All I’m missing is the more niche communities to grow. It’s good to see lots of memes and engagement but a man needs more.
Be the more you want to see
It’s kind of hard to have thriving discussions on niche topics as one person, unfortunately.
Gotta start somewhere. Yell into the void! Maybe there are some ears you didn’t see.
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Whatchu wanna talk about, friend? Let’s get niche-y!
I posted, I’m gonna do more,I just don’t have that much important content to create unfortunately.
If I have a question that I’d usually search on reddit for, i just make a post here instead and drum up content for the future, plus I usually get way more than I asked for from people as almost everyone here is a damn genius and usually very polite and understanding.
Not just communities, but niche instances. Having everyone on just a few instances isn’t good.
How do you create communities?
Go to your instance homepage, lemmy.ml then in the sidebar there should be a create community button, or if on mobile it may be hidden in the … menu button
Go to your instance homepage, lemmy.ml then in the sidebar there should be a create community button, or if on mobile it may be hidden in the … menu button
edit: accidentally deleted this comment so just reposting.
Impressive, I guess, but how many of those 2 million posts have a single comment? If 90% of these are just bots reposting things from Reddit with no further engagement…
The content will bring in users. I try to comment on interesting topics to help drive engagement.
This is my thoughts as well. I’ve noticed that once one or two people express interest in a post, it tends to get much more traffic
Well the same page lists comments per day for the same period as 11,083,555. A ratio of 5.27 comments per post seems fine.
Yeah, a ratio means nothing if the bulk of the comments are only on a small portion of the posts. If 90% of the posts have 0 comments and the other 10% have 52.7 comments per post, that’s worth knowing.
Unfortunately it seems that MAUs are steadily declining as well.
Engage this! 🤜
Assimilate this! 🔫
Hey! Some of those posts with no comments are me posting pictures of cute bugs that I took! I’m not a bot, I’m just not very interesting.
Lemmy does seem to have enough content and user engagement for my needs. I’ve noticed engagement going up the past month but wasn’t sure I was making that up in my head.
I really haven’t felt the need to go back to reddit much. But the niche communities could use a lot more users posting and creating new content.
I agree but with more and more users, that will happen naturally.
I agree with this. Plenty of content on All, not so much once you start doing a deep into communities. It’ll improve with time.
I agree with the niche stuff, but I will say I almost like having to create a post for my inquiry, and though not much engagement, what I do get is really helpful, more personal info from a few kind and knowledgeable people. So I think perhaps we should readjust our expectations and enjoy this for what it is.
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I would like to thank everyone on here for the last two months or whatever it’s been from the start of the migration, and to the people just coming over, and those who were here already. I actually feel like I’ve grown as an individual in my time here. I’m starting to see certain patterns in my own behavior and working on them thanks to the content and the engaging discussions on here. I used to avoid interaction and lost all hope, but you are all really awesome. Thank you <3
Live long and prosper homie.
So say we all
🖖
I’ll be in my bunk
We are pretty amazing. This being my second post I am a self prescribed expert. That said… you too are amazing.
☺️
I too am an expert on all things lol
You’re welcome
Everyone is much nicer here from what I’ve seen
Was waiting for Sync upgrade and finally I’m a daily active user of Lemmy. Finally I will be useful for the community 🥂
Dead on. Sync being available makes using Lemmy much more appealing.
Moved from Jerboa to Sync. The level of customisability, attention to detail, polish, and especially performance in Sync has not been matched by any of the other apps I’ve tried so far.
The three things that really bothered me about Jerboa is the intermittent crashing when viewing comment threads, the lag when scrolling through dense comment threads, and the mis-clicks where it seemingly forgets what part of the screen I’m tapping on, and it seems more bugs are introduced each update. It was a great starting point, not so sure I’m going to miss it though.
On a separate note, I’m hoping the Sync dev finds a way to allow non-Play Store users to buy the ad removal in future
Precisely this. Sync was Reddit for me. Now, Sync is Lemmy for me.
Bingo. Just got Sync. Now it feels like home :D
Just waiting to save up for the ultra 👍👍
Sync is so good. It feels like the ‘good ol days’ of a few months ago haha.
That guy injects ads then asks you to pay to remove them.
He’s allowed to earn a living wage.
Ok
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good app still.
He gets money from ads, or he gets money from subscriptions. Wow it’s like he’s not even trying to work for free.
I mean it’s really just giving you a choice on how you want to support the dev. Either by having ads or paying for the application directly. If either of those are too much then head to another app. There are literally quite a few free apps available,which is fantastic, without ads. Free as in freedom to choose doesn’t mean though you should be a mooch and just take and not contribute anything back to the community that you’re a part of.
Having the sync app has made the transition so much easier. I don’t know if the same level of discussion will ever happen here, but I’m going to give it a try. I’m done going to the bot farm over there
The thing I find with discussion on here is that although most threads have way fewer comments and especially top level comments, I’m way more likely to get a response and end up in some kind of discussion than on Reddit where most of the time you just get lost in a sea of comments. Also think comments tend to be more conversational, less memey, less aggressive etc, just generally nicer.
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man, I gotta admit I’m here solely because of Sync. no idea about the content yet, just enjoying the smooth ride of the app. (after the janky atrocity of the official reddit app. ;)
Same
haha :) hat tip!
I keep hearing good things about the Sync app and I’m just waiting here on iOS.
*Fixed typo thinks to things.
First comment ever on lemmy! With reddit and the latest update moving shtiff around, it’s gotten to a point where I no longer want to be apart of that app. Not mentioning the money grubbing infants over there… So I’m trying this one out! Thanks for staying open and active! 👍
Welcome home!
Literally, the more the merrier.Welcome
🚀 more posters less lurkers!
I’m doing my part!
Right now my modus operandi is to post once in each community I see that I can provide anything for.
Welcome you guys, I ditched Reddit and made this happen.
Thanks!
Thank you prolific poster person
Thank you for your service.
Lurker here mostly but happy to find a new home!
Ditto! Back to hiding in the dark…
Same!
all the subreddits i love had no visible immigration to lemmy so i will have to wait a while to see the change
Why wait and not just start a community up?
Not OP, but for me, the main community I interact with reddit for exists, there’s just no activity there. It’s currently the off-season (the community is hockey), so I think there’s no point in trying to grow the community at this moment. Hopefully in the fall we can get some traffic.
The main posts on r/hockey are just links to Twitter, as all the news is posted there first. I think they may even have bots on Twitter that post all of the links. If in the fall we are still as barren as we are now, I might communicate with the mods and ask if that’s something that they would be open to if I’m willing to write the bot.
If you start posting, people will join in as they no longer feel the community is dead. Just takes people to make the first move. It’s a bit like starting a fire. A bit of work at first, but once alight, you can throw the occasional log on the fire.
Yeah, but again, I don’t think it’s worth trying right now during the off-season. r/hockey is just full of shit posts right now. So I’ll probably start posting as much as possible in the fall when the season starts up.
I get what you going to say but clapping with one hand just doesn’t work. I mainly go to soccer sub in Reddit and it’s easily over 20k people online at any given time. Here in soccer sub it’s only like 4k follower and daily active people of ~40people. No matter how hard I try to talk to it will be only to myself.
Same here. How many of these posts are in meme communities?
A few of my communities came over but the big one I’m missing is the college football sub with flairs and everything so I can discriminate against those of lesser teams.
The one here just isn’t the same.
Happy to be here, doing my part. Thanks to all of you, that made it possible!
So it seems like lemmy is still improving in content, even though the reddit situation has stabilised. That is awesome to see!
Could you please tell me where I could read more about the reddit situation having been stabilized?
I’m new to Lemmy and I am using Sync for Lemmy but so far none of my comments are showing up. I’m attempting to comment from my browser this time and I hope it works.
Edit: my comments seem to be showing in browser but not via Sync for Lemmy. Can someone recommend different Lemmy app?
Edit: you guys are great, I uninstalled and restarted and now my comments are showing up along with all your replies that just popped up at once!
You can 100% comment from Sync.
Source: This comment.
Why have you posted a blank comment?
I use Jerboa. It does crash for me on ocassion though.
I’m trying Sync right now and it works ok for me. I find Connect and Voyager the best Lemmy apps right now.
No issues with sync. Using right now
Connect would be my recommendation, surprised I haven’t seen it mentioned here. It works well, and is pretty close to what the Reddit apps felt like
Jeroba 🐁
I was having the same issues you are with posts being seen on browser side but I couldn’t see my posts in either connect or sync.
They showed up later on tho and people were voting and responding to them in meantime. So I think it’s probably just a server or api issue and not app related since for me at least the issue was consistent across apps
I also cant comment from sync. It shows error.
What does it say?
Sync is generally working for me, but I find it depends on server. Lemmy.world seems to withhold my posts.
Liftoff probably looks most similar to Sync
Jebora is aight, but lacks polish. I don’t think yo ucan comment from sync yet… I got a “feature coming soon” or something when I did. I think this might also work on infinity for lemmy.
I don’t know why people like you and me initially think it’s spelled “Jeb-ora” when it’s actually “Jer-boa”
Did you know the Jerboa is the same creature that Muaddib is named after? Qul-wahad!
Just commented this from sync
My comments are appearing, but I usually have to refresh the post. I hope it’s something that jldawson can fix on the app’s side.
Testing
Voyager is exactly like Apollo for reddit.
Honestly thats all Lemmy needs. Just more content body. This software is already a really amazing drop in replacement for reddit. To be honest its easier to navigate the federation aspect with Lemmy than it is for other federated services like mastodon in my opinion.
I mean you’re right but you’re preaching to the choir here. I’m trying to convince people that wanna use reddit to come here instead. But even that is hard.
Yeah I do miss the activity on my frontpage on reddit. I find myself browsing all most of the time here when I don’t remember the last time I looked at /r/all on reddit. Sync and soon Boost coming out is going to be great in potentially bringing more people over.
