Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow

• anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You and the Fedigrow crew helped me get through feeling much like OP a while back. I think that was a really good idea, because it is tough and emotional at times doing what we do. It can be easy to feel alone when you put yourself out there every day and feel like nobody is around or like you’re doing something wrong and people are falling off.

  I never set out to be anybody here, but I was done with Reddit, and wanted to keep something that made me smile continue on, so I just sucked it up and did what needed to be done. You guys make it worth it, and as long as the people that do show up are having a good time, I’ll do my part to keep the party going. I get old, pre commercialized web vibes from Lemmy, so I’m gonna stick it out here as long as I can, because this is the kind of thing you don’t just get anywhere anymore.

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  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks for your nuanced comments. I've never moderated any community worth mentioning, so that's quite some additional insight for me. I'm not entirely new to this either, as you might have deducted from my account age. I've moved away from lemmy.ml as my own values don't properly align with theirs. Then I lost an account because the instance I was on died. And recently I switched to PieFed and that's my current account. But all in all I've been here since well before the exodus. Still, I think we have a different perspective. I've attended a bit more to the technical side and using it, while you've been fostering a community, which I didn't do at all.

    I'm not sure what to make of your "helped me get through feeling much like OP". I'm not sure if I have to come to terms if how things are. Or if we instead should improve the place to become what I (and other people?) envision it to be. Sure, it's not black and white. And when you're doing critism (as I did), you focus on the negatives. I tried to also mention the other side. But due to the nature of this post, it's not been the focus.

    I'll take some more time thinking about what you and all the other people said. I definitely see the potential of this platform. And that's why I'm here. I also see some issues and lack of progress with some things. And that hurts because I like this place. And I kind of refuse to accept it and change my expectations. I don't want it to be perfect. But there's quite some room for improvement (I think) and that made me speak up and post this.

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    • anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not sure what to make of your “helped me get through feeling much like OP”.

      I’ve talked extensively with Blaze and others on the Fedigrow community about pretty much your exact set of bullet points over the past few months and the shine started to wear off Lemmy for a bit. You’re far from alone in feeling how you described in your post, as can be seen in most of the replies here.

      I think it’s just taking a step back and being able to appreciate what we do have. We haven’t turned into some complete right/left hellhole, the top posts everyday add up to thousands of comments, we have some quality content providers, and some really fun commenters. I certainly wouldn’t be ashamed to show someone my Lemmy feed.

      It’s good that you still have the drive to want to keep improving things around here in the ways you feel comfortable contributing to. Many initial hurdles to getting on Lemmy feel resolved, and so many in apps are equal to the Reddit apps for most use cases. Many initial accounts were probably from people trying to figure things out. I know I had like 5 accounts and only really use 1 now.

      I think we’ve just hit a plateau for now. My personal feeling is working on the culture is our best way forward to be different than Reddit and to pick up more people looking to escape the toxicity. The time to set our tolerance levels for certain behaviors is now before we get too big to reign it in. We’re a pretty good group now, and I hope it stays this way or gets a little better like last summer.

      I’m glad when I see people speak up like this though. It makes us all reflect on the guys and bad we see here and to think about where we stand ourselves in all of it.

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      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for the clarification. I think we're on the same page. Especially the following resonates with me:

        The time to set our tolerance levels for certain behaviors is now before we get too big to reign it in.

        And I'd agree we need to do that in the context of what we have. Have a step back and think before doing something.
        I don't want to see that as an excuse to stay inert, though. But at the same time we may not skip it.

        I frequently disagree with the Lemmy developers' take on things. But what I give them high credit for, is not to prefer growth above other things. I wrote this post now, because I think the Reddit exodus is far away now. Things have settled. And the argument "let things settle first" is out of the way now. And as you pointed out we might have reached a steady plateau for now. I think that's a comfortable position from where we can decide what to do.

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