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.
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.
That feeling's just gonna intensify over time, friend. The people who have time to post on the Internet are overwhelmingly 1) literal children and 2) college aged adults. It's not just here, it's the whole dang web.
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
Yeah, r/mealtimevideos officially adopted Discord, and when I brought up Lemmy to the mods, they said none of them knew much about it, so they skipped over it I guess.
Huh, I’m note sure why it wouldn’t allow you, it should be available to anyone, and I seem to be able to subscribe to it with my alt Kbin account. You might want to send a message to either the lemmy.world or lemmy.ml admins for help.
startrek.website is the biggest concentration of them I’ve seen, but since reddit forced its subreddits to reopen, plenty of people continued visiting there, or, like me, visit both.
I spend significantly less time on reddit, but lemmy is still missing the sheer volume of interaction that reddit offers by mere virtue of its size. I have to search here for episode reaction threads for stuff like Foundation and Trek, because it doesn’t usually land on my home page, and though the comments are always thoughtful and worth reading, there are like ten of them total, if that - as opposed to the dozens if not hundreds of reactions on any comparable thread over on reddit.
I hate to say it, but the exodus failed. I’m glad to have discovered Lemmy, but it simply doesn’t have anywhere near the numbers to compete.
I hate to say it, but the exodus failed. I’m glad to have discovered Lemmy, but it simply doesn’t have anywhere near the numbers to compete.
I think “failed” is a little strong, and that we have to remember two things, here: 1) Lemmy wasn’t in ideal position to handle a major Rexxitor exodus at the time, and 2) Lemmy is best looked at as a long-term project that will ultimately have higher quality of infrastructure, user rights, and users themselves. Much of that is already true, arguably.
What’s helped me personally is to start a community where one was needed in the FV, posting regular content there. Others are joining in, and it’s fun to see our little community grow. It also means a lot to me that I don’t have to worry about a corporation one day arbitrarily fucking with our community to suit their own ends.
That said, if you’re simply a content-devourer, then I agree that Lemmy is going to be less useful than Reddit for the time being. But there’s also a fairly unique opportunity to help change that, as many are doing here. <3
I’m here and on Mastodon. I really like Mastodon. (I still have my old twitter account, but have not posted or commented for years. I never really used it anyway. Now I use it to see the occasional newsworthy linked tweet since they require a login now to view anything. I’m purposely ignoring its attempt to rebrand)
I still go to old.reddit and lurk on slow news days. But my feed isn’t as robust or interesting as it was before the exodus. It’s still good for historical help on certain topic. So I will keep checking it probably.
But to me it looks like Lemmy and Mastodon are getting slow, steady, but high quality growth overall. I think the fediverse in general may be the saving grace of the internet. It looks to me like the “main stream” internet is becoming one voice, much like Clear Channel taking over and homogenizing the eclectic voices of regional radio.
I would, but my mobile app doesn’t allow me to block them at account level, and instead only app level.
I get a TON of hate community/instances; foreign community/instances that aren’t in my language or anywhere near my country; and then the same community spread out across 20 instances, so I have to subscribe to all of them (as neither of them are super active), and then deal with the massive amount of duplicate posting.
Yeah, nowhere near the size of reddit, but who wants that? Easier to have discussions without bazillions of people posting crap like "works for me" or being dicks.
I don't really trust other alternatives. Being unfederated, they rely on a closed source solution maintained by a single person or very small group of people. There's nothing in place if the plugs ever get pulled, everything is lost and like reddit, whose to say these owners won't turn their website slowly into the cesspit reddit is?
Yeah, an instance owner of lemmy/kbin could theoretically pull the plug on their instance or enshitify it, but you can just switch to a different instance and keep accessing the content you were.
The threadiverse/fediverse/whatever you call it I still feel is the future, so long as it survives, but it has a very long way to go to become truly sustainable as anything but a niche pocket of the internet.
It is nice to not have all the obnoxious static that comes with the huge mass of users reddit has, but that sparseness comes with the same online emptiness that living in a rural area does. Resources are much harder to find, and varied interactions with lots of people take significantly more personal effort.
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!
I’m probably exaggerating about the number, I have no idea how many times I got banned - it was for reporting some power-tripping mod post that had comments disabled and telling them what I thought of them. I guess they reported me to the admins for report abuse, then I was getting a notification every second that I was banned from Reddit for about 5-10 minutes. More than anything I just found it amusing and created a new account.
I don’t comment or post on Reddit anymore. Occasionally, I’ll check some niche subreddits, and if there’s someone I can help, I’ll reply to them personally - I’m subscribed to a few small-ish disability-related subreddits, so I feel a bit bad about abandoning those people or trying to get them to move to another community since they’ve already got enough to deal with, so I think what I do is a good compromise.
I don’t have the article itself but they used subredditstats.com as a source, if you check some of the biggest subs on there you can see clearly in the charts the drop in posts and comments
If you actually check the number of posts/comments on that site against what you see visiting the subreddit, it looks like those stats are no longer accurate.
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’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.
I made myself a custom infinity app apk with a personal api key. But I swore once that stops working I will not try and fix it. Not that I use it a lot, only got to reddit a few times a week while I open my lemmy app every day.
Still here. I’m making it work. The very dominant focus on particular topics and views is readily apparent and somewhat lessens the experience compared to the variety I was used to on Reddit, but I don’t mind Lemmy’s predilections so much as those were areas of interest for me anyway, just not areas that I’d focussed on so heavily, or areas that I had been more interested in in the past and drifted from with age. This makes it kind of nice to kind of reconnect and re-engage with those topics, even if it does make things a little bland overall.
What I’m missing most is the ability to just assume, correctly, that whatever I need information on at that moment will have a sub dedicated to it already and I just need to correctly guess the name of the sub. This was especially handy for technical questions.
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