Well, the new user bump has passed!
Now it's a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)
It'll take a while for some of the smaller communities to get critical mass. And that's okay, probably. Critical mass is here for the larger topics already. I'll do my best to help :)
I've mentioned this elsewhere, but without a steady stream of content, this will not work. I look at "All" every day and I find content to be generally lacking.
We need to be organized and have a game plan for how to proceed over the next 3-6 months. Imo, we need to be scraping the top content from Reddit, and we need to be recreating all of the top subreddit communities.
I’ve been pretty happy with the content actually, what do you think is missing?
I was on Reddit a lot to see chatter about games I enjoy. The presence of Destiny 2 or Diablo 4 players seems pretty quiet on Lemmy. A lot of game devs are on Reddit and I don't know how many of them have or will move to another platform.
Did you have a look at Reddit lately? The content quality is shit. Personally I find much more interesting stuff on Lemmy atm.
I actually started my full on boycott this week. Lol.
quality is shit.
This may be the case, but I still think there must be stuff worth selectively grabbing, and there's no good reason not to...
Honestly, I'm fine with Lemmy staying small for a good bit.
For me, Reddit and now Lemmy are time wasters. I come here to laugh at the memes, catch some news, and maybe see some bobs.
Sometimes news articles don't have any comments, so I'll just read the article and maybe add a comment, or just upvote and move on. Some more news content would be nice, and hopefully the local provincial/state and even city groups get some traction soon so I can leave reddit entirely instead of lurking local subreddits without signing in.
I am more than happy for reddit to become a lightning rod for bots and shills now that I have a basic understanding of this platform
I'd rather read a handful of genuine comments, discussion, and opinion/insights from real people on Lemmy than hundreds of divisive comments, bad faith arguments, bots, and irrelevant forum sliding jokes/tangential rants that have polluted reddit.
This opinion resonates with me, especially regarding the people on the other end. At this point I've nothing but positive experiences with folks here.
For sure. The rate of development has skyrocketed the last month or so, and letting Lemmy mature a bit, as well as all the apps under development isn't a bad thing. I still think it's a little technical, and I don't want to sacrifice any of the utility provided by separate instances and federation, so letting things mature a bit should help make things less fiddly for less technically inclined people.
In the meantime, a self-sustaining, engaged, and quality community is better than a large community.
I agree, there needs to be a plan for content. But I disagree on the means.
I disagree with reposting Reddit. If content isn't unique, people will just go to Reddit. Repeating memes is one thing (it's fun and nostalgic), but wholesale content duplication will just lead to drowning the signal to noise ratio.
We could autopopulate some content. That only works if the comment traffic is there too, or it's just shouting into the void. For example: it doesn't help to have a bot posting Reuters articles automatically to c/news if no one is interacting.
I plan to make a utility for myself to help with my own content. I really want to see c/printSF take off, for example, so I'm going to do my best there. But I can't do it for every community I want to see haha :)
I am here for the comments, not articles.
I don't care about articles since it is usually just one person's opinion. I want discussion with other people, where ideas can be challenged and tested.
Adding links will not help that.
For me, personally, it is good enough right now. I do open reddit sometimes for smaller communities not active here, but if we keep it at this traffic, I will be satisfied.
One of my favourite things about Lemmy is the "New Comments" sort mode. It's great for finding those discussions.
How bout we not recreate the shit hole that is reddit. I can not express the relief I felt when I got out. You can't make me go back!
Let's focus on growing the niche communities we have instead copying other sites.
Sort by top 6 hour and in settings hide read, and mark seen as read. Also try a third party app like Connect. That should help your All.
I dunno... spez isn't done pissing reddit off yet. He's got more up his sleeve.
There's definitely going to be more reddit exoduses. Over the last 10 years, there were several moments where this could've happened but there weren't any viable options (except Voat, but that went to the Nazis 👎). Now that there's Lemmy, Squabbles, Tildes, etc..., I think people's appetite for putting up with reddit's bullshit is a lot less. I think the next big one will be when reddit introduces the new "awards" system in a couple of months.
There'll likely be another spike when sync/boost finally drop their lemmy versions.
^ let's keep building so we get more traction when the next bump hits 😎
Looks good to me so far. Slow growth means less work for admins and lower server cost. Lemmy has delivered more memorable moments over the last few weeks than Reddit has over the last few years. 🙌
Congrats in weathering the brunt! It's been very exciting watching. However, I suspect it won't be the last or largest wave.
Well shit, now Lemmy is officially dead /s
It's a lot better than the Threads graph haha
Yeah I think this is to be expected, I agree we'll probably see slower consistent growth from here
I mentioned elsewhere but we are just over a month out from the Reddit blackout so a dropoff from those who only stayed for that is to be expected and would be showing up in a users/month graph right about now. The Canada community hit a high of 1.15k/m, dipped as low as 1.12, and has now recovered back to 1.15. I've seen a similar thing play out in the smaller communities I pay attention to on a smaller scale.
All this to say I'm not convinced our growth is slowing as much as all that rather we're seeing the results of a statistical anomaly that took place a month ago.
So glad I found this place. Here to stay and grow this alternative.
Oh, source for chart: https://the-federation.info/node/details/19879 -- lemmy.ca active users past month. The wider Lemmy chart looks similar.
I think something to consider is that we are just over a month out from the Reddit blackout where you would expect to see a significant drop from those who checked things out for a couple days while Reddit was down, then left. I'd be curious to see what the stats look like a week from now.
i think the idea of 'lemmy day' on reddit would be a good one. instead of linking to articles, post on lemmy and link to the lemmy post on reddit.
we did similar to digg all those years ago...
the idea has been floated to do this on August 1st..
Just do it every day if you really want to still be active on Reddit.
Thank you for sharing this.
Been thinking a lot about the overall extent of content shared and user types involved in growth or just simple involvement.
What is it that we have found about our habits of use with migrating over from Reddit?
I come to see new things I follow or to look for help on something. I like having somewhat of an aggregated news feed from several news sources.
I comment on things I feel I can contribute to but while typically not when it’s just an informative share. You get an upvote if it qualifies. Kind of like a RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Communicated and Informed) approach.
R - you get a lengthy comment with possible responses.
A - A comment for follow up. With an upvote.
C - upvote and comment potentially usually a thank you
I - upvote as a thanks
Fans of The Office should come join us in /m/DunderMifflin on kbin. It's practically an 05/05/05 party. We need posters and commenters!
I'm new here. I love Lemmy. It took me a bit to get it working right (issues with the language settings), but now that it is working, I think it's great. I currently use it on my laptop, but I'm also considering an app for my phone. I found two here on F-Droid, those being Jerboa and lemmur. Does anyone have any opinions on which is the better app?
To answer my own question, I find that lemmur does not work on my phone. So, Jerboa it is.