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 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 decided to make my own, I’ve had to switch to paying things, but I’m going to get started back on Luna soon. If you’re willing to give me feedback and describe in great detail what you want, chances are it’ll get added into the next version
Thanks, I’m sure there are other things I can’t quite articulate because you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone problem, but here’s two that stick out for me. I miss sorting by controversial it’s interesting to see where the polarizing conversations are happening. On an interface side, there was a way to swipe towards the top of the post to switch to the next post on whatever page was populating posts so for example I were on the front page and see posts 1, 2, and 3 if I opened post 2 all of the comments would populate underneath it if I scrolled down into the comments I could swipe right at varying degrees to upvote and downvote or swipe left to reply, report, etc but if I ever drag right to left from the head of the post it would shift over from post 2 to post 3 or left to right to shift over to post 1 it made it really easy to see larger pictures, post details, and if there’s much activity while still being able to navigate through the communities without losing my place because of refreshing or scrolling back up when I go back to the community page, homepage, etc. I hope that helps. Thanks for the effort let me know when your app goes online.
So honestly I hate the comment swiping interface, I know what you’re talking about though. I’ll put it on the list for an option but it’s going to be low since I find it to be bad UX - to me, swiping should be to change something on your screen.
The swiping between posts sounds like a great idea though, that’ll almost definitely be in the next version
And sorting? Custom sorts and feeds are like my main design goal, that’ll definitely be in there
The other thing is saving your place - that was my biggest complaint personally. You can already click on anything to see more about it and go back without losing your place
You can even change accounts or sorting methods and go back to where you were - I’m playing with making that more intuitive though, I disabled it for the current version because it was awkward
I’ll save your post and ping you for the next big update
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
This is probably where most of them ended up, a few communities here are the official replacements too.
The problem is that Reddit is MASSIVE compared to any of the alternatives. More people are moving over slowly, it just takes time. As for why you aren’t seeing much, maybe your feed is set to ‘local’?
What reasons are they uncomfy and is there any way we can make women safer here? Not sealioning, being genuine. I try my best to make my instance as inclusive and welcoming as possible and would love to know if there’s anyway I could improve. I honestly would go as far to say there’s a pretty high ratio of women on literature.cafe compared to other small niche focused instances, but I don’t have any actual statistics to gauge from to say definitively.
I presume you are a woman? I am a woman too and see Lemmy just as comfortable or uncomfortable as Reddit was. Granted there are less communities focused on women though, is that what you mean? Or you really mean Lemmy is more toxic?
Yeah I’m not sure what they mean either, and I chat to other women on here every day. Not to say they’ve not had a bad experience obviously but it seems far from universal.
OP if someone is being a sexist creep, smash that report button!
Can’t say I’ve noticed anything different to most places, other than right back at the start when I called a few people out for assuming everyone was a guy it actually got upvoted, which was nice 😄
I’m going to quote it wrong, but there was a funny post on Reddit about 10 years ago that went something like “Statistically, you’re probably a white guy aged 19-22 in the USA”.
Honestly, the comments were hysterical because yes. Half the respondents met all those criteria, and most of the rest met 3+ of them.
Not OP and not a woman, but yeah, there are way fewer communities for women here, but Reddit was much worse and a lot more sexist when it was just finding its feet. There is still a bit of a boys club mentality around Lemmy though.
Probably it’s more the former reason. I used to curate my experience on reddit carefully and mainly participate woman centric subreddits, and few male centric ones, and I got used to that. Lemmy looks more like what would happen if you browse default subs on reddit, which tend to be very toxic. It’s a chicken and egg problem: you won’t attract women unless there are spaces women feel comfortable, and those spaces don’t exist unless there are women there to create them.
I still find myself going back to reddit for certain niche fashion or fitness things. And when i try to get my normie girlfriends to look at lemmy, it’s hard to sell them on it. They don’t care about politics or mod drama and reddit is still better for them.
If OP is getting unlucky enough to, idk, encounter a solid stream of sexist memes in their feed or something, “revealing” gender is kind of irrelevant to the level of uncomfy they might feel.
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.
They’re all over commenting, posting, and such. I’m one of them, though I mostly lurk. There’s plenty of developed/developing communities here on lemmy
Many are around. All ? May-be not, some people would have moved to other places (discord, Mastodon, and more)
Welcome here, looks like you already got the federation concept and how to access communities which aren’t on your home instance, congrats. Remember that you’re part of the community and be the change you want to see
Sometimes, it’s a bit messy as you get 3 communities with the same name on different instance and only one of the 3 is active, but in general it’s works
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.
Reporting in. Once you spend a bit of time here you will find the things you are familiar with in a different form, Lemmy has its own culture going. Though there are also a bunch of sub replacements, or at least very similar communities.
Though it is of course true that reddit was the internet culture place for a good decade, and that reverberates through to how people communicate, what humor and references they have and make, and so on.
Over time more and more people will migrate, and help to foster new communities here. The fediverse is still in its pioneering stage, so naturally the content is less varied than on reddit, and there are still the occasional technical issues to work out, but overall it’s been a fun two months here. I actually haven’t missed reddit much, just for the occasional ultra specific answer I am looking for.
Still around, and possibly outnumbered the non refugees already. But we haven’t yet reached critical mass, so there is a lot less content (with few exceptions such as the piracy and foss communities which are solid and potentially better than what you may find on Reddit)
I was surprised to find the main Linux community here to already have noticeably better content, and equal or more comments on most posts compares to r/linux. It’s been a complete replacement for me 😄
Yeah it’s something that’ll take time… reddit had years of activity to give it the beef of info and content. Lemmy will get there, just going up steadily :) (reddit refugee)
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