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• sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think software releases tell the story. From a non-mod perspective, Lemmy is an okay Reddit replacement.

  But, abroad, there seems to be fewer non-bot posts. The communities I follow have a handful of active users. It feels like it’s stagnant at best.

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  • Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use it every day and try to contribute actively. I agree it feels stagnant. I see the same users over and over (and there are some I’ve grown rather fond of, so it’s not all bad).

    I think Lemmy probably has more users than it seems, because the ratio of lurkers to posters/commentors is very high. This is also true on spezsite. But of course they have a gigantic user base, so it’s not nearly as noticeable as it is here.

    Spezsite gets worse all the time, but they are sneaky and introduce the suck slowly, one shitty “feature” at the time. They know most of their users are lazy and hooked, and won’t bail on them unless they add too much suck too fast.

    But I’m hopeful there’s a gradual migration that will slowly bring in more participants. I also think the more each of us can do to contribute, the better chance of converting long-time Lemmy lurkers into participating.

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• bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it is fair to say that the hype surrounding last year’s Reddit exodus has come to an end. But, Lemmy existed for several years before then, and will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. It’s not going to grow infinitely, but there will likely be more waves in the future that see spikes of activity followed by declines, but each one will bring in new users that will build up the community slowly.

  Lemmy is also part of the fediverse which does seem to be growing at a healthy rate, especially mastodon. It’s entirely possible that future software updates there will make Lemmy more visible to mastodon users and allow both communities higher levels of interaction.

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  • shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly, i actually discovered Lemmy about a year before the API issues but bounced off because there was not good 3rd party app support yet and i honestly didnt try hard enough to fill out my subscriptions list. Once that whole thing with Reddit happened, I came back and started using Lemmy again and actually put in the effort to make it work and deleted my Reddit account entirely, which forced me to use nothing but Lemmy.

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• shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lemmy 0.19.4 is in active development. I haven’t felt any decline personally.

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• ptz@dubvee.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some people on reddit hate the community here.

  Reading that post, they’re clearly judging Lemmy as a whole based on .ml and/or grad. Which, to be fair, they have a point. I really feel .ml as the “flagship” instance (official or just de-facto) is doing more harm to the overall “Reddit-like” corner of the fediverse than good.

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The active user tracker is quite inaccurate as it’s not fully indexing all servers. Plus you never know if a decline is not merely a sign that the anti-spambot measures are taking hold.

  New releases have always been slow since there are more fundamental changes being done for the time being. Once everything works well under the hood, I’m sure the releases will be pouring in faster when it’s only cosmetically things that are being addressed, where not much testing is needed.

  As far as hating the community goes - please name one social media platform that’s universally loved.

  Lemmy isn’t perfect, but it’s not as toxic and bot infected as reddit nowadays. There are 3 major toxic instances (lemmygrad.org, lemmy.ml, hexbear.net), blocking those will improve your experience on the platform massively. (Unfortunately .ml still has some of the large communities without decently sized alternatives elsewhere, so maybe you’re better off blocking individual communities rather than the whole instance).

  As far as receiving comments and upvotes is concerned - are you sure it’s actual people and not bots?

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Per that Reddit thread, I agree with the initial advice: block lemmygrad and hexbear and you’ll probably have a better experience. I take it a step further and try to generally avoid lemmy.ml communities.

  There’s a lot of great stuff here, though I will say it leans a bit further left than Reddit, especially if you don’t block those instances. I just ignore the worst of it and generally have a good experience.

  As for statistics, I wouldn’t look too closely at it. I think they adjusted how they count things recently. What you should be interested in is whether you’re enjoying your stay here. If you are, stick around, and if not, go where you are happiest.

  I personally think Lemmy is fine, but my standard is “not Reddit,” and

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  • shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Personally, I have really enjoyed my time here and have no intentions of going back so much so that I ended up deleting my Reddit account entirely on like June 30th of last year.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I did too, but then again I deleted my Reddit account every other year or so anyway to prevent doxxing. I’ll probably do the same here as well.

      That said, I’m also building my own Reddit alternative in my spare time. I think Lemmy will die at some point once major instances decide it costs too much to host, so I’m building something that should require much less hosting costs (peer to peer like BitTorrent). But hopefully it doesn’t become a serious issue because I honestly don’t want to do all the marketing and whatnot needed to get it popular and the maintenance to keep it going if it ever takes off.

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t call an 8% drop “downfall”. I think it will shrink and grow over time, but I expect the growth pattern will be in waves - migrations of people coming in response to changes in Reddit or other causes, followed by periods of retraction as some people lose interest or decide it’s not for them.

  From my feeling, it seems pretty steady at the moment. I wouldn’t mind if it got bigger, especially to make some more niche communities possible. But I’m not worried about it.

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think decline, rather normalizing.

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• wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some people on reddit hate the community here

  Thank fucking god, these people are awful, and there’s already far too many of them on here. I wonder how many people from Reddit’s most active city migrated on here.

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• Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I personally started seeing some of my posts on other platforms get more comments and upvotes.

  Which are those? Discuit?

  Lemmy is fine, definitely room for improvement, but communities are starting to build.

  Be wary about Reddit threads. People there are still on Reddit, they are usually very critic of any alternative

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