Comment on we need more users

Xanthobilly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  and we’ll get another infusion of converts

  You know, there was a great blog recently that wrote about this, that now is the perfect time to popularize the fediverse. That’s because as tensions with the US are rising, more people in europe are looking for alternative internet platforms to communicate over. So the fediverse can jump in here and offer itself as an alternative.

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  • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not just Europe. Plenty of us in the United States looking to circumvent the vanguard party. And fascism is rising globally. We need decentralization and federation to survive going forward.

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    • Xanthobilly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This.

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  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’re actually seeing a rise in new user applications over at Feddit.dk. The hostile behavior of the US has gotten some Reddit users to seek alternatives to american platforms.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i suspect reddit has upped thier bannings recently, even banning anti-right wing views. plus they upped thier detection of people who are serial evaders, the ones that use hundreds of accounts to spam(not the propaganda bots though)

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      must be the “greenland invasion, distraction by trump thing recently”

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When I look at some generic instance’s unfiltered feed all I see is posts about USA/Trump. I can see how this might deter a lot of Europeans who are looking for alternatives to Reddit.

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    • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Piefed sign up process asks the new user if they want to mute Trump and Musk. That helps a bit.

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    • FundMECFS@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I’m ngl the All feed kinda sucks. 

      I don’t think people shouldn’t be talking about the horrors in the US but if “all” is just 5 LW posts in a row on US politics its not exactly enticing for a new user.

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• ambitiousslab@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s quality and quantity. The quality has held despite a drop in users.

  This is my experience too; I haven’t really noticed a change. I still see about the same number of conversations and the same depth of conversation as I always have here. I was very surprised that the change in user count was so high.

  I wonder if there’s a committed/stable subsection of the userbase, that is mainly responsible for posts and comments, and has largely stuck around throughout? And then most of the swings in user count are from people who were less active to begin with?

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    its also the fact that we can ban whole communities too, from popping up your feed. since there are less users, blocking the users that are obviously tankies or conservatives, reduces us seeing more posts.

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• Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just wait and let Reddit have another controversy and we’ll get another infusion of converts.

  Just wait

  this is how something like Digg swoops in and steals all the users

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  • Endmaker@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or Bluesky / Threads vs Mastodon

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  • Xanthobilly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Digg? Now with AI? That Digg? You mean the Digg that lost all its users to Reddit in the first place? Not happening.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      … Maybe SomethingAwful will somehow make a comback rofl.

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• postcapitalism@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like it here

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  • jed@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Seconded. I just learned it exists last week. It’s good and has a lot of potential.

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• Redredme@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is. It’s one of the reasons i’ve pivot back to reddit these last few months.

  1. More then Reddit this place is an echo chamber for the far left anti capitalist crowd. While I don’t mind a discussion, everything over simplified to EAT THE RICH was getting tiresome.

  2. No company or institution is here. If I have a problem with my [insert device or appliance here] chances are good someone on reddit will reply and 50/50 there is a useable answer somewhere. Here it just stays silent. Or you get the anti capitalist reply that everything is fucked and we should just eat the rich.

  3. There are no real gaming or device or brand communities. Want to ask something about modding game x? Not here. Want to hook up with other players of game y? Not here. Want to know how to fix your [household appliance here]? Not here…Have a problem with mainboard from brand z? Not here.

  4. When you ask something here about Linux or any other gpl software the answer often times boils down to RTFMI! (I= idiot) That also happens on reddit to be honest. But here it’s just more extreme. And I know I’m an idiot. That’s why I asked. I’m too stupid can someone please explain.

  5. Where the fuck is LJDawson. Sync is dead it seems.

  And yes. Reddit more and more feels like an AI test site. For example the AITA posts are getting more and more out of this world. They are unbelievable, that’s just for clicks. So the enshittification is not slowly but very fast becoming a problem and within a few months it will be another youtube, unusable. But for now… It’s the best we have.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1. More then Reddit this place is an echo chamber for the far left anti capitalist crowd. While I don’t mind a discussion, everything over simplified to EAT THE RICH was getting tiresome.

    That must be so difficult for you compared to all the wonderful corporate platforms full of rightwing hateful trolls who genuinely harass people.

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    • zen@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m going to tentatively upvote this. There’s a good reason the left wingers on this platform sound bitter (myself included). The Overton Window has shifted right, so they’re pretty much surrounded by toxic right-wing stuff on every other platform.

      Still, it doesn’t help Lemmy attract moderates.

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What conservatives want is for us to treat them like babies with tiny little fragile baby beliefs that we have to coddle.

        I don’t care if you think differently than me, what I care about is babies demanding we take their hateful and irrational ideologies seriously while they simultaneously target vulnerable groups with at a minimum hate speech and harassment.

        If we coddle conservatives this place becomes less welcoming to new people, that is how it is.

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  • Agent_Karyo@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are no real gaming or device or brand communities.

    Some relatively active (in terms of posts, breadth of content and user engagement) gaming communities across Lemmy/Threadi:

    • Adventure Games - !adventuregames@retrolemmy.com
    • Automation Games - !automationgames@lemmy.zip
    • Cozy Games - !cozygames@lemmy.world
    • City Builders - !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works
    • Indie Games (variety) - !bside@fedia.io
    • Lifesim Games - !lifesimulation@lemmy.world
    • Open Source Games - !foss_gaming@lemmy.world
    • PC RPGs (cRPGs) - !crpg@lemmy.world
    • Roguelike Games - !roguelikes@lemmy.world
    • RTS Games - !rts@reddthat.com
    • Space Games (variety) - !space_games@piefed.world
    • Strategy Games - !strategy_games@piefed.world
    • Turn-based Strategy (e.g. 4X) - !turnbasedstrategy@piefed.world
    • Tycoon / Business Sim Games - !tycoon@lemmy.world
    • Video Game Art - !gameart@sopuli.xyz
    • Video Game Music - !vgmusic@lemmy.world
    • Video Game Questions - !askgaming@piefed.social

    I moderate/curate like 6 of them, so I am biased, but we do have a solid selection of gaming communities beyond !games@lemmy.world or !pcgaming@lemmy.ca.

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  • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gaming communities exist, based on genres usually. I’ve used !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works for questions about city building games. !soulslike@lemmy.zip is also there.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For example the AITA posts are getting more and more out of this world.

    What’s this AITA sub you speak of?

    It’s called r/AmateurStoryWriters ffs, get the name right

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• IronKrill@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The quality has held despite a drop in users.

  I feel like I’m going mental over here because this has not been my experience. The quality has always been spotty, but the last few months I’ve noticed more and more posts linking to awful “news” rags or no source at all. Worse, I rarely see people questioning the lack of quality information, simply gobbling it up because it aligns with their world view. Plus 70% of the comments on this platform could be generated by a classic r/subredditsimulator style bot and nothing would change; the same 5 points about AI, capitalism, and Linux are made in every thread in the exact same style every day.

  And yes I’m mostly talking about news communities because Linux comms are usually fine but repetitive and while I’d love to interact with non-news content there just… isn’t much being made.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  the sudden rise in 2025 early on, was the massive purges reddit was doing, banning almost anyone left and right, and hitting all thier accounts at once. when they usually never try to multi-ban you before.

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