Get ready for the influx of new users
I was so happy when I found lemmy. A great alternative to reddit with a small and kind community. I hope it doesn’t turn into the cancer that is reddit.
I joined reddit in 2013. It was great until it wasn’t
I moved here and took a break from Reddit for a year after the whole API thing.
Recently been dipping my toe back in the water, lurking only.
It is noticeable that a lot of posts are obviously bot accounts trying to spur debate on contentious topics. And in general, it’s a sad echo of the community it used to be.
On the other hand, there are some communities there that are still pretty active and interesting just based on the sheer volume of people that still use Reddit. So it still has a place in my life… Kinda.
Only expect to get worse over time, it’s like a slow decline of a friendship
In other news, Lemmy will keep all its content open for free, making everything accessible to everyone.
As a sidenote, do tip your instance operators, especially if you’re on a small instance. Upkeep isn’t free.
This is great news… for lemmy!
Enshittification? Man, who could have seen that coming?
/s
niche communities that don’t exist on lemmy.
There are some pretty basic communities that are non existent or dead on Lemmy and I hate it
This is the reason. I can get all the Linux discussion I want on Lemmy, but discussions about an Acura RSX? That community does not exist here.
There is zero car talk on Lemmy and it fucking sucks ass.
Well that’s just not true…
We talk about how much better the world would be without cars. That qualifies as car talk, right?
There are definitely high-IQ car guys and they are soul of car forums/reddits. But based on my observation of the diagnostic and critical thinking skills of the other 90%, they are probably never going to figure out how to use Lemmy.
And somehow we need both types (maybe for sample size?) in order to have a thriving niche community about anything.
Yeah… I also miss doom-scrolling unixporn and ergomechkeyboards in here.
porn
you mean onlyfans spam?
another dick move from spez! I’m sure outcome would from lemmybuds joining
The site has become utterly useless. I got banned for god knows what, they don’t actually tell you. But just disagreeing with someone else and they report you and you’re auto banned without question.
I tried opening new accounts and every single one would be banned for evasion. I guess they track ip? In any case the users have become x10 more toxic and the site itself is trash
So Lemmy will have more this year
I guess we can expect another burst of Reddit refugees
One can only hope they’ll have the mind/willingness to.
Prediction: This change comes to life, people make an uproar about this. Then they forget this in a few days and continue using reddit.
This same old keeps happening with reddit, Twitter/X, etc.
Hopefully we do receive some refugees to Lemmy!
Well Reddit wouldn’t be the juggernaut it is now if Digg hadn’t done similarly stupid things and paid the ultimate price. Social media sites do fall, and Lemmy grows a little every time this happens. I honestly don’t care. I like Lemmy how it is now.
I’m one. Hello all.
Hi!
For Lemmy usage my preferred approach is always sorting by all and blocking communities (and instances) I don’t want to see instead of subscribing to the ones I do want to see. This way you get more content and dont miss new sublemmies! :)
Appreciate the advice!
You’re welcome. Spread the word of the fediverse, may one day Lemmy be bigger than Reddit, Pixelfed bigger than Instagram, Mastodon bigger than Twitter, …
Reddit likely won’t die from one bad change, it’s going to slowly die to attrition as they keep putting shit like this in.
It’s been slowly dying from attrition . It might be gaining users, but meaningful interactions and content production is down from 3 years ago.
Yup, and the trend just continues.
Reddit refugee here! Really enjoying Lemmy so far, I hope more and more people start jumping over
Amazing! Keep stepping on rakes, Reddit.
Yeeeaaaah
