Hello everyone!
My name is Thatiany Nunes. I hold a master’s degree from the Department of Visual Contents at Dongseo University, South Korea. I am conducting a research study to understand the impact of the Reddit migration on Lemmy and its community dynamics.
Some of you might have already received a private message containing open-ended questions. However, I am now reaching out to extend a warm invitation to the entire community to participate in a short, multiple choice survey. This survey aims to gather your experiences and perceptions of the Reddit migration on Lemmy. It will take approximately 5 minutes to complete, and participation is entirely voluntary. Rest assured, all responses will be kept strictly confidential and will be used solely for academic purposes.
Link to the survey:
https://forms.gle/mZ2DgnxdR5KLJxfA9
Mods, if this post violates any community rules, please feel free to remove it or contact me, and I will promptly delete it.
Thank you very much for your time and consideration. Your participation is greatly valued!
I feel like this questionnaire is missing one rather obvious path:
I’m not using Lemmy because I prefer it over Reddit in any way. It has more technical problems, it lacks the niche communities that Reddit is famous for, the community is more toxic and rather extremists, and it is a splintered mess
However,
It’s not really a matter of choice. I simply can’t browse Reddit on mobile anymore. I’m not blind or anything, but the official app is simply not useable at all. Even the FOSS POS apps of Lemmy are better, and that’s saying something
It’s not a matter of preference. It’s a matter of necessity
Check out Red Reader for sane mobile Reddit browsing. I’ve been using it since RIF died.
Thanks for the tip
Done
The biggest strength and weakness to Lemmy IMO is the lack of content. I doom scroll less but for most niche communities I can’t reliably assume that someone else has already made an answered post with a question I might have.
For example if I wanted the answer to a technical question like “What height scope ring do I need to mount a scope to an AR-10 rifle?” I can’t find any posts with that answer here, but there’s a bunch of posts on the specific topic on Reddit.
(Before someone answers the example question it’s usually the tallest or second tallest ones the manufacturer makes. >1.5in)
Responded!
Have you noticed an increase in Lemmy usage since the Reddit migration?
This probably needs an option for “not applicable”. If someone came in with the migration, it’s hard for them to compare with the Before Times that they weren’t here for. (I had to choose ‘not sure’.)
Answering questions you didn’t ask:
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Did I move from reddit exclusively to Lemmy? No; I’m getting some of my tech needs from ycombinator, meme content from imgur, and I’m also on tildes.
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How does your frequency and type of interaction (post, comment, read) on Lemmy compare to your time on reddit? I’m slightly less active on Lemmy than I was on reddit, mostly because some effort is sucked onto yc, imgur and tildes. Anecdotally, I know some people who are less active here because they’re finding less content to interact with; as well as people who are much more active here, because the communities aren’t overrun with bots, trolls, shills, and other people acting in bad faith.
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I was filling it out, but I have to ask, “What about Kbin”. There are several different interfaces that all communicate on this protocol. So I’m on asklemmy, but technically I’m not a Lemmy use, I’m a Kbin user, does that count as “Lemmy” for your study?
Fuck off /r/spez
Done. Best of luck with your study! Now I’m curious. I hope you consider sharing the results with us!
Filled it out, nice initiative 🙌 I was wondering if it would have made sense to include questions about mobile apps, as I barely use the web version of lemmy. I’m on Mlem but have tried a few others (Voyager, Memmy). I mostly just wish we had an Apollo for Lemmy though 🫠
Sent. Good luck with your research!
Responded!
Same
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Done
Done 😄 sent from kbin
Same here. I’m on Kbin so you’ll have to replace all instances of Lemmy with Kbin to make sense of some answers