Life is always preparing for the next cataclysm but fediverse is preparing for corporations hemorrhaging users. I keep looing at numbers and different sources show that there’s a peak in MAU when Elon buys twitter, but then slowly falls over time. I’m curious if anyone has noticed a drop off, or if the peak had some crazy amount of posts and comments?
side note: I’m trying to help build up the fediverse streamer community get the people that want to watch streamer with people that want to watch streamer, but I have only noticed minor improvements. like streamers are connecting with other streamers, and one account has said that they got a boost. nothing to suggest that new members have joined from outside the fediverse streamer.
I sin and still use reddit. Lately I’ve seen an increase of users there suggesting them to come here when unpopular changes are happening to reddit. Those comments are normally quite high up with a lot of discussion surrounding it so I assume it is attracting some of them to come here. When this place has enough content for my feed I’ll eventually ditch reddit but in the meantime I’ll still use both.
I got here from reddit yesterday , so it got me in… still have a ton to learn aboyt lemmy but its nice and cozy and people are not karmafarming or being assholes for sake of engagement
Lemmy has a bit of a learning curve if u come from twatter or facebook , but for a redditor it feels like a nice summer home.
It definitely needs more content but thats why we can make more and do more i guess ? Post memes , have talks , do usual things arround here and more people will come , esp with “buy european” movement promoting lemmy over reddit
I think we all need to learn to be okay with having less content. Makes the platform less addictive and makes us less prone to doom scrolling I think.
I agree with you in principle , but doomscrolling isnt just about having content but its a symptom of something else entirely imo (algorithmic content , people being addicted to slop etc) … more content means more people at the end of the day , and more people means more interesting conversations , posts , interactions etc
Last weekend I used a scrubber to delete every post and comment from my 15 year old Reddit account, then deleted the account, so I’ve finally burned the boats on the move. Lemmy is perfectly fine as it is. It’ll ebb and flow for users, but I’ve been happy for a year here now.
I’m perma banned from Reddit but can obviously still read what goes on and a funny thing has happened: since I can reply or react I’ve become less emotional in response and started going through users profiles and the amount of bots has become obvious.
It’s a blessing in disguise. Reddit is actually Facebook of the more “left” of the internet now.
It’s all imploding on us that lean left while the right seem to have no idea they’re interacting with bots and shills
i actually believe lemmy should cross post to reddit, just so redditors can get exposure to lemmy. I got banned off of reddit years ago so I have little idea whats going on over there, i just see on lemmy that reddit has used ai based bots for moderating. I’m pretty much thinking of niche things to build up to help produce more content
I disagree. I tried to cross post to the silos for 11 years https://jeena.net/notes/1 and I couldn’t move anyone to an alternative platform. Cross posting only legitimizes the other platform and gives them free content to exploit.
Idk how you exploit content. It’s ussually the creators that get exploited. The idea is you put the content out there and put an impression on people so eventually they start thinking about them think about comming to Lemmy. I got nothing if you don’t want to support x or twitter by crossposting from Lemmy.
I still say Lemmy/fediverse needs to build more niches community’s up more than it needs to market so that way people stick around or engage more, so people don’t drop off the platform from boredom
