I know and can accept the response that say I should register to X site if I want more activity. I do plan to, least with Reddit, just biding some time before I make yet the 20th disposable e-mail and probably the 100th account before it gets banned again if I cross a glass person. Glass person being someone who’s so fragile on opinions and things that they’ll scream ‘BAN THEM BAN THEM!’.
I’ve been on KBin Social, Lemmy World (least 2 dedicated accounts), KBin Run, Mastodon, Blue Sky .etc
And I’d stay for a good while but I also found myself bored immediately. I check for questions to answer, it’s the same questions I’ve seen days and weeks prior. I check around for things that are reported and they’ll be hours old and some of them can be years old.
I love the idea of the Fediverse, I like some of the features that are implemented. Especially when you do ask questions on here and you’re allowed to expand on it. Unlike AskReddit for example, they don’t really like that and will remove your post because explaining what your question is about and backing it with an example is just unacceptable to them.
I don’t know. 43,000+ people sounds a lot on paper, but in practice, it feels like you’re dealing with 50 people at any given day.
I personally love the smaller userbase. Less spam, more quality, less screentime, no doomscrolling. Its a win-win in my book.
Plus you get to see the same accounts, the entirety of Lemmy feels like a community
Same. The only thing being niche subs on local stuff. But I remember early Reddit, and that had the same feel. Maybe with a bit more generalized memes because the hivemind was so much more exciting.
But the lack of automated astroturf and shorter comment sections makes it easy more pleasant.
No.
I have actual internet friends here. People who, based solely on their efforts and words and interactions, align with my own beliefs and ideals and help me temper and adjust accordingly as time goes on. Adults. I’d happily stay like this or with more, similar people, growing slowly and legitimately.
Post something then. Go to whatever your niche sub is and post on it. People will see it and you might get some engagements. I recently posted in !knives@sopuli.xyz and !geocaching@lemmy.world and got engagement.
yes! I posted a similar question in a diff community and someone responded: " be the change you want to see". that’s pretty much all we can do! :)
I’d like to not to.
I would much prefer seeing other people build as well, see what they bring up and whatnot. I’ve tried before on creating communities to moderate and all I’d feel like is being some of those Reddit moderators who moderate an absurd amount of subreddits.
That’s not what I want.
For more diverse content I indeed wish, but you can’t build a healthy social network with an explosion of members without the moderation and toolings required to handle such a wave.
I’d rather be there while the Fediverse grows organically and gather my info from multiple sources the old fashioned way.
Yeah. I feel like Lemmy doesn’t have the tools needed to moderate a larger community outside of defederation.
For me the biggest problem is not volume in general but volume of niche content. The best thing about Reddit was all the active, engaging communities that would sprawl around any niche subject you could imagine.
You know, you actually hit the nail on the head in the context I had failed to articulate. Like yes the Fediverse does have some interesting communities, but they’re communities we expect of the fediverse to have that everyone else has. But, it does not have a dedicated Nostalgia community, it does not have AbruptChaos or anything else. Just the basics.
And I think if more people took on tasks like running the communities while educating people the benefits of the fediverse, then we can see a bit more growth. Because the point of the matter is if people are desperate for a Reddit alternative, they’re going to want to feel like they’re home. If there’s nothing here that’s going to help make them feel that, then they’re going to just stick to Reddit for better or worse.
But, it does not have a dedicated Nostalgia community, it does not have AbruptChaos or anything else. Just the basics.
There’s only so many communities you can maintain active with 45k monthly active users
And I think if more people took on tasks like running the communities while educating people the benefits of the fediverse, then we can see a bit more growth.
Why do you think we don’t?
- https://feddit.uk/post/18600084
- https://kbin.melroy.org/m/reddit@lemmy.world/t/505901/It-feels-like-the-group-has-much-more-to-gain
There’s only so many communities you can maintain active with 45k monthly active users
Then you’ve just proved my point then on how little there is to do and see beyond the basics. One would think that with a number such as 45k, there’d be a lot more communities around than just the general stuff.
And I see that you’re running multiple places as is. I’d like to see more contributing users than just one dude.
I used reddit for two things: news, and niche subcommunities around small hobbies and fandoms.
We’ve got the former here, but I don’t know if we’d ever have enough of a critical mass to sustain the latter. And that sucks for me, because I no longer have a good space for that stuff, but I still don’t ever want to go back to reddit now.
I worry sometimes that the reddit exodus brought mostly bellyachers.
The sheer boringness of these repeated questions about the size, growth, health of the fediverse.
Fuck metrics. Jesus, do you mot get it at all?
Yes, I wish there would be more. But I am okay with the state it’s in. The engagement is good enough, and I discover interesting things every other day. You can’t force it anyway.
The “threadiverse” (i.e. lemmy-compatible communities), yeah. There are still many topics that I would find interesting to discuss, but that nobody talks about here; to the extent that there are communities for them, they get very little activity.
The microblogging fediverse (mastodon-compatible), I think, is popular enough by now, I have no real desire to see even more activity there, can hardly keep up with what I’m currently following there and currently tend to unfollow more accounts than I start following.
Yes there needs to be more people. There’s barely any active discussion here. If you don’t want to shit on Israel, there’s just shit posts and Linux. We need more people to get active sports discussion, movies, TV, or anything else.
I moved to lemmy hoping it would be like classic Reddit, which it is to some extent. Unfortunately, my experience has been more like browsing Imgur – just endless memes and shitposts.
I tried blocking all the meme-focused communities I could find, but now my feed feels like a ghost town.
It happen to me, pixelfed, dedicated networks about history… And nothing happen… And I’m about of 3 years active in fediverse
dedicated networks about history
What are those?
historians.social
I got my first reddit ban today!! I told a gamer advocating for bikini armor or something that he should just get a second screen and watch porn while he plays if he’s so fucking horny all the time and it was flagged as “harassment”. It’s only for 7 days so I guess I need to work harder to get a permaban lol.
It is stupid easy to get banned on that platform. There might as well be no rules posted there anymore.
Because all that you have to do is simply express an opinion that’ll hurt someone’s feel-feels and that’s just grounds enough to ban you over.
They’ll only have one rule and it’s “DON’T HURT MUH FEELINGS!”.
I just wish it had more diversity.
Everyone’s a white 40-year-old born male Linux admin in here.I’m a 40-year-old white man? I had no idea
Sorry you had to find out this way
