It’s mostly bots, but so is Reddit. The real question is, how many of these are active participants and contributors who’ll generate content and start communities?
I’ve been posting like a madman. I hope to kickstart some activity. If this place looks halfway attractive on July 1st, it should bring in enough new posters from 3PA to make more communities self sustaining.
I had to leave behind a few communities that were small even on reddit, and hope to rebuild them better here.
Yeah, having enough activity is the only way we can make this place a viable Reddit alternative. That, and good third-party apps for a better mobile experience than Reddit. That alone could give the platform a serious edge, especially since 3PA users were some of the most active people on Reddit.
I’m feeling more convinced this is the way to proceed here. Even if just for the next few months. If quality and numbers improve maybe we can ease off. However, for now, I’ll make it a point to be more chatty, and support quality content (especially what’s originating here). I will not just lurk like I did when I was a member of Spez’s turd world.
I came here four days ago and I’ve been commenting and voting on everything I see. I haven’t made any new posts but I’ve been pretty active otherwise.
Super important to make this place a viable alternative, rather than just another graveyard.
I’m not a bot, I used to post on Reddit only occasionally, (I was more of a lurker) and I only accessed it through the Apollo app. I strongly believe in the concept of decentralized platforms, and Apollo made Reddit more user-friendly by streamlining the tools, and reducing the number of ads. I recently joined Lemmy a few days ago and I already feel a surge of energy from enthusiastic migrant users like myself. If I thought my increased involvement here would contribute to meaningful discussions within the community, I will try to be more engaged. I hope that the influx of reddit users, including myself, can provide the boost that Lemmy needed without overwhelming the ‘instances’ themselves.
I’m not a bot
That’s exactly what a bot would say, a-ha!
But no seriously, I hope there’s enough of us here to make a meaningful difference; enough to give the internet a new ‘front page’.
I think it will be similar to reddit, where a small percentage of people produce content while the majority lurk. I used to lurk a lot on reddit, but I hope to change that here (I feel it’s important to be active to help drive activity).
That’s going to be any platform, really. I feel like there might be more content posters here literally for the reason of boosting it and hopefully having a competitor on equal grounds to reddit. Right now, reddit is still winning in content and features, but it obviously has been around for longer and has a massive user base. It will take time, but with enough motivation provided by the despise of spez, it’s possible. I don’t think it will take down reddit, but it will make reddit no longer the only option.
undefined> how many of these are active participants and contributors who’ll generate content and start communities?
count me in!
Then let’s work together to make the Fediverse an actual thing, and take back control from spez and his ilk!
Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.
My first lemmy post. Here as a reddit refugee. Looking forward to watching a new community develop as reddit seems intent to go down the road of enshitification. I bailed on FB and Instagram as they enshitified. Reddit looks to be next.
My first as well. Been on Reddit for a long enough to remember the DIGG exodus when they killed themselves. Interesting to see it happen again.
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im also a reddit refugee.
Welcome all you noobs
(don’t hit me, I just got here too)
Yeah, I’m here since we were at 5-10k… Like, two weeks ago lol
Lol it’s seriously crazy how much less active this place felt a couple of weeks ago. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be someone who was here years ago.
Right!? Even daily it seems like there’s more and more activity. I’m lovin itTM
Indeed. It’s getting better and better. Which means people are posting better quality stuff over here. “He who shall not be named” feels now a little weird when visiting it.
It feels old.
Is… is this an OG?
I just joined. Done with that godforsaken website Reddit. It’s taking a little getting used to, but I know I eventually will get a hang of it. I’m willing to put my time into this.
I also made a new account yesterday cause I noticed that it already looked much better than when I last checked. If some of my niche hobby subs move over here I‘d definitely spend more time in the ‘verse.
Performance and design are other big factors I‘m not a fan of right now, I hope someone with expertise in these fields can help the project out, but it‘s already servicable.
Create your own niche communities then! If others find that it exists, they’ll post to it. If everyone waits for someone else to start the niche community, no one will start the niche community.
What niche hobbies are you waiting on communities for?
Some (more) niche community-driven subs of games I‘m playing like summoner school or ADC mains for instance. I‘m patient enough to wait for them (and other features) to come around but I‘m not the right person to make them.
Fair enough. I suppose for specific video games you’d be best to follow generalized video game communities for now, such as Games or Patient Gamers until later on.
Subscribed! Thanks for the recommendations.
No worries! As a disclaimer that I should’ve mentioned earlier, I am one of the mods for patient gamers, but I felt the suggestion was in line with what you might like, rather than advertisement. There is another patient gamers community on the lemmy.ml instance but it’s far less active. I have no association with the Games community though
Yeah, the mag or whatever it‘s called over here is perfectly in line with my interests, so you guessed right! I‘ll have a look around and see if there‘s any topics I can add to.
Awesome! I appreciate it. We’re a decently sized community but there’s not a whole ton of content being generated over there at the moment, mostly just me and one of our other mods. Once it really gets going though I can see it becoming a fairly active community!
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Which gardening subs are you part? Also, what are they called on Lemmy?
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Hey I created a Vegetable Gardening magazine on kbin but it’s apparently hard to find from Lemmy. You can type the url this way to find it :
https://lemmy.one/c/VegetableGardening@kbin.socialdeleted by creator
I realized yesterday that i haven’t been on Reddit for 3 days, but have been on Lemmy every day. It’s refreshing.
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Yes this is my situation as well. Not doom scrolling Reddit. But scrolling Lemmy with interest.
Tbh it seems to be mostly bots adding to that growth. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to see the fediverse grow, but if it’s overrun with bots… no one will want to stick around.
Reddit’s mostly bots too, and the rest are scroll zombies. We just need to hope that people who generate content and discussion show up too; just a few thousand would be enough to get the ball rolling.
So far it looks like most of the bots are just signing up - not posting anything.
The calm before the storm
Why do you say it’s mostly bots?
I also suspect they’re all bots.
I joined when users were 10k and I didn’t see any increase in engagement including comments and upvotes.
There was an exploit released a few days back that could make thousands extremely fast (unsure of the number).The two top user instances at this point have 50k new users a piece, and 10 users active, lol.
The relevant instances might as well remove non-active accounts that do not participates (e.g. upvotes or downvotes), I guess it would be enough to remove most of them
Wouldn’t a bot account be more likely to randomly upvote/downvote than a human?
Reddit always had a large number of lurkers who only had accounts to select which subs they wanted to see…
Yeehaw!
Every time I read these posts I can’t help but be sceptical: It’s bots, bots everywhere.
not a bot
That’s exactly what a bot would be programmed to say.
j/k. Er, sort of.
More bot activity is still a good sign too, I think. They’re following us to this boat just like they did with reddit.
Yes. This is the future I want. I hope to help make the lemmyverse a verse worth inhabiting.
Yeah I agree I’m already donating to lemmy hopefully more people can join in on that and make the fediverse a better place.
Well they have porn so I’m here for it
once a few of the reddit mobile apps switch users will flood in.
Sync’s dev is making a Fediverse app, and a ton of Apollo-inspired apps will eventually show up for iOS. Christian joining in on the fun would be sick, but…honestly, I highly doubt it.
Hope @ruud is prepared for Jun 30 when RIF will go down… redditors will flood us
thats good
I’m one of them. Hello!
im another one.
And me - hello all.
Any idea why I can’t create a new post? It just spins forever the past 2 days.
