Now it’s a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)
It’ll take a while for some of the smaller communities to get critical mass. And that’s okay, probably. Critical mass is here for the larger topics already. I’ll do my best to help :)
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i think the idea of ‘lemmy day’ on reddit would be a good one. instead of linking to articles, post on lemmy and link to the lemmy post on reddit.
we did similar to digg all those years ago…
the idea has been floated to do this on August 1st…
Just do it every day if you really want to still be active on Reddit.
So glad I found this place. Here to stay and grow this alternative.
I’m new here. I love Lemmy. It took me a bit to get it working right (issues with the language settings), but now that it is working, I think it’s great. I currently use it on my laptop, but I’m also considering an app for my phone. I found two here on F-Droid, those being Jerboa and lemmur. Does anyone have any opinions on which is the better app?
To answer my own question, I find that lemmur does not work on my phone. So, Jerboa it is.
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but without a steady stream of content, this will not work. I look at “All” every day and I find content to be generally lacking.
We need to be organized and have a game plan for how to proceed over the next 3-6 months. Imo, we need to be scraping the top content from Reddit, and we need to be recreating all of the top subreddit communities.
Honestly, I’m fine with Lemmy staying small for a good bit.
For me, Reddit and now Lemmy are time wasters. I come here to laugh at the memes, catch some news, and maybe see some bobs.
Sometimes news articles don’t have any comments, so I’ll just read the article and maybe add a comment, or just upvote and move on. Some more news content would be nice, and hopefully the local provincial/state and even city groups get some traction soon so I can leave reddit entirely instead of lurking local subreddits without signing in.
I am more than happy for reddit to become a lightning rod for bots and shills now that I have a basic understanding of this platform
I’d rather read a handful of genuine comments, discussion, and opinion/insights from real people on Lemmy than hundreds of divisive comments, bad faith arguments, bots, and irrelevant forum sliding jokes/tangential rants that have polluted reddit.
For sure. The rate of development has skyrocketed the last month or so, and letting Lemmy mature a bit, as well as all the apps under development isn’t a bad thing. I still think it’s a little technical, and I don’t want to sacrifice any of the utility provided by separate instances and federation, so letting things mature a bit should help make things less fiddly for less technically inclined people.
In the meantime, a self-sustaining, engaged, and quality community is better than a large community.
This opinion resonates with me, especially regarding the people on the other end. At this point I’ve nothing but positive experiences with folks here.
I’ve been pretty happy with the content actually, what do you think is missing?
Not the person you asked, but so far it feels like I see more memes here than I did on Reddit. I don’t see a lot of news, and the communities I was subbed to on Reddit are not active here at all. That includes communities based around running, hiking, nature, and female fashion advice for example.
The memes are currently overshadowing a lot of other content types, due to how the hot sorting works. Even if a small community is active, it doesn’t make it to your front page because its votecount doesn’t compete with those of a bigger community.
The “best” sorting type which I hope will come eventually, aims to address this by including one post from each community, before including a second, etc.
This should help small communities which still have activity, to be seen more. Currently, I’m having to go look in smaller communities manually, to see if there are new posts.
I find Top - Day to be my favourite sort, even though Hot is much better. I’ve also subscribed to enough communities that my default is Subscribed + Top - Day or Subscribed + Hot. I’ll often dip over to Local, but rarely All. Only downside of the Top sorts is that the shorter the time span, the higher the ratio of cute animal pics. Scratch that, it’s not a downside.
Point being, that once you have enough active communities subscribed, that seems to be the best. Local is good if you are on an instance that meshes well with your interests.
BTW, I’m on Lemmy.ca, so Local will show me news from across Canada usually.
Using top sort like this is not even close to a solution.
I want to see posts from a community with ten subs, that get ten upvotes, meaning that post was really good for the people it was for.
Top will never show that. It will show posts that got a hundred upvotes first even if that sub has ten thousand users, meaning relatively, it was a worse post.
My point is that I WANT to see content from small less active communities. How else are they supposed to grow? Even my subscriptions are bad, never showing me all that I want to see.
Is there a GitHub issue I can follow for this sorting?
I hear that, yeah the interest-specific communities haven’t caught up yet for sure. A lot of them have only a handful of posts if they do exist.
Definitely a lot of memes, but I feel like I am seeing a good amount of news though? Actually I feel like reddit was getting to be pretty spotty about news, there were a couple weeks I used both and lemmy consistently showed me the headlines much sooner.
I browse in compact mode on memmy and scroll past the memes usually fwiw, so it may just be a matter of my perception
the interest-specific communities haven’t caught up yet for sure
Nor most of the local/regional communities.
I have blocked most of the meme communities and all seems just fine to me now.
This helps, but ideally lemmy should make some changes that give smaller subs more equality with bigger ones in the sorting.
Right now even if a small community is active, it just gets drowned out by the bigger ones, even in your subscription feed.
I think they are working on tweaking the hot sort a bit more to make it more representative so the huge communities don’t drown out the smaller ones especially in subscribed
I am here for the comments, not articles.
I don’t care about articles since it is usually just one person’s opinion. I want discussion with other people, where ideas can be challenged and tested.
Adding links will not help that.
For me, personally, it is good enough right now. I do open reddit sometimes for smaller communities not active here, but if we keep it at this traffic, I will be satisfied.
I dunno… spez isn’t done pissing reddit off yet. He’s got more up his sleeve.
There’s definitely going to be more reddit exoduses. Over the last 10 years, there were several moments where this could’ve happened but there weren’t any viable options (except Voat, but that went to the Nazis 👎). Now that there’s Lemmy, Squabbles, Tildes, etc…, I think people’s appetite for putting up with reddit’s bullshit is a lot less. I think the next big one will be when reddit introduces the new “awards” system in a couple of months.
^ let’s keep building so we get more traction when the next bump hits 😎
Oh well. I’m here to stay, so there’s that.
Just joined and looking forward to it!
Welcome!
Thank you!
