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The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
I'm glad more people are realizing how evil big tech companies are.
I always thought Reddit was an exception and I wouldve drode it forever if they didn't auto perm ban me "ban evasion," and deny my appeals. I just believed there was no other option and had been arguing there for 15 years and didn't want to leave lol. Sure like 25% of my comments and 50% of my posts would get removed for not following some arbitrary rules perfectly, but it just felt like the tradeoff of a big forum. (At least here when mods only can post it's clear, on reddit you could drop a post for a game release and get it removed so a mod can post it)
Every negative change came with some good, like oh they banned some free speech but they also got rid of jailbait/creepshots so good? Except one of those should.ve never been there for so long and on the front page in the first place. It's like they sneak in the terrible decisions they want to make with the obvious ones that should've been made long ago.
I finally bit the bullet and deleted my 14yr old Reddit account last night. It was the only way to break my habit.
I still have it but only follow niche and local subs for which there isn't enough engagement here yet.
Yeah, the only subreddit I miss so far is r/evilautism lol but I did request the mod there create one here as well.
Gotta start making them and posting just to get the ball rolling a little, you can always turn over moderating if someone wants it. I need to take my own advice when I'm bored.
In 2010 I was part of the Great Digg Exodus, and now in 2025 I'm part of the Reddit->Lemmy migration. Truly I'm part of the crowd.
You’re so cool keeping up with the trends 😎
More like I have no personality and just go with the flow 😜
If you want to be unique start using friendica lmao
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I feel like as more people wake up to how social media is toxic and quite literally programming by the rich, they will seek out alternatives that are owned by the people.
This is how the Internet was intended to be.
Proud to be one of the active user 🫡
what you mean all around the GLOBE there are only 47k active users? How does it compare to Reddit? I am an ex redditor. Banned for a comment in unpopular opinion sub lol
You know how on reddit people comment to tell you to google, argue, etc. Here they just answer the question or move on, it's wonderful.
Like, they'll answer everything but your question, tell you how you're wrong and should do something else entirely, here they read your question all the way and actually answer it
Yeah i know what you mean. I never thought about it. Thanks. I am fairly new on lemmy. I sure do miss more memes on reddit but damn you are right.
Suprisingly better for actual conversation, reddit would be like screaming into a void sometimes, any topic you're interested in if it doesn't already have a community, make one from a popular general purpose instance and start posting, people will reply and see it, and it'll potentially hit the front page equivalent letting more eyes see it. Reddit was no longer showing me interesting niches, I had to already know about it to find a sub and get it on my feed, so many interesting subs I only learned about because I got into the hobby outside of reddit have more potential to be visible on the main feed here. Reddit algorithm right now is a roller coaster, this feels more like reading a newsletter, old reddit.
I don't know how many users reddit has, but it is a lot more than lemmy. Lemmy is quite small in terms of number of users.
But I think focusing on relative numbers of users is a mistake. Forty thousand people is still a lot of people. And we can see that it is enough people to create a vibrant community with a steady stream of good content and conversations. So the fact that it is small compared to other social media is not really relevant, in my opinion. Having a thousand times more users doesn't make things a thousand times better - that's for sure.
(That said, I do think its worth noting if the number of users is going up or down... because if there was a significant downward trend, that would be a bad sign.)
Well there's still more niche topics that are hard to sustain a community for on Lemmy due to the lack of population. I'd like to see that grow. Hopefully in time.
Well, in your case, even if Reddit has 8 billions users, you still wouldn't be able to access it, so why worry?
I can access, I believe I can create another account. I just feel like lemmy is more like me people
Users are more active as the platform is smaller, interactions are more engaging
So in reddit not engaging? What users do there then?
Yes I think what everyone is trying to say but can't quite put into words is that reddit is an order of magnitude larger than lemmy like a massive big box store is an order of magnitude larger than a corner mart & cafe and yet nobody would stand in the corner mart & cafe and conclude it felt less human in comparison to the big box store because so many less people passed through its doors.
The environment of a big box store is steeped in distrust and it is a space where spontaneous interaction is codified with deep suspicion.
A local mart or cafe on the otherhand is more likely to suggest trustful grounds to interact that may provide bridges over the roaring rivers of first impression.
That is a difference that is invisible if you are primarily looking through the lens of large statistical noisey trends, but no mistake that unmistakable difference between "big box store" and "cornermart & cafe" is a multiplicative factor acting on every moment and is of the type that can nullify extreme powerbalances by making the entire paradigm that carefully precipitated it irrelevant in a flash.
Mostly lurk, as there's no point commenting in a thread with 5000 comments
ah yes, true dat, I happened to comment sometime ago on some posts like related to luigi mangione as one of the first ones, and got upvoted like 20k times and got awards and such. Good times good times.
Lemmy has so much more and more diversified content than at the time of the API exodus. Hopefully, it will help us much more lemmygrant this time around.
What happened 2023?
3rd party API restrictions as they ramped up for their IPO and the shitshow that ensued.
The other answers are correct, I just wanted to add that they're talking about Reddit
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Sounds like good news. Only heard about this place start of this year so glad to be in the numbers
Welcome!
Hopefully people start posting in niche communities!
(But not the Taylor Swift armpit one)
The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.
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Yes I’m here so expect this place to be filled with awful soon.
I can’t go back to Reddit. Bots, bots as far as the eyes can see.
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I came back to Lemmy as in trying to avoid American corporation owned social networks. Reddit falls into that category.
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I finally made the move to setting up an account here and wean my reddit usage.
It's getting so bad on there, so many bots, trolls, and paid agitators. Plus the uptick in fascist apologists. Smaller communities with higher bars to entry produce better conversation, in my experience.
The bots have really ramped up since Trump took office again. Seeing so many top comments with thousands of upvotes just gaslighting the shit out of frightened Americans, telling them they need to touch grass and everything is fine...it's so chilling.
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