Reddit is Dead. Lemmy is Dead. Everything is Dead.

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• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lemmy is at the moment a super busy tech/nerd/nd forum. If you have those interests you don’t usually starve for content.

  It’s when you expect it to be like late stage reddit with millions of users sustaining niches comms that you get disappointed. Lemmy is like reddit in 2008.

  It cannot cater to all interests yet but it is a place that people can validly migrate to as reddit enshittifies further

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The more we foster a community of sharing the less dead the niches will fill.

    The vast majority of lemmy users never post at all which sometimes makes it feel dead. We need more posts. If you’re reading this and haven’t made a post before I challenge you too. If you’re reading this and there is a niche community that doesn’t exist that you miss from reddit, I challenge you to make it here.

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    • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      there is a niche community that doesn’t exist that you miss from reddit, I challenge you to make it here.

      Please come to !fedigrow@lemm.ee for some advice. Quite a few communities get created then get abandoned a few weeks after, that’s counterproductive as well

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• zer0@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For some reason you are just having a bad moment mate, rejoice! Nothing is dead.
  I mean Reddit is still alive, like it or not I don’t think it’s going to change any time soon.
  Lemmy does its own things, sure it didn’t grow as expected but it is doing good, those things take time and we should not expect Lemmy to become the new Reddit.

  For me the main issue on Lemmy is the number of thread/community/people that want to talk absolutely about Reddit, at this point this is just counterproductive it’s like people can’t get over it, the first few months it was okay but now it’s just non sense.

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• april@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thanks for not using AI but why would you post on lemmy that you gave up on lemmy? Are you trying to get more people to leave?

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  • arrakark@10291998.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hi. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it that way. People have put a lot of effort into developing Lemmy as both a software and a community, and it wasn’t my intention to devalue anyone’s efforts or say that it’s a lost cause. I think people should continue using Lemmy. This was just literally my stream of consciousness. I’m more upset that the original Reddit is gone and I wanted to highlight how Lemmy is not a perfect replacement.

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    • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Lemmy is a perfect replacement for Reddit because it’s not Reddit. The feed was curated and not as organic as the voting system made it seem. As time passed, it became more of an algorithmic engine for dopamine extraction. Sure, I had some great times there, but times change.

      Lemmy is not a perfect copy, but it is a healthier replacement in some ways. Separate instances do amplify echo chambers, but, they mildly serve to keep different groups separated. Some personality types are just not compatible and that is OK. We still have common spaces and can still be civil, mostly.

      For now, there isn’t as much room here for business. Sure, we have plenty of porn but this platform isn’t as easy to exploit for money as Reddit was. No centralized advertising structure is awesome, IMHO. (Some clients still leverage ads, but I don’t use them.)

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    • april@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think that intro (and the dead lemmy thumbnail) and the long part about reddit is why you got downvoted. People want to hear good things or constructive criticism about their niche platform and are kinda tired of reddit.

      Try not to get discouraged about posting. I saw what you meant later in the article, it just came off badly from the intro materials.

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• droporain@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Quit posting crybaby junk and post stuff you like. You know build the future you want to see.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m dead 💀

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We are all dead on this blursed day

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Speak for yourself.

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• deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It finally occurs to me. When younger people complain about capitalism, it’s the 21st century almost-feudal version of capitalism that they’re complaining about.

  The oligarchs/large corporations don’t seem to stop wanting exceptional amounts of money more whilst everyday people are really struggling. I’m not taking about the bottom end of society who are double-decimated, but average everyday middle-classes and pensioners. Members of Governments have their noses in our trough too.

  I understand what they mean now. Sorry it’s taken me so long.

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• Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think this is getting downvoted a little unfairly. I suspect this is mostly because the title went a bit too far in the “provocative” direction. If you were to build on this, I’d say extract the parts about setting up your own instance (everything after “In Comes Lemmy”) and expand that.

  A couple other thoughts:

  • I agree that !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org is awesome, if you contact pmjv he’ll probably respond
  • You say: “When you use Lemmy, you have to subscribe to specific communities in order to see the content from those communities.” which is not literally true – you can just set your account to read “all”, and a lot of people do that. Not sure what the default is, especially if you set up your own instance.

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• 4Robato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I remember in reddit following nextduckinglevel to simply be a bit more up to date with people commenting on this types of things and after that I started to enjoy less reddit, this type of communities make reddit similar to other social media liked Instagram and I don’t enjoy seeing extreme things all the time or people just trying to get the attention. I stop following the community after a while and the experience got better for me.

  I don’t see much different between reddit and lemmy besides lemmy being in the fediverse thus it’s a plus on my book. But you decide what communities you follow, if you are not enjoying it stop following what makes you not enjoy the platform, this is not tiktok where they put videos on you face, you choose what type of content you want to see and follow things you want to follow not things you should follow.

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• rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If one can pay $30/yr for basically a private social network that’s garbage and advertizement free, I think that should be more popular. But to make that happen we need an even easier system to set up;

  $29/year to have an account at Mastodon, Lemmy, Matrix and Funkwhale (with 250GB of upload quota to your personal library). No “setting up” required beyond downloading the clients. No ads, no tracking.

  and we need the social effect.

  Get the $119/year package for 5 people. Invite 4 of your friends. Tell them that if they like it they can split the costs of you or pay it forward by getting another 5-package for themselves and inviting more of their friends.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Holy shit that’s expensive.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s less than $2.50 per month, for 4 different services, and I’m also pledging 20% of the profits to go the open source projects.

      I’ve been told by multiple people that I’m actually charging less than what I should. If you think that you can offer all of that for less, please go ahead.

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• Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You just need to move on. Reddit had its time and place. I’m thankful for those early days I got to experience and so should you.

  “And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” - Hunter S. Thompson

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• april@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think single user instances and subscribing to communities doesn’t really work with lemmy because of the low volume and overlapping communities.

  I actually read all new on my instance and just block anything I don’t want to see instead of subscribing. That was when communities come and go I still see the content. There are tradeoffs though you’ll have to come back later to see lots of comments usually.

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• chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  bots everywhere

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  • eldavi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    only on .world, .ee and the other “general interest” instances

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• endofline@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I still believe that mailing lists are the best technology which has been both decentralized in the meaning of the identity ( which you can verify with gpg ) and storage. While I like many other things like simplex, lemmy, to some extent matrix and so on, still mailing lists rock nowadays ( note: please consider 2 criterias i meant - distributed identity and storage)

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• jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hipster archetype?

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  • Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    ikr. I never thought of reddit as hipsters.

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