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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I’m pretty new, but I like it here. It feels bigger than 54k MAU, probably because everyone is really active.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I completely agree!

Posting/commenting on Reddit largely feels like a waste of time to me if it’s not something big and attention grabbing. I would get zero people to interact for days, while on Lemmy I usually get a reply within a few hours if I have a question about a post.

Of course this isn’t evidence of anything, but I feel that it’s because Lemmy hasn’t been flooded with bots (yet? Hopefully never).

[–] [email protected] 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us.

I am one of the proud new users, and this is great to see!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago

Welcome! It feels fresh to not be on a big tech platform.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

I'm beyond thrilled! can't wait to see some of my favorite communities spring up here.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Its still a shame that I will never recommend this place to anyone I know until the community changes here.

Its a bit chicken and the egg cause we likely need one for the other. But with the users proclivity for bans, and blocks you end up with a user base even smaller and discussion that more feels like a battle to be right most of the time because intellectual superiority is looked up to rather than conversation.

I still think a community of people competing to be the most right in every comment section does not lead to actual community and doesn't even help provide facts or info to most communities when there are not many niches to which people in here can participate in. Objective facts work best not in fandoms but in crafts. Like what glue doesn't melt Styrofoam when doing prop building not which show or game is best.

I may be alone in this but I yearn for "the normies".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

Me too, but I still prefer this place to reddit. I have the same exact gripe: those that must be the most right. I've just found a lot more of them on reddit than lemmy. I have lost count of the amount of times I start to write something on reddit, then imagine how someone somewhere, from some angle, can decide to be offended if they want to, then just delete the comment. It definitely happens on lemmy too, it's just in my experience it has happened less here, so I have been more willing to type out comments here. It really sucks that this has not been your experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

this is a problem with fediverse in general imho.

the tools admins and users have are blunt (defederate or block). with all sorts of content moderation policies and opinions you will inevitably end up either alienated from everyone or surrounded by people that think and talk just like you.

fediverse does offer many advantages... creating a better online "town square" is just not going to be one of them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

I have this insane thought that shorter bans but publicly stated when/why/how-long would be more beneficial to keeping a community aligned when it's all we got. And that it would be harder to abuse and give insight into mods efforts.

But yeah I have said to others I intend to use it more as a link aggregator by effort but not community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Tool development is one of the things that we're going to have to go that. Thankfully Creative Energy being poured into server software and apps is something that's already happening quite natural even that small user base numbers

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

a community of people competing to be the most right in every comment section

I think this depends highly on the type of community. (Although clearly I'm doing it to you right now. Sorry.)

Highly political topics and such are the worst, probably. But others where people come because of a shared interest, like a sport or food or animal or something, a hobby, I think tend to be more chill and mellow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You would think. I still won't go back to the gardening community. And will probably just stop participating in anything around here.

The problem is that there is still to few others than those types. The topic seems secondary. The mellow places are where it's empty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Maybe it also depends on the topic. But there are always gonna be annoying people everywhere you go in life. 🥲

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Just keep posting and being the type of person you want to see as a community member here. The other site was exactly like you described above for a very long time!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Be the change you want to see. Host a instance. Show us how it's done.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Spend money I don't have to open myself to attacks for people I already say I dislike that don't like to told what to do at all.

No.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I hope they feel welcomed here to stick around. I've quit Reddirt in 2023 during the API exodus, came to Lemmy and never looked back.

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[–] Picasso 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is great but i feel like we still need some speciality communities that will drive people here. This is an amazing start though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think we need default instances that new users are put in to stream line the sign up process. Instances with little to no defederation so people can window shop for a instance that reflects their values. Or even just browse.

Looking through a intimidating list of instances all with their own special rules is not for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

I agree, though you'll probably get a lot of pushback on that from Fediverse enthusiasts since it goes against the idea of the decentralised concept and we should "distribute the users more evenly among instances". At least that was the way discussion went on this topic back in 2023.

For the moment I feel like lemm.ee is a fairly solid "default" to recommend, though. Few defederations and great admins, very stable amd large enough to have a populated /all but not the massive behemoth that is .world (which I do agree has gotten too large).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fantastic! New people (and old as well), please give to the community! Post and/or comment as much as possible, to make Lemmy an even better place!

You can do so by just regularly commenting and/or posting, but also by creating new communities and bringing some activity to inactive ones!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

This!!

Help the communities you like to see grow.

Just making one or two posts in communities that seem dead gets the ball rolling in making them alive.

It also motivates others to post.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (11 children)

For real we need more uplifting subs, my feed is just Musk and Trump diarrhea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, I feel like people on here have a bad habit of relating even completely unrelated posts back to US politics. But if you keep reading the news then your brain tends to do that.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

be the change you want to see. Post and upvote.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

I've blocked most of it with a keyword filter

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

One of the things I feel like Lemmy is still missing or is under developed is the niche hobbyist and tech help communities. I'm referring to places users can go to ask questions and start to build up a knowledge base of sorts that people will find and reference. Kind of like how if you want to actually find useful information for something, you used to add "Reddit" to every search to get meaningful results. Hopefully, that can become Lemmy. Assuming of course search engines even index Lemmy well enough

One way to start could be just having people post small tutorials or solutions for popular problems or topics in respective communities. I know the internet has changed a lot but "back in the old days" that was a great way to get engagement going at least on tech forums.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I hope this keeps growing. I'm loving it here, and the fediverse idea is amazing. I hope we succeed and descentralize social media. Power to the people again

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I'll just say, the more I hang around Lemmy, the more I enjoy the genuine conversations. It feels like less snark, less joke replies, and just a generally more community-type feeling. Reminds me of when I first tried Reddit after leaving Digg way back when.

Hopefully, us exiles can leave the Reddit back at Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Lemmy is more polished and populated now than before. Hope influx stays and we got all the real people from reddit and bots stay there.

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