Now it’s a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)
It’ll take a while for some of the smaller communities to get critical mass. And that’s okay, probably. Critical mass is here for the larger topics already. I’ll do my best to help :)
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but without a steady stream of content, this will not work. I look at “All” every day and I find content to be generally lacking.
We need to be organized and have a game plan for how to proceed over the next 3-6 months. Imo, we need to be scraping the top content from Reddit, and we need to be recreating all of the top subreddit communities.
I’ve been pretty happy with the content actually, what do you think is missing?
Not the person you asked, but so far it feels like I see more memes here than I did on Reddit. I don’t see a lot of news, and the communities I was subbed to on Reddit are not active here at all. That includes communities based around running, hiking, nature, and female fashion advice for example.
I have blocked most of the meme communities and all seems just fine to me now.
The memes are currently overshadowing a lot of other content types, due to how the hot sorting works. Even if a small community is active, it doesn’t make it to your front page because its votecount doesn’t compete with those of a bigger community.
The “best” sorting type which I hope will come eventually, aims to address this by including one post from each community, before including a second, etc.
This should help small communities which still have activity, to be seen more. Currently, I’m having to go look in smaller communities manually, to see if there are new posts.
I hear that, yeah the interest-specific communities haven’t caught up yet for sure. A lot of them have only a handful of posts if they do exist.
Definitely a lot of memes, but I feel like I am seeing a good amount of news though? Actually I feel like reddit was getting to be pretty spotty about news, there were a couple weeks I used both and lemmy consistently showed me the headlines much sooner.
I browse in compact mode on memmy and scroll past the memes usually fwiw, so it may just be a matter of my perception
Did you have a look at Reddit lately? The content quality is shit. Personally I find much more interesting stuff on Lemmy atm.
Honestly, I’m fine with Lemmy staying small for a good bit.
For me, Reddit and now Lemmy are time wasters. I come here to laugh at the memes, catch some news, and maybe see some bobs.
Sometimes news articles don’t have any comments, so I’ll just read the article and maybe add a comment, or just upvote and move on. Some more news content would be nice, and hopefully the local provincial/state and even city groups get some traction soon so I can leave reddit entirely instead of lurking local subreddits without signing in.
I am more than happy for reddit to become a lightning rod for bots and shills now that I have a basic understanding of this platform
I’d rather read a handful of genuine comments, discussion, and opinion/insights from real people on Lemmy than hundreds of divisive comments, bad faith arguments, bots, and irrelevant forum sliding jokes/tangential rants that have polluted reddit.
For sure. The rate of development has skyrocketed the last month or so, and letting Lemmy mature a bit, as well as all the apps under development isn’t a bad thing. I still think it’s a little technical, and I don’t want to sacrifice any of the utility provided by separate instances and federation, so letting things mature a bit should help make things less fiddly for less technically inclined people.
In the meantime, a self-sustaining, engaged, and quality community is better than a large community.
I agree, there needs to be a plan for content. But I disagree on the means.
I disagree with reposting Reddit. If content isn’t unique, people will just go to Reddit. Repeating memes is one thing (it’s fun and nostalgic), but wholesale content duplication will just lead to drowning the signal to noise ratio.
We could autopopulate some content. That only works if the comment traffic is there too, or it’s just shouting into the void. For example: it doesn’t help to have a bot posting Reuters articles automatically to c/news if no one is interacting.
I plan to make a utility for myself to help with my own content. I really want to see c/printSF take off, for example, so I’m going to do my best there. But I can’t do it for every community I want to see haha :)
People will only go back to Reddit if the user experience is better, and right now the only remaining Reddit app is a dumpster fire.
I agree that their app sucks. But Lemmy also has a lot of rough edges (particularly a lack of good mod tools).
Also, if you believe reddit’s released numbers, only 3% of their users even used third party apps. So maybe their app sucks, but the users are oblivious and will keep using it.
I am here for the comments, not articles.
I don’t care about articles since it is usually just one person’s opinion. I want discussion with other people, where ideas can be challenged and tested.
Adding links will not help that.
For me, personally, it is good enough right now. I do open reddit sometimes for smaller communities not active here, but if we keep it at this traffic, I will be satisfied.
How bout we not recreate the shit hole that is reddit. I can not express the relief I felt when I got out. You can’t make me go back!
Let’s focus on growing the niche communities we have instead copying other sites.
I absolutely understand and appreciate the sentiment, but we should not try to deny our origin story. Reddit was great for a long time there is much we can still learn from it.
That’s the nostalgia talking. You’d had to browse for hours to find a couple of good posts. You only remember the good ones.
I dunno… spez isn’t done pissing reddit off yet. He’s got more up his sleeve.
There’s definitely going to be more reddit exoduses. Over the last 10 years, there were several moments where this could’ve happened but there weren’t any viable options (except Voat, but that went to the Nazis 👎). Now that there’s Lemmy, Squabbles, Tildes, etc…, I think people’s appetite for putting up with reddit’s bullshit is a lot less. I think the next big one will be when reddit introduces the new “awards” system in a couple of months.
Congrats in weathering the brunt! It’s been very exciting watching. However, I suspect it won’t be the last or largest wave.
Looks good to me so far. Slow growth means less work for admins and lower server cost. Lemmy has delivered more memorable moments over the last few weeks than Reddit has over the last few years. 🙌
Well shit, now Lemmy is officially dead /s
