Just a little rant. When I first visited Lemmy Sites a couple of months ago it felt empty. Besides the really mainstream community pretty much everything else just felt empty.

Meanwhile though traffic has increased a lot and I feel well entertained by the traffic in c/hfy c/noncredibledefence c/keepwriting c/worldbuilding and so on. It is certainly less than Reddit but often quality is substancially higher and is "enough" to keep me entertained.

Also I like that you can actually post something without running into a bazillion deletes, bans and moderator shitshat because your post was two words to short, not NCD enough and so on.

Sure, the C64 community on Lemmy is laughable. So is the ARMA community. I still use REddit for that. Also I often check up stuff on r/hfy and r/NCD but since one week I have been prefering Lemmy for that.

Also my longer posts don't get eaten up any more. God, three weeks ago most posts with 3k an more just got lost without feed back. Nowadays I have even manges posts around 20k without breaking them up. Though the editor is still lacking for longer posts. On Reddit I can copy-paste pretty much anything from Libreoffice into Reddits Editor (which is also pretty lacking but differently lacking). On Lemmy I have to run most text through a little perl script to get them even using correct line breaks perl -pe 's/\n/\n\n/' and different sizes for Headlines are much to few to select from.

Not perfect, not even very good but definitely promising.

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[–] Disgustoid@startrek.website 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I don't understand the "slowly" part at all. I joined Lemmy about a month ago when Reddit third party apps went dark. Lemmy was largely a ghost town then, with most of the relatively mainstream communities I sought out having newest posts that were days or even weeks old. That desolation was gone after the first few days, with a ton more engagement from others who migrated over and a steady stream of new content. The communities I frequent have grown by leaps and bounds since then. "Slow" isn't a word I'd use to describe Lemmy's growth.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, Lemmy is more active than tildes at this point.

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tildes is staying the same. And I like it that way. Lemmy is getting busy and I also like it that way. I go to tildes or lemmy depending on my mood. Haha

I totally forgot about squabbles. I haven't gone there for weeks now. I don't know the reason why, I'm just being pulled to lemmy and tildes much more.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tildes was nice if you wanted to just circle jerk each other on a topic...but if you had any disagreements, the users there would just tag your post as malicious and then the single admin would delete it...then if you got to many people who disagreed with you, he will just ban you. It's his platform and all but fuck that authoritarian shit. I left reddit because of the level of mod abuse and admin abuse there.

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm. Thanks for the info, though I haven't experienced that in tildes but I'll keep that in mind.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since the spike in content that came with the Reddit migration, I feel like things have slowed down. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't have any stats to back that up.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe "plateau'd" is a better phrase. There has been growth since the Reddit migration, but it has decreased since the spike. Not that that's a bad thing

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say plateaued. Decreased. A number of the communities that I subscribe to seem to have fewer daily posts than they did a few weeks ago.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It started to slow down, or at least in my instance. People still post and people from another instance visit frequently, but the hype seems to already slow down. I don't mind though, i don't think any instance can take the heavy load, it will kill lemmy faster if the instance constantly facing down time.

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It was bound to happen eventually; these migrations happen in waves, after all. Not to mention, a solid chunk of former Reddit users just stopped using social media entirely.