Just sayin’
I personally enjoy it but I’ve been seeing a lot of posts / comments about people giving up due to lack of niche/interesting communities*. While I understand that I appreciate Lemmy for what it is. I get a lot more interaction here than Reddit.
people giving up due to lack of niche/interesting communities
This is where people need to start making theire own communities. If you dont see it, make it. Its not easy, and you will likely have to be active in its growth, i think its worth it
Time … it will just take time … the same thing happened at reddit, the communities didn’t just blow up overnight and they didn’t have competition either … Lemmy is evolving in an early stage and it is handicapped by a competitor, so it will probably take longer to grow.
I don’t mind it though … we’ll probably talk about it all in four or five years that right now are the good old days of Lemmy.
I’m trying to do my part by posting more content.
It’s still kind of a mixed bag. I’m getting tired of talking about Linux all the time.
I find comment threads to be more engaging than reddit but the hivemind mentality has definitely started to take hold here.
In terms of stability, sure, the platform has gone down way less. In terms of content? Feels more or less the same that it did when I joined - all we really talk about is tech news with a leftist slant.
I haven’t gone back to reddit to browse since I left when the API changes happened, but it’s still a way more conducive source of information on a myriad of topics that you get forwarded to through searches.
Slowly and steadily, yes.
One thing that I’ve noticed as someone trying to wean myself off of Reddit: Lemmy just feels more chill. Like no I don’t have to open it every few minutes and doomscroll, it’s going to be a lot slower coming than the firehouse that is Reddit.
Tbf I don’t think that’s a design as much as it is just smaller, but it still feels nice.
We’re at where Reddit was in roughly 2008 or so. The problems really started when DIGG died, and the toxic user based changed homes.
I deleted my 10 year old Reddit account and just left it behind. Lemmy is just Lemmy now. I don’t really tgink of it as a replacement. That’s just me.
13 years old account with tens of thousands of comments, I deleted it all
16 years. Deleted all comments but kept the account active.
The reddit exodus has almost equalized things I think, there’s still more stuff posted on reddit but it’s low quality garbage (noticeably more than before), most interesting news etc. are here as well.
Not really.
The high volume of unoriginal Linux content is getting old, and that’s coming from somebody who uses Linux.
Behind that, there’s very little in the way of niche communities/interests. But I suppose that’s just because the total number of users isn’t high enough for people with specific interests to reach some critical mass .
So for me, Lemmy hasn’t been anything more than a news aggregator interspersed with the occasional funny meme.
The high volume of unoriginal Linux content is getting old, and that’s coming from somebody who uses Linux.
I can’t really complain about the content being a bit stale when it feels like the alternative is nothing. So many communities that had vibrant counterparts on Reddit struggle to get one post per week. If it’s ditto-memes on Lemmy, I’ll take it.
Just wait until v0.19.0, gonna be such a good update
Scaled sort is gonna be a game changer.
What’s the tldr of scaled sort?
Dragons. 🐉 /s
Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities
What’s coming??
Honestly too many things to list. When it’s finished the devs will post the changelog. But the scaled sort option is a popular addition, remote follow is cool, giving users the ability to block instances, and a bunch of fixes too.
There’s been some posts about a few of the updates, but a complete changelog won’t be until the release happens, which should be this year?
Rad. It’s amazing what a little communism can accomplish!
*com-rad
If you have a bird problem, they are absolutely the people you want to talk to, for sure.
I was saying the other day there’s been a noticeable uptick in activity in some of my favourite arts & crafts type communities over the last couple of weeks. Probably just a temporary blip, and our numbers are still quite precarious, but it’s encouraging nevertheless.
Using Avelon with a bit of constant filtering effort, my Home feed is quite enjoyable.
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You have made a total of 1 post(s). Maybe step up?
Yes, it is so much better, sometimes I forget Sync for Lemmy ain’t Sync for Reddit.
seems good. It’s having way more posts than I thought it would have by this point. Big kudos to the developers.
And additionally, to the community at large - admins, moderators, people who post/comment - we all have played a major part in expanding Lemmy and the Fediverse in general!
I don’t think so. The amount of doom on lemmy is insane, this isn’t a very fun place. Comments using ableist slurs are upvoted. The meme communities are just a facade for more dooming. I swear this site is full of people that get off knowing they’re making someone else feel bad.
We must frequent different communities…
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Honestly, kind of but maybe not really. I mean, yes there are improvements of course, but a bunch of them aren’t very visible, and of course I understand that. It just feels very stable.
It kind of just works, for the most part, which is a good thing - minus this bug which has been fixed over a month ago but I guess is not live yet on every instance: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1968 because I still run into this bug, and it’s still annoying unfortunately.
Outside of that, there’s not really too much going wrong for me to notice any huge improvements.
edit: Oh, it’s because 0.19.0 UI has not had a stable release yet (nor has 0.19.0 server), once that releases as long as there aren’t many regressions I won’t really have any more complaints about Lemmy (other than maybe the non-SEO-friendly URLs).
Yes, it’s gotten stable and there’s good content. Still a lot of 0-comment threads, but the comment threads I am involved in are much better overall. It’s not teen-mob-mentality over here and I’ve been surprised many times over my 4 months. Thanks to all of you guys and gals that make it happen.
I’ve noticed when threads do start they are usually engaging conversations instead of the typical one-liner meme bullshit.
Came here to say this
I understood that reference!
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☝️ this ☝️
/s
Yeah, that got old very quickly, although things like the old Reddit switcharoo* always got an upvote, but the original comment needed creativity and the stock reply needed to link the the previous example. It was cool that it was a different experience each time and that the network grew, occasionally branching, and had maintainers that made sure you could follow without hitting a deleted part dead end.
* after half a year I had to use a search engine to get the name
But here I wrote all of this, instead of just the word “This”
I started lurking here back when Sync shut down for reddit. I noticed that I haven’t seen the terms “chaotic good”, “feedback loop”, or “play stupid games…” used incorrectly/excessively here. Not to mention the one word, all caps, comments that have 1k+ upvotes for some reason.
