And I haven’t browsed Reddit in all that time. I’ll admit to Google taking me there, but I spent no time nor comments there.
Its fascinating to me how wonderful the discussion quality and attitude have remained… but its weird that the userbase isnt growing. maybe those of you that are lucky enough to have cool people in your lives should mention it?
I recently pinned the Fediverse poster on my memo board. Hope my colleagues will find it interesting and join it.
I don’t have any data to meaningfully back it up but I will trust my gut and the things I have read from people here.
There is some significant amount of users here that fully / mostly abandoned social media and pretty often are in some kind of a post-reddit-lurker limbo, plus their age is around “I have a partner / family / job / hobbies / things in life I care more about than passionately posting / moderating online”.
My blind shot is that this group would be the growing / fresh part of lemmysphere but they just don’t feel the urge to go for another reddit-type experience as most often than not it was a shit show in the worst case and time consuming endless void sprinkled with really mixed quality content in the best case scenario. Plus you can lurk hard here without even making an account, with quite healthy approach, somewhere around “I don’t care about voting or commenting but let’s just check what is happening”.
What I would like to see evolving here is posts lifespans so they could properly aggregate the answers, responses or votes. Something like “follow this post / inform me about new comments”.
There is some significant amount of users here that fully / mostly abandoned social media and pretty often are in some kind of a post-reddit-lurker limbo, plus their age is around “I have a partner / family / job / hobbies / things in life I care more about than passionately posting / moderating online”.
Probably. I’m always surprised by the lack of activity on !parenting@lemmy.world, but I guess most parents are probably busing actually parenting
That perfectly describes me. I don’t touch Reddit, got off FB and Instagram years ago, never had Twitter, etc. Lemmy is the only thing I use now, I subscribe to a few dozen communities that get maybe 15 new posts a day combined. If I’m in the mood to waste time on here I’ll see the new posts and hide them as I go. When they run out I’m done for the day. I won’t act like it’s the right move for everyone, but for me personally cutting my social media (or similar) internet usage down to around half an hour a day max has made me a lot happier.
Hell no. It’s embarrassing as fuck to recommend Lemmy to anyone you know. It’s still fairly shit imo.
I wouldn’t say “shit” but rather niche. Most people who would love a Reddit-like place have Reddit and don’t hate it enough to switch, especially since we don’t have extensive hobby communities with long history.
Yeah “shit” is somewhat of an exaggeration.
My problems with Lemmy are mainly:
- Few users
- Few communities
- Few posts
- Few comments
- Extremely focused on just a couple of topics like Linux, Communism, Star Trek, LGBTQ (nothing against Linux or LGBTQ though) variation is desperately needed
- Extremely filter bubbly.
variation is desperately needed
I blocked most of those topics, then other stuff starts to appear
We have cake icons here too?!
The default UI does.
Although keep in mind that it has a bug which means that the cake icon actually appears a day before your actual cake day, because 2024 is a leap year 😅
Thunder just added them in anticipation of all the birthdays coming up from the June/July migration (but the feature isn’t in a release yet).
