• chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 hour 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
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          13 minutes 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 !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca that are both fairly active, so getting a new sub off the ground should be much easier than two years ago.

  • imetators@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 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.

    • Otiz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 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

  • F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 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.

  • Flummoxx@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 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.

    • Lucky13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 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.

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
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      4 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
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        3 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
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      6 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.

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Wow. And we’re almost at the halfway point of the month. I wonder if we’ll reach 100k at eom.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I guess some people get off on go team go, but to me looking at market share is very corporate thinking. If lemmy is better than reddit (which I think it is) it will just naturally grow, which is great. Whet I’m cheering for is that devs of software and other federated platforms are taking social media away from the business world by doing it better for free - whether that turns out to be lemmy or some other software.