And I haven't browsed Reddit in all that time. I'll admit to Google taking me there, but I spent no time nor comments there.
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That's just a feature of Google now, not actively Redditing.
Yep, it's stack overflow now for random interest now.
Its fascinating to me how wonderful the discussion quality and attitude have remained.. but its weird that the userbase isnt growing. maybe those of you that are lucky enough to have cool people in your lives should mention it?
I don’t have any data to meaningfully back it up but I will trust my gut and the things I have read from people here.
There is some significant amount of users here that fully / mostly abandoned social media and pretty often are in some kind of a post-reddit-lurker limbo, plus their age is around “I have a partner / family / job / hobbies / things in life I care more about than passionately posting / moderating online”.
My blind shot is that this group would be the growing / fresh part of lemmysphere but they just don’t feel the urge to go for another reddit-type experience as most often than not it was a shit show in the worst case and time consuming endless void sprinkled with really mixed quality content in the best case scenario. Plus you can lurk hard here without even making an account, with quite healthy approach, somewhere around “I don’t care about voting or commenting but let’s just check what is happening”.
What I would like to see evolving here is posts lifespans so they could properly aggregate the answers, responses or votes. Something like “follow this post / inform me about new comments”.
That perfectly describes me. I don't touch Reddit, got off FB and Instagram years ago, never had Twitter, etc. Lemmy is the only thing I use now, I subscribe to a few dozen communities that get maybe 15 new posts a day combined. If I'm in the mood to waste time on here I'll see the new posts and hide them as I go. When they run out I'm done for the day. I won't act like it's the right move for everyone, but for me personally cutting my social media (or similar) internet usage down to around half an hour a day max has made me a lot happier.
There is some significant amount of users here that fully / mostly abandoned social media and pretty often are in some kind of a post-reddit-lurker limbo, plus their age is around “I have a partner / family / job / hobbies / things in life I care more about than passionately posting / moderating online”.
Probably. I'm always surprised by the lack of activity on [email protected], but I guess most parents are probably busing actually parenting
Hell no. It's embarrassing as fuck to recommend Lemmy to anyone you know. It's still fairly shit imo.
I recently pinned the Fediverse poster on my memo board. Hope my colleagues will find it interesting and join it.
its weird that the userbase isnt growing
Who says it isn't? https://feddit.dk/post/5995563
To be fair, it only recently started growing again.
Active users per day might be a better metrics, users only might have a lot of bots
maybe those of you that are lucky enough to have cool people in your lives should mention it?
Feels like the only two topics that get discussed here are Linux and neurodivergence.
I don't think most people I could suggest this place to would ever enjoy that.
Many businesses also shut down not even making it into their first year of operation. We're going slow but steady, improving quality and relying on word of mouth instead of big advertisement campaigns. There are valid criticisms, but we also need to remember we're in this for the long run.
My cake day is on a different instance but I have to say it's been a great year and I'm delighted to be here. =)
My original instance was actually discontinued. Anyone remember FMHY?
RIP geddit.social
I do, it was my first Lemmy instance as well! Many great communities were hosted on there and the vibe there was pretty cool.
I've hopped instances a few times but have thoroughly enjoyed my time on Lemmy since coming here on the the reddit API change date.
My experience exactly. Thoroughly enjoy it
Dang, I'm not even sure if I implemented the cake symbol in my Lemmy client
Happy ‘Building our Own Fediverse’ Day!!
118 days till my cake day!
Oh thanks for the reminder.
I'm enjoying it here so much. I logged out of conventional social media for the month of June because I can't deal with the homophobia right now, and it's so nice to have this space to just be real on.
Heh. Looks like I've been here 12 months. I'm much happier here than Reddit. If anyone else has any good site recommendations like neocities, let me know.
Please don't start with the "happy cake day" shite
Why not? It's a small casual comment people can send to each other
I think my slice is coming a bit later. I changed servers.
The kbin instance I was on died... lol
A lot of us did
After a year, does that mean we're full fledged lemmings and no longer redfugees?