We have huge communities that are either completely unmoderated or have huge swaths of “the mods are asleep” time. And the assholes have picked up on it.
I definitely suffer more verbal abuse on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit.
I’m sticking around for other reasons, but definitely not the warm and cuddly large communities.
Curious. May I ask, what are people verbally abusing you for? I did a quick skim over your recent comments and I found nothing really controversial, my profile is probably more controversial than yours and I have yet to receive a single grumpy message
I don't really get verbal abuse but I feel like there are a lot more posts that I click on with the intent of commenting only to read the existing comments and deciding not to comment so I don't wade into pile of shit.
No. Lemmy had a lull in toxicity during the fuck Spez rush, but my toxic meter reads way higher here than on reddit (although any anonymous community is going to lean toxic).
Yea I don't know where the "reddit so toxic, Lemmy so good" stuff is coming from. Reddit was never toxic in recent years, just generic as shit with the same comments everywhere.
Lemmy has far more... Passionate users, to put it kindly.
In general my posts here get less upvotes and comments than when I used to post on Reddit, but the coversations here tend to be more relaxed, constructive and lasting for longer.
I really wish this were true but we are absolutely sliding in the direction of more toxicity and I think it's a large part of why users are leaving. What's more is that there's not nearly enough actually insightful commenting to make up for it. Reddit has absolutely lost a lot of that too but you can usually still find something on the field of bullshit. Very frequently I can read 20-30 comments here and not see a single insightful or original thought.
I find Lemmy quite a bit more toxic then Reddit and that is bothering me. Was on a post where a cop was full up ambushed and murdered and every single post was praising it. And there was over a hundred posts so not just a couple of wing nuts. Then you got the tankies and a great number of immature posts. Then you got the extreme left leaning slant attitude on every subject that pretty much creates echo chambers along with mods that will shadow ban. Technically working well, administratively and quality wise the experience is pretty low.
Well even if I wanted to go back to Reddit, I couldn't use it without a decent mobile app, and all of those no longer exist.
Communities don't spring up fully formed, they grow over time with many rises and falls in activity along the way. Lemmy is still young and we can all do our part to help it.
Yeah the thing about Lemmy is that people immediately expect it to be a reddit clone with all the same niche communities. Reddit didn't start off with thousands of communities on Day 1. It started off as Reddit. Then they added NSFW and pics. It took decades to grow. People that expect Lemmy to appear with all those same communities overnight but it's just not gonna happen. You've got to give it time. Instead of posting in your favorite football team's community, you might have to post to the NFL community. Eventually as we grow, more niche communities will spring up.
Honestly I love the Lemmy. I do check in every day, but I don’t often comment or post, I’ll admit it.
Then again I never really posted on Reddit either.
I tried Mastodon, I actively did, and I still lurk from time to time—logically it makes the most sense for me to use professionally—but there’s something I don’t just like about it. Probably that simply it isn’t my platform of choice—or maybe it is that I would technically need to use it professionally to replace FB and IG.
There’s so much social media fatigue. I just want to relax and goof around, doing it respectfully of course.
I sometimes have a twinge of guilt about it too. When I was younger and had more free time, I would spend time on actual submissions and not just comment. But I'm too old and tired for that shit these days.
Does it matter if Lemmy is losing users? I haven't noticed my feeds losing active users even if it's down across the fediverse. Besides they'll be back the next time Reddit has another unpopular decision which should take about another 3 months
I think it's hard to maintain a critical mass in an anonymous social media/aggregator. You need enough fresh content to satisfy users, and you need enough users to provide that user driven content.
If you're only in the popular Lemmy channels then you probably wouldn't notice the users leaving, but the small communities are the first to go.
Exactly. I would never have guessed Lemmy is losing users if every other meme wasn't about it. Stuff still seems just as lively now as it was a couple months ago.
It's weird right? I checked the active user monthly and across the lemmyverse it's indeed plunging slowly, but the content seems to be growing despite that, significantly better than from june to august.
I wonder if it's just instances going down for a while, I know the one i am on goes down every now and then, and sometimes takes over a week to get back and running. I could see something like that causing the active users to fluctuate, especially if they wait a month before realizing their instance wasn't deleted.
Not very surprising to lose users after the big intake from June. If that were the only intake we'd ever get I would be worried but we all know that Reddit will continue to do user-hostile things. Lemmy now exists as a permanent lifeboat for those who get fed up with Reddit over time, and the next time something big happens we'll be better prepared.
We need more "subs" like wallstreetbets, ama, LPT... I'd engage more if there were more comunities I were interested in and they regularily showed up on my feed
These will probably need to grow naturally again. We have enough techy users to carry tech-related discussions, but we probably don't have enough users to carry niche communities yet. By gaining more users of any kind, techy or otherwise, we have better odds of gaining people with a secondary interest in those niche communities. It'll take some time, but the Fediverse is much more permanent, and investments here will pay off theoretically forever. Even if another open platform supersedes Lemmy, it will be easy to port our community over to it.
I feel like for subs like those to pop up, the barrier to entry needs to drop really low. We lean even more technical than reddit did now, and to encourage subs like those, you kinda need a healthy population of non-technical people.
Absolutely. I had like 5 or 6 accounts created in that period, some on instances I don't even remember. Now I just have this one and my lemmynsfw for scientific research.
I've gone from 20+ hours weekly on a third party app, to 30 minutes weekly on old.reddit. it's such a shame, because I was really enjoying the niche communities and especially the f1 subreddit.
I visited old.reddit a few times in the last week, after deleting my 10+ yo account in July and ditching Reddit altogether, and it just isn’t the same anymore. The content just isn’t good like it used to be.
Lemmy has plenty of room for improvement, and often feels like it’s just an RSS feed, but I genuinely prefer it now over current Reddit.
For anyone who still checks reddit, Rdx.overdevs.com is an a mobile-friendly way to browse. No ads and you can still view nsfw subs. You can import a list of subs you follow, but you can't post (which to me is a feature more than a bug).
Isn't it pretty much expected? There was a massive boost during the API controversy then it dropped off as the number of active users stabilised. I don't think Lemmy will immediately replace Reddit like people want it to, just a slow gradual migration of communities. After all the migration from Digg to Reddit took years. I've got no doubt that Reddit will make more dumb decisions that will push more over to Lemmy.
Honestly I just want communities like /r/framework to move over and some UK subs like /r/frugaluk and /r/casualuk then I'm happy.
Yeah, I've been spending more time on Discord lately, but I'm sure not going back to reddit. Tbh I've really disconnected from spaces where I was/would be exposed to right wing extremists and hatred of me. Instagram obviously has it's problems, but the algorithm won't allow me--a trans lesbian stoner--to view hateful content without a fight. If I need to see some fringe beliefs and content, I'll dive head first into the Hexbear pool!
It's better to have fewer users, as far as I'm concerned. Every sub I was part of in reddit when the sub started was great when it was small, and then became trash as it got bugger.
I go back every now and then because a community I follow hasn’t fully integrated here yet and omg reddit is getting worse, more ads than posts and posts seems to be bots more and more, won’t be long now. Fuck spez
RedReader is almost tolerable, but man I just don't have the tolerance for the atmosphere of shit that swirls around there like I used to. I'm grateful Lemmy exists as a far more comfy alternative.
Huh? These days you can get banned for saying just about anything. I got banned from r/justiceserved the other day for commenting something slightly pro Palestine. Fucked up thing is that I posted that comment in a completely different sub.
I know man, but Relay is such a great app, and I'm certainly not using Spez's atrocious app.. Also, how were you able to completely extricate yourself from Reddit? I literally spent over 14 years there...
I log in about once a month and make a comment on something just so they have to keep my account active. If my few hundred comments can cost them a penny a year, it is worth it.