Hi all! I used to be a daily r/selfhosted lurker and a bit active user. Since the Reddit saga I thought that r/selfhosted would be one of the first and bigger community to move to Lemmy due to the IT knowledge of all of their users and the sensitivity about self host/privacy/open source, but I see that not only the community is still all there, but it’s rising. :( That really makes me sad. How can we convince the mods there to move people here? Is it allowed to talk about Lemmy on Reddit or do we risk of being banned?

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The fediverse keeps sabotaging itself with instances defederating left and right, that way it’ll never become an alternative regular user would want to join.

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Defederation isn’t sabotage. It’s a feature for healthy communities. Anyone that is interested in discussions on either defederated community, will create an account for both.

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Anyone that is interested in discussions on either defederated community, will create an account for both.

And that is the reason why reddit is still growing. If you are required to make multiple accounts just to engage with the communities you want to engage with, Lemmy is no better than separate forums. And those all got overshadowed by reddit for a reason.

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Lazy users is why Reddit blotted out individual forums.

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I still like individual forums and use them on occasion. For me, the reason why Reddit was better is because of the UI. The default phpBB skin is awful for following a dialog in my opinion; Reddit’s much more compact threads free of annoying signature blocks and giant user profile panels is much nicer. Personally I’d be perfectly happy to go back to the days of individual forum accounts if the forums had nice UIs like Reddit or Lemmy. Even Flarum is an example of a traditional forum software with a decent UI. The big missing thing though is threaded conversation which I much prefer over a flat forum, something that Lemmy offers.

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Honestly, for anyone not particularly tech literate it’s a bit confusing. It’s got Lemmy in the name. It’s the same UI. Most are going to wonder why they’re suddenly logged out or why they need another account. It’s not intuitive if it’s not something you’re particularly used to.

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it is good.

the scum stays in the puddle of mud. just like ppl still being on fb or twitter…they create nothing new. and so is r/selfhosted …they will repeat their stacks over and over again. it’s like asking people for advice on music…on myspace in 2023.

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Oh come on, that’s not true and you know it. There’s still good people there (in r/selfhosted) posting good stuff.

Edit: specified that I’m talking about r/selfhosted and not MySpace.

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because the drain has just started maybe?

oooor, imagine this: they are just nice and yet create nothin new?

when was the last good music recommendation you found on myspace? maybe there are still good music things on but nobody gives a fuck and those still using myspace,fb or r/selfhostes are just pathetic and keep riding a dead horse.

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when was the last good music recommendation you found on myspace

I was still talking about r/selfhosted!

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Why would you care about getting banned from Reddit?

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Because Lemmy has about 0.something % of the users that Reddit has and I still find useful some subreddit.

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Stop obsessing about Reddit and create a content on Lemmy instead. People will come once they see there’s enough activity here.

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It’s not an obsession! Simply if all the good poster/commenter that are there would come here, this place would be better!

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11 points

I am not a good boi?

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6 points

Be the change you want to see.

You thought they were the leaders. They’re the followers, staying near the crowd.

Building communities is hard and takes time.

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The OP has double the posts you do?

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10 points

It’s still a correct statement

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This is the third ng. Fuck reddit. Just post and it’s all G

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22 points

Exactly. Chill out. It’s not a competition.

Just hang out and enjoy the community.

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Yah but that seems to be what lemmy is turning out to be and I don’t see it being sustainable.

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I’d prefer if we stopped bringing up Reddit altogether. We no longer use the platform, we should be happy with what we have here instead of constantly peeping into the neighbor’s garden.

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Soon.

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