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The Lemmy user base passed 150,000 in total users.
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I really hope the momentum holds and the numbers will continue to grow!
I'm really excited to be here, Lemmy feels like reddit in the golden years (long gone).
agreed, I have found that interacting with content here has been more meaningful and the interactions to be more welcoming. Happy weekend to you!
I completely agree! And I don't think we've really started to see people leave reddit yet, that'll happen when the 3PAs stop working
Lemmy gives me that new frontier feeling. Win 98SE times was the last time i felt it.
Neat, anyone else having problems upvoting anything? I try but it just goes right back down.
From my experience it's just not showing on your end but after a while it updates the votes
yeah, just a little buggy sometimes
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Are we allowing emojis here? If so just another reason for people to flee Reddit
Are we allowing emojis here?
You need permission to use emojis? π€
Oh, you mean in the sense that βemojis = downvotesβ on Reddit. I still used them on Reddit anyway. π€·ββοΈ
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Edit: jk I misinterpreted I thought you were raging about them lmfao
I need to grow up
I don't care much about the emoji option, but the ability to add an image to a reply without having to do it manually through imgur etc is something I've wanted for years!
Lemmy is far less mature than reddit but at least its still improving and growing
The most important is to keep up the momentum. Users don't mean anything if there's no content. We all need to keep posting stuff and keep actively disucsing stuff!
Lemmy has a lot of obstacles that will prevent it from truly going mainstream:
The community browser is complete dog shit for discovering content on different instances, and trying to view another instance's content from your own community is just needlessly complex. Discoverability is still a lot better than Mastodon though, where you'd look at all post and see nothing but hentai reposting bots regurgitating stuff that isn't even allowed on NSFWLemmy...
Due to the nature of federation, you also run the risk of committing to an instance only for them to defederate entirely, or disassociate from content you want to see but they don't agree with. Beehaw is a very good example of this.
As there's no option (yet) to migrate to a different instance, and Lemmy is a FOSS project that cannot be monetized in the same way as a traditional social media site, what happens when instances start shutting down due to being unable to keep up with server hosting costs?
I cannot speak for the iOS option available, but Jerboa is barebones. For example, you can't even tap on a post/comment reply in your inbox to go to that comment's permalink and view the context. This is incredibly basic functionality for any social news aggregator. Even with the fediverse in general surpassing 150,000 users, I don't see Lemmy getting the same level of third-party app support as Reddit had.
These are all valid complaints, but I feel like you need to put this into perspective. This platform has blown up in the last week, change is going to come but itβs going to take some time. Iβm sure it will go faster now that it is really taking off though.
These concerns are valid.
Some are transitory however - 1, 3 and 4 all reflect the current state of Lemmy and the similar Kbin are in currently. The Reddit issues were unexpected and people have migrated en masse to Lemmy/Kbin and have found was is in many ways Alpha software. This issues will mostly be resolved with time, and that is probably accelerated now as more people means more people interested in development, and motivated by anger at Reddit. I don't think Lemmy/Kbin will replace Reddit right now, but I think a new trajectory has been set. Communities are hitting critical mass to keep growing.
Look at Mastodon, it's at 1.2m-2m active users each month; it is still small fry and niche compared to Twitter but it exploded thanks to Twitter's mess, and is growing. I think we're seeing something similar with Lemmy and Kbin, but this is just the start of a long road and an expanded community will accelerate improvement and growth.
But point 2 is fundamental to the fediverse - fragmentation due to defederating could be a concern. I get Beehaw's motivation but I think their actions will consign them to a niche part of the Fediverse, but that may be what they want. Ultimately I suspect the biggest servers will dominate a main interconnected fediverse through sheer size and notoriety - new servers will need to federate to the big players to grow. It's not necessairly a bad thing - but people may end up signed up to a "main" large interconnected "fediverse" and separately to smaller niche communities they're interested in but sitting in their own walled gardens/bubbles. It's not necessairly a bad thing though - it is just different to what people are used to with social media like Reddit. It'll be a trade off - servers and communities have complete independence and some will go for what suits them - part of a big fediverse or only federating to smaller aligned communities.
I'm sure there's no way to tell, but I wonder how many are duplicate accounts to span different instances.
I think the best way to judge success is to look at the overall engagement and that one is very high.
You could probably find some ways to get a few of em but i don't know.
You shouldn't really need more than one or two accounts tho. Talking from kbin :)
I'm doing my part!
I'm commenting to boost engagement!
I'm upvoting quality content
I'm just clicking on things because I honestly have no idea what is going on
Reddit killing 3rd party apps can be a blessing in disguise.
No kidding, I definitely prefer the lemmy experience. Obviously needs some polish, it'll come. (once again guilting myself into digging into the code)
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I would like it if lemmy had near the numbers of reddit (although i dont think that will happen), but the userbase is already big and diverse enough to sustain some good communities that have an (imo) better feeling to them than reddit.
PCGaming said this is the place to be, so I'm here. But why do I need to go to list > Subscribed to see the content I followed? Why isn't the stuff I want to see the default home page? I shouldn't have to go to settings and change the default to Subscriptions.
Because there's no preselected default subscriptions like with Reddit. If it defaulted to subscribed when you make an account, then the first thing you would see is nothing. By defaulting to all, it allows you new users to see all that's available, and once you find a decent amount of interesting communities and subscribe to them, then it makes sense for you to manually change your default to subscribed at your discretion.
The first thing I did after creating an account here was to go to Settings and find the setting to change that. And I mean at least that option exists and is easy to find. My guess is that the feature of suggesting "subs" after creating an account does not exist yet and just showing an empty feed is not that great.
I think the main reason for that design decision was due to the small user base in the past.
Anxiously awaiting the next version release!
Yup finally seeing a lot of good conversations now. Which was really always the best part of Reddit.
