I think it's much less intimidating to new users now compared to when I joined last year. The barrier to entry has been reduced significantly.
There are tons of active communities now, mobile apps that work great (this is a big one), and many more tools to block content that you don't want to see.
there is also more diverse content than the crap that was on here six months ago.
when 50% of the frontpage is linux memes... you're not going to gain the interest of most new users. now it seems to be down to about 20%
I still have no clue how instances work but whatever I'm doing has been working fine for nearly a year
instances are just distinct servers really.
and some of them are purpose/politics specific.
From an end user perspective there's not that much to think about, thankfully.
Basically, it's like having two websites that mirror each other's content. You can sign up for Forum A and be able to read and write posts that users on Forum B can also see. People's names are tagged with the name of the forum they are registered at, but otherwise everything you do and see happens on your own site of choice and there's no difference where it comes from.
If Forum A doesn't like Forum C, but Forum B doesn't mind, Forum A can choose to disconnect from Forum C and hide their users and posts, while Forum B can still see both. It only gets tricky when someone from Forum B makes a post that people from both Forums A and C are in, but all of the posts from C users are invisible to A users.
Did Reddit do something stupid to scare people away again?
AFAIK they didn't. This time we have natural growth
Bots in the build up to the election here in the states?
They have bots roaming the site, banning people, seemingly at random. I went from never having been banned on reddit on a 10 year account, to banned for 3 days twice, and then permanently banned all in the span of a month.
And when did this happen? The week after the IPO went public.
And what kind of messages got me banned? Well one of them was in /r/Cleveland where a guy posted a security camera picture of the guy who stole his bike. I made the comment that the theif looks like a guy who stole MY bike in the early 90s, and that maybe this was his son. Keeping it in the family business.
I was banned for that comment for "Harassment and abuse of reddit users". The action was performed by an AI bot. If I wanted an appeal I could appeal. So I did. It SAID the appeal was handled by a real human. They still sided with the bots decision, which tells me that it wasn't handled by a real person.
So now I'm here. Just don't steal my bike, ok guys?
Hey dude, I've been looking for you for so long, since my Dad stole your bike and that was a turning point in my life, since I made a point of stealing your son's bike.
It is said that this will continue for generations until the seventh son of a seventh son, who'll transform into an upside down toothless vampire who likes garlic.
In order for this prophecy to come true, please ensure all your progeny keeps buying bikes.
PS Welcome to Lemmy!
I made the comment that the theif looks like a guy who stole MY bike in the early 90s, and that maybe this was his son. Keeping it in the family business.
That's hilarious. They don't deserve you.
reddit is about the same in my opintion, but I do see a lot more activity on the lemmy side. I think its a combination of:
Also to @Blaze@reddthat.com Do you know if the sats above take into account the generally banned instances of lemmy? I know that a lot of instances earlier this year decided to become de-federated from the general fediverse. Do you happen to know if the website take into account those servers?
The cracked apps using personal API keys stopped working a few days ago. Already fixed now I think.
I think more people are coming here for my comments and delusions of grandeur.
Yeah I only joined when I saw you had
I mostly joined because of you so, seems very probable
That's why I'm here
Hi I’m new here. My friend has been trying to get me in for ages. The reason I am here is because my Reddit account of 10 years and one of 3 years got permabanned. And it was really for no reason. I tried to make a new account and that also got instantly permabanned. That’s when I found out that my 10year account also got banned. So yeah fuck what happened on Reddit.
I’m really liking lemmy and my iOS app (mlem) and enjoying the community. The only thing I miss from Reddit is the video integration.
What I don't miss from reddit is the bot comments. Not the novelty bots that reply if your comment is in alphabetical order or something like that, but actual chat gpt responses to regular posts or comments.
I have no idea what the point of them is, but they're awful.
Those were getting so out of hand.
u/OP: "What's a good mouse for a mix of productivity and gaming"
u/DefinitelyNotABot: "A good mouse for a mix of productivity and gaming is something you should be looking for if you need a mouse that is good for work and play. A good mouse for productivity and gaming will have a good balance of performance and features. Fortunately, finding a good mouse for a mix of productivity and gaming is not difficult due there being plenty of mouse options available to you[.....]"
I think we are now in a positive cycle:
Hey, ya get what ya pay for. Pay a little money, get a little quality. Pay a LOT of money, get a LOT of quality.
Well, I didn't get paid ANYTHING to be here, so you can imagine the quality of MY posts!
Hey, why did the poop walk into the poop?
To poop to the other poop! :D
See? Just zero quality....
Lemmy will achieve infinite growth. Invest now.
Reddit is getting worse.
Anyone noticed they've added tracking into the url?
They're AI banning more and more people for nonsense.
My perma-banned account still works well enough, I just can't comment or up/downvote. I can still subscribe and use RES.
Been a long time user and my 13 year old account banned because i said something bad about Putin. Deleted all reddit apps, my account's posts and whatnot, and now I'm here. Already digging this site.
I'll never stop complaining about Y axis that don't start at zero.
If that means the change isn't noticable, then the change isn't noticable.
Yeah when I showed the cop the graph of my speed before getting in my car to be 67000mph (speed of the earth around the sun) to 67080mphwhen I was driving it he couldn't see the difference so I didn't get the ticket.
Or sometimes choosing a common-sense reference makes sense.
Which isn't to say THIS one does, it doesn't, but the absolutism of "it's nerf or nothing" is a tad extreme.
I've been here since the API changes at Reddit and the sub blackouts that followed, and I think it's becoming more interesting all the time. Back in the early days there was no point in refreshing the /all feed more than once every 4 hours as it just wouldn't have changed, now it's much more than that. The number of posts with actual discussions are increasing, and other than a few blocked users, communities and one instance, I like the people I'm sharing space with.
Hopefully it's real growth and not just "that guy" creating troll accounts, getting banned, and creating new accounts.
Or this guy: https://thelemmy.club/post/12652265
Activity seems to be up, not just users. It’s also active users, not just accounts
Fuck reddit.
Feeding user data to an LLM. Jacking up API costs. Being generally unusable on mobile. Usurping old.reddit.com to try and force me to the official app on “unmoderated” and NSFW threads.
Now with their IPO and a need to deliver ever increasing subscriber numbers and improved metrics for shareholders every quarter, the writing is on the wall.
I hope it goes to zero. The only sad thing is all the knowledge that will be lost due to the sky high API pricing when the site eventually does sunset. I’m guilty myself of trying to de-enshittify google somewhat by adding reddit to just about every search. Hopefully people smarter than me have ways to archive that info.
I was word of mouthed here yesterday. As someone interested in self hosting and open source i might be the target audience sure, but I am here due to recent news and such
I've been spending my time both here and on Reddit recently, and I've honestly been enjoying it more here. Though I mostly lurk.
probably because reddit just broke the api clients again (including their own app).
That's nice. Hopefully thanks to this outcome. More niche hobbyist community's will appear on lemmy ~~And hopefully less auth left tankies~~ I would like to see more posts and communities that bring more people together and not apart. Arts and crafts,Gaming,music,History,Exercise,Cooking,foraging Essentially the world's the oyster. There's a million hobbies out there I would hope there's a good amount of Lemmy communities based upon those hobbies
It is summer time. Students can now browse the internet more.
I've found I've been blocked on world news for posting comments againts fascist ideas. I've been shadow banned from world news for posting comprehensive evidence of china's crimes against humans aka their concentration camps. It wasn't opinion i linked to studies, and it wasn't inflammatory. My comments were removed and now i can't like or comment.
It's really disturbing ngl. I mean reddit was trash too but i expected some freedom of information here.
Was it the .ml or the .world instance? I had comments deleted for "misinformation" on .ml. It's why I migrated away from .ml because it was only a matter of time before my account was banned.
What happened on March 3rd? (Mass increase in active users)
Oh man, and what happened on April 3rd? (Mass drop in average comments)
Did I miss a meeting where we decided to just have massive shifts on the 3rd of every month? Is something big happening now, am I missing it?
What happened on March 3rd? (Mass increase in active users)
LW updated to 19.3, which counts votes as activity (before, it was only comments and posts)
Beside what is said, sometimes Lemmy appears in search results. It's a factor of growth.
The enshittification will make the numbers rise eventually
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