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I do, but as more people join I'm also feeling a little republican - i got my spot and this is good; everyone on the outside can go fuck off now. I don't want it to get so big that it's what we left. No intended disrespect or lack of acknowledgment to those who were here before.

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[–] derelict@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Honestly no, I was mostly subscribed to smaller subs, and only the general communities here really have a critical mass. I’m definitely interacting more with general communities, but I really miss communities around niche interests.

I have hope that they will be here with time, but for now there’s a bunch of empty communities with no posts and a mod who has never posted anything anywhere, just made a few dozen communities with the names of popular subreddits, and even many the communities that aren’t in that situation have 3-4 posts and a couple dozen subscribers

[–] bluejay@partizle.com 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah everything feels so raw still. But I don't mind it yet. I pretty much learn something new every 6 hours or so because of all the content that's getting added to the big instances. It's been an exciting honeymoon period.

[–] chowanana@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

This is exactly my main gripe with Lemmy. I mostly spent my time on reddit browsing subs about quite specific hobbies, didn’t care for r/funny or r/pics which is what Lemmy currently feels like to me

[–] GullibleOyster@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are your niche communities you are looking for? I got lucky that a bunch of mine are semi migrated (3dprinting, houseplants, ergomechboards, etc)

[–] derelict@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cosplay is one example. There's a handful of NSFW 'cosplay' communities, one not-very-active one on blahaj, and one squatted on .world by a user who is also squatting a whole bunch of clearly NSFW communities and has never posted or commented anything anywhere, and named themselves "@Moderator." Laser cutting, Inkscape, some book fandoms are examples I was (and to some extent am) actively engaged with on Reddit where communities exist, but are far from a critical mass.

[–] GullibleOyster@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I feel your pain about the squatted communities and agree that I wish there was a good laser cutting one. I know a lot of people are frustrated with the squatting so hopefully the lemmy.world admins implement some sort of community request.

[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don’t know how we fix the absentee mod problem either. Sure you can create the community on a C new instance, but then it’s even less likely to be successful. I Lemmy is on and I’ll never go back to Reddit, but I don’t see anything replacing it 1:1 the way Lemmy is trying to. It took Reddit a decade to mature in regards to niche communities. Lemmy has a ton of barriers already such as the roadblocks put up by absentee mods and the difficulty in finding communities at all. Lemmy’s All feed seems to bury new communities even worse than Reddit does, but that’s just an unscientific impression.

[–] derelict@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One suggestion I saw was auto-deleting communities that are still empty after a week, incentivizing new mods to upload something, not just squat names that were popular subs in hopes of I guess having some sort of power if they pick up?

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[–] Risk@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

Presumably worth reaching out to the instance admin if a mod is squatting on a community name on that instance.

Might even be worth just messaging that mod too - they might have taken a 'build it and they will come' stance and would welcome another hand to mod and post.

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[–] TheAndrewBrown@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Same here and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. I was definitely on Reddit an unhealthy amount so I’m hoping I can cut down my online time and use something that’s a better alternative. And we don’t need to act like everything here is instantly better. We’re here for a reason and there are definitely things that are better but we’ve also lost over a decade of material and rhythm that will take time to build up and make the place even close to as vibrant as Reddit was in its heyday.

[–] Coelacanth@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.ml has c/Community_Requests and I think it's about time we had that on .world too.

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[–] Thcgrasscity@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it because my posts and comments dont get downvoted to nothing here and i feel i can actually contribute.

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[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I understand of course that Lemmy was around for a long time before me, but I still feel like an OG for some reason.

[–] Chasm@vlemmy.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy had 1-2k people. Now it has 240k monthly active users. In a sense, you are exactly that. Most lemmy instances were created in the last few weeks.

[–] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where are you getting the monthly active stats by the way?

[–] Chasm@vlemmy.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FediDB threadiverse stats. The link is out there. I'm not home. I don't have it with me right now. You'll have to look it up.

[–] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah I've been using Lemmy stats which shows 68k:

https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Threadiverse shows 130k

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[–] simple@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For sure. I'm trying to post a lot more too for communities I enjoy.

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[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

I’m on lemmy less than I used to be on Reddit because the communities I liked on Reddit are dead here. I know I don’t want to go back to Reddit, but I don’t have the time to try to build the communities from Reddit here either. So I spend less time on social media and that’s ok too.

[–] Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've found that I'm checking Kbin a lot less than I checked the other place, but I'm participating more because there's a lot less toxicity and hostility here (at least for the time being).

[–] Chasm@vlemmy.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aww, I can be toxic for you if you want 😊 that way you'll have to leave social media, exercise, see the world and be healthier. 😎

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[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

I’m excited for all the new apps. It’s like the Wild West of app development lol.

[–] Stormy404@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Honestly I like this place more than reddit. Feels much more genuine and much less toxic. Also it runs better than reddit's tracker-bloated website.

[–] Ab_intra@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I've noticed that I use Lemmy much more than I use reddit. I think there is loads of things to improve but i like it.

[–] Relax4939@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not necessarily to boycot reddit but since rif is gone I simply have no options to see reddit on my phone which is where i spend my most of my time.

As a result of that I also notice I'm not on Reddit on my pc as much. I usually scroll 2 pages of ALL and kinda lose interest. I even slowly stopped going to my regular subs.

Actually I'm slowly less on my phone or endlessly scrolling reddit!

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[–] solstice@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Honestly not really. I just want to shitpost and chew the cud about current events and silly stuff. Really don't care which platform I use for this, and it's annoying having to jump around when one goes to shit as they inevitably do. Reddit had a good run. Maybe Lenny will too before it goes to the great server in the sky like all the rest. Maybe I'm getting old but it doesn't feel new and exciting, it's just like, great here we go again..

[–] iRyu@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really enjoy the content on lemmy compared to r/. I think the loss of moderation tools over there has made a bunch of crap float to the top. Here it feels more authentic, I guess?

[–] Chasm@vlemmy.net 7 points 1 year ago

Lemmy had much fewer moderation tools. It's not the lack of mod tools. In fact, mod tools are still alive because reddit delayed their death for a week or so. The problem, more than mod tools, is behavior and demographic changes.

[–] seperis@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yes very very much; there's so much new stuff and this is a good opportunity to expand my interests and not end up having half my subs be drama subs and read AITA until I lose my soul. But also because I'm trying to make a determined effort to be a responsible community member and post actual sentences and engage with others so it becomes a habit. Will any of those sentences make sense? No, and stop pressuring me. Being coherent is an entirely separate goal and many steps from here so back the hell off, okay?

Hello fellow humans, I am normal, friendly, and sane!

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[–] fergilicious@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Im visiting a friend for the week and only have my iPhone so this has been a godsend. will be interesting to see how my usage shifts once back home…..but this place is nice.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

I am always way more active on the fediverse alternative than on the original. Fuck corporate social media. I have been burned so many times. I constantly have to fight off ads and high battery and storage usage.

[–] Redonkulation@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

For me its a definitely the excitement of messing with a new toy while also making me think "how the hell does this work" and "the general population has no chance with this".

I've only been trying out Lemmy/Mastodon for the past few days, slowly building up the communities I subscribe to. I was mostly a lurker on reddit and rarely made my own posts, so the smaller userbase is both good and bad. Good because I spend less time scrolling and I feel like I can contribute more. Bad because there is just less traffic.

Smaller communities tend to be more polite overall and are more welcoming to longer form writing and discussion which I am very down with. I am both intrigued and slightly bewildered how up front the platform is about blocking out content you don't want to see. Again, good and bad.

Anyway, those are my thoughts on being a new user this week.

[–] CorruptBuddha@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely not haha! But that's not a bad thing. Lemmy feels less addicting.

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[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I think if I'm honest, I've replaced one source of procrastination with another (though I'm proud of everyone here for voting with their feet and rejecting what reddit has become).

But it is definitely a nice thing to see day by day the sub count for each community growing so rapidly... though I do fear for Ruud's sanity! I cannot suggest strongly enough that we all donate where possible. He's doing this in his spare time from what I gather.

I think we need to get used to the idea that social media can't be free anymore, because when it's free, that means WE are the product

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, it has been fun adding and contributing to the small and bigger communities on here alike. Not to mention that there have been more constructive conversations as well.

I differ with your view in that I’m looking forward to having more people join and seeing these communities grow. As of now, the platform is still pretty niche (which is nice) but the fediverse can be built in a flexible way to give users the power in what they want to see and block.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been on a lot recently because it's a shiny new thing and I want to figure out how it works, but I also want new people to join so it get bigger and has better and more varied content.

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[–] S_204@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ya, but I don't know if I'm figuring this place out or just holding water here.... Like, I don't think the app i'm using (liftoff) and the site i'm using (lemm.ee) sync or have replies from one show up in the other? Also, what's this about adding instances? Do I need to add so I can interact with others?

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[–] woomp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think we’re close to the point where the content is becoming watery because of oversaturation. I’m excited about exploring/watching our fediverse grow.

However, though I understand the point of having the same c/cats or whatever communities across different instances, while everything is still beginning it’s hard to gain momentum in any because they’re so spread thin. I realize this diversification is one of the entire points of the fediverse, but when you search and see 4 duplicates it makes it hard to know which to join. Especially for niche communities in the future. I’ve ended up just subbing to all of them in those situations which I’m not sure is what I’m supposed to be doing (or maybe that’s the answer?.

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[–] EtzBetz@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm also kind of just using it to generate more content to get it to becoming more popular.

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[–] Severopol@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yep, way more. Much to the detriment of my work.

[–] otter_bee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm excited to be here since it feels like the old reddit community, which I missed over time. I'm just kind of tired of what reddit become as a platform and as a community. It was so nice early on, but as it gained popularity just became more toxic in various ways.

[–] Xylinna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I’m using Lemmy about the same as I did Reddit but the difference is my level of interaction.

[–] pspat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I posted as much in 5 days of Lemmy as in 5 years of Reddit 😆

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like I'm contributing way more to Lemmy than I was on Reddit. I spent almost 15 years on that goddamn website and it felt like trying to piss in the ocean when posting or contributing to anything.

[–] aftertask@lemmy.run 5 points 1 year ago

I used to be lot more active in my early days on r/ then as more it started to attract a crowd I started to be less active. Last few years I was just browsing and answering dms I received on my old threads for info.

Now that I am fediverse I feel myself at home. No more rage arguments and peaceful exchanges.

I would say, yes I am more active here. And I like feeling at home.

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