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[-] 60d@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 hours ago

There are dozens of us.

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

[-] emberpunk@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 minutes ago

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

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 13 points 7 hours ago

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".

[-] grepe@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

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.

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 33 seconds 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

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 points 1 hour 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.

[-] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

I should host an instance. About Apache. To learn how to do Apache configs. Then I could host an instance.

Oh wait.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] Zero@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 hours ago

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!

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 1 hour ago

I can't be responsible for changing others. That is an unfair request.

[-] Picasso@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 21 points 10 hours ago

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.

[-] bingBingBongBong@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

I think it's OK here, but some communities here are a bit shit and very vocal

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Samesies. About the only thing I ever go back for is askhistorians

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

About the only thing I ever go back for

Honestly, I miss some subs. But I just cut my losses. The usability and UI of the site went to shit. The toxicity was horrible. The site policies went to shit. No third party apps. No point.

I only come back to answer necrobumps and one time to update my own post that was a support question where I managed to figure out the answer. I don't want to leave behind those forum posts like in XKCD where they have the same issue but don't answer anything. 😅

[-] amos@mander.xyz 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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!

[-] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours 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.

[-] metalsd@eviltoast.org 10 points 14 hours 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

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 108 points 23 hours ago

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

[-] DopaDodge@lemmy.world 25 points 19 hours ago

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.

[-] henry1917@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Wouldn't that be closer to stackexchange?

[-] DopaDodge@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Well not really, as I'm talking about any type of self-help content not just computers/tech. Any helpful content that people would be able to find vs just all news, politics and memes

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[-] JoeKis@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago
[-] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 28 points 23 hours ago

Reddit refugee here. Can I say Luigi?

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 24 points 21 hours ago

It's more frowned upon to not do so.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 10 points 20 hours ago

Friend, you can say Luigi is a hero.

lemmy.world might have some rules against endorsing violence, but on most Lemmy instances, I can even tell you I hope all the healthcare CEOs are assassinated the same way. No corporate overlords to appease here!

[-] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

Only if you finish in a sock or something.

[-] Lucky13@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago

Can you say Luigi lol. Son, you're required to pledge allegiance to Luigi before every post you make here.

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[-] imetators@lemm.ee 35 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Otiz@sopuli.xyz 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Downloading an app instead of using the web gui helped me a lot, almost gave up on Lemmy couple days ago. But some of these apps are so well made. Really shows commitment

[-] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago

I dig alexandrite if you are looking for a web ui.

[-] Flummoxx@lemm.ee 67 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Lexxly@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago

I find a bunch of snark here, but it absolutely feels more genuine. With reddit it felt like half the comments I saw were from bots. More than half, maybe.

[-] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago

I hate everyone on lemmy but at least I'm hating people

[-] Lexxly@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, fighting with bots is just boring. At least if a human gets mad at me it's more real.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago

I feel the exact same, and I’ve been hanging around here for almost two years (the great 3rd party app exodus of ‘23).

This place feels more like a community filled with people versus a firehose of internet wrapped in layers of corporate and right wing BS.

Reddit was almost exclusively read-only for me. Here, I am commenting all the time.

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[-] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Yeah in a few days I'm going to delete my Reddit account, liking this place so far, you get news and genuine discussion.

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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 70 points 1 day ago

Woo! That's awesome. I am seeing quite a few more people.

We are already successful, I'm seeing stories, news articles, and videos that normally would never get pushed to the top. We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 59 points 1 day ago

We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

[-] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 132 points 1 day ago

Worth noting is that what counts as an "active user" has changed between now and then. During the Reddit API exodus, an "active user" was a user who had posted or commented in the past month. Now, it includes users who have voted. If the 54k MAU record was set using the first algorithm, it is likely that the MAU using the new algorithm (which includes voting) would have been much higher.

[-] Sudomeapizza@lemm.ee 46 points 1 day ago

Huzzah, us lurkers now count towards the global stats!

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[-] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

You know it's bad for Reddit when people were even talking about going back to Digg

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