This is my first comment on Lemmy , excited to be here as we embark on a new journey away from Reddit.
I’m excited for Sync coming to lemmy , my go to app for reddit browsing was Sync.
And obligatory fuck spez
Just heard the news about Sync and instantly registered here. I’ll still be hoping for Boost to cross over, but Sync is infinitely better than Reddit’s app. A decent client was all that was missing for me to make the plunge, let’s hope that’s the case for more people.
And yes, fuck Spez
I came here in search for an alternative for reddit. I am glad I found this place
Same, and I’m already loving this place
Lets fucking go. Fuck you spez.
AND MY AXE!
AND MY BOW
Unfortunately most of the communities I’m interested in are ghost towns
The best way to solve that is post some links and get the ball rolling. Can’t get engagement without something to engage with. (I am guilty of not posting links myself lol)
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I’m doing that but I don’t know for how long if I’m the only one doing the effort
Unfortunately, there’s no real way of knowing. But for any community someone’s gotta take that initial leap of faith and build it up from just a few people, even if it sounds like you’re talking to yourself sometimes. At least until like-minded people start to show up and be drawn in to what you’ve built.
Even for the community that I’m trying to start up here, !presidents, it might just be my friend and I making posts, and it might stay that way for weeks, or possibly months. But that’s a possibility you have to be okay with when starting up a community.
Try and talk to other individuals who are as passionate about your community’s premise as you are. Friends you know irl, or people you’ve met in a similar community on Reddit. Having even just a few other people to engage with can make the process seem a lot less lonely and futile.
Give it sometimes and post yourself
Sadly those are bots, real amount of users is around 150k. Source: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/176547
Apparently a lot of those bots are just farming reddit and reposting here. Which I think in the short term is a good thing. People are more likely to join/stay if they see content. On the other I hope lemmy has the tools to prevent bot content from overwhelming user generated posts to the point that it loses the authenticity.
We know nothing. We say nothing.
I would love to have a bot/a few scripts to migrate a lot of the useful posts that were on reddit over here for a few of my hobby communities instead of having to move them manually. I can definitely see a lot of use cases for those.
I don’t see the proof in that link, although maybe I’m missing something, it just seems to imply that is the case.
Agreed. It’s literally just them saying “there are a lot of new users and theoretically they could all be bots, therefore they are all bots”.
Whatever the number, I’ve definitely noticed in the past few days that there are getting to be enough people having conversations and posting content for this place to feel like a legit community instead of a ghost town. I’m really glad to see more people joining and taking part.
Agreed. It’s really nice to see top posts having a lot of thoughtful engagement. Hopefully we’ll have enough to start seeing people branching out to smaller niche communities too.
The small niche communities are pretty much dead, sadly. But there for sure is hope!
It’s been amazing to feel like we’re part of something that’s growing so fast. I’ll miss Reddit but I expect Lemmy will fill in the role sooner rather than later.
For example, your comment is the first one I have seen that has over 30 upvotes since I came on board a week back.
The growth is insane, fediverse is coming!
I’ve been on Lemmy since last Monday (like 10 days). It’s meteoric!
Back then, simply posting ANYTHING automatically meant you made the front page.
the interface is just so clean. it feels like early internet and I love it.
Were you using new reddit? I don’t find it that different from old.reddit (which is fine by me).
Exactly! I’m so happy it finally seems to be an alternative to Reddit, which has mutated into such a weird monster
I’ve tried moving away from Reddit several times with varying degrees of success, this time though it’s felt really easy - the more i learn about Lemmy the more i like it and look forward to seeing it evolve. There are some really nice communities here too, feels like a lot of the most interesting people have come here but the spammers, bots and trolls haven’t yet – i’m sure it’ll change as things grow but i’m going to enjoy it while it lasts.
I am one of them! Hello!
Fuck you Spez, most may be bots right now but those bad boys will eventually become real users.
Love it, and we’re not even at 1st July, when all 3rd party apps stop working (shame or not I still go back to reddit with Apollo to enjoy the drama).
Also, we don’t need 400 million users to have a variety of communities with good discussion and content - a few million is more than enough, probably.
I keep seeing new communities daily and we’re already the size of a decent city and much larger than the city I grew up in. We had all types from punks to queer kids to commies and fascists. We’ve got enough users to fill any niche I can think of and probably a lot more. And we’re still growing, I don’t remember reddit when it was this young, but there’s a bit of an early 4chan (minus all the racism and homophobia and hate) vibe going on that I totally dig!
How do i stop lemmy from spewing out new 1 point posts when I’m viewing the top posts like weekly or daily
It will be fixed in the next update says a developer, here
Just a wild guess - but those “front page” algos must be tough to master, especially when a site doesn’t have real data to play with. I’m sure the situation will improve soon!
replace the “1” in the url with “0” – so “/page/1” turns into “/page/0”
it’s an easy bandaid until they fix it!
On desktop in the address bar change the end from
/page/1->/page/0;)
So now I just gotta build up a new feed from scratch, that’s the part that sucks the most. So many nice niche communities I’ve discovered over the years on reddit… But it was time, reddit has been going downhill for years.
I am building my wall of
Subscribe Pendings, which I tend to like a butterfly collection.I’m in the middle of doing the same. Its a shame when you go through your list of subreddits and can’t find an equivelant community on here. Nevermind niche subs, there will still be plenty of 1mil+ subs which are missing from here.
Nor do I want to create and be the only mod of about 20 different subs. I feel like that requires a special sort of person lol.
HOLD DIAMOND HANDS
Oh shiiet, my fellow apes are here!
Wow, amazing to see and experience the community grow and become so active. I love it! :D
