Excellent. Never going back to reddit.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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The only way is forward, retreat is not an option.
Reddit lost basically 90% of its appeal to me when they banned third party apps. I am also sleeping better since purging it out of my life so screw that.
They lost me when they multi acct/IP banned me over being super critical over how far they strayed from Aaron's vision of what reddit is supposed to be.
Also they are banning low level pr0n subs as a precursor to the tumblr purges to make them look good to investors.
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I had been using Masotodon as my main social media before, but gladly find myself on Lemmy a whole lot more. Masotodon is certainly not my type of social media, the Twitter format and lack of algorithm kills it for me. Lemmy fills that Reddit gap, and Sync makes it feel like I'm on Reddit again. Though the website has a long ways to go. Lemmy still has a lot of features to go and things to figure out to be a Reddit killer, but I feel confident we've hit a healthy size and are relatively stable right now.
Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.
I'm not sure how Reddit did it, but they'd show smaller communities to show up on Hot feed pretty often to give them more exposure. We need a form of that.
Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.
The devs are aware of this and, I believe, have a feature coming to help with that. In their recent AMA they acknowledged that it's bothering them too.
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I'm with you. I recently jumped on mastodon and can't get into the Twitter style. I follow a few things of interest but it's like comparing cable TV programming with Netflix, I don't want to be told what to watch but I need a nudge and structure to wade around in (if that makes sense).
Lack of algorithm? Sign me up!!!!
Its not as good as it sounds. There should be some kind of sorting. I follow #food but I get low-quality content of any random user taking a picture of their refrigerator at the top of my feed just because they posted 1s ago.
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Hell yeah. Special shout-out to Sync for Lemmy for reeling me back in as a daily user.
I just came from Reddit, and I hear a lot about Sync. Anyone willing to let me know what it is and how it is important to Lemmy?
It's just another third party app. But it has made the transition from a reddit app to a lemmy app.
Anything was better than reddit official app which was garbage. I preferred Relay. But for people used to sync, it is familiar and a smooth experience here like they were used to there.
For lemmy I prefer Jerboa an open source app, but sync is free to try as well (although it had ads).
Thanks, so it seems like those apps that were going to be charged for the API have a place to transition to. Nice!
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As a person who recently left one community, and found lemmy, I'm very thankful.
Agreed, I sure am glad Lemmy was here to catch us. What would we have done if it hadn't been ready and waiting?
Based on the usual suspects from that one sub dedicated to alternatives: tildes, mastodon, or maybe one of the few devs who somehow managed to build their own alternative from ground up in a few weeks (how though?). The true question is, whether or not these other options would be worthwhile replacements and retain the refugees.
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This is what you wrote:
[https://fediverse.observer/stats]()
[https://fedidb.org/]()
You need to put the URLs between the parentheses instead. Or simply just paste the URLs directly without any markdown.
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Wow its Crazy, I think this is the end of an era for centralized social media. #fuckyoufacebook #fuckyoureddit #fuckyoutwitter
end of an era
... is too strong I think. Big social will probably persist some time.
It's more accurate to say beginning of a new era where decentralised, FOSS, federated social media has been put on the map, and may very well be a genie that can't be put back in the bottle.
Most people don't care about ethics /politics or the networks and corporations. They will use what's convenient — familiar facebook where friends and family already are, instagram where you get (this frustrates me the most) announcements from cool places about events, twitter where shitshtorms and instant news happen and so on.
None of my friends moved or know about Fediverse. Some heard about Mastodon.
Well then you got a job to do. Send them meme links from lemmy , mastodon etc . The curious ones will find their way to fediverse.
We got almost one percent of their users. Yay. Those fuckers are not going away any time soon. The best we can hope for is having a usable alternative here that can resist enshittification a bit longer.
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Just to clarify, this wouldn’t account for people making multiple accounts, right? I know people who have a mastodon, kbin, and Lemmy account.
It most likely triple counts users like me. I have a Mastodon, kbin, and Lemmy account, (all under the same username), but those would be counted as 3 Fediverse accounts. I think the metrics to look at are posts and comments.
Hey, honestly I'm unsure. Though my gut instinct would be that it does include those instances, hadn't considered it.
The number of users dropping in June when many bot accounts were removed, and then rising again at the same time that >1500 new servers were added, while MAU does not rise at the same rate, seems to suggest that many are in fact likely bots?
However, the MAU is rising, so that indeed is a sign of health even if the precise amount of traffic by humans is unknown.
And bot accounts serve useful purposes too, sometimes posting more worthwhile content than many humans.:-)
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Great news! I wonder how many people have more than one account. I just made my second one because my 'main' server is down a lot lately.
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reddit is for plebs at this point
The content coming in lately has been awesome. Let's go..
Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise
I think this trend will continue for a bit as more mobile apps get created and become more popular.
It's been great seeing the community grow. Hope this keeps up at a sustainable rate until Lemmy/Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc. become mainstays.
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Though looks like only some 7 million of them are active.
It's a good start though. Lemmy should grow, it has everything it needs. Good apps, and it's decentralized and most important of all : it's not big tech.
So.. more than threads then :p
(guessing a bit, but reports say it was 8 million at the end of july and still falling..)
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Awesome, let’s keep those numbers rising!
I'm posting as much as I can!
if you find your instance unavailable jump to another. not at all like the old Tw down days. Thanks Fediverse
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