ericflo,

I feel like it’s one small community instead of an interconnected larger one, unfortunately.

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

At least there’s something to do here. Mastodon almost always feels like a ghost town to me. I only really keep it on my home screen because I like the icon.

ronalicious,

it can very much depend on your instance, do you look at the ‘all’ option and or do you just stay on your instance?

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I originally thought it would display everything from every instance by default, but if it isn’t, then I don’t know why you would design a social media platform to work in a federated manner if only stuff from your instance is shown.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Still waiting for the ability to block instances as a user.

auntbutters, (edited )

Sadly, there’s just not a critical mass of users in most of the communities I’m interested in. I pop in here every once in a while to see what’s going on, but it’s currently lacking the diversity of content that you get on Reddit. I’m still rooting for it to succeed.

ronalicious,

there were 3-4ish communities on that other site that i was pretty active in that are ghost towns here and there is a zero to none chance that they will migrate over. i still go over there for those communities.

that said, for the mindless amusement/newsanddoom scroll lemmy is fine and i do find myself more active here in the general community. it’s just those niche communities haven’t hit the numbers they need to be self-sustaining.

AVG2520,

Maybe that’s because it’s a terrible platform full of self-important geeks and incels?

Feathercrown,

Why are you here then? Shoo

zefiax,

You are getting heavily down voted but honestly there is some truth to it, just may be phrased less extreme. There are too many people here who are really stuck in their techie bubble and seem to have little to no understanding of what the general population actually wants or likes or needs.

neal,
@neal@lemmy.ml avatar

Hard for me to be active when my home server is down most days 😂

SasquatchBanana,

And when the smaller instances I am on can’t handle mobile browsing. It’s annoying when you press back and it takes you all the way back instead of just where you were.

Feathercrown,

Yup lemmy.world is down literally every day for me. I mean seriously, look at this:

bruh

art,
@art@lemmy.world avatar

These are natural growing pains of any new platform. A lot of people will come over, check it out, and then go back to Reddit.

areyouevenreal,

A big issue was loosing all the .ml lemmy instances. I lost mine and had to create a new account. lemmy.ml is the only one that’s still up.

ezmac,

What happened there? Still trying to understand lemmy

areyouevenreal,

The government of Mali (who controls all .ml domains) wanted their domains back. This forced the closure of any website using that domain and for them to reopen on a new domain.

Shaikan,

Something about Mali claiming ml domains or something

Stahlreck,

To be expected. I like it but it’s still quite an immature platform overall. There’s lots to be done to make it easier for an average user.

Tentaclius,

I’ve been wondering what Lemmy was like until Jun 2023. Quite cozy I guess.

SubArcticTundra,

Very boring. You got 3 replies on your posts if you were lucky.

1984,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Things are good. Why are people obsessing over usage numbers? It’s a fantastic place to be, away from big tech!

Rentlar,

All/New was the only way you could get an entirely new feed a couple times a day.

There was still some lore and beefs between servers (like with wolfballz, a right wing community taken down for hatespeech, or hexbear that became incompatible and headed their own way). Feddit.de has a still a bunch of old federated servers cached that came into and went out of existence.

Between Lemmy.ca (I joined there in March) and Beehaw, there were 10 people posting regularly as in a handful of posts a day. Lemmy.ml had a mix of general news and user “Yogthos” posting pro-China news/propaganda.

It was a quiet but nice little place. The admins running the instance would often be quick to reply and give you detailed answers whenever you needed them. Now many have their plate full with moderation actions and keeping their site up.

!Programmerhumor was one of the first communities to me that seemed based off a Reddit subreddit theme.

We knew the change winds were coming, slowly at first in May, then suddenly exploded after May 30th. Beehaw grew from 700 users to 14000 in less than two weeks (during the time the Reddit protest was being organized). That was a crazy change for Fediverse people, new people everywhere, minor trolls popping here and there, Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works being born, admins working overtime to accept new members. All very exciting.

Second half of June there was some trouble. Beehaw defederated because they couldn’t keep up with moderating users from instances with open signup processes (and I suspect it was triggered by a troll making a hateful post about his dick on the LGBTQ sub).

Then there was a torrent of accounts made on some instances that originally had one or two users. They had no comments or posts and had a username with a random word and a bunch of numbers. All of a sudden the instances with the “most users” were these completely inactive instances.

CAPTCHA was better implemented, and dbzero helped create a filter to monitor and defederate instances with hugely disproportionate number of accounts compared to activity.

There’s your mini-history lesson for Lemmy.

TimD553,

It needs a solid app like Apollo was for Reddit to help it keep active users.

Thekingoflorda,

Voyager (apollo clone) just launched it’s app on android and ios. And we also have memmy, which is great. So I think we’ve got that covered.

N4CHEM,

I just installed Infinity for Lemmy and it looks pretty good so far. It’s still at Avery early stage, but it has the nice look & fell of Infinity for Reddit.

QHC,

Sync and Infinity just launched…

TimD553,

Unfortunately those are android clients. Apollo was an iOS client. Voyager looks pretty good though…

woozlle,

Sync is what made me finally use Lemmy regularly.

art,
@art@lemmy.world avatar

Liftoff is pretty slick, tho.

emeralddawn45,

Connect is so good I’m surprised I don’t hear about it more.

potopato,

There’s also people that create multiple accounts in different instances and end up using just one.

LastSprinkles,

I did this. I didn’t initially realize there is such a thing as instances (I thought I was joining Lemmy). Came from Reddit so didn’t expect this. Now I only use my Lemmy.world account, the other one is doing nothing (should probably get around deleting it at some point).

potopato,

So far I’ve created an account at sh.itjust.works (first one), lemmy.world (main during most of my time here), lemmy.dbzer0.com (first attempt to migrate to another instance) and at lemm.ee, because I wasn’t happy with how lemmy.world admins run their instance (preemptively defederating Hexbear but not Meta).

I guess I should delete my other accounts.

LastSprinkles,

Never heard of Hexbear (kind of new around here). Why were they defederated? I’m actually on Lemmy World.

potopato,

For being a communist instance, here’s the announcement.

relevant comment

LastSprinkles,

Oh wow. After reading the announcement I’m glad they got defederated.

electrosphere,

Might as well post here as my first one. Hi, Lemmy. :)

lorez,

Yo, there’s two of us!

brandon,

Welcome aboard!

kaotic,

Thats the case for most new platforms you get a surge of users and then some titer off and stop using the platform. But don’t look at the small dip look at the massive growth compared to a few months ago.

MasterMarkyMark,

Once Boost for Lemmy releases, 10, 000% growth will occur over the coming weeks afterward 😉 (IYKYK)

pwnstar,

Sync is already out and their user base is higher than boost

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