It happen to me, pixelfed, dedicated networks about history... And nothing happen... And I'm about of 3 years active in fediverse
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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dedicated networks about history
What are those?
historians.social
Yep
Do you guys feel like the federation hurts Lemmy?
Like I see its benefits, but for an average user, the feel of Lemmy as an app is less intuitive than reddit
Lemmy currently has 45k monthly active users: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Centralized alternatives:
- Discuit has less than 250: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/9JPo3q0m
- Tildes doesn't have numbers, but based on activity, it seems similar to Discuit
- Blue Dwarf has 50
There was a thread yesterday on /r/RedditAlternatives talking about "how do you attract users to a new alternatives", most of the comments where about how difficult it is: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1g4zcdi/for_those_of_you_who_started_your_own_alternative/
Based on this, I would say that Lemmy allowing everyone to open a server helps in that regard. Instance admins are more confident in the platform as they have control on this. Users trust admins.
Ya I definitely donβt wanna take away from what Lemmy has accomplished
Itβs definitely the best alternative to Reddit that I have seen. But the federation does add another way of complexity that I wasnβt used to coming from Reddit. Whenever I join a new community now, they may be across different federations and it seems like the popularity of these communities almost compete with each other, which detracts from having a big user-based community to ask questions to
I do, but only because the UX around federated entities isn't great at the moment. There's no doubt that it could be made way more intuitive and streamlined for the average user, and that more effort could be put into migration between federated entities so that it doesn't feel like as much of a chore to jump between instances. The average user won't care about federation, and they just want to quickly get some content.
migration between federated entities so that it doesnβt feel like as much of a chore to jump between instances.
Migration takes two clicks from the account settings, are you referring to something else?
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 [email protected] and [email protected] 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.
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'd love a more active sports area. I comment semi regularly in a few. There is small engagement, but would love even 10-15% more.
movies
TV
sport
[email protected] (not sure what you like)
Did you have a look at [email protected] and https://lemmyverse.net/communities ?
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 β 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.
Did you have a look at [email protected] and https://lemmyverse.net/communities ?
What are your interests?
I've been using this account for over a year since the Rexodus. Haven't had this disinterest problem. Do I wish there were more users, sure, but it takes time. Work on making this place great and they will continue to move here. Create, mod, or just post to a niche community.
It just takes time. More passionate posters will come. Reddit is mostly ai-generated at this point.
I wish more technically focused communities had a real home here. I'll google something, and see that the project I'm working on has a dedicated subreddit where someone asked my question. Wish I could see lemmy in my search results.
There is no guarantee that there will be more posters. This place might very well disappear in a few years.
Doubtful. Individual instances, yes, but lemmy overall? No.
Even when I left reddit a year ago, most accounts on the front page were reposts bots. If you spent more than a year or two on reddit, you realize everything on the front page is recycled content.
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!".
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