Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…

      • 1bluepixel@lemmy.world
        16·
        2 years ago

        I have to admit, when I came here I was hoping this would be a mass migration, but these days I think Lemmy is already great even without the bulk of Reddit’s user base joining. Easier to participate in conversions, less trolling, less aggression, fewer bots…

        Not saying I don’t want Lemmy to grow more, but it’s a fantastic place already.

    • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      I think the problem is, Lemmy’s greatest strength (Fediverse) is also the thing that’s going to hold back a mass migration at this point in time. Onboarding with Reddit is a breeze. You make an account, it asks you what your interests are and location based communities and you’re off to the races. Every community on reddit is immediately available to interact with.

      When I came to lemmy I almost gave up on my initial onboarding and I’m a pretty tech savvy guy. I didn’t know where to go to start. There’s all these different lemmy sites and I didn’t know if they were the same thing or different and if I was signing up to the right one. Account creation failed initially without giving an error message (I’ll chalk that one up to just a bug). There didn’t seem to be any NSFW communities until I figured out the instance thing. You’re told you can use your account across instances but when you go to another instance via it’s domain you can’t interact with it, you have to get to another instance through your instance which is confusing as a newcomer. Any one of these issues is a falling off point for a less inclined visitor.

      I’m not saying the fediverse thing is bad but the unfortunate byproduct of it is a difficult experience for newcomers, especially when you compare it to Reddit. I’m hoping growth in the community will bring in talent to solve for this initial experience or possibly apps which can handle all of this more seamlessly.

      • astral_avocado@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I wonder if federated instances are something that can just become cultural knowledge over time, like any other technical piece of software. To a degree using reddit is like that to newcomers with it’s unique thread style and “independently” moderated subs. Lemmy just took it to another level.

        • Riccosuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Very good point. It will be generational maybe too. As younger people enter the Lemmy pool, they may not find it to be that unfriendly since it will be what they are used to.

      • Unseeliefae@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I had pretty much the same experience migrating from Reddit to Lemmy and I still don’t entirely understand how this thing works.

        I’m still trying to figure out if I need to make an account on each Lemmy instance to reserve my username, since this is already my second account after fmhy.ml stopped working.

    • omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      2 years ago

      I wish some of the subs I frequented the most were a bit more active here, but I guess it’s a bit chicken and egg. Need to interact more with Lemmy ourselves to motivate others to.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      Doesn’t matter if there is or isn’t a mass mitigation, the %1 who did the modding and content creation were the loudest about the changes and most have started to move to other platforms. It’s very obvious now on reddit that the quality of the posts have started to tank.

    • DrQuint@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Mind you that an active user is “anyone who makes a post”, and not readers nor subscribers, which are the metrics reddit uses.

      With that said, yeah, no, there was no migration.