Please indulge a few shower thoughts I had:
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I wouldn’t worry about Lemmy having as many users as reddit in the short term. Success is not just a measure of userbase. A system just needs a critical mass, a minimum number of users, to be self-perpetuating. For a reddit post that has 10k comments, most normal people only read a few dozen comments anyways. You could have half the comments on that post, and frankly the quality might go up, not down. (That said, there are many communities below that minimum critical mass at the moment.)
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Lemmy is now a real alternative. When reddit imploded Lemmy wasn’t fully set up to take advantage of the exodus, so a lot of users came over to the fediverse and gave up right away. There were no phone apps, the user interface was rudimentary, and communities weren’t yet alive. Next time reddit screws up in a high profile way, and they will screw up, the fediverse will be ready.
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Lemmy has way more potential than reddit. Reddit’s leadership has always been incompetent and slow at fixing problems. The fediverse has been very responsive to user feedback in comparison.
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And updoot! Quick n easy
Also, please don’t bring cringy Reddit lingo here.
Well said, but I will say reddit felt more like being out in public. So you kept your distance and didn’t really interact, but here feels more like being at someone’s house that you know. At the moment. The federation aspect is a different wrinkle but ultimately will lead to a better experience overall. No ads is a huge bonus!
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I still have the community I moderate (!fitandnatural@lemmy.world) set to mod posts only, because I’m the only mod and don’t want to risk someone posting something bad while I’m not on Lemmy. We really need an approved user feature like Reddit so that vetted community members can also make posts in communities where “anyone can post” isn’t a good option.
Couldn’t you toggle the mod posts only option on and off based on your availability? Maybe make a pinned post explaining it and write in the times it will be available inside that post?
Yeah. Ive picked /conservative. Ive been posting a mixture of fluff and actual posts. Early days, but it seems to be picking up speed. Just post, it works!
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I’d check his post history before engaging. He’s trying to rebuild a spammy, dishonest right wing space in Lemmy.
He’s free to do so, but it’s just going to bring in trolls, bots, bad faith arguments, and extreme posting to sell shit.
I get that it’s inevitable, but let’s be careful what we’re encouraging.
Russian bot farms need some more ukranian drones.
Thanks! I hope you successfully build whatever community you’re building too!
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I’ve seen that it’s already gotten invaded, and most posts are mass downvoted.
What’s the value of posting “fluff”? If you’re just trying to get engagement for engagement sake, why?
Trying to get engagenent, letting other conservatives know we exist, that sort of thing.
You admit that you’re posting what are essentially lies in order to attract conservatives? Y’all really are just saying the quiet part out loud.
i joined and am using memmy, both this week. cant see how to post, only can see how to comment.
If you go to the community page, you’ll see a post button along with subscribe and about.
how do i get to the community page? and is that its name? do i look for “community page” or is it called something else? (i chose a random place to ask, its fine if you’re busy or don’t like to answer such basic stuff, i will eventually figure it all out.)
If you tap on the list button at the top left corner, you’ll see list of your subscribed communities. You can tap on any of them to go to that community page. You can also tap on the community name on a post in the main feed and go to that community. Lastly, you can also go to the search page and search for a community and go to its page. Let me know if you’re facing any difficulties.
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Agree! that’s what I’ve been doing: Trying to build critical mass for small communities : fediverse
My problem with Lemmy is the lack of activity in niche communities. You’re right that there needs to be a critical mass and arguably Lemmy has it, but only for the most mainstream, generic type of content. It doesn’t have the mass to sustain any sort of niche, outside of maybe tech related topics because of the way the userbase is slanted.
I find myself going back there often because of that, but I hope that the userbase for generic content enough to sustain and grow, from where more active niche communities can spring up.
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I run one of that niche communities and right now things are quiet, but I’ll keep at it and grow it over the next few years.
I follow damn near every community on lemmy that I followed on reddit. I follow 97 communities on lemmy with all communities active and none with 0 posts. I left reddit immediately and haven’t looked back. All the news, whether political or tech related, I get from lemmy. I think people just haven’t found the right communities. You have to put in some time to find them since you may have 5 or 6 with the same name. But, once you do, you should be good to go.
Comparing the two communities, reddit nearly always has way more quality content and news for me though for the time being. Often even with big news it’s just not here on Lemmy at all. Many posts also have 0 comments and you just wouldn’t see that on Reddit. Once Sync can create posts I will probably start x-posting more from reddit to lemmy for communities I am most interested in.
For now I think I will start browsing Lemmy and then visit Reddit for anything I missed. Keeping my posting and commenting over here mostly because I’d like to see this place grow.
for me, reddit nearly always has way more quality content and news for me though for the time being
It’s not just you.
As constructively as I can put this, reddit has been building community and goodwill for many years. Lemmy has only recently become an option and it’s done wonderfully in the short time it’s had.
The challenge is the catch 22. People go where there is more content, they produce content there, and then there is more content there. There no vacuum, reddit didn’t disappear. It became toxic and people apparently care less about avoiding toxicity than filling up on dank memes.
All I can say to that is we all need to be the change we want to see in the world. Adopt a Lemmy First mentality, and go to reddit only to pick up legacy slack. Continue the conversation from there over here. Link it up.
Yeah, I wish there was more reposting from Reddit, because that’s what a lot of communities need tbh
Well it sounds like you weren’t into subreddits like sewing, knitting, or plant goths… Little less userbase there…
Next time reddit screws up in a high profile way, and they will screw up, the fediverse will be ready.
And it doesn’t seem entirely impossible that our Elon Musk fanboy Steve will screw up again.
I won’t be surprised to read in the future:
- Reddit Introduces Its Own Version of X’s (Formerly Known as Twitter’s) Blue Checkmark
- Backlash After Reddit Strikes Exclusive Deal to Provide Trainingsdata to OpenAI
- Reddit Introduces Paid Membership Options for Communities
- Something Money Grabbing Reddit Related
That will be when they remove old.reddit
Reddit charges a subscription for people to mod a subreddit.
Lemmy has enough user activity to fulfill my time-wasting needs.
There doesn’t need to be one website that EVERYONE is at. The Web didn’t used to be so damn consolidated.
I don’t give one shit about “Lemmy vs. Reddit”. I care about Lemmy having active communities to engage in, regardless of what is happening on some other website.
Yes this is my thinking as well. Before reddit I was more than happy participating in forums on subjects I enjoyed. I had want I wanted. I almost have that here as well. That’s success in my eyes.
“You could have half the comments on that post, and frankly the quality might go up, not down.”
This is probably my favorite part of Lemmy. The comment section feels more meaningful, and not a landfill of garbage posts. Additionally, if I make a comment, there is a higher chance that it will be read and responded to, so it feels like I am actually engaging with a community, and not just chucking my thoughts into space and hoping they land on a planet.
People actually talk here instead of racing to make an one-liner based on an in-joke to maximize karma usually. It’s nice.
Absolutely. It’s nice a solid portion of the silly Redditness is relegated to Lemmy Shitpost and Meme communities.
and not just chucking my thoughts into space and hoping they land on a planet.
That’s Twitter/X
To me there is no vs. My web browser has tabs and I can have multiple ones open at a time. It is cool to have more things, I don’t need to commit to anything like an app or website.
Lemmy is awesome… when it’s up. Which feels like never? Server uptime of 85% is brutal.
It feels like it’s up all the time when I use it. Must depend on the instance. Even Reddit was frequently down for maintenance and other issues.
Comparing R*ddit to Lemmy kind of feels like comparing your Ex to your Current.
Let it go … We’re here and we’re having fun in this relationship.
R*ddit is a swear word now lol.
Reddit has now checkmark/verified or whatsoever they call like any other centralized social media. Extreme cringe
I hope Lemmy never gets to be the size of Reddit. We’ll have some level of Eternal September eventually, but please not at that level. I really hope not. It’s overwhelming unless you’re in one of the niche subreddits.
If it never gets to the size of Reddit then it’s destined to become 9gag with porn.
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The future of Lemmy has nothing to do with R whatsoever.
If that’s true, thrn Reddit’s explosion in popularity had nothing to do with Digg.
Lemmy hasn’t gone a day without talking about reddit for a month and a half.
As much as I want this to be true, it’s simply patently false.
I agree with you, but I think there’s a level where it is true.
Like Lemmy should grow and develop based on what users are saying and not what Reddit is doing to a degree.
You don’t wish to see it kill off R?
I’d rather not because then all the trolls will come here and it will turn into R2.0
I think one of the issues at Reddit was that if you said thanks to someone or thought they had a good idea, it was bad reddiquette. Here that culture isn’t as prevalent and I it adds to the pleasantness. Maybe encourage meaningful thank yous or I agrees while adding on why you’re saying thank you or I agree instead of “K” or “same.” But don’t shit on people that do that in the future.
edit: really bad grammar fix, still not sure. lol.
Infiltration… As I’ve moved over from reddit the community feels much more open to discussion rather than comment section filled internal jokes.
We just need Lemmy users who are daywalkers to post links into reddit. Or recreate certain communities here, but bringing over the good and not the toxic. Ama, but maybe amapolitics bringing more hyper local awareness to the masses?
Quality over quantity any day
