Just making sure I’m in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I’ve started wondering, what’s the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I’ve heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.
Lots are here. I joined a while ago on a different server and the content was slow. But by now it’s like always fresh content.
I can tell you the traffic rose up.
I am no longer a Reddit refugee, I am a Lemmy citizen!
Feel you. This is my home now.
You need to go to the immigration office
Same I still haven’t found an app that scratches the itch like baconreader did but a lot of these communities have finally found a strong footing
A few months ago, there were quite some people urging everyone to actively post and comment, to make the communities more lively and engaging.
I always remind myself to do this… Interesting post but no comments? Just add the first comment and a conversation will start - for me at least, there was always somebody commenting.
I really try to make an effort to contribute. I sometimes still find it a bit uncomfortable - i remember the harsh ways people got called out/downvoted/got incredibly unkind replies on reddit-, but i try to do it anyway, if i feel i have something to contribute/something kind to say/have a question
Got ya. You can’t make people always agree with you. Sometimes your opinion is just unpopular. But it is important to speak with each other in a proper manner. Maybe we learn from each other.
Never go the way of people pleasing. Be kind and you will receive it.
I do this all the time. Even if my comment isn’t substantial it lowers the barrier to entry for others.
globally, traffic actually went down. Somebody posted some data a while ago and it was very clear. I would not worry about it (I think to a certain extent it’s physiological), by still
Traffic or active users? Because I have a few accts I no longer use which would look like a loss of users but I’m still here.
You’re right, the stats I saw were not about traffic
Well I don’t really consider myself a refugee so much anymore is the thing, it just feels like home here now
Same here. lemmy reminds me of how reddit was 10 years ago. Feels like home… God I’m old.
I’m just glad I’m not the only one who thinks that
I’ve been so chronically on Reddit the past 12 years, I’m sure it changed, but I can’t remember what it was like.
I was using the old UI so it really felt like the old days. Fuck that noise now though.
Lurking, just like I did on reddit. Lemmy is amazing and scratches most of the same itch reddit did for me, but I just read, vote, and move on.
I just read, lurk, and occasionally reply to comments.
Same
Lemmy is getting a lot of content these days. So I’m happy with it.
Lemmy is kinda nice but still kinda quiet, also as a 30 something I feel that the crowd here is quite young and immature which isn’t that great
Really? This surprises me. Reddit was a circlejerk of who had the best joke to race to the top of the comments section, not seeing that here.
Still the same hot take comments based on an article headline, though.
All the puns got real fucking annoying.
Ur immature!
I see some older techies on Mastodon, maybe give that a shot? Different format, I know. Also takes a tad bit of work to find people to follow, but you get there. Just follow a couple of hashtags related to your interests.
This is surprising to me, I actually experienced the opposite. Reddit had a lot of teens but Lemmy seems to have older posters who are more thoughtful about what they post. In my 30’s myself and wasn’t able to get anyone younger than 34 to join.
It could just be the communities you subscribed to?
I mostly browse “Top X hours” which is All the communities and it’s filled with terrible memes and “funny” things I’ve blocked of few of these meme communities but overall it feels pretty low quality content aside from news but still there there’s lots of duplicates due to the various similar commuties on Lemmy
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Present. Using this as I did reddit. It’s like browsing a lot of the smaller subreddits I enjoyed, but all the time.
Downsides are less content, and definite growing pains. I think there are some aspects of the platform severely limiting its growth at this time, and I’m not sure how it’s going to tackle them yet. But I’m along for the ride.
I’m in the same boat. What do you think are the limiting factors? I’m starting to see that federation is a double edge sword. It’s like every week a dozen new instances pop-up that have nefarious motives that need to be defederated with.
Federation is a challenge in its own right, yeah. My particular pet peeve has been repost bots that flood feeds with 1000s of posts with no comments.
I just block them, and also instances like lemmygrad and hexbear. Probably won’t work when you use a web browser, but I exclusively browse with the sync client.
Yeah I block bots and communities like hexbear, it’s just unfortunate that I feel like that’s become a prerequisite to Lemmy being enjoyable and that puts off new people
I’ve just been here since the API change. I’ve been more or less happy with it. Some things are dissapointing, like there being just as much of a hive-mind mentality as reddit. But I guess that’s probably just inherent to online vote-based communities.
I also wish there were an easier way to find new communities - and good ones. I don’t want to browse shitty memes. I want stuff where people are participating in good faith genuine discussion about meaningful topics.
I’ve found some of that here so far.
At the end of the day though, this is open source and decentralized. It’s everything a social media should be. To me, anything less than that is a waste of time. There is zero reason to spend your personal time creating content for a company to profit off of.
Reddit is old enough to vote and has several orders of magnitude more users. You can’t create that much content organically overnight. As more content gets added it will attract more people who are interested in that content. In turn those users will contribute even more, even if it’s just in the form of engagement and upvoting posts they like.
Lemmy is already experiencing some growing pains because the decentralized, user hosted nature of the platform will never be able to react quickly across all instances. We deal with it because we don’t want to be controlled by one overarching entity and this is the ONLY alternative. Are there issues? Yes. Are there fewer issues than other social media sites? I don’t know, but the problems are at least different and potentially more fixable in the long run.
I’d rather not browse Reddit if it means having to use the official dumpster-fire of an app… since that’s the only option now, I just deleted my account.
Lemmy definitely scratches the itches I used to rely on Reddit for - I’ve had zero urge to relapse.
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I would say 99.9% of people are still on Reddit. I mainly use Lemmy to get the bigger news stuff and the gaming community is pretty active here too. Also I use Lemmy on mobile only really since the Reddit app is still terrible.
If I want to read about one of my other interests I’ll go to the specific subreddit on my desktop browser and use old Reddit but with no account since I deleted mine a few months ago. Sometimes I’ll post or comment on one of those smaller communities here but I don’t want to be someone who posts tons of things to a community. Too much work for me.
Hopefully the user base and engagement will grow over the next few years. Welcome to being an early adopter!
Yay! I’m one of the 0.1%!
Reddit banned me way before the API policy change.
F Spez
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I only go to Reddit for porn since they lose money when I do that.
I visit the frontpage now and then. I am still not sure if it is just my imagination, but it feels like the quality of the content has significantly decreased. In addition, the highest comments have fewer likes then was the case before. But I am not good at remembering numbers so it could also be just my imagination.
I am on Lemmy (here and a few other instances) but when I get into discussions in comments here I am starting to wonder if I should just quit the whole social media concept altogether. So far I have mostly stayed since I still need to get some news from somewhere but RSS might be a better option in the long run.
I’m here still. It is much slower here than reddit, but there are some upsides to that. One is that I spend way less time on my phone, scrolling
That’s what I’m loving about it atm, I can have a quick scroll while I’m waiting for something or go on an adventure through the different communities, I don’t feel like I have to check it all the time. I was pretty addicted to reddit for a while, so this has been great.
I log on about one a week. I forgot why I showed up. I replied to replies and then started scrolling.
Goddamn it. I came here do do something. Fuck.
I’m still on reddit. But only like 5 subs. (stuff important to me that goes way beyond reddit’s idiocy)
So I’ve unsubscribed to everything except those.
My front page on reddit is great. I literally only get those 5 subs.
I’m here! How did you not see me?
Upvoted for visibility.
I’m here. I left reddit for good, I don’t even lurk it anymore.
