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giraffedesigner ,

I was having difficulty with servers being down and nothing loading when I first deleted Reddit. Things finally seem stable so I’ve been a lot more active.

tamal3 ,

The apps weren’t available either.

PanArab ,
@PanArab@lemmy.ml avatar

Good, we need an alternative to Reddit that isn’t manipulated

Omega_Haxors ,

It does kind of have a problem with mod abuse but that’s on a per-community or instance basis, so it’s nowhere near as bad.

airportline ,
@airportline@lemmy.ml avatar

Give it time and there will be bad actors trying to manipulate Lemmy.

lil ,
@lil@lemy.lol avatar

I started using Lemmy since September 2022 I think, but I rarely open it, two weeks ago I was permabanned on reddit for report abuse, then semi-unbanned, so I deleted my account, and now I’m starting to use Lemmy actively, there are a lot more servers and users now and I found a new nice server.

explodicle ,

I’m wondering if it’ll be similar to people switching from (convenient & centralized) Compuserve and AOL to (difficult but p2p) email and web. That took years.

rar ,

Slow and steady wins the race.

DarthBueller ,

Prodigy! Don’t forget Prodigy! :)

Fluid ,
@Fluid@aussie.zone avatar

Related to the recent reddit mobile site update that straight up breaks the website perhaps? (Cant scroll, can’t interact)

HerrLewakaas ,

Don’t these people test their shit before release? Hobby devs have better qc than reddit

brbposting ,

I thought that may have been intentional anti-adblock (just speculating).

Ashtear ,

Was my first thought. /r/friends doesn’t work on the mobile site now and that’s the only thing I ever go to back to Reddit for anymore. That’s one content stream I can’t duplicate anywhere else.

expatriado ,

we found the first resonance to the step response

TORFdot0 ,

I’ve noticed that there seems to be a lot of activity, enough to replace Reddit, on the most popular communities and instances. Even my more niche communities such as !fantasyfootball has had more activity lately. Although the niche ones have a way to go to be replacements for their counterparts on Reddit

nyakojiru ,
@nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

One issue with Reddit was the extreme even obsesive moderation level. It was totally frustrating to post stuff in some subs, lot of new people just avoid it even experienced users like me.

aeharding ,
@aeharding@lemmy.world avatar

On the other hand… there’s a lot of Lemmy threads with flame wars that should really be pruned from the post by mods. The flame wars bring a lot of negativity and noise that takes away from the actual discussion

KevonLooney ,

Yes in most circumstances. It’s valuable to let people speak, but not for like 5 comments back and forth.

Omega_Haxors ,

Lemmy desperately needs a “take it to DMs” policy.

Killer_Tree ,

I respectfully disagree - it’s very easy to contract comment threads you have no interest in (at least on my client if I long-press a comment, it hides the comment and all responses), but I sometimes enjoy reading through an actual discussion two or three people have in a comment chain. They may be few and far between, but that’s the nature of an open forum.

chitak166 ,

Why not? After a point, the discussion gets buried under “click here for more.”

MrShankles ,

Not once did I ever get a post in r/showerthoughts past the mods. I eventually stopped trying

morrowind OP ,

I got a bunch of posts removed there too, but tbh I kinda get it. 99% have the same repetitive showerthoughts and the whole sub was by design, super low effort, meaning the garbage : quality content ratio was like 500:1 so they had to rely on brutish rules

stebo02 ,
@stebo02@sopuli.xyz avatar

soo what happened around December 2022?

shrugal ,

How do they handle bots? Seems to me this statistic could be heavily inflated. Or do they account for that?

Here is their listing of users per instance, looks a bit sus to me (“Benutzer” means “Users”):

List of users per instance, showing bot instance alien.top at the top by a wide margin

prof ,
@prof@infosec.pub avatar

It’s active users, not total users. I’m not sure on the exact metric, but users need to post, comment, vote or whatever to be counted for this statistic.

Denuath ,

I don’t think voting does count as an activity for this metric.

shrugal ,

Bots on alien.top do that afaik. They impersonate real Reddit users after all.

prof ,
@prof@infosec.pub avatar

I don’t think I understand your point about them impersonating users? It seems to me like an account gets created for everyone using the portal. It then provides you a password and you can start using that account. I tried it just now and it seems like your account gets flagged as bot on creation automatically. So most people posting from that domain, might just not have unchecked that “I’m a bot”-tick and are actual former Reddit users.

Creating an account doesn’t make a user active though, but for the question if a bot posting stuff counts as an active user or not, I honestly can’t say.

shrugal , (edited )

Afaik the bot auto-creation is disabled now, but it used to mirror some Reddit subreddits by automatically creating bot accounts for every Reddit user posting in them, and using that to post the same content in a Lemmy community. That’s how the instance got over a million users, pretty much all of them are bots that do whatever the Reddit user with the same name is doing in one of the mirrored subreddits.

What you are describing is another part of the plan: Allowing the original Reddit users to take over their mirror accounts on Lemmy. Apparently it just creates accounts for them if no bot exists yet.

FireTower ,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

Good. Lemmy, like Reddit, is fundamentally user driven platform. The most important thing for the life of it is people making posts.

paradiso ,

True, too bad reddit is a bot driven platform now.

DrDickHandler ,

Bots are posting shit on Lemmy too you know.

herrwoland ,
@herrwoland@lemmy.world avatar

Only a matter of time before reddit fucks up again, so we better get the good places before the second wave of migration

Kichae ,

They keep a/b testing and rolling out worse and worse mobile websites. They’ve gone and done it again. For any regular mobile website user that wasn’t affected by the 3rd party app issue, or for anyone who switched from a 3rd party app to the website because it wasn’t as bad as the 1st party app, well… Now it is. Now it’s possibly worse.

So, we might hope for a prolonged period of organic growth now. Especially if Lemmy doesn’t get flooded with meta discussions again.

rustydrd , (edited )
@rustydrd@sh.itjust.works avatar

I came to Lemmy after Reddit’s crackdown on third-party clients. Looking back, I’m pretty happy with how Lemmy is going and how it feels right now. The number of users decreased after the initial spike, sure, but it also stabilized at a respectable level. There are things I’m still missing, but the way it is definitely works for me.

vegskret ,

Same situation for me. This is such a nice place compared to reddit. I still think it would be better if it grows some more, but one of the nice things about Lemmy is that it has a more “niche” user base

butterflyattack ,

Yeah, same here. I’m not nearly as active here as I was on reddit, but there’s not as much going on here and activity feeds itself. It’s fine, I read more books.

rustydrd ,
@rustydrd@sh.itjust.works avatar

For me, it’s the opposite. Only ever lurked on Reddit, but started posting and commenting more here. Feels more inviting.

Sine_Fine_Belli ,

Same here

I’m trying to use lemmy more

I’m posting more on lemmy now

nicetriangle ,

Really has felt like the thrediverse has been quite active lately. During the exodus we had a lot of posting about... the exodus. But now we have a lot of posting about actual topics and what feels like a pretty healthy community building save for a few instances that will probably get defederated before too long.

whoisearth ,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

Same I find the engagement is raising. The threads here are more sincere. Sure it’s not as active when it comes to some things but that’s fine IMHO. Building an online community right takes time.

saltnotsugar ,

I also feel that people here are much nicer, and willing to engage with content. Even tiny communities usually make pretty great posts.

Fermion ,

I greatly appreciate the lack of reddit meta getting repeated adnauseum. 69 and 420 references really stop being funny when repeated in so many threads.

chitak166 ,

I totally agree!

Rodeo ,

Don’t you mean “this!”?

chitak166 ,

Lol, exactly.

greencactus ,

Yes, absolutely.

And you know what?

I love it, just the feeling of actually engaging of people. Something I didn’t have on Reddit. I think it really opens my eyes on how much our attention gets commercialised.

half_built_pyramids ,

I’m so happy there’s no more posts about people trying to fix federation

morrowind OP ,

I mean it’s fine, improving federation is always welcome, it’s just dull when you go to the fediverse and all they talk about is… the fediverse

half_built_pyramids ,

Oh sorry, I wasn’t clear enough. I’m taking about the posts that have an authoritarian slant to them.

“There should only be one (memes or whatever) community across the fediverse. Someone… should deal with all these copies.”

Fedi doesn’t map exactly into their single server reddit experience. They want to re-create king spaz for some reason. It was kinda gross and I felt a few randos really showed their ass.

Toldry ,
@Toldry@lemmy.world avatar

What is “thredrsiverse”?

damnthefilibuster ,

Lemmy had an exodus?

WhiteHawk ,

Reddit did

mtchristo ,

This place shall not die. Keep the party going guys.

Sine_Fine_Belli ,

Same here

I’m trying to use lemmy more and post more content

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