO come here first and I’ve stopped all posting on the other place.
I post here first and then cross-post on Reddit to drive more traffic here :)
I visited old.reddit a few times in the last week, after deleting my 10+ yo account in July and ditching Reddit altogether, and it just isn’t the same anymore. The content just isn’t good like it used to be.
Lemmy has plenty of room for improvement, and often feels like it’s just an RSS feed, but I genuinely prefer it now over current Reddit.
Fuck Spez.
For anyone who still checks reddit, Rdx.overdevs.com is an a mobile-friendly way to browse. No ads and you can still view nsfw subs. You can import a list of subs you follow, but you can’t post (which to me is a feature more than a bug).
Agreed, I’m sticking with the fediverse for my social media no matter how small it gets because corporate social media is just that incredibly toxic.
I get more engagement here so Reddit can suck it
We have already matured significantly since the initial rush. There will be another rush, and we’ll be in an even better state then.
I cheat on Lemmy with Tumblr but Reddit is the ex I shook.
It’s better to have fewer users, as far as I’m concerned. Every sub I was part of in reddit when the sub started was great when it was small, and then became trash as it got bugger.
But if you have fewer users you get less niche communities that are actually useful.
Funny enough I downloaded the reddit app this week and created an account again.
Unfortunately theres not enough niche content on lemmy.
But damn do I dislike that app. It consistently pushes me away. Maybe Sync app is the only thing keeping me on Lemmy.
