• Zap@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2833·
    1 year ago

    Ya know. The fact that active users was going down made me feel like part of the 1% of stubborn assholes but ever since RiF went dark the only time I’ve been on reddit is when a Google search took me there because fuck spez. I’m in it for the long haul. I won’t be going back. And ya know what? Fuck Google too. I’ve migrated to Firefox and DuckDuckGo since then too. Idk maybe it’s just cause I am stubborn but I refuse to be a hypocrite.

    • kakes@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. I may be principled to a fault, but I’ll never go back to Reddit. It has that corporate miasma to it now.

      Truth be told, it had the miasma long before the API changes, but that was the point where the boiled frog croaked for me.

      • TurtleTourParty@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I joined [email protected] and now I use GrapheneOS (instead of Android), Fedora (instead of Windows), Firefox (instead of chrome), Mullvad VPN, jmp.chat (instead of google voice), and Kagi (instead of google search).

        It’s a rabbit hole.

        Although Fedora was mostly because an update to windows 11 completely broke it and I didn’t feel like trying to fix windows so I just wiped my laptop and installed Fedora.

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 year ago

            it’s an android keyboard that specializes in thumb movements, and in principle anables one to type fast using a single hand. That being said it is devilishly difficult at first and it has no autotorrect or suggestioins as of yet, causing small misspellings here and there

            Search for com.dessalines.thumbkey in F-Droid

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
      12·
      1 year ago

      Hello fellow stubborner!

      Just gave my windows PC to upgrade my kids gaming setup, Linux on a ThinkPad T490 for me now.

      It’s such a fresh feeling, no more crap everywhere.

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I assumed active users was going down partly because some of us created multiple accounts on different instances in the beginning to get a feel for it all, then ended up just using one

    • sock@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      i hardly use lemmy compared to rif but i was under the belief reddit content is just better but the app sucks. i was wrong turns out it all sucks. rif just gave the shit a tuxedo.

      nowadays i look at reddit and the content is asisine its all the same shitty headlines and weird ask questions “how much sex does the average woodchuck have during football season?”

      it feels like Facebook. lifeless and like everyone is pretending

  • nicetriangle@kbin.social
    1721·
    1 year ago

    Really has felt like the thrediverse has been quite active lately. During the exodus we had a lot of posting about… the exodus. But now we have a lot of posting about actual topics and what feels like a pretty healthy community building save for a few instances that will probably get defederated before too long.

    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
      60·
      1 year ago

      Same I find the engagement is raising. The threads here are more sincere. Sure it’s not as active when it comes to some things but that’s fine IMHO. Building an online community right takes time.

      • saltnotsugar@lemm.ee
        311·
        1 year ago

        I also feel that people here are much nicer, and willing to engage with content. Even tiny communities usually make pretty great posts.

        • Fermion@feddit.nl
          16·
          1 year ago

          I greatly appreciate the lack of reddit meta getting repeated adnauseum. 69 and 420 references really stop being funny when repeated in so many threads.

        • greencactus@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          Yes, absolutely.

          And you know what?

          I love it, just the feeling of actually engaging of people. Something I didn’t have on Reddit. I think it really opens my eyes on how much our attention gets commercialised.

      • morrowind@lemmy.mlOP
        10·
        1 year ago

        I mean it’s fine, improving federation is always welcome, it’s just dull when you go to the fediverse and all they talk about is… the fediverse

        • half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 year ago

          Oh sorry, I wasn’t clear enough. I’m taking about the posts that have an authoritarian slant to them.

          “There should only be one (memes or whatever) community across the fediverse. Someone… should deal with all these copies.”

          Fedi doesn’t map exactly into their single server reddit experience. They want to re-create king spaz for some reason. It was kinda gross and I felt a few randos really showed their ass.

    • Roopappy@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      I also just joined in the past month. You’re welcome

      I did because I was on a different Fediverse link-aggregating forum that was pretty quiet and getting quieter, and all the communities and threads I saw over there came from this instance. It just made sense to join directly so I could post and get proper notifications.

      The supernova from Rexxit sent a lot of small pieces flying out everywhere, but things will start to aggregate back down to a few winners over time. I went to Squabbles, Kbin.social, and then Discuit… but now I’m just here and Discuit. I like Discuit’s look and feel and users, but it’s not super active.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
    951·
    1 year ago

    Because that Picard maneuver guy carries the Lemmy network with a ton of spicy memes. A true real one

  • LilDumpy@lemmy.world
    81·
    1 year ago

    It’s probably because I’ve commented a couple of times. Usually I have nothing to say, but I’ve felt rather engaged lately.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      Given all the different ways “active” is defined we may as well just collect all the meanings available.

      Mastodon and Twitter etc, for example, count logging on as active.

      While I can see the argument for voting, it is qualitatively different from posting/commenting. Knowing both, as well as log in numbers too might make sense. But muddying the waters is probably confusing … though it is interesting that any instance can define what it means by “active”.

      • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
        362·
        1 year ago

        I would say that voting isn’t actually different from posting/commenting. It’s a process whereby a user takes part in a discussion/topic/post. In an ideal world, everyone would post, but we shouldn’t act like active people who don’t feel like they have anything to say explicitly, aren’t here.

        • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
          25·
          1 year ago

          Totally agree. Even when two commenters are replying to one another, there is always another layer where they are also addressing everyone in the thread/community/instance/fediverse, which obviously includes lurkers.

          The votes shape everything about the platform, so ignoring the lurkers in the stats feels like it’s missing an important data point.

    • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
      141·
      1 year ago

      Ah, that could be it. I would like other instances to do the same, to me ama voting lurker is an active user

      • syd@lemy.lol
        12·
        1 year ago

        Absolutely. Other social media platforms count as active when we mistakenly enter their sites :)

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      1 year ago

      Okay, that makes more sense, I was trying to figure out what had changed in the past week. I’m very curious to see how that data would look for other servers too. I think it’s more logical to count users even if they don’t post or comment, because they are still a critical part of the whole ecosystem if they browse and vote regularly. Even without saying anything, their thoughts and opinions help shape the content and discourse through voting.

      And for that matter, weekly active users and daily active users would be two other interesting datapoints. You can see the daily and weekly users on the sidebar of instances, but I don’t know of any tool/site that scrapes all of that info and displays it in an easily digestible format.

    • Die4Ever@programming.dev
      3·
      1 year ago

      if you switch to daily stats you can see a big bump on the 4th, and a smaller bump on the 5th, is that when they made this change?

      https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

      I think if you exclude those 2 days we’re still on a very very slight downward trend, but once every instance adopts the new method it’ll be interesting to see what the trend is after that, it could be that users get tired or posting/commenting and fallback to being lurkers

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        If you look closely, the downward trend actually stopped before the change in stats. We dipped below 33,000 in mid-November, but then started hovering above 33,000 for multiple weeks until the bump.

  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
    771·
    1 year ago

    I came to Lemmy after Reddit’s crackdown on third-party clients. Looking back, I’m pretty happy with how Lemmy is going and how it feels right now. The number of users decreased after the initial spike, sure, but it also stabilized at a respectable level. There are things I’m still missing, but the way it is definitely works for me.

    • vegskret@lemmy.world
      291·
      1 year ago

      Same situation for me. This is such a nice place compared to reddit. I still think it would be better if it grows some more, but one of the nice things about Lemmy is that it has a more “niche” user base

    • butterflyattack@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, same here. I’m not nearly as active here as I was on reddit, but there’s not as much going on here and activity feeds itself. It’s fine, I read more books.

      • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        1 year ago

        For me, it’s the opposite. Only ever lurked on Reddit, but started posting and commenting more here. Feels more inviting.

  • Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world
    551·
    1 year ago

    I prefer quality over quantity, but more quality is always welcome. I’m not going back to reddit. The reddit alien is about to become the Borg of the shareholders.

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
    471·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, it’s not surprising. They seem very ban-happy there lately, with accounts getting banned over nothing. And I’ve seen a fair few subs getting the axe as well. When a site gets actively hostile to users and lets mods run their own little dictatorships, people eventually get fed up with it.

    Lemmy isn’t Reddit, but at least it’s… also not Reddit :D

  • FluidEnglish
    40·
    1 year ago

    Related to the recent reddit mobile site update that straight up breaks the website perhaps? (Cant scroll, can’t interact)

    • Ashtear@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Was my first thought. /r/friends doesn’t work on the mobile site now and that’s the only thing I ever go to back to Reddit for anymore. That’s one content stream I can’t duplicate anywhere else.

  • Pseudonaut@lemmy.today
    38·
    1 year ago

    I used to look to Reddit when big news broke because it was always on the front page within minutes. This past year there have been a few times that big news stories weren’t even on the top few pages. I gave Lemmy a try, and it feels just like reddit from 2013. I love it. I’m home.

    • TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org
      10·
      1 year ago

      I still go to Reddit for American politics, my cities sub, and /r/nfl.

      But I haven’t made a single comment and treat it more as a news aggregator than a proper community. And even that is happening less and less as I get more comfortable with the pacing of the community here.

      On Reddit you can make a clever comment at the right time and get thousands of upvotes and sidebar conversations. It’s great for a shot of that sweet, sweet dopamine.

      On Lemmy, I rarely get more than 5-10 upvotes, but the conversations are meaningful and nuanced.

      People are realizing that Lemmy is not a 1:1 drop-in replacement and are adjusting their expectations and behavior accordingly. Hopefully we’ll hit a critical mass soon.

    • morrowind@lemmy.mlOP
      7·
      1 year ago

      I never experienced reddit 2013 but reddit’s front page is gone. They’ve swapped out r/all for r/popular on new reddit, videos and screenshots are everywhere instead of links and they’ve even renamed themselves to “the heart of the internet”