• dub@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I definitely held out thinking they would change their mind about the API but day finally came and I made a Lemmy account and didn’t look back

  • blueskiesoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’m doing my part. I had two posts on Reddit. One was superniche and got 30ish points. Whatever, I was happy. It had useful info for the other people on the sub. Then I posted something to the broader community and got two downvotes in like 1 second, killing it. How did they even look at it? I think someone was sitting there gleefully downvoting every fucking thing. I never posted again.

    I’ve been here since mid June and have made 264 posts, like WTF. I’m having more fun here than I ever did on Reddit and I don’t get that sick feeling I used to get from seeing all the outrage posts and mean comments (to everyone, not just me).

    Loving Lemmy.

  • BlueDepth9279@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The jump in posts over the last month is incredible. I find Lemmy quickly replacing Reddit which is great.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Not just number but quality. It was all memes at the start, now actual conversation is happening in more than just a few posts.

      • BlueDepth9279@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Good point! I’m hoping for some of the more niche communities to start becoming more active. Things are trending in the right direction though.

        • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 years ago

          They will. My experience community building thus far is that if you can build up one anchor community to the point where people are organically sharing content and commenting, other adjacent communities will start to generate the same sorts of things with smaller subscriber bases because that anchor community is keeping people’s eyes here. Just a question of time.

        • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I’m usually a lurker, but I decided to just go ahead and make one that I was missing. Something about personally wanting Lemmy to grow is motivating to me.

          I made an XCOM community on Lemmy.world, and even though I’m the only one posting so far, it’s fun to watch the subscriber count grow. Already at 50!

          • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Please definitely don’t be discouraged in the slightest, TPM.

            Single-game forums were almost always the smallest gaming subreddits on Reddit, often times being several orders of magnitude smaller than the “gaming in general” communities.

            But that special feeling of having other people passionate about that specific game you love can’t be beat. Hang in there, and you’ll definitely grow and get that engagement in time.

        • NAS89@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I’m dying with the lack of baseball communication. The biggest Baseball and Atlanta Braves communities are pretty much dead and I really miss talking ball.

          • Matt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Sports is definitely hard to have take off in these sorts of spaces, since sports are generally talked about much more amongst regular/casual users, than the more tech-savvy crowd who are willing to try these things out.

            It’s the same on the biggest ActivityPub platform (Mastodon) - the really popular regular subjects such as sports and cars just don’t have a presence there.

      • Thwompthwomp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        You need both though. Memes and shitposts to scroll though and chuckle, and then quality stuff to engage on. Lemmys got that, and the momentum will keep it growing.

        I tried lemmy like a year or so ago, and it felt so stale. The technology is there, but the content just wasn’t. That’s clearly changed now. 😊

    • Saneless@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      It just definitely needed to hit a critical mass. Enough that people had enough to read, stick around, and post themselves. Which in turn created a place that new people felt had enough content.

  • Drahcir_Rekattih@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This is reminiscent of when I was first on Hotmail back in the 90’s. I remember getting an email from the Hotmail team when they first hit a million subscribers… They were bought out by Microsoft within the year… My username is my original Hotmail address.

  • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s insane how well this timeline syncs with reddit’s API bs!

    From the very first day spez announced the API changes and steadily increasing until most of the 3pa shut down then BAM. Good for Lemmy and hopefully bad for reddit!

  • anewbeginning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Since the 30th I’ve stopped going on reddit, but I must admit I still don’t participate here as much because the content I’m seeing it’s not as tailored to my interests as I’d like. Searching for communities tends to show a lot of communities with no participation at all, which is useless.

    Also wished there was a video player. Being constantly redirected to youtube is a bit annoying.

    But I’m very happy with Memmy for Lemmy. Not as polished as Apollo, but close enough. And Lemmy feels freer from bot/ai/ad content, and that is worth gold.

  • stratoscaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Holy fucking shit that’s insane. What’s wild is, if I understand it correctly, that’s basically linear with how many users have joined, meaning people are posting more than ever before (on a per user basis).