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Really? I left on blackout day and haven't been back. I thought that was normal.
Meeh, I visit it cuz of the NSFW subs, but that's about it.
Fair
Yeah that is the also reason for me. My other fav subs already come to lemmy (FMHY, Android, Piracy)
Likewise, I'm into tech, and most moved here, so... here is OK now 👍.
I haven't been back since RIF went down
Same here. I stopped the day of the blackout and stayed off. It sucked, but I figured it was better in the long run. And when Apollo went down it wasn’t like I was going to download the fucking app of theirs.
Since June 12th it’s been nothing until about a week and a half ago, when it’s been Lemmy only.
Lemmy doesn't have nearly enough people to be worth using as the only platform people are on unless you never engaged with any niche subreddits. I was pretty active on subs where only like 100 people participated, so finding things like that on Lemmy are impossible. Lemmy is only decent for tech people at this point, it needs to get a tremendous amount of extra people joining to be good enough for anyone else to drop Reddit entirely. And even then, lots of info exists on Reddit and nowhere else that still make it a useful tool for other purposes.
Sorry I just don't buy that a large portion of people are already using Lemmy and nothing else (you might be, idk) unless they only care about memes of beans and nothing else.
I lol'd to myself three separate times before I moved on from this comment.
Make it four.
I didn't say you did? Weird response.
Relax
I loved my small community subreddits, which is why I'm trying to grow them here. Reddit has shown that it doesn't care about its users, which means that sooner or later those small subs will need to go elsewhere or be trapped on a site that just continues to get worse for its users. If you actually care about the communities you're a part of, and not just about the content they produce for you, then help grow and uphold them here.
I don't have anywhere close to enough time to actually be the person who starts and moderates communities. If enough people start them and start participating in them then I'll start participating again, but "be the change" only works when people have free time to do it. I would love for Lemmy to take off, don't get me wrong, but all I was saying is that it hasn't yet and the claim people try to make here that it's already good enough to replace Reddit is pure cope.
I just don't understand what you mean by "good enough to replace Reddit." Reddit is a space for a community to grow, one that has shown itself to be toxic.
When you have a farm and find the soil to be toxic, you don't keep growing new crops on it, you start over in a fresh field with new seeds that grow into a new farm. Yes, your yield will be significantly smaller for a good long time at first, but that's just the effort required to keep a healthy farm.
That's what's "good enough to replace Reddit," and why Reddit itself isn't good enough anymore; it's not about the content the community makes, it's about the safety and the security of the space in which the community grows. The content is just the byproduct of that growth.
As for what you can do to help it grow, sure, most people can't run their own community - myself included. But if you have the time to comment on this post, you have time to comment on a post from a growing community with only a couple active users, and maybe make a post every so often.
That simple effort means now that community has a third active user, which paves the way for a fourth, and fifth, and so on. It's not hours worth of work, it's really just the same effort you've already shown in this one thread.
But you do have enough time to assume that your personal opinion on a matter speaks about everyone's else. It doesn't.
Chill out, I never said it did.
While I disagree with the other commenter's position, wtf are you on about? So posting about your opinion is trying to speak for everyone else now?
It's good enough for me, and apparently others. And his replies reek of /iamverysmart
Despite sixteen years as an active user, Reddit is dead to me. Even the subreddits I miss because there aren’t as active related communities here (yet) aren’t worth using that fucking app.
Exactly
I was actively involved in a lot of niche subreddits including modding some. But yeah I haven’t been back since the blackout. Idk if I will ever be I always assume I might but the desire keeps waning. I’ve been reading books and writing more actually.
Unfortunately I still have to use Reddit for D&D stuff, otherwise I'd be able to switch more easily. Also the subreddits I used to be able to browse for hours just don't exist here so I can only basically get on Lemmy for maybe 5 minutes at a time before I'm bored and have to close it. Maybe it'll continue to grow and get better in the future; here's hoping.
I'm all in on Lemmy, and I think it's pretty common
I think you should try shopping around on different servers - sorting by all on a server that matches your interests is pretty great
Mostly use it as quora now. Google takes me there, i don’t always remember to use cached version
I used RIF up until the moment it stopped working. Literally reading posts, refreshed and... nothing.
I'm not deleting my account purely because I hope that they realise they are burning down the house to stay warm and reverse course. There were some great niche subs that just arent here yet.
I've left the first moment Apollo went down, and I deleted the account I had for 11 years. I'm not caving in. Fuck that site.
I removed all of my history and left when they announced the API day.
I've been back a few times from Google searches looking for a specific data on things that don't exist elsewhere.
I poked around a little today to see what the temperatures like, feels like it's at least 2/3 more toxic, course it could just be The first people out were the least tolerant of toxicity.