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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 122 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 75 points 6 days ago (5 children)

For real we need more uplifting subs, my feed is just Musk and Trump diarrhea.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 49 points 6 days ago (1 children)

be the change you want to see. Post and upvote.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago

Instructions not clear. Posted upvotes.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I think this is an artifact of what's oddly the biggest weakness of the fediverse: decentralization.

When I used reddit back pre-api stuff, my front page was 100% niche subs I'd subscribed to, but those niches have trouble le growing here because there's so many instances.

I was super active in the scuba subreddit. Here on Lemmy, there's several scuba groups that tried to form, but none of them stuck because they were all on different instances instead of one central location where everyone could work together to make the community.

As a result, most of us haven't been filtering out 99% of Lemmy because the 1% where we'd be active doesn't exist. It's like joining reddit and having your frontpage be /r/all. It's a shitty experience that g9ves a lot of weight to political posts.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 23 points 6 days ago

I don't think the subs failed to get off the ground because of federation, I think they did because they didn't have a dedicated person tirelessly filling them with posts and single-handedly carrying them. Because that's still where we are population wise. 50k+ MAUs is very nice, but not nearly enough for niche subs to be self-sustaining. Look at any small but active Lemmy sub right now and it's often a single person doing 90% of the posting. The only real way to get a new sub going is to be that person.

At least now we have stuff like Lemmy Federate and places like !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca that are both fairly active, so getting a new sub off the ground should be much easier than two years ago.

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[–] DopaDodge@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

One of the things I feel like Lemmy is still missing or is under developed is the niche hobbyist and tech help communities. I'm referring to places users can go to ask questions and start to build up a knowledge base of sorts that people will find and reference. Kind of like how if you want to actually find useful information for something, you used to add "Reddit" to every search to get meaningful results. Hopefully, that can become Lemmy. Assuming of course search engines even index Lemmy well enough

One way to start could be just having people post small tutorials or solutions for popular problems or topics in respective communities. I know the internet has changed a lot but "back in the old days" that was a great way to get engagement going at least on tech forums.

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[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us.

I am one of the proud new users, and this is great to see!

[–] emberpunk@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

Welcome! It feels fresh to not be on a big tech platform.

[–] Flummoxx@lemm.ee 74 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I'll just say, the more I hang around Lemmy, the more I enjoy the genuine conversations. It feels like less snark, less joke replies, and just a generally more community-type feeling. Reminds me of when I first tried Reddit after leaving Digg way back when.

Hopefully, us exiles can leave the Reddit back at Reddit.

[–] Lexxly@lemmy.ca 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I find a bunch of snark here, but it absolutely feels more genuine. With reddit it felt like half the comments I saw were from bots. More than half, maybe.

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 41 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I hate everyone on lemmy but at least I'm hating people

[–] Lucky13@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Zink@programming.dev 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I feel the exact same, and I’ve been hanging around here for almost two years (the great 3rd party app exodus of ‘23).

This place feels more like a community filled with people versus a firehose of internet wrapped in layers of corporate and right wing BS.

Reddit was almost exclusively read-only for me. Here, I am commenting all the time.

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 28 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I hope they feel welcomed here to stick around. I've quit Reddirt in 2023 during the API exodus, came to Lemmy and never looked back.

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 22 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Its still a shame that I will never recommend this place to anyone I know until the community changes here.

Its a bit chicken and the egg cause we likely need one for the other. But with the users proclivity for bans, and blocks you end up with a user base even smaller and discussion that more feels like a battle to be right most of the time because intellectual superiority is looked up to rather than conversation.

I still think a community of people competing to be the most right in every comment section does not lead to actual community and doesn't even help provide facts or info to most communities when there are not many niches to which people in here can participate in. Objective facts work best not in fandoms but in crafts. Like what glue doesn't melt Styrofoam when doing prop building not which show or game is best.

I may be alone in this but I yearn for "the normies".

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (6 children)

a community of people competing to be the most right in every comment section

I think this depends highly on the type of community. (Although clearly I'm doing it to you right now. Sorry.)

Highly political topics and such are the worst, probably. But others where people come because of a shared interest, like a sport or food or animal or something, a hobby, I think tend to be more chill and mellow.

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[–] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 5 days ago

Me too, but I still prefer this place to reddit. I have the same exact gripe: those that must be the most right. I've just found a lot more of them on reddit than lemmy. I have lost count of the amount of times I start to write something on reddit, then imagine how someone somewhere, from some angle, can decide to be offended if they want to, then just delete the comment. It definitely happens on lemmy too, it's just in my experience it has happened less here, so I have been more willing to type out comments here. It really sucks that this has not been your experience.

[–] Zero@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Just keep posting and being the type of person you want to see as a community member here. The other site was exactly like you described above for a very long time!

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[–] JoeKis@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Reddit refugee here. Can I say Luigi?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 28 points 6 days ago

It's more frowned upon to not do so.

[–] Lucky13@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Can you say Luigi lol. Son, you're required to pledge allegiance to Luigi before every post you make here.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

Friend, you can say Luigi is a hero.

lemmy.world might have some rules against endorsing violence, but on most Lemmy instances, I can even tell you I hope all the healthcare CEOs are assassinated the same way. No corporate overlords to appease here!

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[–] imetators@lemm.ee 42 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Lemmy is more polished and populated now than before. Hope influx stays and we got all the real people from reddit and bots stay there.

[–] Otiz@sopuli.xyz 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Downloading an app instead of using the web gui helped me a lot, almost gave up on Lemmy couple days ago. But some of these apps are so well made. Really shows commitment

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[–] Picasso@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

This is great but i feel like we still need some speciality communities that will drive people here. This is an amazing start though

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[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You know it's bad for Reddit when people were even talking about going back to Digg

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[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yeah in a few days I'm going to delete my Reddit account, liking this place so far, you get news and genuine discussion.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 days ago

Please keep it, it can be useful to promote Lemmy a bit, like we do on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Glad that you like it here!

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[–] amos@mander.xyz 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Fantastic! New people (and old as well), please give to the community! Post and/or comment as much as possible, to make Lemmy an even better place!

You can do so by just regularly commenting and/or posting, but also by creating new communities and bringing some activity to inactive ones!

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

This!!

Help the communities you like to see grow.

Just making one or two posts in communities that seem dead gets the ball rolling in making them alive.

It also motivates others to post.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is there a live chart available?

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There’s two at fediverse observer and fedidb.

[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (4 children)

MAU? Mostly Anal Users? Martian Appalachian Upholstery? Mass Ass Underwear? Missing Alligator Utensils? Moldy Apple Uterus? Massive Arctic Uranus?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 26 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Monthly Average Users

as opposed to DAU (Daily) or WAU (Weekly)

For a live product, the number of average users / time is a pretty telling metric.

I wonder what the arc will look like this time.

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[–] sgbrain7@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

I'm beyond thrilled! can't wait to see some of my favorite communities spring up here.

[–] bndkt@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I’m pretty new, but I like it here. It feels bigger than 54k MAU, probably because everyone is really active.

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 days ago

It also feels like half the activity on Reddit now comes from bots. It makes it feel emptier than it probably is to me when I go visit there occasionally, especially on the big subs. Which then makes me focus on the small subs, which end up feeling smaller or equal to the fediverse already, just on more niche topics.

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[–] metalsd@eviltoast.org 12 points 6 days ago

I hope this keeps growing. I'm loving it here, and the fediverse idea is amazing. I hope we succeed and descentralize social media. Power to the people again

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