A bit of downtime is good. Gives me chance to work on Sync until the next wave joins.
Honestly, that’s fine - Lemmy is now a known alternative and best of all, has time to grow more naturally and be better situated for the next eventual migration (I’m a Reddit migrant myself).
It’s good for me, keeps me online for about an hour before I go out and get an irl life
Great benefit that many overlook!
I used to use Sync for Reddit. Now that you can use Sync for Lemmy, it’s easy for me.
Yeah I really miss my niche porn
Honestly same. But I like all the SFW stuff
Removed by mod
People are leaving Lemmy for Reddit?
Hells no. 13 years of Reddit and I’m done with the place. Even if Lemmy burned down in flames I’d still not go back to the poison place called Reddit
Lemmy reminds so much of the beginnings of Reddit when I started there over 17 years ago.
Totally. I can only see it improving from here. It’s clear there are tons of committed users, one’s that will continue posting for years to come.
I am one of them.
But who, exactly, is supposed to create this “niche content” for them? I think this is something we underestimate—large swaths of people see themselves as consumers of quality content. It is not for them to bring in comments or interesting finds to the communities. This I think is what makes the internet ripe for centralization. You can’t be a non-paying consumer and choose your menu. You can pay with your behavior datapoints and get fads packaged to you, or you can help create an ecosystem where you don’t have to be spied on every click and tap of the day. Choose your path and make peace with it. The worst would be to help create content for a community and be spied while at it.
I haven’t seen anyone really saying that. Reddits a cesspool of hyper moderation. They’ll ban their own users and Lemmy will literally be default
With the exception of a few of the “grad” communities, Lemmy has just been a whole lot less toxic. I don’t deny occasionally slipping back into reddit for exactly two subs that don’t seem to have any chance of taking off in Lemmy. But Lemmy has really killed my reddit urge permanently. Every time I enter reddit, I see a message trolling or attacking me or whatever.
Lemmy just about keeps me here. It’s a little anemic, but not due to lack of niche, but lack of normies.
Plus Lemmy hasn’t turned out to be full Nazis like voat did. I find more on Lemmy than Mastodon.
Edit: Fix! I clearly meant Lemmy not Lenny.
Is Lenny your Uncle? Are you okay? Where’s he keeping you?
Argh. Fixed. Thanks.
Staying on topic and not commenting about James Franco. Yeah, this isn’t reddit.
I like motorcycles and assholes, I have a hard time not going back to reddit.
You’re gonna love motorassholes.
I find lemmy is more active in smaller communities compared to reddit, where any sub less than 500 subs feels dead. On Lemmy a similar sized community is bustling.
Reddit never removes people from the subscriber list AFAIK. So over time, the subscriber count becomes extremely unrealistic. It might claim there’s 500 people, but if the sub was created years ago, many of those 500 people probably are inactive. And god knows how many bots might subscribe to a sub for some reason or another (bots obviously don’t need to subscribe, but I’m sure many do, since otherwise anti bot measures could notice that they never subscribe to anything). Reddit really should show active subscribers in the past month only.
Lemmy is just so new that if a community has 500 subscribers, that’s probably pretty close to the monthly active figure (though with the exception that quite a lot of people have multiple Lemmy accounts because there’s been constant reasons to switch instances).
Though also, if you see a Reddit sub with only 500 people, you know it’s dead and you should look for a different sub to post in. On Lemmy, 500 isn’t utterly awful and also many front-ends only show numbers for your instance, so a community with 500 subs might be a decently sized community (though who can tell?).
