I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.
The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.
Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?
Thanks for hearing me out.
TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.
Make the posts you want to see. I’ve posted some questions in some niche communities here and I get well thought out responses and discourse.
Best answer, Lemmy, like all social media follows the 90-9-1 rule of social media. Of 100 people, 90 will lurk, 9 will comment, and only 1 will actually post anything.
There are people in the communities that want to talk, but you gotta be the one to post.
Hey take it as your opportunity to become a name in a community!
I don’t know how someone can lurk without the urge to post something or comment, that must take willpower
Was on Reddit 15 years, left in June. It was definitely a build up, but I eventually posted every day.
Not healthy, so I scaled back. I post when I have something worthwhile. Otherwise I just contribute comments. And even then I erase half of them because they aren’t helpful or contributive.
idk where these statistics come from, but the 90/9 ratio may come from the fact we don’t comment on every thread we read, and not that 90% of users never comment
I got relay but I didn’t make an account. I just go to the specific sub that there aren’t enough people for here and lurk. I occasionally forget where I am and try to upvote something and it tells me to make an account for that, after which I just chuckle and continue reading. no more reddit account, my previous one I nuked to hell after it got hacked.
Sometimes just trying to avoid “someone on the Internet is wrong!!!” anger engagement tbh. Lurk, think react, think again and just scroll on instead
Or, like, not really knowing how to express oneself. I’ve got a lot on my mind to share in specific
subscommunities though it’s difficult as I don’t feel like knowing who I’m talking to
I don’t know what our percentages are, but I think we’re much more content skewed then the rest of socal media
Sounds like a motivational speech and I love it.
Don’t let your dreams be memes as they say it today
A lot of people (like myself) need to step out of their comfort zones if we want Lemmy to get more conversations going. Yesterday I made a game thread in the community for my favourite NFL team; I was the only one who commented. But I’m going to try and make one for the game next week.
I’ll join you during regular season.
Well done, what is the community? [email protected] ?
Thanks. It’s a smaller instance for the Steelers, [email protected]
Ah no wonder you had no discussion
Zing
I see. If I may, you may want to comment on a larger community, as a way to get more people reacting.
I used to post to [email protected] , but now I do it in [email protected] because it will have a larger audience.
Lemmy is still a small population, so you might to go to the larger common denominator
Thanks for the advice, there’s definitely a lot more people on the NFL community but the Steelers are generally not viewed well by the NFL fans at large haha.
I ended up subscribing to the Athletic since they have a discuss section. Any sports threads on lemmy are small af rn unfortunately
Not only are they small, they keep appearing in feeds and people downvote them because they don’t want to see sporting content instead of just blocking the community.
Not at all. The only thing taking time to build here are the art communities, but they’re growing. So I’m patient and am trying to contribute
I’m trying my best to start up lemmyloves.art and it seems to be going pretty good so far
Same. I’ve started a watercolour group
I subscribed! Will post when I get the time :)
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Doesn’t matter how good the content is if I have to fight the interface to get to it.
Lack of search really makes it hard to find a discussion on anything, which is what I used reddit for. I hope its a thing that gets implemented eventually.
It took Reddit years to become what it is today. And the native search function was ass. Google made the damn thing easier.
Memmy has a search function, and it works for now since the content is much smaller. But if it grows it won’t be that great. But so far I’ve been able to find specifics of what I’m looking for.
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But reddit search also sucks, TBF.
There’s a multitude of proposed improvements and changes being made to lemmy, so it’s something.
I’m using Memmy and I can search.
Well that is what new Reddit feels like to me.
https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
several lemmy instances host this port of the old reddit interface at old.example.com
The lemmy interface is fine. It’s the reddit one I’m sick of dealing with.
EXACTLY
there’s just not enough in depth stuff on here. i love shitposts, i love memes, i love a chill tone. but we need people posting interesting posts, you know. i’m not even sure how to put my finger on what’s different or why, but there’s just less…stuff here. it needs to be seasoned, or something.
It’s a matter of numbers. Like sports. You get the best by having a large pool of possible posts to rise to your attention. Reddit gets a bunch of posts that never get read. Lemmy we read pretty much all of them. There are some good posts here and there in Lemmy but not to the level of reddit. And until Lemmy gets reddit numbers it will suffer from “athletes” from small towns vs athletes from big cities. No contest.
I think a lot of the hobby and project posts on Reddit aren’t necessarily created by people who (also) have the internet / computers / net culture as an interest. Say, a hobby carpenter who only uses Facebook and Reddit casually, why and how would this person end up on Lemmy? The seasoning missing is all the people we left behind.
For me it’s just too much political stuff. On the other hand, if I block some keywords, I might only be left with memes and shitposts.
Imagine turning to Reddit for deep stuff. Specific hobbies I understand, but depth …
Lemmy has enough to keep me entertained, and I did successfully finally break my years-long habit of going to reddit. However there are still some subs I look at occasionally since they can provide valuable information, like city-specific and subs about certain video games.
Same here. No longer on Reddit every day since I deleted Relay from my phone. But I do still tack “Reddit” at the end of my searches since it makes my searches much, much more useful.
A decade of user generated information is a treasure trove that’s hard to replace. Without reddit, you often get click-bait articles answering your questions.
I’ve been off of Reddit since they announced the API changes, and I had been a daily user since 2012. I don’t miss how toxic a lot of the site became, but I wish Lemmy were a bit more active. I tend to browse /all and the site just doesn’t turn over as much. It’s led to me picking up reading again, but at times I find myself sort of just refreshing my phone. Which is a bad waste of time. Not sure what to do about that.
because low density of content, i browse lemmy by all and just block spammy communities im not interested, my home looks too empty for now, but still don’t feel the need to hang out on reddit
I’ve tried to do that so many times, but I just get inundated with such a massive volume of porn that it’s difficult to wade through to get to discussion communities I’m interested in.
Sure, Lemmy allows you to block NSFW content as a whole, but I don’t like doing that. I still want to see things like NSFW memes or NSFW discussion topics. Going nuclear and blocking all NSFW doesn’t really help the problem.
domain based blocking is coming soon!
Try sync, there’s a multitude of block options. By instance, domain, user, community, etc.
There’s the porn, and then there’s some bot instances, right? And then there’s the pornbots that bring you a little mix of both.
Maybe it’s a lesser issue on world, but on some other instances I’ve found that bot instances are arguably worse than porn by sheer volume of posts, but they can be pretty close.
I understand it but personally I got so disgusted by the owners behavior that I will never use that site again.
So yeah, I’m missing out on some things I guess but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
Nah, it’s true that Lemmy has less content, no matter how many communities I join. And I also feel Lemmy has slowed down a bit in the last days/weeks. But I still won’t return to reddit. It feels overwhelming, and also I think I got over FOMO. Lemmy will keep growing, I’m in no rush. Leaving reddit was definitely good for me.
I’m not having trouble giving up Reddit. I’ve given it up. And I’ve definitely noticed the lower volume of content here on Lemmy/the fediverse, but:
- it’s getting better pretty much daily; and
- the percentage of good quality content here far exceeds Reddit, so I still feel better off.
Exactly my experience as well
Its still early. This is the first time there has been a legitimate alternative to reddit and thats honestly only because 3rd party apps like sync have made it usable.
Reddit started when Digg changed its site and everyone went to reddit. There has also been multiple attempts to leave reddit, but no similar alternatives. Now there is a good alternative and there will be more things reddit does that will make people look for alternatives.
But the Reddit switch happened fairly quick. And there was content doesn’t seem to be the same with Lemmy. It’s all just memes and complaining about Reddit. Most of the communities I followed are a couple posts a day now and some are dead now.
I’m experiencing the same thing, so I’ve been doing the following:
I made a new main account on a different instance so I can get content from communities that were defederated from lemmy.world
I regularly toggle my main feed sorting from “active” to “hot” to get new posts
I actively post to some stagnant communities that haven’t taken off yet on Lemmy in the hopes that it starts to snowball
The preponderance of Lemmy users are currently disenfranchised former redditors (myself included) who have been able to figure out the fediverse. Memes and complaint discussions are relatively easy content to produce, and Linux/FOSS posts just come with the territory when a user base is technically savvy. No complaints on this front from me, however!
Really the only communities I’m currently missing are posts from my fellow JDM and German car enthusiasts and a few podcast communities.
What are your interests?
Sync did not do shit. Us OGs made this platform free of right wingers, 4channers, prevented raids, worked on sign up systems, and so on. Lemmy is also lean to self host and run.
I am not a developer, but I can count on hand 5-10 people besides me, that were not admins, that help in various ways like stopping trolls and raids, moderation, advising on every single thing that is wrong with Lemmy, and so on.
The biggest problem with every single reddit alternative to date, apart from Lemmy, has been the “freezepeach” trope aggregating the same kinds of dogshit extremist users nobody wants to interact with. This is why I never adopted any alternative platform before this, and this is why I was sent by someone to support Lemmy 3 years ago. Bunch of us made Lemmy what it is today. I am proud of it.
Haven’t gone back to Reddit since. But what I do miss most is the sorting algorithm. I don’t know if it was just the abundance of posts, or better sorting. But on lemmy I keep seeing the same posts over and over again, regardless of my sorting setting. But I’ll be patient and hope that it gets better.
My reddit usage is 99% mobile app and 1% desktop. Since there are no more suitable reddit mobile app. I stopped. The only time nowadays that I visit reddit on desktop is google search and reddit is on top result.
No, I don’t use reddit anymore. Kinda. I sometimes visit Reddit due to search results. Otherwise there is not much I miss or care about.
The content isn’t as plenty here, but it is still giving me my mindless scrolling fix.
