…relative to Reddit’s size?
I see so many posts and comments voicing disappointment with Lemmy’s lack of massive expansion.
I too want to see Lemmy gain more users, but I do not want it to grow to Reddit’s size. If Reddit is the yardstick, I’d say that a population that large attracts a lot of negative behaviours; degeneration of discourse, amplification of echo chambers and hive mind behaviour, etc…
I started on Reddit in 2010 and found that by 2016 things were really bad in comparison. A fun and engaging site was experiencing an obvious devolution that persists to this day, accelerated by Spez’s enshittification of the platform. Obviously the fediverse insulates us from that occurring here but I think you get what I mean.
Do you you think Lemmy is too small? I don’t. I’ve been here since the great migration last year and have had a really good time. I see a lot of familiar names in the comments on a daily basis. It actually feels like a community here. I guess I just don’t understand the fixation on the size of Lemmy’s user base. Curious to hear your thoughts.
[EDIT] Thanks for all the responses, everyone! Lots of perspectives I hadn’t yet considered.
Because I want to see Reddit fail.
I just miss there being more variance in the voices I see in the comments. On Reddit, the size made it so that you were pretty much always seeing new commenters, and seeing a lot of different discussions. But here, I mostly see the same ~50 regulars across all the communities I subscribe to, and almost all the same discussions being had.
Overall I still prefer it here, but more users and more active communities would be nice, too.
On Reddit I went to specific subreddits and things were bubbling there, on Lemmy I pretty much have to stay on All to get any active content. I really don’t want Lemmy to reach eternal September, but we definitely need much more activity and a much larger user base than we currently have.
Same here. On the upside, "All“ on Lemmy has a much higher quality than what Reddit had in the past years. I really enjoy my daily doomscroll on Lemmy.
I mean, Lemmy is pretty much news and… That’s it. I loved the smaller communities of Reddit. And Reddit was really nice, you just had to get off the subs with millions of subscribers.
I just joined. What’s some good sub communities with good engagement?
Welcome in from the cold. We’ve got hot cocoa and marshmallows.
Welcome!
- !movies@lemm.ee
- !television@lemmy.world
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee
- !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz
- !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
- !relationship_advice@lemmy.world
There is a weekly thread on !newcommunities@lemmy.world where people promote active communities
Thank you. These are fun!
You are welcome!
Honestly, browse by All, Active, Last 6 Hours or New and block communities you dont like. Subscribe to your favorites but since this is more garden hose than firehose, drinking from the tap isn’t too bad.
For months, I kept saying "I’ll only do that until my subscribe list gets good/busy enough”. It’s been months, and still isn’t good enough.
I want more small communities with people who really like specific things. For example if you want to buy a robot vacuum going to a community about it is very nice to read up on what people find important and maybe issues with a particular model. Even the memes sometimes have great info (think something like a popular vacuum that doesn’t pick up anything with “At least you tried” or spongebob meme pointing at stuff of increasing sizes referencing areas the vacuum missed)
Example meme I just created for robo vacs which I’d like to see in the some robovac community.
I’d really like to see more posts come through, without the dip into the “copy Reddit posts” kind of thing. When I open Reddit, I can read 100 posts of varying topics, refresh an hour later and have a lot of new posts to ingest. Lemmy doesn’t have that much activity, so I end up looking at a very similar “popular” feed this morning, this afternoon, this evening. And 1/4 of those posts will also be in my feed again the next day.
Use an rss feed reader, it prevents duplicates, but it might be annoying to use if you interact with post a lot
On !fedigrow@lemm.ee there’s a weekly thread called “How are you doing with your communities?” It’s for/by all the people who single-handedly keep niche communities alive by posting regularly. It can be a tough job, and easy to burn out. That’s because of the relatively small population here on Lemmy.
However, I agree that I like the culture here better. On Reddit, even when I blocked ads I still felt like I was being marketed to and manipulated.
Thank you for mentioning it!
I would like particular communities to grow but the Facebook/Instagram/tiktok people can stay where they’re at.
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I want the niche communities to fill out but otherwise I agree.
Too many people are just competitive. I didn’t get it either, just ignore it and post memes.
More people need to know about lemmy.
Perhaps the next time reddit fuck off, we will see.
But i think it might not a case anymore, because Reddit is so good with censor now.
Comment hide, shallowban new account, especially detect multi and shallowban in 30 minutes, it is unlikely there will be a revolt on Reddit.
it’s like 90% IT nerds here lol. whether you want growth or not depend on how okay you are with that. I love you guys but a lot of your hobbies bore me to shit and I want someone to talk to
Typing as an IT nerd, I would be glad to also see some more diversity in interests aside from tech.
Are you already on !casualconversation@lemm.ee ?
I meant more talk shop lol
Which field are you in?
It’s still an emerging technology so it makes sense that many of the early adopters are IT nerds. Early Reddit was the same- the most active communities were IT, programming or video game related. More diversity will appear in time.
I guess for me it’s disappointing to see how much nonsense ppl will put up with from reddit, when so many ppl made noises Abt how they wld leave
