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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.
More like ReTikTok
I migrated entirely to Lemmy and I don’t regret it. I do miss the amount of content on Reddit, but at least I know I’m not supporting them anymore.
Same, but I justify it to myself by the fact that I spend significantly less time doomscrolling.
Ditto. Lemmy could see more content, but the current amount is enough to keep me entertained.
Frankly the only two situations nowadays when I open Reddit is 1) cross-checking stuff posted in this comm, and 2) copypasting stuff from Reddit to Lemmy to avoid giving it more pageviews.
I wish I could but there’s not much of a sports community in here yet. Trying to sub and contribute where I can to change that tho.
I’m not much into sports, but I’ll be cheering you and your efforts on! Go team go! I try to post occasionally myself things that might spur discussion.
Lemmy can feel slow at times but the byproduct is that I find myself searching for new communities, not just replacements for my old reddit favorites.
I moved the Reddit content I wanted into an RSS feed by putting the subreddit URL followed by /.rss into the feed URL and it works
I never knew this. I tried with https://www.reddit.com/r/watercolour/.rss as a test. I can the the images are in the feed. But, my readers are not showing them. Do you have any suggestions on getting image previews to work?
I’m not real sure what the issue is but I can confirm that’s the same URL format that I use. I use Feeder on Android if that helps
that’s what I use yes. Do you get images for that URL? If you don’t mind a quick check? Then at least I can dig into feeder.
Huh. Yeah I’m not getting them either, and after looking into my other feeds that do have images it looks like those are either video preview images or links to articles, so I guess it doesn’t support native reddit image uploads maybe?
thanks for testing, I do appreciate that. Thats a shame, but it is what it is.
I’ll be honest I have spent the last couple months laughing my ass off at /c/risa since I jumped ship.
Yes lemmy is rough as a badgers arse but I’ll take this over endless streams of how fucked we all are or wall to wall yank politics.
People keep saying lemmy is rough, but so far it’s running just as well for me as reddit with the exception of a few hiccups. It actually has more features for navigation
What app are you using?
Voyager is so much like Apollo, but I use Lemmy to share images since Voyager only shares links for now.
Not OP but for me Memmy for Lemmy does a good job replacing the Reddit experience I had in the past.
I’ve been using Memmy for a while and am thinking of switching to something else. It’s still a bit unpolished and buggy. It’s solid as a lemmy app but I suspect there are better things out there like sync.
Voyager’s new app is great and extremely solid. Avelon and Bean are great, but they might be iOS only - not sure.
Bean requires a subscription or a pricey lifetime purchase for full features, like Sync for Android, but it’s very smooth and polished and it has community grouping.
Avelon’s community browser is 🤌.
Lots of great devs still coming through with new apps for Lemmy.
I experimented with a bunch of Lemmy clients and came to the conclusion that Bean is the best app for me. Thunder comes second, Voyager second, Lifoff third and so on.
Memmy, Lemmios and Mlem still need so much work that I was surprised to find that some people find any of those apps adequate. Apparently personal preferences and needs play a significant role here.
I’m on mobile Firefox browser
Thunder is my favorite so far. The heavy focus on gestures took some getting used to for me but I’m on board with it now.
(Also, not OP)
2nd for Thunder, but I turned off swipe and gestures and turned on the buttons in General.
… really? I looked hard (I thought) when I started and didn’t find the settings to disable the gestures. Maybe I was drunk. I just updated so I’ll take another look.
EDIT: there’s an entire setting category named “gestures”. Either I was drunk or blind or both last time I searched for those settings. Thanks
Thunder is fantastic though i bet the team hates hearing from me. I test absolutely everything for screen reader accessibility and have submitted many many bugs. Thunder may very possibly bevthe most screen reader accessible lemmy app out their and that would be because of my reports and the fantastic coders.
My biggest issue is that community discovery is difficult. I browse through the Memmy app and joining communities that are new or niche is really hard. Often times links just don’t work, it might be because I’m on a smaller instance, but it’s difficult to find communities targeting my interests because of this.
Maybe I’m just terminally online but on lemmy.world I just go on /all instances and browse by top last hour and I easily get to the end of the stack.
Try browsing by top six hour!
Do that too
If your instance doesn’t know about a community yet, you need to try loading it twice. First time it’ll give an error, second time will work.
How do I search a community that my instance doesn’t know about to try and find it in the first place, I must apologize for my ignorance, but I’ve never found a good explainer on the finer details of federation.
Personally, I use Lemmyverse explorer and check @[email protected]’s trending communities.
When I say rough ideas qol stuff not stability. I have a couple instance accounts for the hiccups. Things like blocking communities I am not interested not being fed wide. Its kinda like plying wakamole.
Ive been using memmy and do not notice any significant problems, it feels roughly like RIF did before it got shut down. Yeah there’s some small things that need to be fixed but it’s scratching the exact same itch.
To be honest there’s an annoying about of cynical politics here too, I’d debate these people, but I often don’t have the energy.
Sincerely -a yank
!fuckcars would like a word.
I’d rather they didn’t.
My country is old enough that alot of places aren’t built for cars at all
I know fuck all about trek, never really watched it, but I’ve been finding some of the memes there quite amusing
I’m not sure what you’ve been looking at but the “we’re fucked” politics is just as bad if not worse here. Its just WAY further left.
I already said c/risa
c/Risa is hands down my fav community! And very active.
Lemmy is kind of rough, but I’ve started to love it. I definitely think that I get the same content satisfaction I had at reddit – I think it’s more true of niche communities on Lemmy at the moment.
14 year redditor and I go back and forth (only for 2 subreddits) but majority of reddit, including the news portions are completely dead. RIP r/pbsnews. I vow not to comment or submit any new links for them.
Same. I will say though, my phone usage overall has gone wayyyyy down. So. Thanks, Reddit?
I do a lot more reading books when I want stimulation now. I still browse lemmy if I’ve only got a few minutes, like waiting for a build to finish in Visual Studio, but I’ll grab my ereader for anything longer than that.
Yeah, I spend half as much time just endlessly scrolling anymore. Phone use is down and the time I spend on my PC feels more productive too.
Same, except I do go back browse occasionally…no voting/commenting tho.
Tbh I think the vast majority of people that use these sites are just there to mindlessly scroll. I do imagine a lot of their reactions to the protests was to be pissed at the weird basement dwellers disrupting their porn/aww/etc feeds
More than anything, the fact that Reddit absolutely quadruple-downed on steering people to their garbage app at the same time probably drove a lot of that crowd away. I regard it like
TwitterX now: just another rotting, closed-off corporate theme park - and I refuse to believe any content I hit a login wall after getting linked to is important enough to deal with their shit.I was a daily heavy user of Reddit. I was an Eternian and a Centurion. I haven’t spent an hour total on Reddit since July 1.
It helps that their app is absolute shit.
No, i don’t want to see whatever popular fluff is out there while I’m browsing the things I’m interested in, fuck off.
I only use Reddit for the nsfw stuff - it’s still the best platform - but every time I’m in between pictures on my account where I’m only subbed to porn and Reddit shoehorns posts of people asking for legal advice, students looking for university housing tips in a city 100 km from here, highly inspiring LinkedIn video from mademesmile or whatever pedestrian trash… man. Just let me wank.
What the hell is an eternian/centurion?
I think he’s saying he likes horses and centaurs. Not sure how that applies to using Reddit though.
Would centaurs fall under the furry category? I’d imagine you don’t upset the furries. Most of them work in IT
I was being a tool. I was in Eternity Club which is s private sub for people who had hit the front page. I got there by luck. I was also a member of Century Club, a private sub for people who had either 100,000 comment karma or post karma. I got there with comment karma without karma whoring over 7 years. Neither of them means anything. Eternity was kind of cool but very slow. Century was fucking annoying.
Same here. The only time I’ve been on reddit since was for tech support.
Being in Eternal Club just means you got lucky once. You need to work for CC.
It wasn’t luck! I posted about my maple syrup system and spent 24 hours answering 1,000 comments and questions. It was hard work.
User name checks out, I guess.
Huh… didnt realize I am a centurion over there. I.e 100k+ karma
Not combined?
No not combined. I got into CC off my comment karma. I make no effort to get post karma so that is minimal by comparison anyway. Ive just never heard us being called centurions before
And that’s WITH the GPT bots
The completely unblockable hegetsus ads were really what made me switch to Apollo from the official Reddit app. Then killing third party apps made me leave for good. Bravo, Reddit
I wanted to call bullshit
but they’re entirely right.* Comments per day took a nosedive. Now if only more hobby communities would lift off, I’d be able to abandon Reddit entirely. I’m up to my tits in Linux and privacy guides but I still know nothing of mushroom picking. Nothing!Edit: *some users pointed out that subredditstats is no longer capable of accurately tracking comment numbers. I was wrong.
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And that’s exactly why lemmy needs to grow its userbase significantly before it can ever become mainstream.
grow sounded nice until you said mainstream.
The beauty of a federated social network, is that even if it becomes mainstream as a whole, there will always be smaller niche instances for us to get away from the big ones on.
Is Subredditstats still working after reddit api changes?
My guess is that they are also rate limited, so that information may not be valid.
Another user and I checked and it seems not to be accurate anymore, you’re right.
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I have actually learned a bit about growing here, but I’m infinitely more interested in foraging and identifying. It’s like geotagging, but edible.
Yeah, the myco communities are coming to life for sure.
We have mycology and a few shrooms communities. Just browse my history for the exact links and some neeto grow pics.
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Personally, since it isn’t Reddit, yes.
The communities here are small, unfortunately. Once more people migrate over here, it has the potential to be much better. Without a doubt, the communities aren’t large enough to have a ton of accurate knowledge sharing.
Until then, we should just keep contributing! While I am likely a “top poster” on the shroom communities, I do have some good conversations in the comments. Many people are just lurking and that is totally cool!
Thanks for the giggle. Coffee wasn’t helping that much but the thought of someone just standing near some mushrooms and dramatically throwing their hands in the air pepped me right up
I’m up to my tits in Linux and privacy guides
omg I’m seriously loling rn 😆 there’s so much fucking linux on this site. ive been using linux for ~14 years (exclusively for 2), and i have no idea what most linux posts are going on about, nor do i know anyone with a linux pc in my real life. us on lemmy have somehow managed to find each other.
i give it a few months until i have my own instance, a pi hole (whatever tf that is), and completely blocked google from tracking me in any way.
I like a good project. Pi-Hole actually frustrated me with how easy and straightforward it was to set up. Maybe like- ten minutes total. You won’t regret it.
see‽ im already getting sucked in
Pi-hole isn’t a complicated tech thing!
It’s just a raspberry pi with a piece of software that you attach to your router and set up block lists that…
Well shit, maybe it is.
I still love seeing them despite lying outside my interests. Seeing someone’s passion project or troubleshooting session from the outside is interesting, if only thanks to their enthusiasm inspiring novel approaches and clever workarounds.
yeah, it’s engaging and entertaining. i spent half an hour yesterday going through a thread where OP argued for the use of linux in business settings and the comments were reaming OP for his arguments. i was like, “jeez. dont make a mistake on this site. people will let you have it.” OP should wait a few weeks, make an alternate account, and argue for the use of Win over linux in business settings to get the other end covered. 😆
Pi hole is brilliant
whats pi hole
You set it up to be your local DNS server and it will support all devices on your network.
[email protected] needs some love… pick random mushrooms you find, say you’re thinking of eating it and wait for a lot of "NONOONOOOOOO"s in the comments. Next step is ???, then profit!
How accurate is that site, though? I checked one sub and it seems to heavily undercount the number of threads and comments.
Hmm, you’re right. The site missed 75% of the comments on the subreddit I checked.
Yep.
Hopefully it always misses 75%, but that’s tough to check.
You could always try some of the AI content:
This is a decision to only let those stupid enough to pay for premium enjoy the site
The
roofreddit, theroofreddit, theroofreddit is on fireWe don’t need no water let the motherfucker burn
If you open Reddit without an account on a browser, it will automatically create a username for you when you are on site now. Hopped on to look at a post on a semi active subreddit and saw I was somehow logged in, but it was an auto generated account name. Wonder if they are trying to boost numbers that way as well
That seems like a GDPR and CCPA nightmare.
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It’s the birthplace of all the quality memes after all. Reddit clearly saw that as more of an opportunity rather than a risk.
Can you replicate this using fully fresh Chrome and Firefox user profiles over a fresh IP address, like that of a paid VPN? It will be breaking news material if true.
Just tried it and that did not happen. There was a pop-up asking me to sign in via Google though so I’m going to guess you accidentally clicked yes on that at some point.
It was actually on a work computer using chrome that absolutely no one uses, I’m not even logged in on that machine nor is chrome. This happened a few days ago now, let me see if it will do it again.
Here’s what popped up
Is this where all those auto-generated-ass names were coming from when I was arguing with anti-protesters?
I’m not surprised. The user interface for mobile has just gotten awful, and losing third party apps was the last nail in the coffin for me. Within a day I couldn’t stand the official app and went to other sites.
I would probably still post on reddit if I could do it from my phone in an app that actually works instead of being a glorified ad platform. They killed 3rd party apps to bully users to switch to the official app to boost the usage stats to have a better angle to haggle for their IPO. Problem is that the official app is just excruciatingly painful to use if you are accustomed to a proper reddit browsing tool.
The backhanded, sneaky way they did it with all the denial and lies was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Instead of being upfront and calling a spade a spade, they commited to a hostile takeover and removed all doubt that reddit is going to stay a platform for the people.
If they would have been honest from the get-go I might have continued posting.
There’s very little engagement to be had from the site anymore. There’s a narrow range of acceptable discourse, and anyone going off message is quickly censored.
The news subreddits got hit worst of all. It’s pure propaganda , and you can only read so many comments about the great Biden economy and the removed Russian orc before your eyes start to glaze over.
I cut the cord and deleted every account I had, something like 10+ years and haven’t looked back since then. Could I see myself going back? Maybe if there were substantial changes in leadership and if they took some sort of steps to rectify, but neither of those look forthcoming, soooo… here we are.
So far lemmy sucks for video game news.
