• grte@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    172
    ·
    1 year ago

    It feels like a threshold has been crossed. Reddit related content is there but not so dominating as before. People are memeing other things, news and politics discussion is popping up, particularly popular posts from more niche communities as well, it feels like a much more healthy mix of content now compared to the beginning of July and especially compared to when I joined during the reddit blackout.

    • Raildrake@vlemmy.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      72
      ·
      1 year ago

      Absolutely, and it’s been very refreshing to see discussion get broader and be filled with memes and other interesting content.

      It will take a while to get somewhere close to Reddit, but if we talk about how it feels, I see it getting closer and closer day by day.

    • SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      48
      ·
      1 year ago

      I think this has been the first week when I didn’t have to like put Lemmy down cause I was just seeing posts I had already seen. It’s nice to have a good feed to scroll again, and not feel like I have to deep dive posts and read every comment just to see something new. Feelsgoodman.

      • forsen@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        28
        ·
        1 year ago

        So much this. Exploring this place at first felt a bit empty so to say. Not that much stuff to see or read. Now there’s tons of comments, posts and upvote activity that makes this place feel fresh and alive now. FeelsGoodMan indeed, and we’re the oned giving it life.

        • Biggetit@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          20
          ·
          1 year ago

          I feel good reading about what you said about feeling good. You inspired me to say my first fediwords, and I wanted them to be about feeling good.

    • nLuLukna @sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      27
      ·
      1 year ago

      We have hit the critical mass; and that is a cause for celebration. A month ago when I joined, I thought that people would come, post a bit. See the limited content and leave. And I will admit it was painful to use Lemmy back then since a solid 90 percent of posts where about the site or were rips from Reddit. Fingers crossed for the future of Lemmy

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 year ago

        It was also painful to use Lemmy back then because any time there was a new post it would push all the old ones down the screen and you’d often literally have to chase the links that you wanted to click. That on top of how generally slow and unreliable the platform was back in June. The technical improvements to Lemmy over the last few weeks have been absolutely amazing.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      ·
      1 year ago

      I agree overall, though I’m not convinced the threshold has been passed or reached just yet. If this level of growth can be sustained though, it just might.

      I wonder if this will be used as a case study for critical mass of social networks in the future. We have Tildes, Squabbles and Lemmy all competing for scraps off Reddits table and so maybe what we’ll end up with is a fairly clear ballpark for what kind of active user count is needed to reach the snowballing point.

      • Dark_Blade@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        ·
        1 year ago

        Is Tildes really ‘competing’? The invite-based signup obviously invites the most dedicated and ‘quality’ individuals, but I don’t see how that’s gonna help with critical mass.

        As for Squabbles, I’m suspicious of yet another centralized platform. Honestly, I’m just sorta ‘done’ trusting wannabe billionaires.

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          All three are quite different, which actually makes following their respective growth more interesting to me.

          I suppose it’s fair that Tildes is not truly “competing” since they’re invite-only. I don’t have an account there but I’ve heard they want to focus on long-form high effort posts, so it’s never going to be real competition on terms of size, though it will be interesting to see whether a site with that profile can grow enough to thrive.

          I’m not a fan of Squabbles personally but some people obviously are since they’re at 30k users soon. It’s run by a single person, and I am a little worried about whether that persons individual preferences influence development too much and in general the way development is heading. I don’t like the layout and I think the logo and name are a hindrance in terms of mass adoption.

          On a larger scale though, Squabbles doesn’t allow any NSFW, and that is the benchmark I’m most interested in. Can a site of this nature reach critical mass without it?

        • DuncanTDP@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, I’m glad I’m not really the only one who feels this way. I mean the most important part of a “social” media network is to have people on it. Also I can’t really see anything that tildes has that Lemmy doesn’t. I might be missing something, but it seems pretty inferior. But as for the centrallised platforms; yeah I’m pretty done too.

    • fiah@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      1 year ago

      Hopefully we’ve not just crossed the activity threshold for people to stick around and shitpost but also for people to figure it’s worth posting some quality stuff here

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        15
        ·
        1 year ago

        Depending on what type of quality content you’re after, they might be more related than you think. Shitposting keeps the attention of the larger crowd, and the presence of a large audience makes certain high quality stuff feel more worth it to post.

        I would imagine this applies for stuff like AMAs and posting OC artwork etc in particular but I’m sure more things than those.

    • Elkaki123@vlemmy.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      While there is less reddit content I do feel this past week it just got replaced with meta/threats, and personally it has been kind of even more tiring than reddit content as it has tended to feel like an echo chamber where everyone read the same post and spread a lot of negativity about how Lemmy won’t survive Meta if we don’t block instances that don’t block threats and the like and also the idea going around that if someone wants to federate he is either ignorant or stupid, and talking about that, the elitism on this threats treating everyone on insta and threats as stupid people and saying they don’t sant any of those people here because it dumbs down the content… This last week has been really toxic on the larger communities.

      Sorry for that little rant, I had to get that out of my system jeje.

  • brb@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    99
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been lurking, thanks to these users for providing content for me to enjoy while procrastinating.

    • violetta@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      As have I — this site has effectively wholly replaced reddit for me outside of search.

  • OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    64
    ·
    1 year ago

    Holy smokes! Honestly I don’t know if we have or will make much of a dent in r*ddit, but at this point I don’t care. We’re building a new enthusiastic community and doing it fast. It’s a lot of fun.

    • ewe@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      33
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, completely killing Reddit was never in the cards in all honesty. Creating legit competition is good for everyone and this is definitely an awesome place already.

      • PreachHard@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        23
        ·
        1 year ago

        If I can speak for myself I literally switched over today cos boost stopped working only yesterday.

        • Cyyy@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Joey for Reddit still works, if it stops completly I’m gone too from reddit and only use lemmy on mobile. not gonna using reddits shitty garbage app.

            • Cyyy@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              probably will die every minute now. it’s a mystery to me that it is still alive. either reddit has forgotten about it or dunno. some people speculate that the dev is maybe talking with reddit about a deal and that’s why it’s still alive. but who knows.

              • AveragePigeon@kbin.social
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                1 year ago

                Could be, I remember he did a survey shortly before the blackout about what we thought he should do. Maybe enough people said he should try to work it out? But yeah, who knows for sure…

    • DuncanTDP@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      1 year ago

      Honestly this has been my mindset since I joined Lemmy. I deleted my reddit account of five years yesterday. I have no intentions of going back.

  • MusketeerX@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    48
    ·
    1 year ago

    It’s weird these numbers are so small, it should feel dead. But there are a lot of great discussions and a lot of good laughs to be had here.

    The level of engagement for the very small numbers here must be quite impressive.

    I guess it’s the old quality vs quantity.

    • Bearigator@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      37
      ·
      1 year ago

      I suspect the type of person who was motivated to move to Lemmy is the type of person who posts more often.

      There are also people who are posting here more because they want to participate and see Lemmy grow. I know that is me and I can’t be the only one. I’ve posted more on Lemmy than the last 3 years of Reddit combined im pretty sure. I always just lurked over there but I want this to go well so I participate more.

  • SighBapanada@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    45
    ·
    1 year ago

    I used to have a high barrier of thought prior to posting but now I just post whatever bullshit is on my mind at that moment just so I can keep threads active. Like I’m doing now

    • end0fline@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      31
      ·
      1 year ago

      I had a mindset that I had nothing of value to contribute to the conversation. On here, I type out what I would have at Reddit, but I was just wrong. I get plenty of people who engage with me.

      • DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        24
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        On reddit I always had the feeling that someone else had already made my point for me. Here I find myself submitting all those comments and posts that I just deleted halfway through before.

        • Lemmylefty@vlemmy.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          1 year ago

          Ditto that.

          And the frustration that comes of that isn’t so much “I didn’t get to make a point, for which I lost the opportunity to receive credit” but more “I didn’t get to engage with the discussion in realtime without having a sense for how others would react, appreciate, or challenge my views”. Reading things afterward has that line of discussion set in stone in a way that’s unlike being a participant.

    • Becoming@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      That’s exactly why I’ve always been a mere lurker. Maybe I should change that!

  • BadaBing@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    35
    ·
    1 year ago

    Super impressed with growth over the last week alone. I really was worried how I would adjust to not being on Reddit after Apollo died but I feel pretty encouraged now.

    • Haha@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      1 year ago

      Me too! Replacing Reddit for me is not so easy but I’m getting better at using Lemmy. Still browse “popular” on Reddit in an alt to compare a bit but so far so good

    • YangWenli@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I stuck with Reddit for a while because I didn’t like Lemmy on Desktop, but now I’m using Memmy so I have no excuse. I just wish the search function were a bit better.

  • RxBrad@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    30
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I feel like the real headline here is that active users are about 8x what they were a month ago.

    • Test Display Name ⭐@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      ·
      1 year ago

      I like that lurkers are more likely to post comments here. No need to fear downvotes, hostility, or feeling like their comment is redundant.

      • remotelove@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        16
        ·
        1 year ago

        To be fair, that is still going to happen. Everyone just needs to learn the phrase, “Don’t be a dick!”. ;)

  • Tygr@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    That’s the thing, right? In trying to force everyone onto a dumpster fire of a main Reddit app, instead, they forced their MOST TECHNICAL and active user base to look at other options.

    They even chased off their resources doing things for free, such as a massive bot detection network and large-subreddit moderation.

    Everything is snowballing out of control and it’s barely getting started.

    I’m waiting for the real protest. When a large collective of moderators decide to form an agreement to protest for compensation all at once. It could happen now that these moderators are seeing their friends being removed from self-created subreddits.

    TL;DR: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

  • forksandspoons@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    1 year ago

    While there is definitely a bunch of content popping up now thanks to to influx of actuve users, there still are some more niche communities that were pretty active on old reddit that i guess just can get to critical mass on lemmy and so are pretty dead. I hope that can change going into the future though.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      1 year ago

      If the community you’re looking for exists but doesn’t contain posts, the best thing you can do is to start posting yourself, no matter the quality you think your content has.

      Humans tend to follow others, which leads to both positive and negative feedback loops. If nobody is posting, anyone discovering the community will think “oh this place is dead, no point in posting”.

      Being the first to break the ice and do something in a group setting is scary, but once somebody is doing it it’s much more likely others will join in.

      It’s often uncomfortable to be the first person to start dancing to the music, but have you noticed how much easier it is for everyone else to join in when that one guy starts going off?

  • Nahvi@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    1 year ago

    While this is encouraging, I wonder how many users have multiple active accounts, like I do.

    • kobra@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      I tried to come up with a good “Bender’s blackjack and hookers” type TLD name for an instance but couldn’t come up with anything clever

  • codewise@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    1 year ago

    Doing my part to add statistical significance. This feels like using Reddit a decade ago. And that’s a great thing. Lots of room to expand and improve. It’s the age of discovery for the fediverse, and I’m looking forward to seeing how things evolve.

    • Anony Moose@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      There really is an eerie similarity to how the web felt like a decade ago. I had been aware of how much we’d lost to enshittification, but seeing Reddit’s decline at the same point as other platforms accelerating theirs really drove the point home.

      I’m kinda shocked that such a healthy community was born on today’s Internet, bugs, blemishes and all. It gives me hope that we might be able to claw back part of the Internet from the megacorporations. Maybe?

      • FarLine99@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        We already have a fairly mature alternative. A couple more fails from Reddit and this place will become even bigger. There is definitely hope.

  • Ivan@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 year ago

    honestly I’m happy for know and use Lemmy platform, I thought that Reddit was a unique thing: but this is awesome, is its evolution