Crass Spektakel

Lemmy is slowly getting better

https://lemmy.world/post/2606135

Lemmy is slowly getting better - Lemmy.world

Just a little rant. When I first visited Lemmy Sites a couple of months ago it felt empty. Besides the really mainstream community pretty much everything else just felt empty. Meanwhile though traffic has increased a lot and I feel well entertained by the traffic in c/hfy c/noncredibledefence c/keepwriting c/worldbuilding and so on. It is certainly less than Reddit but often quality is substancially higher and is “enough” to keep me entertained. Also I like that you can actually post something without running into a bazillion deletes, bans and moderator shitshat because your post was two words to short, not NCD enough and so on. Sure, the C64 community on Lemmy is laughable. So is the ARMA community. I still use REddit for that. Also I often check up stuff on r/hfy and r/NCD but since one week I have been prefering Lemmy for that. Not perfect, not even very good but definitely promising.

Aug 3, 2023 at 11:07pmWeb
Show threadGhostfaceAug 3, 2023

Here here, was a RIF user but after the blip, I haven’t looked back. More and more ppl are migrating over, and I really enjoy no ads!

I would suggest starting a community if one doesn’t appear.

Show threadsmrtprtsAug 3, 2023
Just migrated over from RIF as well, first post! Like the UI so far
Show threadYoBuckStopsHereAug 3, 2023
Show threadXillyAug 3, 2023
Love this so much!!!
Show threadYoBuckStopsHereAug 4, 2023
My third grade art teacher would be proud!
Show threadnik0Aug 4, 2023
omgee lemmy gold. Lets bring back the thumbs up /s
Show threadkostel_thecreedAug 4, 2023
Snatching this for the future 😘
Show threadfantamountAug 4, 2023
Thats awesome, thank you for doing this
Show threadLCPAug 4, 2023

Converted it to B&W to make it look like silver:

Lemmy World silver

Show threadTehgingeyAug 3, 2023
I was an RIF user for a long time, I honestly haven’t looked back since the API thing. I’ve found connect to be easy to use and it scratches the itch for sure. Love to see it getting more traffic now, my only sense of loss would be the Google search with “_____ ,reddiit” to find someone who has spoken about what I’m looking for. Lemmy will get there, just happy to be along for the ride
Show threadMyOpinionAug 3, 2023
Slowly? Lemmy is easily as entertaining as Reddit and it is just getting going.
Show threadpapajohnAug 3, 2023
I have way more fun on Lemmy. I do need some of the more esoteric an vast archived content from reddit from time to time. For that I just google reddit and no longer sign in. Fedi will get there soon enough though.
Show threadderangerAug 3, 2023

I’ve been spending a majority of my time on here when I do my “Redditing”. I only visit the old site for niche topics. I spend as little time as possible there, I don’t upvote or downvote anything, and I don’t comment either. It’s read-only for me out of principle. I save all interactions for the fediverse.

I doubt all the communities will rebuild elsewhere, but I’m okay with that. Some fragmentation is necessary. Smaller communities make individual voices louder, and you have less ugly “sidedness”. When humans get into a critical mass IRL they can start to do strange things, I think we see this in social media as well.

Show threaddanieltonAug 3, 2023
I agree. I can’t say I miss Reddit.
Show threadEternity_htmlAug 4, 2023
I agree. Both mastodon and Lemmy are far more entertaining than their corpo counterparts. People feel far more genuine and overall more intelligent on the fediverse. I feel that smarter folks care more about privacy and digital ethics lends itself more to foss and the fediverse in general.
Show threadArcaneSlimeAug 4, 2023
Lol yeah, you guy’s should have been here 2y ago, this place is jumping now!
Show threadwthAug 4, 2023

Its getting there, and there is some entertaining content on here (comments and posts). But I think we are still missing the super high end responses. No matter what the topic, one or two people would jump on and have deep specialised knowledge of the field - be it naming an insect from a blurry image or commenting on a geopolitical situation. I still see lots of posts that generate nothing more than “huh” or “wow” type comments.

When that starts appearing more broadly, I think the quality here is going to take another leap.

Show threadADTJAug 4, 2023

I think that’ll only really start to happen once you start getting more of the general population on here.

Reddit always had a reputation for being dominated by techy people, that is significantly more so the case here.

Signing up for Lemmy, even knowing where to start is a bigger leap than it is over there. Personally I’m hoping third party apps will be able to help with that by offering some kind of setup wizard with easy options of suggested instances to join.

Show threadPloppAug 4, 2023
I love how people have different opinions and value different things. Personally I so far find Lemmy very very very much not as entertaining as Reddit. The lack of comments in particular makes it way less enjoyable imho. But hopefully it’ll grow.
Show threadthunderclapAug 3, 2023
Enough of the subreddits I enjoyed are here in some variation, enough so I haven’t been to Reddit in weeks. I’m fine with that.
Show thread∟⊔⊤∦∣≶Aug 3, 2023
I fucking love Lemmy.
Show threadRentlarAug 4, 2023
Well, I fucking love you back! ❤
Show thread∟⊔⊤∦∣≶Aug 4, 2023
❤❤❤❤❤
Show threadlimerodAug 4, 2023
Lemmy is the new way of life. Reddit is the toxic ex.
Show threadFlyingLadderAug 4, 2023
Time to reolaxe ny Reddit addiction with a Lemmy addiction. Let’s goo
Show threadVakbrainAug 3, 2023

I haven’t went back to reddit since july 3rd… Not even once! I like Lemmy the way it is because I don’t scroll for hours anymore and I like that.

Although I wish the comment section was a little more active in general.

Show threadkostel_thecreedAug 4, 2023
I do go back to Reddit once in a while to use the communities that either aren’t here or are dead here. But yeah, way lower Reddit usage is a win in my books
Show threadTORFdot0Aug 4, 2023
I had an account from 2011 with several hundred thousand karma and I backup up my content and deleted my content from Reddit using power delete suite. The only time I go to Reddit is signed out from google search
Show threadTropicalDingdongAug 3, 2023

Slowly? Bro for years reddit was mostly pictures of delicious sandwiches.

Lemmy is orders of magnitude better than old reddit.

Reddits deaddit, it just doesn’t know it yet.

Show threadMadbrad200Aug 4, 2023
anyone remember the “melts vs grilled cheese” drama lol
Show threadAdaAug 4, 2023
So cheesy
Show threadThassodarAug 4, 2023
I got banned from the food subreddit for 3 days for making a JOKE about it in the comments!
Show thread___spannungsbogenAug 4, 2023
I’m still getting my footing, but it does feel like what it was circa 2012 to me. I stopped engaging on Reddit years ago because even in the smaller subs it seemed like not as many people were there to talk anymore.
Show threadTIEPilotAug 3, 2023
old.lemmy.world is a God send, haven’t been back to reddit since!
Show threadAmilo159Aug 4, 2023
I miss the sheer amount of cute and stupid cats I used to see on Reddit. That and country specific communities.
Show threadMadbrad200Aug 4, 2023
Show threadAmilo159Aug 4, 2023
Thanks, I missed quite a few of those. I’m still trying to understand the whole instances thing.
Show threadMoracremaAug 4, 2023
Sort by “TOP - 6H on All” and you will have plenty of cats (and memes). Hot sorting is broken right now.
Show threadieightpiAug 4, 2023

It’s been impressive how good lemmy has gotten in such a short time.

At this rate, Lemmy will be good as Reddit in less than 5 years.

Show threadbadbytesAug 4, 2023
New to lemmy, after leaving reddit last month. I am fairly happy, but the learning curve is higher. I don’t love the frequency of downtimes. But I’ve been very thankful for the content. Thx.
Show threadNeve8028Aug 4, 2023
Downtime depends on your instance. I switched from lemmy.world to lemm.ee a little while back and haven’t had any issues. Seems a lot more reliable.
Show threadTORFdot0Aug 4, 2023
I find that I can fill in the gap for a lot of dead Lemmy communities by following hashtags on mastodon but it doesn’t have the same level of engagement as niche Reddit communities
Show threaddriving_croonerAug 4, 2023
To me it feels like reddit 10/12 years ago when still was pretty niche and a meme could take the entire plataform for a week, tne Atheist memes are also a blast to the last.
Show threadtwistedtxbAug 4, 2023

I stopped posting to Reddit because frankly it felt like throwing a pebble into the ocean.

I love the smaller approach here

Show thread/home/pineappleloverAug 4, 2023
My posts will get no engagement, negative engagement, and very rarely do I get upvotes. Here in lemmy, there’s lots of quality posts and nice people who engage with my posts.
Show threadGodnrocAug 4, 2023

I can insult you, down vote your post, then say something confidently stupid before refusing to engage with this thread ever again if it makes you more at home.

Actually, that sounds like a lot of effort; best to leave that on Reddit.

Show thread🇸‌🇵‌🇪‌🇨‌🇺‌🇱‌🇦‌🇹‌🇪‌🇷‌Aug 4, 2023
I bet you won’t do it!
Show threadjackie_jormp_jompAug 4, 2023
Buddy why is your name gigantic and blue in sync? I’m jealous.
Show thread🇸‌🇵‌🇪‌🇨‌🇺‌🇱‌🇦‌🇹‌🇪‌🇷‌Aug 4, 2023
You can change it on your instance website under display name, then use a Google fancy text generator.
Show threadjackie_jormp_jompAug 5, 2023
Thanks, I’ll have to check that out so I can be a special boy too
Show threado_oliAug 4, 2023
I agree somewhat, I think Lemmy has a way to go though because there are some real big headlines that seem to be missing from Lemmy on certain communities, and often a lot of posts with 0 comments or very few. I know it’s early days but until Lemmy is a reliable source of news for my various hobbies I’ll still be using Reddit alongside. At least on Reddit for all it’s flaws, if there is something big happening in a certain scene, it’ll be there. It’s a one stop shop for all my information.
Show threadBlack_GulamanAug 4, 2023
And clearly that’s what is so dangerous about reddit. Being a one stop shop. Their algorithm totally controls what people see, specially people whose only browsing All.
Show threadPloppAug 4, 2023
Who browses r/all?
Show threadBlack_GulamanAug 4, 2023
well definitely not me, But think for a second, why did reddit hate the blackout, partly because it affected the r/all feed. where , im guessing, that they have figures that states that r/all browsing users have significant numbers.
Show threadChickenstalkerAug 4, 2023
Best thing is, lemmy is open source. You can submit your feedback and code to the devs.
Show threadDisgustoidAug 4, 2023
I don’t understand the “slowly” part at all. I joined Lemmy about a month ago when Reddit third party apps went dark. Lemmy was largely a ghost town then, with most of the relatively mainstream communities I sought out having newest posts that were days or even weeks old. That desolation was gone after the first few days, with a ton more engagement from others who migrated over and a steady stream of new content. The communities I frequent have grown by leaps and bounds since then. “Slow” isn’t a word I’d use to describe Lemmy’s growth at all.
Show threadsbvAug 4, 2023
Since the spike in content that came with the Reddit migration, I feel like things have slowed down. Maybe I’m wrong, I don’t have any stats to back that up.
Show threadmnemonicmonkeysAug 4, 2023
Maybe “plateau’d” is a better phrase. There has been growth since the Reddit migration, but it has decreased since the spike. Not that’s a bad thing
Show threadsbvAug 4, 2023
I wouldn’t say plateaued. Decreased. A number of the communities that I subscribe to seem to have fewer daily posts than they did a few weeks ago.
Show threadSupraMarioAug 4, 2023
Yep, Lemmy is more active than tildes at this point.