this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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Its still early. This is the first time there has been a legitimate alternative to reddit and thats honestly only because 3rd party apps like sync have made it usable.
Reddit started when Digg changed its site and everyone went to reddit. There has also been multiple attempts to leave reddit, but no similar alternatives. Now there is a good alternative and there will be more things reddit does that will make people look for alternatives.
But the Reddit switch happened fairly quick. And there was content doesn't seem to be the same with Lemmy. It's all just memes and complaining about Reddit. Most of the communities I followed are a couple posts a day now and some are dead now.
I'm experiencing the same thing, so I've been doing the following:
The preponderance of Lemmy users are currently disenfranchised former redditors (myself included) who have been able to figure out the fediverse. Memes and complaint discussions are relatively easy content to produce, and Linux/FOSS posts just come with the territory when a user base is technically savvy. No complaints on this front from me, however!
Really the only communities I'm currently missing are posts from my fellow JDM and German car enthusiasts and a few podcast communities.
What are your interests?
Sync did not do shit. Us OGs made this platform free of right wingers, 4channers, prevented raids, worked on sign up systems, and so on. Lemmy is also lean to self host and run.
I am not a developer, but I can count on hand 5-10 people besides me, that were not admins, that help in various ways like stopping trolls and raids, moderation, advising on every single thing that is wrong with Lemmy, and so on.
The biggest problem with every single reddit alternative to date, apart from Lemmy, has been the "freezepeach" trope aggregating the same kinds of dogshit extremist users nobody wants to interact with. This is why I never adopted any alternative platform before this, and this is why I was sent by someone to support Lemmy 3 years ago. Bunch of us made Lemmy what it is today. I am proud of it.