The experience that I love isn’t Reddit but the one that I get with Boost. Lemmy is growing and there are some subs I miss from Reddit but the number is constantly decreasing.
Seconded, and very appreciative that Boost was ported over.
Until the drama on Reddit started I had never heard of Lemmy, but I knew reddit was becoming increasingly hostile towards its users and the content more and more bot reposts instead of new ones.
Lemmy seems to have kept a lot of the things I used to enjoy about reddit, but for now is smaller and more personal interactions on posts and within communities. It reminds me a lot of the old phpbb/vbulletin days when communities were smaller and more tight knit than Facebook/Twitter/Reddit ever were.
Same but sync! Crazy the difference a good app can make! I have boost installed but I’m already diehard for my own app, so don’t really use it 😅
How does Boost differ to Liftoff. I use the latter and it’s pretty good I miss the old Reddit is Fun layout though.
Is Lemmy actually growing? Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see it, but it feels and seems like things are slowing down a bit recently.
Edit: Sorry hit the button too quick lol. If you click on Lemmy you’ll be able to see the stats for various instances, its been basically constantly growing, can’t speak as to quality lol.
Edit: Nerp, I derp’d.
That’s the fediverse though, ~80% of which is Mastodon. Lemmy itself has been in decline recently (Screenshot).
After an explosive growth (I think that’s always how things go), but still, recently it hasn’t been growing.
I don’t want to make it sound like the Lemmy situation is rosier than it is, but considering how sharply users dropped off, say, Threads… I think Lemmy is doing alright. There are a number of factors that might contribute to user counts dropping, but mostly it’s unavoidable when you have a sharp uptick of anything. I think accounts and activity are going to flatten and then start trending back upward. If Reddit keeps fucking around, that’ll definitely bring more people in and this cycle will repeat. I’m actually fairly pleased with how many people have been sticking around on Lemmy.
Yeah honestly wasn’t compulsively opening lemmy like I used to with Reddit until the familiar boost logo and interface appeared. Now it’s been back to sit on the toilet and immediately open up boost. It’s a great app but I feel like I need to not use it lol.
