Sadly, there’s just not a critical mass of users in most of the communities I’m interested in. I pop in here every once in a while to see what’s going on, but it’s currently lacking the diversity of content that you get on Reddit. I’m still rooting for it to succeed.
Because every post is just Lemmy users jerking themselves off raving about how much cooler they are than Reddit.
It’s so fucking cringe I I can’t scroll more than 5 minutes without giving up.
I will admit, I was hard into Lemmy at first, but then gradually slipped back into the Reddit habit. This is my first visit to the site in a few weeks.
Lemmy feels, some days, like its bots all the way down. Just reddit repost bots everywhere.
No worries, Lemmy is alive. Lemmy and Fediverse in general is better to grow organically.
quality over quantity
Sites like reddit, Instagram, and twitter make the cognitive effort to go from signing up to using the app as low as possible. The users’ experience is considered from before they even have an account. They make sure you don’t ever see a blank page or feel like you’re battling the app to find content.
Lemmy actively puts roadblocks in the way. Server choices, the hoops you need to jump though for server memberships, and highly fragmented communities all but ensure that people will face issues when signing up.
Sadly, a lot of users here feel that because they had to overcome them, so should everyone else. Until that changes then the self-defeating cycle will continue.
They really really need to do something about the confusing account creation process. Most people ended up on Lemmy.world because they assumed that that was the site you had to use. They were never directed to other instances.
What they need to do is have a lemmy.com website and when you create an account on it it just creates an account on a random semi-popular reliable instance. To spread load. If everyone uses the same platform then the robustness of the platform goes away and we are essentially back to a single point of failure. But now in a more complicated manner.
We’re getting there, still in the very early stages here. One thing I’ve noticed is how extremely techy the initial community here was, something I personally collided with like a bit of a wrecking ball. People in general, not just techy people, tend to assume others will approach things similarly to how they naturally do. So they don’t necessarily always see problems that others might stumble over, ahead of time.
Now that we’ve started growing more rapidly, these problems of scale, where they now have to anticipate problems they did not have to anticipate before, all are coming due. So, growing pains.
This is why I have not been inviting people to Lemmy yet, I’ve been waiting until it’s more polished for the mainstream. It’s also why the graph is trending down. We’re literally not ready yet for the mainstream, in many, many different ways.
Also useful to remember, we’re only done getting big growth spikes if spez is done pissing off reddit. I doubt he is.
That decline is slower than I expected. It shows that more people stay than not
I was an early Reddit adopter and can remember how lonely it felt back then. It took years but it got better in ways and worse in others. I believe in Lemmy because it isn’t susceptible to the pressures of a company trying to be profitable. Sure it’ll have its own challenges but I’ve personally had enough of idiot CEOs running social websites into the ground.
People are obsessing over numbers like bitcoiners do. Stop it.
Of course it’s going to die down after the novelty effect has passed. Do we aim for the “fediverse” to be as big (and as toxic) as the likes of 4chan, twitter or reddit? I don’t know about you, but I’m glad it’s not the same thing.
I’m okay with it being smaller. I don’t think I want this to be Reddit-sized. I would like more users for sure but not that many.
It needs a solid app like Apollo was for Reddit to help it keep active users.
Connect is so good I’m surprised I don’t hear about it more.
The number of users are just stabilising. This is expected after a sudden spike in users.
Lemmy needs a middle logical layer to really take off. If a local server moderats it as such, the default view for say /c/technology shouldn’t be slit across a dozen instances. Instead it should be merged into one view.
Without it you have a bunch of largely stagnant communities.
There’s also people that create multiple accounts in different instances and end up using just one.
I did this. I didn’t initially realize there is such a thing as instances (I thought I was joining Lemmy). Came from Reddit so didn’t expect this. Now I only use my Lemmy.world account, the other one is doing nothing (should probably get around deleting it at some point).
So far I’ve created an account at sh.itjust.works (first one), lemmy.world (main during most of my time here), lemmy.dbzer0.com (first attempt to migrate to another instance) and at lemm.ee, because I wasn’t happy with how lemmy.world admins run their instance (preemptively defederating Hexbear but not Meta).
I guess I should delete my other accounts.
Never heard of Hexbear (kind of new around here). Why were they defederated? I’m actually on Lemmy World.
For being a communist instance, here’s the announcement.
Oh wow. After reading the announcement I’m glad they got defederated.
I feel like it’s one small community instead of an interconnected larger one, unfortunately.
I’m actively lurking, I just have nothing of value to share 🌝
To be honest, I do the same thing. A couple of simple rules to keep the web entertaining:
- Filter everything that triggers you
- Ban porn
- Never, never look at comments on politics, religion and family. You’re like to want to erase humanity afterwards
