• Picasso@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    38 minutes ago

    This is great but i feel like we still need some speciality communities that will drive people here. This is an amazing start though

  • Zacryon@feddit.orgEnglish
    14·
    2 hours ago

    I hope they feel welcomed here to stick around. I’ve quit Reddirt in 2023 during the API exodus, came to Lemmy and never looked back.

  • amos@mander.xyzEnglish
    9·
    2 hours ago

    Fantastic! New people (and old as well), please give to the community! Post and/or comment as much as possible, to make Lemmy an even better place!

    You can do so by just regularly commenting and/or posting, but also by creating new communities and bringing some activity to inactive ones!

    • AnonomousWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      This!!

      Help the communities you like to see grow.

      Just making one or two posts in communities that seem dead gets the ball rolling in making them alive.

      It also motivates others to post.

  • metalsd@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    8·
    6 hours ago

    I hope this keeps growing. I’m loving it here, and the fediverse idea is amazing. I hope we succeed and descentralize social media. Power to the people again

  • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
    981·
    15 hours ago

    Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

    • DopaDodge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      11 hours ago

      Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

      One of the things I feel like Lemmy is still missing or is under developed is the niche hobbyist and tech help communities. I’m referring to places users can go to ask questions and start to build up a knowledge base of sorts that people will find and reference. Kind of like how if you want to actually find useful information for something, you used to add “Reddit” to every search to get meaningful results. Hopefully, that can become Lemmy. Assuming of course search engines even index Lemmy well enough

      One way to start could be just having people post small tutorials or solutions for popular problems or topics in respective communities. I know the internet has changed a lot but “back in the old days” that was a great way to get engagement going at least on tech forums.

      • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        11 hours ago

        search engines hardly index lemmy unfortunately. Probably due to having too much repeated content on different URLs.

        • DopaDodge@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 hours ago

          Probably due to having too much repeated content on different URLs.

          It seems like its gotten better in the last 2 years as I can at least get lemmy results now, and popular instances show up more but yea, still not great.

    • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      582·
      15 hours ago

      For real we need more uplifting subs, my feed is just Musk and Trump diarrhea.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        14 hours ago

        I think this is an artifact of what’s oddly the biggest weakness of the fediverse: decentralization.

        When I used reddit back pre-api stuff, my front page was 100% niche subs I’d subscribed to, but those niches have trouble le growing here because there’s so many instances.

        I was super active in the scuba subreddit. Here on Lemmy, there’s several scuba groups that tried to form, but none of them stuck because they were all on different instances instead of one central location where everyone could work together to make the community.

        As a result, most of us haven’t been filtering out 99% of Lemmy because the 1% where we’d be active doesn’t exist. It’s like joining reddit and having your frontpage be /r/all. It’s a shitty experience that g9ves a lot of weight to political posts.

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
          15·
          13 hours ago

          I don’t think the subs failed to get off the ground because of federation, I think they did because they didn’t have a dedicated person tirelessly filling them with posts and single-handedly carrying them. Because that’s still where we are population wise. 50k+ MAUs is very nice, but not nearly enough for niche subs to be self-sustaining. Look at any small but active Lemmy sub right now and it’s often a single person doing 90% of the posting. The only real way to get a new sub going is to be that person.

          At least now we have stuff like Lemmy Federate and places like [email protected] and [email protected] that are both fairly active, so getting a new sub off the ground should be much easier than two years ago.

        • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          12 hours ago

          It doesn’t matter almost at all which instance a community is on. People could just unite the different scuba groups into one. Basically any they see fit. I’m not sure the decentralization really causes this effect. Or does it make it too difficult to find communities? I’ve been plenty able to find communities from various instances, at least.

  • imetators@lemm.eeEnglish
    37·
    16 hours ago

    Lemmy is more polished and populated now than before. Hope influx stays and we got all the real people from reddit and bots stay there.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Onboarding process is definitely smoother, and we fixed a lot of the Federation bugs. Usability is an all-time high. I don’t know what the critical mass is, but we are definitely gaming momentum.

    • Otiz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      11·
      15 hours ago

      Downloading an app instead of using the web gui helped me a lot, almost gave up on Lemmy couple days ago. But some of these apps are so well made. Really shows commitment

  • Flummoxx@lemm.eeEnglish
    64·
    19 hours ago

    I’ll just say, the more I hang around Lemmy, the more I enjoy the genuine conversations. It feels like less snark, less joke replies, and just a generally more community-type feeling. Reminds me of when I first tried Reddit after leaving Digg way back when.

    Hopefully, us exiles can leave the Reddit back at Reddit.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      A democracy, if you can keep it, in a sense. Lemmy is healthy. Time will tell if the idea works, but I think it is a huge advantage tearing away corporate ownership and really investing in a platform that is owned by its users.

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
      19·
      17 hours ago

      I feel the exact same, and I’ve been hanging around here for almost two years (the great 3rd party app exodus of ‘23).

      This place feels more like a community filled with people versus a firehose of internet wrapped in layers of corporate and right wing BS.

      Reddit was almost exclusively read-only for me. Here, I am commenting all the time.

      • CarrierLost@infosec.pubEnglish
        5·
        16 hours ago

        This is one of the reasons I stayed. It was still small enough back then that you actually started to recognize people you had conversations with, and not just the troll farms.

    • Lexxly@lemmy.caEnglish
      27·
      19 hours ago

      I find a bunch of snark here, but it absolutely feels more genuine. With reddit it felt like half the comments I saw were from bots. More than half, maybe.

    • Lucky13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      15 hours ago

      I like a lot of things here better than Reddit. For one thing, I don’t see the stupid buzzwords like literally or cringe in 98% of all posts. There’s no hivemind here…yet. And hopefully there won’t be.

      Also not the same 5 memes repeated for 15 years.

  • F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    17 hours ago

    Yeah in a few days I’m going to delete my Reddit account, liking this place so far, you get news and genuine discussion.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    72·
    22 hours ago

    Woo! That’s awesome. I am seeing quite a few more people.

    We are already successful, I’m seeing stories, news articles, and videos that normally would never get pushed to the top. We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

    • cm0002@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      571·
      22 hours ago

      We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

      • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Maybe just maybe a link aggregator and discussion platform doesn’t need to make money. Maybe it can just be good and make the users happy.

  • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    130·
    1 day ago

    Worth noting is that what counts as an “active user” has changed between now and then. During the Reddit API exodus, an “active user” was a user who had posted or commented in the past month. Now, it includes users who have voted. If the 54k MAU record was set using the first algorithm, it is likely that the MAU using the new algorithm (which includes voting) would have been much higher.