anyone else remember 2010/2011 reddit? Just me? Feels like that tbh back when everyone was fleeing from slashdot and digg. 31yo millenial since I've already dated myself lol
Lemmy is a great place to BS about whatever is going on with the world at any given moment. I think the “small” size of the user base increases the quality of the discussions. You have to jump through some hoops just to get here.
But that small overall population and the barriers to entry mean we don’t have a busy community for almost any hobby or topic you’d like to discuss. And that’s fine, there are still websites and forums and search engines.
I think the fediverse should replace the corporate internet long term, of course. For what it is right now though, and especially Lemmy in particular, I’m not complaining.
I never understood how people would complain that a site with thousands or tens of thousands of users is "too small". I feel like that is a real sweet spot, you can have actual conversations and interactions that matter a bit more. Meanwhile, the constant flood of posts, comments and spam on the top social media sites made me feel like nothing I write will even matter, since all the posts will be buried under the information flood in the matter of minutes.
Yeah sometimes even parts of mastodon feel like they're getting too impersonal. Like I'll be in a conversation and realise I don't any of these people
If you just want to look at and respond to anything there is enough people. If you want to find specific, niche communities then it's still pretty small.
There's definitely a difference with scale.
On reddit, I was never on the default front page or /r/all. I was subbed to a hundred niche communities.
On lemmy that's harder in 2 ways. The first is the critical mass you need to keep a community active, and the second is fragmentation.
For instance, I was super active in the scuba and underway photography subreddits. Not only is the community tiny here, but which scuba sub do i go to? With multiple instances, there's no default community named "scuba."
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=scuba
All of them are inactive, seems like it's not a very discussed topic here
Yeah.
I miss it.
It would be neat if same-topic communities somehow could somehow merge into a single community view via federation. There are probably some downsides to what I'm considering, but it seems like it could help alleviate fragmentation while allowing the "same" communities to be hosted across multiple instances. If one instance defederated from another, the community posts in that instance would be excluded from the combined view.
Maybe even a simple opt-in/out of a combined view for communities that truly want or need to stand alone. Not sure if this goes against the core concepts of federation or not. It seems like a nice compromise at a glance, if it could be implemented well.
PieFed already has such Categories of Communities, it's a really nice feature. PieFed has a lot of such things actually - like hashtags, the ability to block all users from an instance without requiring admin approval, YouTube embeds, etc.
Unfortunately PieFed is not quite ready for the masses as its more foundational features aren't finished yet, like much of the times a Notification won't point to whatever caused it for whatever reason, and it lacks user tagging, and search options.
But it's nice to see these kinds of features functional already!:-)
Communities should just consolidate. Happens regularly, the electric vehicle did recently, you can see it on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
I would say the population size makes it a little easier to recognize the more friendly responses too. I feel on Reddit the friendly responses are quickly buried by the more spiteful ones.
Yup.
Reddit is so big 95% of your comments get buried with no replies. There's no conversation most of the time. You're just reading the conversations of others who got in on the post really early and got upvoted to the top.
I'm also of the opinion that the average IQ on Lemmy is notably higher than the average IQ on Reddit, so the discussions tend to be less clownish.
This is the opinion of someone that finally got tired of Reddit and jumped to Lemmy just over a month ago. I also feel like I'm seeing more activity on Lemmy just over the last few weeks. So there's probably others like me that just got fed up and made the switch.
I'm kind of crossing my fingers that Lemmy doesn't get too popular. It'll ruin this like it ruins every social media site.
Reddit has a follow bias. Lemmy has a rebel bias. IQ tests aside, I know where I'd rather be.
it's as varied as it is big, though
because of that, naturally, people share the same communities
I see the same person everywhere, and I bet there are some that may even recognise me
this post is a combination of circlejerking and coping
This depends on perspective. Reddit is much better for most very specific communities, but also much more of a time sink than Lemmy due to just how much larger it is. In terms of reclaiming some of your time back using Lemmy is a great alternative to Reddit because you can't scroll forever, forcing you to stop. This is thoroughly in the realm of a feature for me, not having Reddit on my phone or PC is much better in terms of how I use my time.
Fr. I'd say a comment I leave on reddit has like a 3% chance of meaningful response that might turn into even a brief meaningful interaction.
I think that conversion rate is vastly higher on Lemmy, much closer to like 30-40%.
That's a difference so profound so as to be nearly incomparable.
So do I wish Lemmy was a bit more active so the front page was always fresh? Sure. Is it a very small price that I am enormously willing to pay for the significantly better experience here? Yeah, abso-fucking-lutely.
When you get tired of Hot or Scaled sort, try switching to New, especially of All - it has many additional benefits like discovering new communities to join. You can find things there that you may really enjoy, yet receive barely any attention - e.g. poetry - so that you would basically have never seen it while sorting by Hot.
I feel like I’m even starting to recognize user names throughout the platform
Yup. A certain flying squid comes to mind.
There have been so many times I’m in a conversation , and then boom realize it’s FlyingSquid
They are my homie at this point
Ohh yes... But it also shows how small Lemmy still I.
I decided to stop starting fights here and exclusively drop my payloads of spite upon the denizens of Facebook groups and getting right in rightwinger's faces.
As such, I now don't have much of a use for Lemmy other than news and flicking the occasional Russian apologist off of the bottom of a string of comments like a dangling turd.
We are growing somewhat of our own, genuine piracy group here, though, which is rather impressive. I wouldn't be surprised if practical groups like /r/selfhosted moved over here just for ease of use.
Actually there is !selfhosted@lemmy.world which is an active community.
Active yeah, but I wonder how close we can get to the reddit side just being a referral here.
It's not enough that Lemmy succeeds.
Reddit must burn.
Im not sure if i want all The toxic assholes from Reddit coming to Lemmy.
Unfortunately 99% of the conversations are about why Linux is good and anybody who still uses Windows is an ape
That's not true! I mean, there's also politics here as well 🤣.
Do you have an example of such? You would expect such declarations to be moderated by now
I dont think its so active at least not topics i'm most interested in. Privacy has only one lemmy instance that is active. Security has only 1 instance but no one ever discusses there, it's just sharing Security news and 0 comments. Talk about crypto is pretty much completely dead as well which is strange.
Why do you want instances when communities are enough?
I meant communities. I just mixed the words up
What do you want to talk about?
More crypto discussions in general and I don't mean cryptography. I think because of those topics being almost dead here, it would be good to just have 1 crypto community instead of having different communities for every different blockchain/topic. Or maybe 2 communities to seperate shilling and speculating price from technological and political crypto discussions.
Feel free to post to the existing dead communities to see if they would like to merge into one
It feels much more human on Lemmy. Reddit was mostly bots and training models. Do we have any statistics for Lemmy on percentage of bot users posting to the platform, who pretend to be human?
Sometimes I miss chatting with the bots on Reddit. The platform always kept you emotional and scrolling. All the gore, violence and other sensationalistic content. All the arguments arguments arguments always against you. It was a plastic experience.
Memes about the Fediverse
