I do, but as more people join I’m also feeling a little republican - i got my spot and this is good; everyone on the outside can go fuck off now. I don’t want it to get so big that it’s what we left. No intended disrespect or lack of acknowledgment to those who were here before.
Yes, and I think I’ve been too enthusiastic posting content because I’m starting to see people shit on me for specific comments, however I deserve it since people are actually actively policing people here in kbin and Lemmy and it’s refreshing to see people care about the communities that are being built here.
You do you! If you have stuff to say, say it! If other people don’t think it’s a valid contribution, they can skip over it.
I understand of course that Lemmy was around for a long time before me, but I still feel like an OG for some reason.
What about me?
You’re an OG for sure lmfao that’s nuts
Pff, get off my lawn
Lemmy had 1-2k people. Now it has 240k monthly active users. In a sense, you are exactly that. Most lemmy instances were created in the last few weeks.
Where are you getting the monthly active stats by the way?
FediDB threadiverse stats. The link is out there. I’m not home. I don’t have it with me right now. You’ll have to look it up.
Ah I’ve been using Lemmy stats which shows 68k:
https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Threadiverse shows 130k
My sleepy ass added a 1 ☺️☺️☺️
For sure. I’m trying to post a lot more too for communities I enjoy.
I’ve been posting and commenting specifically to keep interactions alive in hopes people will see a bustling community and try it out!
yes. this community is slowly going through puberty now
Feeling republican! I’m freaking dying!!
Im visiting a friend for the week and only have my iPhone so this has been a godsend. will be interesting to see how my usage shifts once back home……but this place is nice.
Remember that you also have a real life friend there. 🙃 😉
I didn’t mean to downplay them! Been watching lots of stargate sg-1 and just hanging out more or less. The show ranges from being so great to just straight up bad so presents plenty of conversation
Not really. I was the first two weeks of the Reddit blackout, but not I just use lemmy on my lunch break, exactly like I did when I still went to Reddit.
Honestly no, I was mostly subscribed to smaller subs, and only the general communities here really have a critical mass. I’m definitely interacting more with general communities, but I really miss communities around niche interests.
I have hope that they will be here with time, but for now there’s a bunch of empty communities with no posts and a mod who has never posted anything anywhere, just made a few dozen communities with the names of popular subreddits, and even many the communities that aren’t in that situation have 3-4 posts and a couple dozen subscribers
Also no for me. I spent most of my time reading the comment threads, and liked the arguments and “discussion”. It was probably more an addiction than enjoyment though. I spent most of my time on bestofupdates and relationship_advice, and the comment section of politics and news
This is exactly my main gripe with Lemmy. I mostly spent my time on reddit browsing subs about quite specific hobbies, didn’t care for r/funny or r/pics which is what Lemmy currently feels like to me
I don’t know how we fix the absentee mod problem either. Sure you can create the community on a C new instance, but then it’s even less likely to be successful. I Lemmy is on and I’ll never go back to Reddit, but I don’t see anything replacing it 1:1 the way Lemmy is trying to. It took Reddit a decade to mature in regards to niche communities. Lemmy has a ton of barriers already such as the roadblocks put up by absentee mods and the difficulty in finding communities at all. Lemmy’s All feed seems to bury new communities even worse than Reddit does, but that’s just an unscientific impression.
Presumably worth reaching out to the instance admin if a mod is squatting on a community name on that instance.
Might even be worth just messaging that mod too - they might have taken a ‘build it and they will come’ stance and would welcome another hand to mod and post.
question: can instance admins remove/change mods of a community?
One suggestion I saw was auto-deleting communities that are still empty after a week, incentivizing new mods to upload something, not just squat names that were popular subs in hopes of I guess having some sort of power if they pick up?
that doesn’t sound like a good reasoning to me. how much power can a lemmy moderator have? not much. having a big community on a platform like this is more responsibility than benefit.
most communities were simply built so that people would have spaces to post at first. think of it like helping build infrastructure. when this community was created, for instance, the default lemmy.world community was basically the only active one around. then this one popped up along with many others, and people supported what served their current interests best; others stayed inactive. Most mods will still respond to requests even if a space is empty, afaik.
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I’m not saying there are no good reasons to make a community without posting, but when that’s all a user has ever done, and they’ve done it dozens of times, I have a hard time assuming they’re just trying to help the fediverse thrive.
Yeah everything feels so raw still. But I don’t mind it yet. I pretty much learn something new every 6 hours or so because of all the content that’s getting added to the big instances. It’s been an exciting honeymoon period.
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What are your niche communities you are looking for? I got lucky that a bunch of mine are semi migrated (3dprinting, houseplants, ergomechboards, etc)
Cosplay is one example. There’s a handful of NSFW ‘cosplay’ communities, one not-very-active one on blahaj, and one squatted on .world by a user who is also squatting a whole bunch of clearly NSFW communities and has never posted or commented anything anywhere, and named themselves “@Moderator.” Laser cutting, Inkscape, some book fandoms are examples I was (and to some extent am) actively engaged with on Reddit where communities exist, but are far from a critical mass.
I feel your pain about the squatted communities and agree that I wish there was a good laser cutting one. I know a lot of people are frustrated with the squatting so hopefully the lemmy.world admins implement some sort of community request.
Same here and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. I was definitely on Reddit an unhealthy amount so I’m hoping I can cut down my online time and use something that’s a better alternative. And we don’t need to act like everything here is instantly better. We’re here for a reason and there are definitely things that are better but we’ve also lost over a decade of material and rhythm that will take time to build up and make the place even close to as vibrant as Reddit was in its heyday.
I miss my old forums from the wild west days of the internet before facebook reddit and the rest took over.
Besides the novelty accounts like shittymorph and the rest, can you name a single user you interacted with regularly on reddit? I used to be friends, real actual honest to god friends, with a bunch of people I met on forums. We’d interact on the forums, AIM, games, and meet up now and then. True digital community. Reddit was too anonymous and wasn’t conducive to repeated interaction with each other.
I miss AIM and forums, bygone era
Lemmy.ml has c/Community_Requests and I think it’s about time we had that on .world too.
That’s one alternative that would allow people to request a community exists without just making an empty community, and leave it to people who want to participate and actively moderate to create them
I’m on lemmy less than I used to be on Reddit because the communities I liked on Reddit are dead here. I know I don’t want to go back to Reddit, but I don’t have the time to try to build the communities from Reddit here either. So I spend less time on social media and that’s ok too.
I like the fediverse. It reminds me of the old school Internet days - IRC, usenet, etc., before all the corporate tech bros muscled in. I’d prefer for it to stick, but I have some fears about it. I hope everything will be ok.
I do feel a little lost looking for my old Reddit communities, but I keep hoping we’ll just cross paths again. For now, I’m just sitting back and enjoying the firehose.
I don’t know what the fire hose is. Do you know what the Mexican fireman named his sons?
I’m excited for all the new apps. It’s like the Wild West of app development lol.
I am excited to see the community become more active as someone who periodically lurked on .ml for a few years. But also I’m much more active here because I just don’t scroll r/ anymore unless I follow a link to a specific post. I’m all in here now, I feel like it’s crossed the threshold to be sustainable and interesting to daily users even if it doesn’t immediately take over.
Yes, it has been fun adding and contributing to the small and bigger communities on here alike. Not to mention that there have been more constructive conversations as well.
I differ with your view in that I’m looking forward to having more people join and seeing these communities grow. As of now, the platform is still pretty niche (which is nice) but the fediverse can be built in a flexible way to give users the power in what they want to see and block.
Is that a community about bass guitars? I’ll send a link to a couple of people.
Yes, that‘s correct! Much appreciated!
Definitely not haha! But that’s not a bad thing. Lemmy feels less addicting.
I procrastinated work for 2 straight weeks when lemmy came out. Deadline is now past and I’m still deep into the task and being threatened with retaliation for not finishing on time. 🤔 That had never happened to me with reddit at all, not even close.
