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.
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.
Not every community made the move. Tech related ones are definitely here, not so much for games or anything in humanities unless we’re counting very small communities. But it’s a start.
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.
That’s what I’m loving about it atm, I can have a quick scroll while I’m waiting for something or go on an adventure through the different communities, I don’t feel like I have to check it all the time. I was pretty addicted to reddit for a while, so this has been great.
Discuit seems to offer nothing new but more promises of not falling down the same buisness practice pitfalls as reddit. I am sure they are well intentioned. But intentions are not enough.
I am on Lemmy for one simple reason. I am done trusting corporations to run projects for any extended poeriod of time without succumbing to corruption, greed, or missmanagement.
I am on Lemmy (here and a few other instances) but when I get into discussions in comments here I am starting to wonder if I should just quit the whole social media concept altogether. So far I have mostly stayed since I still need to get some news from somewhere but RSS might be a better option in the long run.
I’ve been called a centrist because I called for socialized healthcare, cheaper education, higher taxes on the rich, and putting the needs of people above the desires of the companies.
Apparently that’s not liberal enough for a lot of users.
Ehm. I think you should visit other communities then. And skip the instances filled by trolls and those people. I’ve had a different experience here on Lemmy.
You made 38 comments in two months yourself, so… Maybe contribute?
I don’t mean to upset you, but honestly, we get the experience we create here. We can’t be passive and expect others to create interesting content for us.
Ok sure. But my point is, we really get what we create here. People shouldn’t complain about not much posts or comments if they don’t contribute to them themselves.
Idk. Some people have the motto, only speak up if you’re sure you have anything of value to say. I think that’s okay, too. Many people spam their opinion everywhere. Or just write low-quality comments that don’t really contribute. It makes it more content, but mainly more noise. And that’s not necessarily a good thing.
Sure. Memes is one thing I see a lot on Lemmy, and I unsubscribed to some communities because it just took over. To me that’s low quality, but to others it could be the best content ever.
Yeah, I’ve heard several people complain about the meme communities. There are a few that post lots of stuff and overshadow the real stuff. If you don’t happen to find out how to do it, I can understand why you’d be annoyed and not join Lemmy.
But I was talking more about low quality content like writing a cheap joke that is very obvious. Or being the 10th person to just agree in slightly different words instead of upvoting the first comment. Or having meaningless arguments. I kinda do all of that. But it’s more a social media thing and wasted time, than something advancing society or my own life.
And some other people just write 5 comments a month in topics they really know something about, and use their spare time to read the remaining Terry Pratchett novels instead.
I do it too… It may be low quality but its kind of like meeting friends - not everything someone says is going to be very interesting but at least it’s socializing…
That’s true. And there are a few positive aspects. I like talking to different people across the globe. I wouldn’t know about the struggles of everyday American life or the UK healthcare fuckups if I wasn’t here. And sometimes you get into an argument and get to learn stuff. It’s just still a form of social media. I think you still got to pay attention not to overdo stuff and participate in the conversations that are good for you. It is still easy to waste your time. Albeit not as easy as doomscrolling on Reddit or YouTube.
The average discussion is fine, mostly I don’t like how certain kinds of comments make me want to respond over and over again with certain people while we are going in circle, neither convincing the other.
That’s understandable, but we don’t need to always convince the other one or ourselves. It’s perfectly okay to just get more knowledgable and that’s it.
I’ve been ramping up my RSS feed collection constantly just to see that the majority of trustworthy sites are paywalled by now. I’d love to see some sort of “Netflix for news” (i.e. one subscription, multiple sources) but that’s yet to come, I’m afraid.
Maybe if feedly pro were to implement (ai generated) summaries of my favorite sources, I’d be willing to subscribe there.
Until then, I’ve grown a taste for podcasts. Those are mostly free with large overlap in content I’d have to pay for for if I read it myself. Kinda funny…
I’m assuming Discuit is a private company using proprietary software? If that’s the case, may as well just crawl back to Reddit and gently place the boot back on your neck.
The ex-reddit users who choose to not let sociopath scumbags golden shower them can still be found here.
I’m here working at developing a community every day. It’s the community for my hometown, a large city on the coast of California. I try to post some interesting original content at least every other day, including photos.
Sometimes I feel like it’s a personal echo chamber, but there are lots of lurkers and upvotes, so I keep going. Reading lots of other Lemmy communities going forward. It’s all good.
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.
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