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The big problem with lemmy is that some niche communities did not migrated so when you Look for example for fairphone news you Look to reddit beacuse lemmy dosent have equivalent. Likewise i havent seen something similar to r/tailsof. You know the niche communities that were the bread and bucket of reddit with the few exceptions ( programers and Linux communities fully migrated and are obviusly standing out beacuse those pepole are always first to move to opensource alternatives )
Lemmy.world has been down a lot, I’ve been trying to use it but half the times I’ve logged on it’s been down. So that might be part of it?
Reddit is going to keep trying dumb methods to monetize or annoy their user base. Digg did a similar thing. The people will slowly get more and more annoyed and the content here will increase. It’s just a waiting game and federated services are the future.
Ads are coming. (Well, more ads.)
Old.Reddit will be killed too. I know they said it’s not going anywhere but they have shown to be full of shit in the past.
Content is the issue. There needs to be more content and discussion. That’ll increase the numbers.
I got banned at Reddit for god knows what reason. I appealed and was unbanned but decided it’s a cesspool. Deleted my account and came here instead
Well I’m here and I like it. So there.
With the fediverse known for its opposition to infinite growth, this feels ironic
I will admit, I was hard into Lemmy at first, but then gradually slipped back into the Reddit habit. This is my first visit to the site in a few weeks.
I think that app choice makes a difference, too. I would guess that most people on mobile picked one or two apps to try, and if their picks weren’t great (or the user was too impatient to wait for improvements) they called the whole experience shitty and bailed. Those of us committed to the move hung on and waited for our apps to get better.
In my case, I grabbed every ios app I could find and tried them all. Some were not so good, some were good and improving at a lightning rate. Living through those growing pains is worth it to me, especially when the improvements are crazy fast. I’m mostly using Memmy now, and I’m really happy with it. I only have one tiny, unimportant issue with it involving text selection, but it’s nothing compared to how good they’ve made this app so quickly. Memmy is a large part of why I stick around.
I tried only Jerboa and that’s what I stuck with. It loads fast and has every feature I want. Compare that to the official Reddit app, which is a slog on even high end devices. Seriously, what are they doing that it loads SO SLOW?
If you have the opportunity now, download Sync for reddit. It’s out now and it’s a wonderful experience!
EDIT: Sync for Lemmy
Is it an unofficial reddit client? How are they getting around the API prices? Webscraping?
I’m sorry, I meant Sync for Lemmy. Omg!
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Not surprising that the initial hype from the Reddit meltdown is wearing off, the question is how much momentum can be retained and how to attract users organically.
I think people who’ve only ever known reddit/instagram/twitter will find it dull, but this is still a relatively active place with quality users and mods.
The bigger and more reddit-like it gets the harder it will be to moderate and the more expensive it will be to run. Things are fine right now.
Some people might have made multiple accounts and chosen one possibly?
Yeah i did something similar, though mostly bc i was confused about the whole instance thing. Made three or four accounts over the first few days. I kept forgetting the password, or didn’t really understand what an instance meant, or how to log on via Connect. Now that’s done with, I just stick to one account
This is me. I bounced between a couple of instances before I settled on lemm.ee; I also am generally a lurker because I don’t want to comment or post unless I know that it will generate quality conversation.
I’ll personally post as long as it’s relevant. Ideally it’s an interesting comment but not always. I stay away from reddit-type inane comments with no substance, though I’m sure they have their place here as well.
I did it too. I had like 4 or 5 accounts and used 2 or 3 actively until recently if my main instance went down. Now I’m just using 1.
I’m moving to lemm.ee personally for similar reasons. I’m keeping the dotworld account as backup and may be creating communities here.
My guess is a lot of people came in saw that Lemmy was kinda dead a lot of the time but suspected it would continue to grow so they left it temporarily to go back to reddit while they waited for Lemmy to catch up
But if everybody things that, it will never grow
Quote I heard very recently: Don’t do things that would not achieve the goal you wanted if everybody did it.
It’s got too many caveats, but it’s certainly food for thought.
I’m active with comments, but not posts. That’s all I can offer.
Me too. What’s your reason not to create posts? I don’t do it much because I’m anxious about the possible low quality of my contributions.
I just have nothing I want to post. I was on reddit for 8 years and only made like 10 posts in total. Just can’t be arsed.
The very gentle slope towards normalization is quite good, actually.
Some dropoff after initial hype is normal. Now we just continue as usual until reddit pisses people off again.
Well, everybody kinda knows each other a little bit here, whereas on reddit unless you are one of those accounts nobody even bothers reading your username.
Growth is not always consistent.
