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Where they at tho?
We all know there’s barely enough people here. It’s not unusable, but there are so few people it’s always the same users posting and commenting, and it can be a bit dead occasionally.
I’m committed to the fediverse, but we could do with another big push from people dumping Reddit. Part of that would also rely on us (🫵) not being obnoxious towards the potential new users 👀
I think a lot of the refugees from Reddit are lurkers.
Hehehehe.... lurk lurk
Lurkmore
Lurkmore who?
Lurkmore balls.
I heard it's something like 90% of people lurk, 10% of people comment, 1% of people post. So you need a pretty substantial population just to have enough posts and comments for the lurkers to still hang around.
It's also why it was particularly dumb of Reddit to piss off their 1% and 10%.
You really gonna call me out like that, homeslice?
And now I know your exact age, homeskillet.
Well, this is awkward, I'm in my 20's.
Personal experience bets gen x.
46 years old. I'll take the over for a pack of garbage pail kids.
Can confirm. I don't talk much lol.
When I was a kid in the 70s, a lurker was a turd that had failed to flush away properly. As in : "Dad left a big beefy lurker in the toilet again." How language changes.
I think it still means that too
It's a hard habit to break
It's just a bad habit for me really. I'm so used to reddit immediately slaughtering anyone who doesn't conform with the hivemind even though Lemmy isn't like that
Yep, I’m part of the problem. Was super active on Reddit, dumped them, then just don’t really have the energy of fucks anymore to create content or comment really; it’s a shame…
They're on Mastodon and Misskey for the most part.
Wait what's Misskey?
It’s a Mastodon type microblogging service but I think I read it’s popular in Japan and South Korea.
Just how many are there for micro blogging? I saw pleroma and akkoma too.
There must be a dozen or so Misskey forks. I know of Sharkey, Firefish, and Iceshrimp.
On this end we also have Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, Piefed, and I think one or two more
Basically bloated mastodon
There are a lot of forks of Misskey which are more popular in the "West". I recommend you to have a look at Firefish, Iceshrimp, Catodon or Sharkey. Firefish used to gain a lot of traction but there was some personal drama going on with the original maintainer, causing the project to feel unmaintained for a while. Luckily the do have a new maintainer now. Anyway partially due to this problem some folk like the former community manager created a new fork Catodon. Iceshrimp also another direct fork of Firefish. So a bit of trivia from the FOSS Mastodon world. In the you might as well just use Mastodon if you are fine with the UI. But I love that we have so much variety in the FOSS ActivityPub World.
Lemmy is only 4% of the fediverse by user %. Most of the fediverse is Mastodon.
I don't get why people like the microblig format. It's so terrible for anything more than snarky quips.
I've got a mastodon account. The people I follow don't mark snarky quips. Instead, they post updates of things they are making (music, games, and comics mostly); and they share photos that they've taken, and links and comments to news that they find interesting. Compared to Lemmy, it's more personal, because when you respond you are talking directly to a person that you are likely to talk to again.
Mastodon doesn't use a personalised algorithm. So your home feed will only show hashtags and people that you follow. (There is an 'explore' feed for seeing other stuff that might be 'trending' or whatever.) So if you are seeing too many snarky quips - just unfollow the person making them.
You can do all that same stuff on Lemmy/reddit, except the comments are actually organized and readable. Trying to read a continuous comment thread on Twitter is such a pain.
For years Reddit and Twitter were coexisting peacefully and it should be clear for everyone by now that each format has its pros and cons and they are used for different purposes. Was is a bit interesting though is that the active users gap between Mastodon and Lemmy seems to be much higher than it was/is with the corporate originals.
A lot of the thousands of Reddit comments per post were variations of ‘this!’ or inane joke responses, and I don’t miss that at all. It’s not the quantity, but the quality, and I’ve found discussions here to be more like Reddit’s early days when comment threads were more worthwhile.
But if you’re looking for the Reddit experience, I’ll help:
Came here to say this.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.
Username checks out
This deserves more upvotes.
I’d give you gold if I could.
Shots fired.
Nailed it.
You. I like you.
Tree fiddy.
You had one job.
That’s enough internet for today.
Happy cake day! 🎂
I have the weirdest boner right now.
Directions unclear.
Banana for scale.
5/7 with rice.
Mom’s spaghetti.
I laughed harder than I should have.
Sauce?
Someone give this man gold.
Circlejerk is leaking.
This was not my proudest fap.
What did I just read?
Risky click.
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(☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞
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¯_(ツ)_/¯
You dropped this: \
Woosh!
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Take my upvote
Aw hell no
End thread.
Lmao. Yo. Do it again :)
You comment is absolutely hilarious. I never realized how much of reddit consists of these empty shells.
To me that line appears to be heading up. I just joined a few days ago!
Welcome!
I don't mind the idea of seeing the same user around. Feels more community centered
Isn't the stat that like 95% of users only lurk? You're measuring this by posters, not users, if you're going by who you see post and comment.
Can we still be obnoxious to the old users?
As per the website there are around 900 active ~~users~~ servers on lemmy I recently joined the fediverse both lemmy and mastodon and tbh lemmy is more active. Mastodon is just an echo chamber only bots are reposting from reddit and twitter.
I believe that's 900 active servers, not users.
Yeah my bad. Just checked again MAU are ~38k
https://join-lemmy.org/instances says that there are 41k monthly active users.
Shut up jerk. I’m very welcoming to new users. Old users on the other hand…
I bet half of them are Facebook's Threads.