It is possible to estimate?
There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
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I’ve almost completely stoped using Reddit, I only see it if I find it in a web search and it has an answer I’m looking for, this community is amazing, btw.
Check. I’m here not there anymore.
But, I do have something to say about the lemmy experience. It’s not that there’s less. There is but i don’t think that an issue.
What I do have an issue with is the insane amount of politically charged posts. It’s almost making me return to that other place.
Like I get it, the rich should all die horrible deaths, you’re socialist, not communist, you do support freedom just not capitalism.
Aren’t we all deep down inside socialists?
I mean jesus started it, we’ve been spoon fed it for 2k years. It’s just that We’re all also greedy and egoistic sacks of shit so there are some weaving flaws in that system.
Great. Can we now get back to real content? Let’s not talk about politics. Let’s talk about world issues, Foss, games, books, movies, news (Libya, morroco) I dunno anything but politics.
Politics and religion never unite. Fun stuff and real tragedy does.
It’s sounds funny if you say it, but if you scroll through all, reddit is simply much more diverse than lemmy right now
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I agree with you
Maybe we should set up a new instance haha
Me. I can use Sync for Lemmy .
Ditto
Tritto
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That doesn’t matter. People look for revenge on numbers and will like to see Reddit burn and fail.
But that is not what is important. You don’t need to justify your decision by looking at how much Reddit loses, but if you are happy here in Lemmy.
The same goes if you left Twitter and switched to Mastodon. It’s like feeling better if your ex is doing worse after you get apart. Empty satisfaction imo
Absolutely this. I have been to reddit only couple of times since June. Had to give up some communities and found a couple nice ones from here to replace them.
I found some communities on Lemmy and Mastodon easier to participate and feel more connected and happy here compared to Reddit.
Yeah, that’s exactly what it’s like. It doesn’t matter how reddit’s doing. Just how we are doing with the people we have on lemmy. Which I personally think is pretty good, all things considered.
According to Google trends, the people who left are an insignificantly small number, Reddit has still grown in search popularity over the last year. However, if you’ve browsed Reddit since the shutdown, you know that this isn’t the whole story, engagement and quality are both down.
It will take a long time for the numbers to reflect reality. Look at Twitter, it’s still chugging along and it’s gotten way shittier than reddit has in the same time frame.
The quality time Reddit is really bad. And the app is trash, all ads and promoted posts, and a new feature to be like tiktok. Fkn gag me
If I was spez that’s not what would concern me.
Previously Reddit was the be all and end all. Sure there was alternatives for subreddits like car forums or star trek but a generic Reddit alternative no. The goal was then to increase users from something like Facebook, increase the time on the website and maximum revenue. Maybe alternatives were tried and they failed. It was almost impossible to reach that critical mass and the websites died.
This time feels different. The number of users Reddit lost is meaningless. But the number of users the alternative gained is significantly.
If lemmy keeps growing to become an actual competitor to Reddit that changes the game entirely.
The question isn’t how many users did Reddit lose it is did lemmy hit that equilibrium point to keep organic grown. It’s like an exponential. If lemmy wins the way Facebook beat MySpace is not about going from half the users to 100%. It’s about going from <1% to 5% or even from 0.1% to 1% whatever that mass is. Getting from 1 to 100,000 will take longer than 100,000 to 1,000,000,000
Yep. Numbers alone aren’t what are “significant”.
Numbers are all spez cares about, though, and just like with Facebook, listicle sites, and reality tv, eyeballs are all that matters. The content is trash and may even be harmful, but if they can sell eyeballs, that’s all that matters.
I’d rather a smaller community with quality content myself, but unfortunately that’s never going to be lucrative.
Downturns in quality always take a bit of time to have an effect. Sites coast on momentum. Sometimes it takes a user a while before they decide the site just isn’t as interesting as before. Sometimes a user might be optimistic that the quality will return and stick it out. Eventually, those user numbers will see a bigger dip.
Of course, when it comes to corporations and finance, it seems all the power players ever care about are the short term. What gets them into next quarter. Most of them are going to be long gone and working on something else before the real damage kicks in.
So, yeah, you’re right. All spez cares about are the numbers. But unless they can pivot this whole enshittification process, those numbers are likely to look different in a few years. Though that only matters if you actually care about Reddit and not just making as much money as quickly as possible.
I haven’t been back to Reddit since the first day of protests.
Not gonna lie though, I miss it. The niche stuff I went to Reddit for in the first place came here during the drama, but despite an initial push to get some replacement communities going here, they’ve gone almost completely inactive now.
Lemmy has been a decent replacement for /r/all browsing, but it’s not at all a replacement for most of the subreddits I was actually subscribed to
I feel exactly the same about that. I’m always browsing all but I’m never joining any of those communities. I’ve join 3 so far but still I’m browsing all by default.
I can’t believe how the mods caved. They could have taken their balls and gone home and Reddit would have felt it
Yep. I really wish more had migrated over here from Reddit. Seems like it’s almost business as usual over there according to my friend who still uses it frequently.
I am trying to get the Pokemon instance talkative again but I’m just one woman
I could join up and everyone could laugh at me because I know almost nothing about Pokemon.
Eh we could use a laugh, sides the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step… Come with us and catch em all
Yeah I love Lemmy but I don’t see it taking off. The separation of federation instances is confusing for new users. There are plenty of communities but they all feel isolated due to the same community existing on multiple instances. There’s a reason why the biggest communities are all Linux/Programming related.
I feel like development of Lemmy has slowed the past few weeks too. I’ve been following plenty of issues on GitHub both on the front-end and back-end, and there just hasn’t been any progress on them. It’s a shame because Lemmy has so much potential, but I’m with you I just don’t think it will take off. With that said, obviously I will keep using it, and I’m not going back to reddit. It’s a shame because I really do miss the smaller niche communities on reddit but reddit is dead to me now because the CEO is really quite the dickhead and I refuse to go back.
Without actually having looked at the issue track but knowing how such things go down: Less visible progress should be expected right about now even presuming constant development efforts.
The great migration brought many users and uncovered various bugs and requirements for new features and devs have been scrambling to address as much of it as fast as possible – which means going for low-hanging fruit first and if it’s not low-hanging, hack around the issue to produce a quick fix. Now that the worst is over proper software development practice dictates that you should worry more about addressing technical debt you just incurred as well as refactor and redesign until high-hanging fruit are hanging lower so you can pluck them. Doesn’t make sense to build 100 ladders when you can take an axe to the tree and fix everything with three very well-planned and executed strikes.
I’m going to get crucified for this but without monetary incentive I don’t see improvements coming anytime soon. I respect the Lemmy creators but they’re running on donations and goodwill. Reddit/Digg had a team of dedicated employees working on the user experience because it was their livelihood.
This is true but aren’t the two main Lemmy devs paid to work on this full-time? That’s something at least, it’s better than being truly unpaid to work on this.
I didn’t visit reddit on purpose for two full months. I still don’t have the app installed.
I have to admit though I am visiting for game threads now that the NFL has started up. Sports is non-existent on Lemmy. I’m participating in the communities for my teams, but there’s like half a dozen of us in each one. It just isn’t the same thing and I realized that dicking around in comment sections is a big part of how I enjoy sports these days.
They’re still not getting content from me, I’m not going to use their app. But it’s hard to keep completely away when there is simply nothing even closer on lemmy or anywhere else.
I left and haven’t been back since they killed off 3rd party apps. I was a Sync user on Reddit and now that there’s Sync for Lemmy I can’t really tell the difference except for some of the content here and there.
Ditto
I did. Way less content, but higher quality content.
Meh. I just need something to scroll on, and a place to read comments. Without contributing to an evil agenda, preferably.
That’s been a barrier for me. I came from Baconreader. Scroll, tap, see the meme and the comments. It bugs me that Connect makes me take an extra step.
Count me in. I do really miss Reddit though and Lemmy is nowhere near as interesting as Reddit. But no one said protesting is easy.
I left Reddit after 14 years. Was really sad to see what it had changed into over time.
yeah it went through a few phases and definitely became rather unpleasant over the last few years imo.
The ceo had an ad on youtube lol for sharpie. I thumbs downed it
Dropped Reddit and never went back.
Edit: Gotta take the flow and promote !bassment@feddit.de while this post is hot. A community for Bass-Guitar players I’ve been building since the Reddit blackout. Come join us!
Same. I stopped visiting after the boycott started. A couple of days before rif went down, I popped back in to say bye to my friends on there and that was it.
Consider destroying your old comments and deleting your account
https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku/comments/14frr4u/reddit_seppuku_how_to/
I did consider it, but most of my posts are in a private sub anyway. I guess I’m holding on to the slim hope that one day spez will feck off and someone sane will be put in charge. I do miss that sub, a lot of cool people there. Unfortunately I don’t think a single one signed up to lemmy, but I tried.
I have to stop by there every now and then because I’m looking for something and the answer is on a reddit post.
But for daily chilling/posting I’m all for Lemmy.
Same, and most of the crazies are condensed to their own communities and you can easily block them.
Like the people that adopted tankies as a slur lmao
I was a heavy reddit user. Don’t go there anymore. I’m done. There’s just a moral line that was crossed, and that’s that. Same with facebook. It’s over. Now it’s the constant fight to keep google at bay, but that’s what it is.
Pretty much the same story for me, including the moral line. I wish more people would draw that line when it comes to all those unethical companies…
I definitely did, but I know barely anyone else who did.
I find it interesting that: maybe 5 to 10 years ago that intersection rarely happened. Most people I know didn’t use reddit, and the few that I think did would never talk about it. Anonymity is a good thing. That, and for a lot of people Reddit was the hard mode of online interaction.
