All I’m missing is the more niche communities to grow. It’s good to see lots of memes and engagement but a man needs more.
Man, I really hope more traffic starts heading into some of the more niche communities because getting a new thread every day or there and getting 1 or 2 replies - if that - is not how you sustain a site.
Are there really that few people into cars or engineering or DIY stuff on Lemmy?! Where the fuck are my fellow car and tinkering nerds at? And no one does projects around the house? So few posts in some of the home owner communities as well.
I’ll message my dude Mark to join up, mother fucker loves anything mechanical.
Looking forward to having Mark on here
Please give the names of the communities. I’m not a home owner, but I love cars, DIY and tinkering :)
Are you me?
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Yeeaah, where are these car communities? I’d post in them!
Those niche communities will remain dead for years (assuming Lemmy grows and doesn’t die). It takes a long time to build these up.
Seems like every major transition from social media platform reduces that length of time for niche communities. It also took Reddit a while to get there as well. But people are already looking for identical communities on lemmy, like the tree ents
Suggestion: create a post in a niche community, and then cross post into a large one.
What are some of those communities you’re in for cars and tinkering? I was subscribed to both of those topics on reddit and am looking to join. I think there are probably lots like me who are here but not quite up and running.
I used the Communities link and searched for cars and DIY and engineering and subed to any of the ones which seem to have even a little bit of traffic (in the hopes that maybe things would increase eventually). For car ones, literally just “Cars” and “electric vehicles” are the only real one I bothered to sub to. Tried looking for Subaru or WRX stuff and that came up basically empty. For tinkering there is “3d Printing” and “woodworking” but I think the woodworking one is moving servers so it might disappear. Also “Machinist” but there’s no traffic in that one. Which is the case for far too many of the ones that come up.
is it just me or is a lot of what a see are Linux/tech users mostly on lemmy, perhaps that could be why some niche communities haven’t blossomed here yet. I’m really big into metalcore music, but so far, there really isn’t the same type of community that rivals the Reddit metalcore version.
There are sooooo many Linux folks here, it’s crazy. Which is fine if that’s what they want to use, but yeah this site has certain groups that overwhelm others.
We’re near critical mass and the more we share the apps and website, it’ll pull more people in. There’s some resistance to leaving Reddit for many, but not much.
I think the main subs are at a sustainable level, but not the niche subs. But Lemmy needs more than just politics and general news and complaining about Reddit to sustain itself.
I agree completely and I think those niche subs will fill out as we grow.
Agreed. Having a nice front page with a whole bunch of things is great, but not having those niche communities is rough even doing the transition
Link to these communities.
The reason I’m yet to post any threads is because sync is yet to add that ability. But the moment it is added I’ve got a few things to post. For now I’ll continue to upvote n comment
Over half my feed is just low effort memes or auto posted arstechnica articles. Does this data include bot posts?
Half the posts are also just people specualting about activity on lemmy.
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Half the posts since yesterday are people bitching about Sync ultra costing the same amount of money as a Costco hotdog combo once a month. 🙄
Yeah it’s quite a game of whack a mole to get rid of all those memes subs and their bot content… it’s actually worse than on reddit it seems.
I wonder how the graph will look in a month’s time now that Sync is in open beta.
As someone who never used Sync before, trust me, it will spike like crazy. I don’t know why I never used it before but this an amazing experience. If you’re reading this and trying to find a Lemmy app to use and don’t care about FOSS, get Sync ASAP
OK, convinced. Gonna try.
Would be great if all previous reddit apps went to lemmy. I personally can’t wait for Baconreader for Lemmy.
Apollo going to Lemmy would be the ultimate middle finger to Spez, especially with the false accusations of blackmail.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll keep using Sync as it’s actually good.
Lemmy does seem to have enough content and user engagement for my needs. I’ve noticed engagement going up the past month but wasn’t sure I was making that up in my head.
I really haven’t felt the need to go back to reddit much. But the niche communities could use a lot more users posting and creating new content.
I agree with the niche stuff, but I will say I almost like having to create a post for my inquiry, and though not much engagement, what I do get is really helpful, more personal info from a few kind and knowledgeable people. So I think perhaps we should readjust our expectations and enjoy this for what it is.
I would like to thank everyone on here for the last two months or whatever it’s been from the start of the migration, and to the people just coming over, and those who were here already. I actually feel like I’ve grown as an individual in my time here. I’m starting to see certain patterns in my own behavior and working on them thanks to the content and the engaging discussions on here. I used to avoid interaction and lost all hope, but you are all really awesome. Thank you <3
Live long and prosper homie.
We are pretty amazing. This being my second post I am a self prescribed expert. That said… you too are amazing.
☺️
I too am an expert on all things lol
You’re welcome
First comment ever on lemmy! With reddit and the latest update moving shtiff around, it’s gotten to a point where I no longer want to be apart of that app. Not mentioning the money grubbing infants over there… So I’m trying this one out! Thanks for staying open and active! 👍
Welcome home!
Literally, the more the merrier.Thank you!
I’m currently using “Connect for Lemmy”. Is this what most here might recommend for Android?
Sync and boost!!!
Best OG’s with good ux/ui from reddit.
I personally used Connect for a long time (currently trialing Sync) and honestly it’s a fine client for Lemmy. The really nice thing is that there are so many apps, you can start a Hunger Games out of them and narrow down to the one you like the most. That’s how I got to Connect after starting with all of the maintained Android apps a month ago.
I am quite happy on Voyager
While the whole app developing situation gets going - I’m on the iPad - I’m okay using a web browser, either Firefox or Brave, with this link:
https://wefwef.app/posts/lemmy.world/allMy top 2 are Voyager and Connect.
Having the sync app has made the transition so much easier. I don’t know if the same level of discussion will ever happen here, but I’m going to give it a try. I’m done going to the bot farm over there
man, I gotta admit I’m here solely because of Sync. no idea about the content yet, just enjoying the smooth ride of the app. (after the janky atrocity of the official reddit app. ;)
Same
haha :) hat tip!
The thing I find with discussion on here is that although most threads have way fewer comments and especially top level comments, I’m way more likely to get a response and end up in some kind of discussion than on Reddit where most of the time you just get lost in a sea of comments. Also think comments tend to be more conversational, less memey, less aggressive etc, just generally nicer.
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I keep hearing good things about the Sync app and I’m just waiting here on iOS.
*Fixed typo thinks to things.
Was waiting for Sync upgrade and finally I’m a daily active user of Lemmy. Finally I will be useful for the community 🥂
Dead on. Sync being available makes using Lemmy much more appealing.
Precisely this. Sync was Reddit for me. Now, Sync is Lemmy for me.
Welcome you guys, I ditched Reddit and made this happen.
Thanks!
Thank you prolific poster person
Thank you for your service.
all the subreddits i love had no visible immigration to lemmy so i will have to wait a while to see the change
A few of my communities came over but the big one I’m missing is the college football sub with flairs and everything so I can discriminate against those of lesser teams.
The one here just isn’t the same.
Lurker here mostly but happy to find a new home!
Ditto! Back to hiding in the dark…
Same!
Happy to be here, doing my part. Thanks to all of you, that made it possible!
So it seems like lemmy is still improving in content, even though the reddit situation has stabilised. That is awesome to see!
I’m new to Lemmy and I am using Sync for Lemmy but so far none of my comments are showing up. I’m attempting to comment from my browser this time and I hope it works.
Edit: my comments seem to be showing in browser but not via Sync for Lemmy. Can someone recommend different Lemmy app?
Edit: you guys are great, I uninstalled and restarted and now my comments are showing up along with all your replies that just popped up at once!
Jebora is aight, but lacks polish. I don’t think yo ucan comment from sync yet… I got a “feature coming soon” or something when I did. I think this might also work on infinity for lemmy.
Edit: You can’t post links to communities with sync yet
Just commented this from sync
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I also cant comment from sync. It shows error.
What does it say?
I’m trying Sync right now and it works ok for me. I find Connect and Voyager the best Lemmy apps right now.
No issues with sync. Using right now
Testing
I was having the same issues you are with posts being seen on browser side but I couldn’t see my posts in either connect or sync.
They showed up later on tho and people were voting and responding to them in meantime. So I think it’s probably just a server or api issue and not app related since for me at least the issue was consistent across apps
Voyager is exactly like Apollo for reddit.
My comments are appearing, but I usually have to refresh the post. I hope it’s something that jldawson can fix on the app’s side.
Jeroba 🐁
Sync is generally working for me, but I find it depends on server. Lemmy.world seems to withhold my posts.
