Patience, this is the public internet, where nobody is doing marketing to create conversations, that is a huge change. There are a lot of communities right now (and more than 5 million of users), if you don’t find content is partially your fault

It is early still. And remember, it is not those who are new who count, but those who stay. Let’s be ready and welcome everybody!

Is coming once the apps are created. I hope they each form their own federations. I wanna be in the sync federation personally

Aside from what the other comments already say, there’s also the whole idea of “1% of users create 90% of the content” - and a lot of the content-pumpers from reddit haven’t yet (and some may not ever) moved to the Fediverse.

I think now that most third-party apps are officially dead as of yesterday/today, we might start to see more posters move here in the next few days since posting is a miserable experience in the first-party reddit clients, but there’s still a bit of a chicken and egg problem where the smaller user base and thus lower engagement won’t be enticing to all of them but we can’t get the user base and engagement without people who post content.

EDIT: It also doesn’t help when some of the larger instances like lemmy.ml are struggling to handle the influx of new users - can’t create content if the page can’t load, right? Granted, you could use another instance, but unfortunately lots of users just want to sign up on one big instance and post/browse from there.

Especially baffling considering that a community of people whose single guiding light is hatred for soul-less corporations should not depend on a platform that’s hosted and controlled by a soul-less corporation…

I’m considering starting communities I want on here and poaching all the content off reddit. Like say holdmybeer, literally just downloading from reddit and uploading here to try and get it off the ground.

Same reason most don’t want to leave reddit. They don’t want to deal with inconvenience.

People are lazy and/or want instant gratification. Some didn’t bother with the simple steps of creating an account / installing a new app, others maybe tried and saw it’s not yet as active and organised as reddit and gave up.

Plus a lot of subreddits didn’t even promote a lemmy/kbin alternative and not being able to find most of the topics and communities you were subscribed to (or finding them deserted) doesn’t cut it for some.

The anti work subreddit is held by the balls by interest groups that stiffle any dissent quickly im guessing the current mods are comprised and are unwilling to let go of their power and allow people to leave. Also lemmy hadd filtered alot of the less than tech savy folks