• Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
      674·
      1 个月前

      It’s not the size, it’s the content. Lemmyverse is a lot more serious and honestly, gloomy. Average age seems to be quite higher too. If all you used reddit for was news, politics, technical discussion and porn lemmy might be perfectly fine but there’s way less meme or entertainment content here

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        482·
        1 个月前

        There is less of everything. Less sports, less hobbies, less local groups, less crafts, less academic discussions, less indie hackers and entrepreneurs, less fashion/brand/style enthusiasts…

        Memes and entertainment are too shallow and can be found anywhere, we need to focus on getting some people focused on the deeper end. Reddit’s strength is in its long tail of interests. Instead of running blackouts or general protests, we should have focused on bringing one specific community to Lemmy (like e.g, knitting), figure out the issues and support them to migrate fully. If we pulled that off, other communities would have a template to emulate.

        • wesley@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
          4·
          1 个月前

          Yup, I like Lemmy but there are still those subreddits that Lemmy can’t fully replace for certain sports teams I follow.

      • AstralPath@lemmy.caEnglish
        27·
        1 个月前

        The way I see it is that when I’ve run out of content on Lemmy, that’s my indication to put down my phone and do something else. My buddy framed it in that way during a discussion we had the other day and I think he hit the nail on the head.

        • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          1 个月前

          If I only browsed my subscribed feed that’d maybe amount to to 5-10 minutes of stuff a day. On the other hand if I open the all feed there’s an endless steam of the stuff I mentioned above. As I said, what’s lacking isn’t volume it’s the content of the volume

      • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
        23·
        1 个月前

        I still appreciate Lemmy more. It’s more intimate and people are way more respectful. Also, Reddit is full of shit comments. Lemmy comments aren’t perfect or amazing, but I visited Reddit this week looking for memes (agree with your point on quantity of memes) and perused the comments. I forgot how stupid and formulaic Reddit can be. I’m really happy that didn’t transfer over to Lemmy.

        • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          1 个月前

          Yeah I’m glad reddit’s comment culture didn’t carry over

          • ElJefe@lemm.eeEnglish
            10·
            1 个月前

            I think for the most part it stayed in reddit, and I’m so glad it did. But I have run into the odd “classic” reddit comment like “sigh unzips” and jfc did it make me realize how much I had not missed that kind of tired, uncreative, dumb bullshit joke.

            Some people really want lemmy, or the fediverse for that matter, to be reddit. And that’s not a bad thing of its own. But maybe we can let it be what it wants to be.

            • SilentObserver@lemm.eeEnglish
              7·
              1 个月前

              Some people really want lemmy, or the fediverse for that matter, to be reddit. And that’s not a bad thing of its own. But maybe we can let it be what it wants to be.

              Personally, I’m fine with Lemmy not completely replacing Reddit, but rather just being a viable alternative for those of us who are tired of Reddit. I’ve only been using Lemmy for a handful of days and I’m already quite happy with it as it is.

          • darakan@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            1 个月前

            Maybe it’s just the communities I frequent, but I think it did carry over. There’s a lot of sarcastic comments, holier than thou comments, and meme comments on Lemmy just like Reddit.

            Edit: Also, a lot of negativity.

        • cheddar@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          1 个月前

          If anything, this only proves their point: there is less of everything. Compare this amount of content a similar sub on reddit.

          • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
            11·
            1 个月前

            Be the change you want to see. Also I noticed that Lemmy is less active on weekends, which is probably healthier

        • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 个月前

          I don’t mean discussion about entertainment, I mean communities that entertain you like damnthatsinteresting, unexpected, nextfuckinglevel etc. And considering how much of their content is in video form, I don’t think they can viably exist in lemmy.

          memes are everywhere

          Maybe generic and reposted memes are, but nothing of the sort of niche meme communities that constantly popped up in reddit

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      12·
      1 个月前

      We already have instances that go down or suffer from intermittent federation issues when lemmy.world gets a bit more active. The most conservative estimates are putting Reddit at 75 million DAU. If we get to 1% of that, you can bet that our current network would choke, badly.

      Not only we need more instances, we also need to be a lot smarter about their organization and how to architect this network. I think we will only be able to grow larger if we make a more intentional separation between topic-based instances and “people-home” instances, so that we can have a better spread of the load.

    • sir@lemmy.xxxiver.seEnglish
      54·
      1 个月前

      Maybe an odd take, but I think one of the things missing to make people move over more is porn. So I’m trying to help - https://xxxiver.se

      Cum for the porn, stay for the memes

        • sir@lemmy.xxxiver.seEnglish
          5·
          1 个月前

          Sure, Lemmynsfw is always going to have more users, but I want to serve the needs of the Creators. I’m trying to help get more content for users on lemmynsfw by helping OF Creators get involved.

          It’s the fediverse, you can have multiple servers. And OF Creators can use a server that caters towards their needs and still reach their audience on lemmynsfw

        • sir@lemmy.xxxiver.seEnglish
          2·
          1 个月前

          Are you an OF Creator selling porn? If not, then you wouldn’t be joining or paying.

          It’s to help OF creators advertise in the fediverse, not to pay 10 bucks a month to watch porn.

  • Sesudesu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    1 个月前

    I’m now here due to the Reddit news. I’m still browsing both, but I look forward to changing over.

  • RangerJosie@sffa.communityEnglish
    27·
    1 个月前

    I’m new here coming from Reddit.

    Yalls subreddit needs links to here. And a short guide on getting started.

    I had to scroll a bunch of comments to find the right name to Google. Then I had to find the most popular app to use. It was a bit of a hassle. Not too bad. But enough to be off-putting to newbies.

  • Socialist Berserker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    275·
    1 个月前

    Probably due to Reddit fuckary. Between power-hungry, ban-happy mods and Reddit talking about possibly charging for select subs, I definitely bailed and came here.

    Two days old today, baaabbby!!

    Doing my part tho! I’ve created 5 communities and have posted over 100 times in the last two days. :)

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    193·
    1 个月前

    It is lower from where it was in june (48.472) and the data seem to indicate a negative trajectory , also lemmy donations seem to be the lowest i remember them to be.

    So i would not get too confident, the project IMO needs to focus on highly requested killer features. My impression they focusing too much on technical issues that don’t seem to be really important in a way that reminds me of the infamous The CADT Model rant of Jamie Zawinski. Do we really need to do a UI rewrite?

    • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 个月前

      The CADT model…that was a short but fun read. I have definitely encountered that model many times in the various jobs.

      Years ago, when I was a developer, I loved fixing bugs in other people’s code. I felt like I learned a lot from that, and I got a sense of accomplishment out of it. It made users happy, it made my boss happy, and the puzzle solving aspect of it was fun. I was what they called a “maintenance programmer” which was something of an insult, but I didn’t mind.

      Unfortunately most developers I know hate everyone else’s code, think others’ code is “garbage” (every single time) and they definitely have a lot more fun building something from scratch than doing bug fixes. They even hate their own code once it’s a few months old. Always chasing for the perfect architecture, etc. Which is unfortunate, there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

      • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 个月前

        TF2 community greatly values efforts of The Janitor - sole full-time developer, fixing old bugs in TF2.

      • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
        5·
        1 个月前

        there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

        Value created doesn’t translate to value extracted and VCs and managers and marketers and the general public fork over more money in exchange for new shiny than old, reliable, maintained. There are few exceptions.

        • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 个月前

          True, but I’ve also worked at many places where they hang on to old software systems for years or even decades (think banking, mainframes). Because they “it works, and if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.

    • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      1 个月前

      I was so confused when I heard about lemmy-ui-leptos, it really sounds like a waste of time to me 🤷‍♂️

      I’m sure everyone has a different opinion, but I think the most important new feature should be the plugin system. It seems like the only way to scale up the number of contributors and support a variety of languages.

      https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4695

  • obbeel@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    13·
    1 个月前

    I like Lemmy’s culture better. It isn’t perfect, and maybe someday I’ll create my own instance. And I can do that.

    • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 个月前

      The culture’s a bit too reddit-like for my taste, but it’s alright and some communities are better about it

      • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 个月前

        To me it feels like Reddit but before Reddit became so popular. That has both good and bad aspects, but overall I enjoy posting here.

  • Yambu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    121·
    1 个月前

    I got banned from reddit for criticizing the mods of a popular subreddit. Perm-ban on a white vest account for saying the mods are crybabies as they once again complained about having to mod the sub.

    Fuck reddit. Fuck spez.

    • Asudox@lemmings.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 个月前

      I agree. I came here for two reasons:

      • Reddit is proprietary
      • Shit mods
      • API paid
      • Karma system

      Though I still do crave the niche communities from Reddit and I might occassionally visit Reddit once in a while on my browser for them, otherwise the ads are pretty unbearable for me. The UI is also so fucking bloated. Fuck spez

    • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 个月前

      I pretty much got permabanned for ban evasion, even though I was on an alt that has no reference to the others other than being on the same IP, my other accounts got banned simultaneously.

      • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 个月前

        Same thing happened to me. 7-day ban evasion suspension instantly into a perma on three accounts at once all because a single subreddit mod threw a fit when I accidentally posted there again off r/all on an alt.

        They were all made with the same email address so I could have easily made another alt by now and kept posting but I’ve taken it as an opportunity to do a Reddit detox

  • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
    132·
    1 个月前

    Active accounts is not active users. We shouldn’t lie to ourselves. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of active users is half of the active account number.

    • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
      14·
      1 个月前

      More realistic than mainstream social media platforms. On Lemmy, the number of active users is measured by posts, comments and votes.

      • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
        6·
        1 个月前

        I think that’s a mistake, but also the point is that saying users when you mean accounts is lying to yourself. Users here have multiple accounts, I have 7.

        • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
          4·
          1 个月前

          Yes, almost almost all of us have more than one account, but not everyone uses more than one account at the same time. I think these numbers are correct. There should be a margin of deviation of at most 10%.

          • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
            4·
            1 个月前

            Over 6 months and over a month, I think most users with multiple accounts use their accounts at least once to post, comment, or vote. So it wouldn’t surprise me if active users to active accounts was 1:2