Why mine for data when you can just set up your own instance?

Decentralized control is probably the biggest asset we have to fight back against these issues. Each instance host has motivation to keep their community in the best shape possible, for users and visitors.

If one instance is having struggles, you can migrate to another - and instance hosts could share tactics and information about the process of management.

terminally online nerds

I am offended and in agreement

We might eventually have to get more exclusive, or have separate "public" and "private" modes/communities, maybe like how masto handles post visibility...

I'm not sure if the open internet can ever be fully trusted, especially now with roving packs of predatory crawlers scraping for genuine human OC for their plagiarism machines.

To me, one of the really big issues with Reddit is moderators/admins on power trips who randomly ban users for no clear reason.

Sadly, this is very much an issue on Lemmy too. Just read a post about some dude who got banned from some community for downvoting the wrong post.

But at least you can always create a new account on a different instance.

I still wouldn't mind 100k monthly active users, or even 75k.

That should mean one additional active poster on all the community where I'm alone, and that would be cool

I come here because I am fairly positive most are actual humans. A lot of the real idiots on reddit are bots looking to increase engagement.

Yup!

I really dislike the notion that every website needs to aim to gather everyone on the internet to it - one platform to rule them all.

Can't we just have lots of smaller sites that have their own communities, cultures, and histories?

I heard a guy at a restaurant the other day talking about someone who was "reddit famous". His party had no context for what that meant. I felt bad for that guy

What's sad is there's people here that still make reddit their identity.

Sorting by top day and hiding read posts gives me more than enough "fresh content." If you're craving more, maybe that's just the Reddit addiction.

I find there is new content but so often a lot of it is US politics based. Some other stuff does exist but its hard to filter out the stuff I don't care about at times.

Sure I can subscribe to other communities, but finding them can be difficult and searching for all is swamped by Trump and Musk.

Nah, Reddit front pages didn't few fresh since 2021 for me, and recently it became worse by the bots posting the same post i saw 5-10 days early again.

The problem with Lemmy is that the demographic that uses it is too specific: nerdy, atheist, college educated (usually in computers) Gen X and early Millennial left-wing political hobbyists.

Like, there's a reason the one of the only specific media franchises that can sustain an active community here is Star Trek.

Different strokes for different folks, as they say. That's precisely one of the things that I value most in social media— exposure to people and ideas outside of my day-to-day experience. I don't understand the femcel memes, or c/ich_iel, for example, but that's what makes them so fascinating. I was thinking of leaving Reddit even before the API fiasco, because the feed changed daily while not changing at all. I didn't find it valuable to see the same breaking news story posted to 15 different subreddits, nor the same "Men of Reddit: Do you pee through the underwear flap, or over the waistband?" question posted (literally! I watched and counted one day!) every 5 minutes. I didn't replace Reddit with Lemmy, I just stopped using the former when Apollo stopped working. Lemmy drew me in over the course of a couple of months. It's quiet, but you can have conversations instead of shouting into the void.

For me, Lemmy is far more successful.

I ditched Reddit 2 years ago and haven't been back. This is a self-solving problem: as more people use and contribute, there will be more content and engagement.

But as a heavy user of Lemmy (and previously of Reddit), there's things you can do. Chief among them is switching from the "Active" list to "Hot" when you want to see new stuff. I pretty much never run out of content, and that's without even dipping into "New"...

I only have Lemmy but I consume way less social media since that's all I have... Which is a good thing.

Reddit is people reposting stuff from Twitter, so what you are saying is that we need to repost more stuff from Twitter.

I don't mind the fact that Lemmy changes at a slower pace. Gives me less to scroll through

most posts on the piefed feed are posted by lemmings so nahh

but we can be successful collectively ;)

That’s the beauty of it - it doesn’t matter, since it’s all the Threadiverse. Lemmy, Piefed, mbin, whatever else may come along. As long as they all use ActivityPub, they’re all interoperable, and people can choose whichever one suits them best. Afaik, though, Lemmy is still far and away the most popular right now

Either way, it is successful.

And here's a problem. Even I, pretty tech savvy user, can't keep up with all this. I look away for a moment, and you'all on a new meta already, all the old servers are bad now and all the cool kids on a new system already. I can't imagine anyone with an advanced grass-touching ability being able to keep up with all this shit.

...same-same

While that’s true. I have seen neutral places where people were resistant on trying out Lemmy in the first place. I wish they saw the full value of this place but they said they “don’t care if it’s open-source, decentralized and has good third-party apps. I haven’t heard about it before! Everyone just uses Reddit”

At least I got one guy to check out Lemm.ee a few months back.

In exchange for jeans (on Taylor Swift's jet?) of course:-)

A social network needs enough users to actually function. In the early days, Lemmy/kbin/associates were too quiet to be appealing, so there was a constant push to bring in new users. As this is a Reddit clone social network, inevitably that means hoping that Reddit users will come across.

I would argue that Lemmy et al is already at a high enough number of active users that there's a basic critical mass; that there's enough activity here such that a new user would find plenty to keep them engaged. It could certainly stand to be much bigger still, but the pressure to grow is much less intense.

There's a formula I'm confident we could come up with that focuses on the amount of users you have, how shitty your userbase is and how fresh/niche/true your content is.

Lemmy is on one end, decent userbase, not so fresh, mid content. Reddit is massive, shitty and riddled with bad actors and poor information but offers more niche and fresh content

Is 2034 the year of Lemmy?

Lemmy will become a superpower by 2034

It's shutting down, but the fediverse is healing around it. Piefed.social has seen a huge influx, and people are moving accounts slowly but surely.

Lemm.ee shutting down isn't ideal from a service stand point, but it is showing how robust the fediverse is. It's acting like the internet used to, routing around damage to continue to work. That's amazing, and hopeful.

It's alright https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45977837

Because of a lack of admins/mods not due to low users or money

I mean while yes it’s a tragedy. People have just moved to the other instances such as Piefed.social and Lemmy.zip.