Lemmy enjoys growth as developers pivot from Reddit amid API charging controversy

https://lemmy.ml/post/1967611

Lemmy enjoys growth as developers pivot from Reddit amid API charging controversy - Lemmy

I’d love to see some stats on reddit engagement now. Anecdotally, I logged in just to look at my usual subreddits (the ones that are open) and they seem dead.

I use RSS to get feeds for subs that are not active in lemmy.

Many posts are dog shit level now. Either looking for help or just garbage.

Check out r/lemmino lol.

Oh RSS feed is a good idea. The only sub I still check is r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks xd
I have been using CommaFeed for years. I’m not a huge fan of the most current design, but overall it works well.
thanks, I’ll check it out :)

EDIT: Sorry, I missed the “web based”. Today I’m incredibly distracted.

Feeder is pretty good if you use Android.

Feeder | F-Droid - Dépôt d'applications pour Android libres et open source

Un super lecteur de flux RSS libre et open source

No worries, but I’m a diehard PC user xd

I might end up with an open-source desktop app in the end, both Fluent Reader and Raven Reader look good.

I self host FreshRSS & RSS-Bridge in Docker and view everything in Fluent Reader (Linux), FeedMe (Android), and Read You (Android). I absolutely love it!
I tried out Fluent Reader (Windows) yesterday, but it was a bit buggy and lacked some necessary features, so I’m testing NewsBlur for now. The free version is kinda limited, but I love the training feature, and in general it feels the most user-friendly out of the 4-5 services/apps I tried yesterday.
Ive been using FreshRSS for years. You can either selfhost it or use one of the public instances.
Thanks, I’ll check that one out too :)
A fellow leaks enjoyer, hi there! It’s also the only community on Reddit I still check as well. Excited for Fontaine?
Sound like you two need to get on the sources and start a Lemmy community.

I’d be terrible as a mod, but I might be up to preprare the posts when I hit my vacation in a few weeks.

Also, there’s already a community, but with low traction right now.

Yeah, the issue is that the whole sub is just screenshots and videos of leakers’ Telegram, Discord and Twitter channels. I don’t have free capacity for trawling through these kind of feeds, checking for reliability, etc. 😅
Same for me, with family and full-time work, but I can probably set up a bot during vacation to check for these sources. If I set it up to just check for stuff every two hours or so I don’t think I’ll hit any kind of rate limit.
I’m moderately excited, looking forward to exploring the new landscape, but aside of Lyney, I don’t particularly want to pull for any of the characters. (Maaaybe Wriothesley, depending on his personality and kit.)

I’ll get Furina since collecting archons is a safe bet. Aside from her I’m still evaluating who I really want (possibly Arlechinno, Navia and Neuvillete).

I’m much more interested in the lore and hoping hoyo finally starts moving the celestia/abyss plot forward big time. It’s about time we see some real big stuff to happen.

Yeah, I’m looking forward to meeting Navia in-story, she seems nice, just not sure if pull-worthy nice. Otoh I really like geo characters, so if her kit is good, maybe :D I’d love another geo catalyst.

Re story: Yeah, tbh that plot arc is pretty much the only aspect of Genshin’s story I find engaging. The rest is too juvenile for my taste 😅

I’d really love her to be a Geo off-field DPS, but without her damage being tied to a construct like Albedo. I need more damage for my Noelle team 🥲
hosting freshrss locally and just tested that it can subscribe to reddit no problems (although I don’t subscribe to them) - their cloud instances should work : www.freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html
Cloud Providers

You could be using FreshRSS in a few minutes.

thanks, I’ll check it out! I’d probably go with one of their cloud instances, as self-hosting is a pain with my skill level.
It’s funny reading people suggesting RSS on here as a way to replace Reddit. Aaron Schwartz helped create both of them.
Huh, just looked him up, sad that he died so young :c
I like theoldreader. It looks like Google’s reader from way back when
thanks, it looks nice!

I use this app on Android to view my feeds that are on that site:

noinnion.com/greader/

noinnion - We make your life easier

looks nice, but I’m a PC user
Yep. I feel like all of the high-value like high-quality posters are now here or elsewhere and are done with reddit. I used to post a ton on reddit, even across multiple accounts. Now I just post here. lol
If Lemmy supported images in it’s RSS feeds I’d never leave my client.
Its open-source, so it wouldn’t be impossible to add images. Probably pretty trivial actually. Might be a good first PR
Have you tried Open RSS feeds? I follow some Lemmy RSS feeds there but I think they have images in them. openrss.org/blog/lemmy-rss-feeds
Follow Lemmy communities with RSS feeds

RSS feeds to keep up with conversations in any Lemmy community

They are probably confused about how to use an app that behaves like an ad carousel
The bots won’t stop. And probably have increased. So it’ll be tough to see without slices we’ll never get
And they’ll never differentiate them. If their investors know how much of their traffic was just bots they’d divest immediately

That’s the punchline that makes me chuckle when I read how “little impact” the protests and migration have had.

Here’s a little secret: Reddit mods can’t know for sure which accounts are bots. They can suspect, but they’re no easy, reliable proof. Reddit admins, though, know exactly which accounts are bots — they just prefer keeping that info to themselves.

For me, that triggers a great big “Hmmmm”.

Wish someone would create a bot to copy r/HyruleEngineering to the community here.
You can request that on lemmit.online if I remeber the name of the instance correctly

I made the mistake of reading comments on one thread (I moved here full time) on r/Iamatotalpieceofshit about landlords.

It’s turned into a capitalistic hell hole, not only some of the horrible comments you read but also just need to look at the way the votes go, I felt disgusted tbh.

They bootlick way more than they admit they do.
My local area sub is still pretty active, but I did notice that in the other subreddit the comments section is a lot more sparse.
I doubt it made a dent. 250k doesn’t even register on the map of 100m active users.
It does if those 250k are the ones submitting/creating content.

Are they though? I didn’t submit posts on reddit. Looking at the front page of lemmy it’s missing a lot of the topics and subjects reddit posts about.

I’m not trying to be a downer, I think 250k is great and it’s enough to make lemmy 100% replace reddit for me. But I don’t think it dents reddit. I talked to my friends and they barely noticed anything except the blackout. I go on reddit all the same communities are still posting and commenting as normal. But saying that when I looked at reddit I realized how much garbage is posted there compared to lemmy.

This is it though, of my subreddits that are open, it’s just complete trash being posted and a few comments (and even less meaningful comments).
Basically this. I guess the people leaving Reddit are evened out by simply rounding the resulting values before rendering them into a graph.
I think that which 250k migrated will eventually end up making quite a significant dent. It isn’t the technophobic lurkers that make up the Lemmy early adopters.
It’s only about 50k active. The rest are all bots.
I don't think lemmy is still growing. I might be wrong but this graph https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
is trending down and i've seen a lot of smaller magazines/communities that haven't had any posts for 1-2weeks by now.
I try to help that problem at little but i doubt lemmy&kbin has >100k active users right now.
FediDB - Fediverse Network Statistics

Fediverse Network Statistics

They might be using some smoothing, because all lines are noise-free. and the last point it is just an artifact. It looks like a constant growth
According to the graph it accounts for active users within the last 30 days. 30Days ago the reddit strike started and an influx of people started posting. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people haven't been here since. There was a lot of performance and other issues with lemmy&kbin at that time.
There is also always a flurry of people trying out accounts in multiple instances whenever there's a migration wave, so not only are we seeing people who dipped a toe in only to leave, or go back to Reddit, but we're seeing the effect of people understanding how the ecosystem works better and settling into a single active account.

Yeah, I've been on 3 Lemmy instances and now kbin in like 3 weeks

Finding out kbin let you block a whole instances instead of just communities was enough to warrant a new account

Those were going to leave left by now, but there are several alternatives. Lemmy didn’t take all Reddit refugees.
True but I’ve heard that Discuit and Squabbles are well under 10k users apiece so the majority of refugees came to Lemmy I think. Which makes sense because those alternatives are centralized anyway, so they were never going to solve the problem we were running from.
Yeah, that’s why I ended up here after trying the others.
Squabbles is at 30K and I really enjoy that site, lots of engagement