I know and can accept the response that say I should register to X site if I want more activity. I do plan to, least with Reddit, just biding some time before I make yet the 20th disposable e-mail and probably the 100th account before it gets banned again if I cross a glass person. Glass person being someone who’s so fragile on opinions and things that they’ll scream ‘BAN THEM BAN THEM!’.
I’ve been on KBin Social, Lemmy World (least 2 dedicated accounts), KBin Run, Mastodon, Blue Sky .etc
And I’d stay for a good while but I also found myself bored immediately. I check for questions to answer, it’s the same questions I’ve seen days and weeks prior. I check around for things that are reported and they’ll be hours old and some of them can be years old.
I love the idea of the Fediverse, I like some of the features that are implemented. Especially when you do ask questions on here and you’re allowed to expand on it. Unlike AskReddit for example, they don’t really like that and will remove your post because explaining what your question is about and backing it with an example is just unacceptable to them.
I don’t know. 43,000+ people sounds a lot on paper, but in practice, it feels like you’re dealing with 50 people at any given day.
Yes there needs to be more people. There’s barely any active discussion here. If you don’t want to shit on Israel, there’s just shit posts and Linux. We need more people to get active sports discussion, movies, TV, or anything else.
I’d love a more active sports area. I comment semi regularly in a few. There is small engagement, but would love even 10-15% more.
I moved to lemmy hoping it would be like classic Reddit, which it is to some extent. Unfortunately, my experience has been more like browsing Imgur – just endless memes and shitposts.
I tried blocking all the meme-focused communities I could find, but now my feed feels like a ghost town.
Did you have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and https://lemmyverse.net/communities ?
What are your interests?
movies
TV
sport
!football@lemmy.world (not sure what you like)
Did you have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and https://lemmyverse.net/communities ?
I just wish it had more diversity.
Everyone’s a white 40-year-old born male Linux admin in here.Hey! I’m a white 30-year-old born female Linux user, clearly Lemmy is burgeoning with diversity!
I’m a 40-year-old white man? I had no idea
Sorry you had to find out this way
Congratulations. But being in your 20s is better. At least you get to be white I guess.
Welcome! Here’s your complimentary Thinkpad and cat.
There’s plenty of diversity if you join boards focused on them, like LGBTQ communities. I think the defaults just lean excessively into the demographic you described.
Yep, Hexbear is generally more diverse, even if it still leans towards the general Lemmy demographics. The presence of communities like Traa and strong pro-LGBTQ moderation helps that greatly, same with anti-zionism.
I only know the sex of one person on Lemmy, and she’s not a man.
Who tf is born 40 years old???
Hey! I’m 32.
I’m a 25 year old Asian American
It does. You aren’t looking. I always feel a sense that I am talking to people from other parts of the world. Moreso than anywhere’s else.
It depends how you define diversity. The overwhelming majority of content is for the white, Anglicised gaze. You could argue that there is diversity within that group but it is still narrow enough that the content posted is pretty repetitive.
https://feddit.cl, https://feddit.org and https://jlai.lu are quite active if you speak the languages
I wish I was that young!
im actually a 30 y/o social sciences graduate il have you know
Post something then. Go to whatever your niche sub is and post on it. People will see it and you might get some engagements. I recently posted in !knives@sopuli.xyz and !geocaching@lemmy.world and got engagement.
I’d like to not to.
I would much prefer seeing other people build as well, see what they bring up and whatnot. I’ve tried before on creating communities to moderate and all I’d feel like is being some of those Reddit moderators who moderate an absurd amount of subreddits.
That’s not what I want.
yes! I posted a similar question in a diff community and someone responded: " be the change you want to see". that’s pretty much all we can do! :)
It just takes time. More passionate posters will come. Reddit is mostly ai-generated at this point.
I wish more technically focused communities had a real home here. I’ll google something, and see that the project I’m working on has a dedicated subreddit where someone asked my question. Wish I could see lemmy in my search results.
There is no guarantee that there will be more posters. This place might very well disappear in a few years.
Doubtful. Individual instances, yes, but lemmy overall? No.
Even when I left reddit a year ago, most accounts on the front page were reposts bots. If you spent more than a year or two on reddit, you realize everything on the front page is recycled content.
Maybe less content is good? Infinitely scrolling is not great, and we all know that. Having limited content on Lemmy allows me to at least move onto something else.
Yeah but also the content is quite repetitive imo
Yeah and it depends. The fact that there is no easy way to search the fedi for similar posts right now is a bit cumbersome for sure.
I see a lot of new users post something that has already been answered a 10000x times (What’s the best Linux distro? It depends !) And luckily there’s always someone to give a mature and comprehensive answer to a new comer without scaring him or down voting him to oblivion. This shows that there are a lot of people who believe in Lemmy and are ready to repeat themselves to keep Lemmy alive and give new comers a warmly welcome ! However I have only seen that kind of interaction in the Linux/self-hosted communities… Most memes/ask Lemmy/political views/… Communities seems rather hostile on their own opinions and quickly become a cesspool of anger and hate :/.
Also a lot of people think because some communities have a lower user base they won’t get any answer or interaction I was quite surprised to get a comprehensive answer and help in the bash@lemmy.ml community which has only 50 users/month !
I wasn’t referring to that kind of posts, since they “plague” Reddit too, but the posts from Reddit that gets crossposted on Lemmy. It’s like there is little to no original content here. Maybe mastodon is a bit better, though I feel like it’s slowly dying ngl
For a recent thread with other manual hobbies communities
- https://sh.itjust.works/post/26695650
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world for other instances
Likely to promote and increase activity people will try to repost what was already popular on reddit. It’s no different than movie studios wanting to only make movies that have preexisting fanbases.
I don’t think there’s much that can be done other than being patient and guiding how things grow. Reddit took a decade to build. Lemmy’s journey will likely be long, but it probably won’t take 10yrs. Solutions to existing problems will happen over time.
Ohh my bad !
This whole thread is wild with Lemmy expectations lol. Reddit is a link aggregation site, same as here. Are you wanting more artists and authors posting on here for it to be considered “original”? All the links to articles or sites people are posting…aren’t really considered original. There are plenty of discussions going on that are original, but they tend to be upvoted less than posted link content so you have to usually search them out in the actual community.
This whole thread is wild with Lemmy expectations lol.
Yeah, it feels like people have expectations like the website is 100k or 200k monthly active members. We are barely 45k, so the scope has to be limited
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Hard to have enshittification in a FOSS platform.
Corpo shills --> bots --> ads disguised as content --> shit
Again, difficult on a FOSS platform.
.world is no different than reddit so you shouldn’t expect any improvement there.
for me the lemmyverse is better so far than reddit, x, or facebook but that’s because i spend most of my time away from the diet reddit lemmyverse instances; maybe that’ll work for you too.
What do you mean by “.world” is no different? How come?
it a moderate playground that suppresses leftists views like reddit does and when it comes to moderates, Martin Luther King Jr said it best:
First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”
Yes, but also no.
More users would be great for the fediverse, in theory. Right now Lemmy (and Mastodon) can attribute a lot of their users to people unhappy with Reddit Inc. (or X) in some way. Throwing more unhappy people into the user base would probably not lead to good outcomes.
Personally I think Lemmy and Mastodon will never get the critical mass of users needed to maintain healthy communities because the only thing they have to offer is a less bad clone of an existing network.
X is bad because a malignant political demagogue is actively destroying what most people liked about Twitter. Reddit is bad because reddit inc. cares more about profit more than the needs of the user base. But the platforms they created and/or operate aren’t designed with a federated model in mind.
If the fediverse is ever going to move out of the technically savvy, early adopter nerds phase I think it’s only going to do that through something new and better than what already exists.
I got my first reddit ban today!! I told a gamer advocating for bikini armor or something that he should just get a second screen and watch porn while he plays if he’s so fucking horny all the time and it was flagged as “harassment”. It’s only for 7 days so I guess I need to work harder to get a permaban lol.
It is stupid easy to get banned on that platform. There might as well be no rules posted there anymore.
Because all that you have to do is simply express an opinion that’ll hurt someone’s feel-feels and that’s just grounds enough to ban you over.
They’ll only have one rule and it’s “DON’T HURT MUH FEELINGS!”.
Do you guys feel like the federation hurts Lemmy?
Like I see its benefits, but for an average user, the feel of Lemmy as an app is less intuitive than reddit
Lemmy currently has 45k monthly active users: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Centralized alternatives:
- Discuit has less than 250: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/9JPo3q0m
- Tildes doesn’t have numbers, but based on activity, it seems similar to Discuit
- Blue Dwarf has 50
There was a thread yesterday on /r/RedditAlternatives talking about “how do you attract users to a new alternatives”, most of the comments where about how difficult it is: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1g4zcdi/for_those_of_you_who_started_your_own_alternative/
Based on this, I would say that Lemmy allowing everyone to open a server helps in that regard. Instance admins are more confident in the platform as they have control on this. Users trust admins.
Ya I definitely don’t wanna take away from what Lemmy has accomplished
It’s definitely the best alternative to Reddit that I have seen. But the federation does add another way of complexity that I wasn’t used to coming from Reddit. Whenever I join a new community now, they may be across different federations and it seems like the popularity of these communities almost compete with each other, which detracts from having a big user-based community to ask questions to
I do, but only because the UX around federated entities isn’t great at the moment. There’s no doubt that it could be made way more intuitive and streamlined for the average user, and that more effort could be put into migration between federated entities so that it doesn’t feel like as much of a chore to jump between instances. The average user won’t care about federation, and they just want to quickly get some content.
migration between federated entities so that it doesn’t feel like as much of a chore to jump between instances.
Migration takes two clicks from the account settings, are you referring to something else?
For more diverse content I indeed wish, but you can’t build a healthy social network with an explosion of members without the moderation and toolings required to handle such a wave.
I’d rather be there while the Fediverse grows organically and gather my info from multiple sources the old fashioned way.
Yeah. I feel like Lemmy doesn’t have the tools needed to moderate a larger community outside of defederation.
No.
I have actual internet friends here. People who, based solely on their efforts and words and interactions, align with my own beliefs and ideals and help me temper and adjust accordingly as time goes on. Adults. I’d happily stay like this or with more, similar people, growing slowly and legitimately.
Agreed. The past year has been a great change from other social media personally. I was Reddit only for the prior 7 or so years and Lemmy feels like a time hop back to pre-dystopic Internet days. I approach it more like my favorite forums from the 90’s-00’s.
Less content and users are ok when it leads to more civil engagement’s.
Same here. I find lemmy very relaxing. Multiple times a day I’ll see people admit they misunderstood and upvoting each other. It’s quite refreshing. Sure people still be people but. It feels like we care and aren’t throwing trash on the floor. Whereas Reddit everyone will wipe their ass on your nose.
I firmly believe that the reddit takeover was a part of the grand region destabilization plan to sew discord and resentment in our society by foreign powers. I caution that I am not unaware that it is exactly what or alphabet agencies have been doing to the rest of the world.
Communication among humans is the only defense. Cheers to you, friend! Thanks for contributing to the conversation.
Honestly not a wild conspiracy. The “bad guys” would not want us to socialize/communize as that would only make us stronger in the long run and force them to compete harder.
I was digging through old foot lockers from my army days, a while back, and found an old AOL 2.0 CD. I did not toss it into the fire, however. Fond memory friend, thanks
I also have fond memories of those AOL days. When we knew it was real people we were interacting with. What a world of difference now. Glad you made it here! Cheers.
You are on the list now, dawg. Another real person who I shall look forward to conversing with in the future. Exciting! Gotta assign you a color, hmmmm how do you feel about chartreuse?
Fuck yeah. I’m in man. That is damn near my favorite color. You got the touch. Always nice to meet good ass people.
For me the biggest problem is not volume in general but volume of niche content. The best thing about Reddit was all the active, engaging communities that would sprawl around any niche subject you could imagine.
You know, you actually hit the nail on the head in the context I had failed to articulate. Like yes the Fediverse does have some interesting communities, but they’re communities we expect of the fediverse to have that everyone else has. But, it does not have a dedicated Nostalgia community, it does not have AbruptChaos or anything else. Just the basics.
And I think if more people took on tasks like running the communities while educating people the benefits of the fediverse, then we can see a bit more growth. Because the point of the matter is if people are desperate for a Reddit alternative, they’re going to want to feel like they’re home. If there’s nothing here that’s going to help make them feel that, then they’re going to just stick to Reddit for better or worse.
But, it does not have a dedicated Nostalgia community, it does not have AbruptChaos or anything else. Just the basics.
There’s only so many communities you can maintain active with 45k monthly active users
And I think if more people took on tasks like running the communities while educating people the benefits of the fediverse, then we can see a bit more growth.
Why do you think we don’t?
- https://feddit.uk/post/18600084
- https://kbin.melroy.org/m/reddit@lemmy.world/t/505901/It-feels-like-the-group-has-much-more-to-gain
There’s only so many communities you can maintain active with 45k monthly active users
Then you’ve just proved my point then on how little there is to do and see beyond the basics. One would think that with a number such as 45k, there’d be a lot more communities around than just the general stuff.
And I see that you’re running multiple places as is. I’d like to see more contributing users than just one dude.
I think if more people took on tasks like running the communities while educating people the benefits of the fediverse, then we can see a bit more growth.
This is the way - be the change you want to see in the world.
Lemmy isn’t the size of Reddit, so it isn’t at a place where the vast majority of users can just passively consume content.
If there’s a niche for a community then start it. If you want more Mods, keep an eye out for active posters and ask if they want to help. If you are unsure about starting a community or want help from the start (as it might be popular) then start a thread on !fedigrow@lemm.ee. The more active communities, the more likely it is for the next wave of users to stick around and some of them might start new communities.
If you build it they will indeed come and stay.
Yeah, well said
That’s why people use reddit
What niches are you in?
!newcommunities@lemmy.world has a lot of active communities on different topics
I miss the NBA subreddit the most. Lemmy.world has a community, but it’s not very active.
You probably need automated matches threads.
We have them on !football@lemmy.world , that helps a lot to get activity
I think they have one. It’s just the offseason right now. Technically the preseason but I hope they turn it back on for the regular season.
r/armoredcore
r/theforeverwinter
r/noncredibledefense
r/gundam
r/girlsfrontline
r/edgerunners
r/animecirclejerk
r/hololive
r/kurosanji
r/trenchcrusade
r/virtualyoutubers
r/gachagaming
r/noncredibledefense
!noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
r/gundam
r/girlsfrontline
!gachagaming@lemmy.world, recently requested by @agranapezeta@lemmy.world : https://lemmy.world/post/20905853
You can use https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities
1000% agree. But to Lemmy’s credit, I found a greate niche community of linux and programming enthusiasts, plus I’ve noticed I run into Europeans more in the wild on here.
I think the fediverse has it’s benefits. Still not a full replacement. Truthfully I don’t think it will ever be, those niche communities will always end up being hosted where it suits them best.
I personally love the smaller userbase. Less spam, more quality, less screentime, no doomscrolling. Its a win-win in my book.
Same. The only thing being niche subs on local stuff. But I remember early Reddit, and that had the same feel. Maybe with a bit more generalized memes because the hivemind was so much more exciting.
But the lack of automated astroturf and shorter comment sections makes it easy more pleasant.
Plus you get to see the same accounts, the entirety of Lemmy feels like a community
Yes, I wish there would be more. But I am okay with the state it’s in. The engagement is good enough, and I discover interesting things every other day. You can’t force it anyway.
When I used to have Reddit on my phone, I’d look at it as soon as I woke up. There was new content constantly throughout the day so I kept coming back.
Lemmy doesn’t have the content churn, so I can genuinely just look once a day and spend an hour or so catching up. No FOMO! I much prefer it.
However I do miss some of the niche subreddits that got reasonable activity on Reddit and absolutely zero activity here. They were my favourite part of Reddit.
I’d take more activity in those niche places, but I don’t miss the addiction I had.
Spez let me go cold turkey for a while. Thanks (fuck) Spez.
Niche subreddits can have good content, and also I find myself looking at Reddit threads that come up in web searches, like if I search for a tech problem I’m having. But yes, the behaviour of Reddit as a profit-hungry corporation makes me want to not use Reddit or see their ads.
Same here, Reddit has a lot more people one there. With more people posting funny memes, videos and other things that make using Reddit more enjoyable. I try to limit my time on Reddit as much as possible
You could always browse it with an ad blocker so they don’t make ad revenue from your attention.
Same here