Seems like reddit just fresher. Not clogged up with all the bullshit. Also I feel like I’m on the ground level of a reddit competitor that seems to be protected from corporate bullshit.
Wanted to ditch Reddit following all the nonsense around their API changes, but still wanted Reddit-esque news aggregation + discussions from somewhere.
Googling for alternatives initially led me to Beehaw, but they don’t have the sufficiently granular niche communities I wanted. Searching for communities I wanted to subscribe to led me here, and after refreshing myself on how the fediverse worked I realised I should just create a login here instead. So far, so good!
Ljdawson said he was making sync for Lemmy so I signed up
Yuuuuup. Where sync goes, I go
Same
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I’m just here so i don’t get fined. created an account because the developer for my reddit app is working on One for lemmy. So figured I’d give this a try
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Correct
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I signed up and then went to bed. I’m assuming the world took that as a sign and followed me. Or perhaps I should cut down on the hard drugs, idk
If you stay on them, you’ll fit right in with a lot of the community
For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.
Hear Hear!
I’m sick of the internet being only 5 websites!
I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.
Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.
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New is good
New is only good in small communities. A feed with, I’m guessing, 10,000+ users, it’s a challenge to read titles before new posts causes them to scroll off the screen.
I’m attempting to move on from Reddit. Heard good things about Lemmy. I’m checking things out.
This is probably just the first big wave. The biggest will be when the apps themselves actually shut down - fence sitters will then have to make a choice to download the official app or try an alternative and I think a lot of people will be curious to see if the grass is greener.
The grass is always greener where one side has grass and the other side is a desolate nuclear wasteland created by the incompetence of the land owner.
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I haven’t “left” Reddit yet, but I also have been avoiding the site as much as possible. If they’re going to be a terrible site, the least I can do is try to avoid going on and making them money from ads.
Or at least only doing so at home where I have my PiHole box to remove them.
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Wow, that bad, eh? Haven’t been there for a month now. Just bot accounts everywhere?
In my opinion, the output of the disastrous Zoom meeting with the moderators & community of /r/Blind .
Reddit leadership made it clear that they have nothing but contempt for their users. They essentially refused to answer essential questions for the disabled Reddit community.
I guess Spez thinks nobody will care as long as they get their fill of GIFs and pics? I have no idea. I’m not closing out my account, but whatever reddit intended to sell to me, I’m not buying it.
What happened to the blind community?
It’s terrible, but most of them have lost their sight.
( i am very sorry for this post)
too soon :)
Is there a link to this, wasn’t aware of a zoom meeting
How can we help ensure that Lemmy is accessible?
Good web design and App makers being aware that for these demographics, these apps may be a users only link to community.
Some of the big things that happened in the past 24h or so:
- r/LegalAdviceUK wants to move their 800k+ community to another platform. Their members might be testing Lemmy.
- Apollo developer posted another lengthy post about Reddit and their leadership.
Also r/ModCoord has started recommending moderators to move their communities to other platforms, like Lemmy.
Do you have a link to the new post by the Apollo dev?
Good hints, but these events likely were not very relevant.
While Lemmy gained almost 200,000 new users in the last two days, the active users increased by less than 3,000, just about the same as pretty much every two-day period recently. So pretty much all of those new users are inactive. That’s not hordes of Redditors coming over and exploring Lemmy, that’s hordes of bot and sleeper accounts being created.I think most are still figuring out how this all works. I barely did anything the first couple days too. Its a bit confusing at first and takes some time for people to find their place.
No idea myself but we have to remember that not all the users that come try this will stay, so I anticipate once the Reddit nonsense blows over the community will shrink a bit. I am going to stay, but I was “lemmy curious” before the reddit business.
Someone made a great site for people coming from Reddit to find communitie they were a part of. https://sub.rehab/
Most likely it’s because of Reddi’s bots, targeting all the other good options and making content pro-staying
What do you mean?
Well I took this info out of my ass. But it would be pretty smart to use bots to flood all the alternatives in order to fuck them up.
Also using bots to make the people who still lurking in Reddit believe that not that many people left.
Smart, make the instances like Leningrad top so people don’t know Reddit migrants are going to .world or beehaw
Someone mentioned it on a Reddit post about mods so I’m giving it a go. Stopped Twitter a while back and don’t use Facebook. I like the concept of aggregated content around topics I’m interested in just not by evil companies.
I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!
totally agree. I’ve been trying to engage more myself to encourage others to do the same
yeah it’s important that people post and comment. lurking is only good once there’s a critical mass of content and engagement to sustain that kind of passive browsing. i hope new users will understand it’s early days on this platform and content has to come from somewhere!
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