Submitted 1 day ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.world
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The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
Thank fuck, maybe I can go back to being a lurker lol
I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO
Same here dude I’ve posted ridiculous amounts on !android@lemdro.id
relatable. I started lemdro.id cause I wanted to lurk lol
I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO
Same. On topics on than Romeposting™ I’d love to go back to being a lurker and only an occasional contributor. I imagine it’ll be a while before that day comes, though.
Honestly thank you for your service Pug, there is a +75 next to your name for me for a reason
Thank you for doing your part in getting the ball rolling!
Thank you for your service 🫡
I recognize your name and appreciate your efforts, fam!
Thank your for your service. 🙏 Building a community takes work. Let’s hope this one is more resilient to corpo-lobotomy than Reddit, Digg and Slashdot.
I tend to lurk just because I have nothing to add to the conversation lol
I don’t let thay stop me.
If you at least upvote you aren’t lurking as that counts as engagement.
My app tells me I upvoted you 12 times in the last 10 days. Thank you
What app is that? Does it also show me other’s up votes?
Likewise
I’ve literally posted over 3k comments and over 300 posts since moving over here
I’ve been busy over here lol
Yeah! I’ve been doing the same. I actually find myself thinking “I haven’t participated in a conversation in over a week. I better find something to comment on.”
As a fellow lurker, I sincerely thank you and everyone else that has been putting in the extra effort to post threads and comments!
lmao posting in communtities from my different accounts (not to the same communities, like alts for keeping notifcations on topics seperate) to help build up my future lurking places
Fellow lurker at heart here. Kinda heartwarming to see a bunch of lurkers doing things out of their comfort zone!
So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift’s armpits
If only we could find a way to have such quality content here! If only...
…is this for real? I don’t want to check, but I also can’t tell if this is a joke.
I just checked, it exists but has 2500 subs
www.reddit.com/r/taylorswiftarmpits but it’s just have 2000 user?
Wow, I for one, can’t wait until we have peak content like this over here.
This is hilarious, but I need facts.
All together, we’re hotter than oatmeal, but we’re less interesting than office chairs.
Everyone is comparing active users to total users though, Lemmy’s total users is about 10x the number of actives users at 477k. I think you have to post or comment to be marked active?
Don’t feel bad, office chairs are a big deal. Something you spend 8+ hours of your day in aught to be scrutinized and carefully chosen
I’m glad more people are realizing how evil big tech companies are.
I always thought Reddit was an exception and I wouldve drode it forever if they didn’t auto perm ban me “ban evasion,” and deny my appeals. I just believed there was no other option and had been arguing there for 15 years and didn’t want to leave lol. Sure like 25% of my comments and 50% of my posts would get removed for not following some arbitrary rules perfectly, but it just felt like the tradeoff of a big forum. (At least here when mods only can post it’s clear, on reddit you could drop a post for a game release and get it removed so a mod can post it)
Every negative change came with some good, like oh they banned some free speech but they also got rid of jailbait/creepshots so good? Except one of those should.ve never been there for so long and on the front page in the first place. It’s like they sneak in the terrible decisions they want to make with the obvious ones that should’ve been made long ago.
I’ve logged back onto here for the first time in ages because I do not trust big tech.
Welcome back!
Good :) welcome back!
because I do not trust big tech. Dude, same. I mean, I get that’s why many are here, but it’s just gotten so much worse lately.
Starting to build my first Linux machine to use as my daily driver laptop. Been meaning to get into it all for years, but Microsoft’s constant shenanigans as of late and everyone on Lemmy really pushed me to take the plunge.
It’ll be a “baby’s first project” of a used Thinkpad running on Mint, but it’s a start to getting out from under these corporate fucks. Every step away is a step to which I’m not planning to return.
Welcome back
In 2010 I was part of the Great Digg Exodus, and now in 2025 I’m part of the Reddit->Lemmy migration. Truly I’m part of the crowd.
You’re so cool keeping up with the trends 😎
More like I have no personality and just go with the flow 😜
If you want to be unique start using friendica lmao
I finally bit the bullet and deleted my 14yr old Reddit account last night. It was the only way to break my habit.
🫶 Its hard to give up all thay history
No history is gone, all your posts and comments stay up lol, you have to manually edit them or use a third party service, too late now. They still have any helpful info you gave.
Yeah, it was tough. I did clean it out a couple of times over the years, but it’d been a while when I deleted it.
I still have it but only follow niche and local subs for which there isn’t enough engagement here yet.
Gotta start making them and posting just to get the ball rolling a little, you can always turn over moderating if someone wants it. I need to take my own advice when I’m bored.
Yeah, the only subreddit I miss so far is r/evilautism lol but I did request the mod there create one here as well.
I feel like as more people wake up to how social media is toxic and quite literally programming by the rich, they will seek out alternatives that are owned by the people.
This is how the Internet was intended to be.
Yes I’m here so expect this place to be filled with awful soon.
I can’t go back to Reddit. Bots, bots as far as the eyes can see.
Welcome!
Proud to be one of the active user 🫡
Hopefully people start posting in niche communities!
(But not the Taylor Swift armpit one)
The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.
Sounds to me like we need universities and maybe even governments to be running Lemmy instances.
Same!!! Or niche fields of studies, although there’s a lot less serious ones of that kind lol
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help
Did you say especially the Taylor Swift armpit one? You perv.
Yeah, what’s it called so I don’t accidentally stumble on it?
Which community is that so I can block it?
I came back to Lemmy as in trying to avoid American corporation owned social networks. Reddit falls into that category.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Lemmy has so much more and more diversified content than at the time of the API exodus. Hopefully, it will help us much more lemmygrant this time around.
Hopefully they are active and interesting people.
What happened 2023?
what you mean all around the GLOBE there are only 47k active users? How does it compare to Reddit? I am an ex redditor. Banned for a comment in unpopular opinion sub lol
You’re welcome.
I finally made the move to setting up an account here and wean my reddit usage.
It’s getting so bad on there, so many bots, trolls, and paid agitators. Plus the uptick in fascist apologists. Smaller communities with higher bars to entry produce better conversation, in my experience.
Sounds like good news. Only heard about this place start of this year so glad to be in the numbers
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Lemmy determine active users differently now, as compared to then? I recall a .world post about that, contemporaneous to when active users spiked. In any case, I appreciate the new folks!
numbers
Yeah, I can tell; I’ve had a sharp uptick in people picking arguments and then sticking their fingers in their ears.
Lfg!!!
It’s no wonder when every other comment on Reddit is an obvious bot. Either the bots here are less obvious or they’re not here yet.
Fun times.
Definitely above the threshold of immortality.
Noice, I wonder if Hexbear going down helped at all.
WamGams@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Hard to believe how many of us there actually are, yet social media has conditioned us into believing a website is dead unless it has 50 million daily visitors.
We certainly aren’t hurting for content (well, yes, we are, but the archive is being built as we speak.)
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Our content is definitely on the low end for niche topics. Subs either don’t exist, or there might be like 4 members.