It is possible to estimate?
There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
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I’m reading a 7 month old reply but its nice here
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I’m still here! Thanks for the necro!
More than dozens.
I mean, how many articles do you need that you’re never going to read on Reddit? You can load up Lemmy with enough communities to keep a good feed of news going.
News? I guess that’s why 95% of communities relying on original content are either dead or non-existant here.
That comes later. You need a good bustling community before a steady stream of original posts comes in.
I haven’t been back to Reddit since the first day of protests.
Not gonna lie though, I miss it. The niche stuff I went to Reddit for in the first place came here during the drama, but despite an initial push to get some replacement communities going here, they’ve gone almost completely inactive now.
Lemmy has been a decent replacement for /r/all browsing, but it’s not at all a replacement for most of the subreddits I was actually subscribed to
I can’t believe how the mods caved. They could have taken their balls and gone home and Reddit would have felt it
I may have missed some steps but I recall reddit removing and replacing mods of many subs.
It doesn’t matter, because the damage is done. Small communities aren’t what they used to be and the big subreddits are even lower quality.
Yeah I love Lemmy but I don’t see it taking off. The separation of federation instances is confusing for new users. There are plenty of communities but they all feel isolated due to the same community existing on multiple instances. There’s a reason why the biggest communities are all Linux/Programming related.
I feel like development of Lemmy has slowed the past few weeks too. I’ve been following plenty of issues on GitHub both on the front-end and back-end, and there just hasn’t been any progress on them. It’s a shame because Lemmy has so much potential, but I’m with you I just don’t think it will take off. With that said, obviously I will keep using it, and I’m not going back to reddit. It’s a shame because I really do miss the smaller niche communities on reddit but reddit is dead to me now because the CEO is really quite the dickhead and I refuse to go back.
I’m going to get crucified for this but without monetary incentive I don’t see improvements coming anytime soon. I respect the Lemmy creators but they’re running on donations and goodwill. Reddit/Digg had a team of dedicated employees working on the user experience because it was their livelihood.
This is true but aren’t the two main Lemmy devs paid to work on this full-time? That’s something at least, it’s better than being truly unpaid to work on this.
Without actually having looked at the issue track but knowing how such things go down: Less visible progress should be expected right about now even presuming constant development efforts.
The great migration brought many users and uncovered various bugs and requirements for new features and devs have been scrambling to address as much of it as fast as possible – which means going for low-hanging fruit first and if it’s not low-hanging, hack around the issue to produce a quick fix. Now that the worst is over proper software development practice dictates that you should worry more about addressing technical debt you just incurred as well as refactor and redesign until high-hanging fruit are hanging lower so you can pluck them. Doesn’t make sense to build 100 ladders when you can take an axe to the tree and fix everything with three very well-planned and executed strikes.
I didn’t visit reddit on purpose for two full months. I still don’t have the app installed.
I have to admit though I am visiting for game threads now that the NFL has started up. Sports is non-existent on Lemmy. I’m participating in the communities for my teams, but there’s like half a dozen of us in each one. It just isn’t the same thing and I realized that dicking around in comment sections is a big part of how I enjoy sports these days.
They’re still not getting content from me, I’m not going to use their app. But it’s hard to keep completely away when there is simply nothing even closer on lemmy or anywhere else.
I am trying to get the Pokemon instance talkative again but I’m just one woman
I could join up and everyone could laugh at me because I know almost nothing about Pokemon.
Eh we could use a laugh, sides the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step… Come with us and catch em all
According to Google trends, the people who left are an insignificantly small number, Reddit has still grown in search popularity over the last year. However, if you’ve browsed Reddit since the shutdown, you know that this isn’t the whole story, engagement and quality are both down.
It will take a long time for the numbers to reflect reality. Look at Twitter, it’s still chugging along and it’s gotten way shittier than reddit has in the same time frame.
Count me in. I do really miss Reddit though and Lemmy is nowhere near as interesting as Reddit. But no one said protesting is easy.
Well summarized!
The issue with FOSS software is it attracts people who use FOSS software. I’m not saying I want the reddit of 2021 back, but the reddit of 2016 would be nicer than the reddit of 2009 we are emulating now.
Once a few of us get our friends on board and we grow a touch more, I think Lemmy has a real chance of capturing some more of the “middle” tech literacy users, giving us some of what I, and I presume you, miss about Reddit.
I did. To all the people on Reddit who confidently said “you’ll be back in a few days” turns out you were very wrong lmao
Dropped Reddit and never went back.
Edit: Gotta take the flow and promote !bassment@feddit.de while this post is hot. A community for Bass-Guitar players I’ve been building since the Reddit blackout. Come join us!
Same. I stopped visiting after the boycott started. A couple of days before rif went down, I popped back in to say bye to my friends on there and that was it.
Consider destroying your old comments and deleting your account
https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku/comments/14frr4u/reddit_seppuku_how_to/
I did consider it, but most of my posts are in a private sub anyway. I guess I’m holding on to the slim hope that one day spez will feck off and someone sane will be put in charge. I do miss that sub, a lot of cool people there. Unfortunately I don’t think a single one signed up to lemmy, but I tried.
I’ve almost completely stoped using Reddit, I only see it if I find it in a web search and it has an answer I’m looking for, this community is amazing, btw.
Too many and, yet, not enough.
I stopped using Reddit on my phone, which was most of my Reddit time, but I still use it on my PC.
On mobile I exclusively browse Lemmy.
I would totally migrate completely to Lemmy, but the general audience here is a bit too… radicalised for me. Sometimes I just want to relax, read some interesting link and interact in the comments.
Exactly the same for me.
I’ll add that there’s just less going on here. My front pages have new stuff about every day, but not more than that
To some extent groups like Lemmy and Mastodon are self-selecting for activists. People who are fed up with stuff and want to seek change. We’re the people who see bad stuff happening and take action.
Just being here makes us radicalised, a bit.
Check out the instances that have defederated with the radicalized ones? I hang out in 2 Lemmy instances, still working to finish migrating from here to the other.
Not sure but add 1 to the count.
Same here. Haven’t been back since Apollo shutdown.
Honestly at this point, I’m not sure I’m missing out. Lemmy has been great so far and it’s only getting better.
I’ve gone back and my main feed is mostly posts about women asking for their “rating”, weird af. don’t miss it at all with lemmy and all the alternatives available.
I’m here. I miss some of the smaller communities I used to be apart of. I go back if someone sends me a link, unless it’s NSFW. I don’t have the app, so I just tell people I can’t see that link anymore. shrug
I wasn’t sure whether I should completely drop Reddit, but now, after a month on Lemmy I can say that I stopped using Reddit
I didn’t stop using Reddit but I use it much less now, and I seldom post anymore. I’ve noticed a significant drop in quality; lots of good posters and mods left.
When reddit shut down their api every single subreddit on the site went down in comment activity by 75% or more. Comment activity has only been decreasing in the month since then. Post activity has been in decline as well.
Whether this means people stopped using the site entirely or not is up for debate. But in terms of damage to the community on the site it is the single biggest social media failure I have seen on the web since Digg. Even Musk hasn’t damaged Twitter as much as the api change has damaged reddit.
Wow. Where did you get those numbers, would love to peruse
Go to literally any subreddit, scroll to the comments per day graph and check out the drop on July 11th. The official date of the change was July 1st but they delayed it or something with a grace period. That drop on July 11th is the api drop.
Some examples in order - /r/mildlyinfuriating /r/whitepeopletwitter /r/gaming /r/Askreddit
Hahaha wow. Thanks
What is happening over there is one of the biggest disasters I’ve ever seen online and the fact that it’s going unreported on while Twitter and Musk continue to get all the attention is absolutely ridiculous. Reddit is collapsing and unless they do something enormous it is currently in a death spiral.
Reddit is collapsing and unless they do something enormous it is currently in a death spiral.
where will all the nazis go!?
Twitter by the looks of things.
Holy shit. I’ll be honest, having quit using reddit for daily browsing and simply relegating it to its main productive purpose of “usable Google results,” I kind of assumed that the outrage over the API pricing ultimately didn’t have much of an effect. But this data is nuts. I guess it goes to show the effect that alienating power users can have on a site that’s so power-user driven, where a fraction of users even comment and a tiny fraction of that fraction posts content and an even tinier fraction of that tiny fraction moderates to keep things running smoothly.
Just recently updated on this, reddit are actively trying to do something about it but are still in the “oh fuck what do we do?” stage of gathering information. https://hexbear.net/comment/3946548
I don’t think this is all just alienating power users. I think a major aspect of this is disturbing routines that people previously had. When people have a daily routine where they do the same thing every single day you shouldn’t disturb that because then they replace that part of their routine with something else, that’s what users did with reddit imo when their preferred app no longer worked. They just used something else, probably Tiktok.
My wife and I haven’t been back on since Apollo shutdown. I was/am so pissed about that shit. Fucking assholes.
