Not sure if this is the right place to post, but when the reddit protests were happening, I used Lemmy for a bit then decided to detox from “social media” for a while till now. Am I misinterpreting the activity here?
I tried not opening Lemmy the last few weeks because of the flood of American politics. I’m sure many people felt the same.
The userbase is small but stable.
People coming here to rant about Reddit isn’t activity.
People didn’t find what they wanted and/or went back to what was stable and familiar. I still am avoiding using reddit for anything except the subs related to people living in Japan (the community didn’t move over; a couple did but there were basically no posts very quickly) and when it shows up in some search result and nothing else has worked.
Nah it’s been pretty busy. I don’t browse all and only sort by scaled and if I ever ran out of content I think I would be the problem haha
I’ve found that sorting by New Comments is the best way to have a steady stream of interesting stuff on my feed at any given time.
I’m subbed to a ton of stuff and my feed dries quickly. Even if I do browse all. I’m also new to the platform, so I’m probably doing something wrong?
Combining: bans, blocks, defederation, differing lemmy versions and federation bugs / glitches, you end up with a different view (sometimes for better or for worse) than someone on another instance
A lot of that initial rush of users went back to reddit for one reason or another and I think lemmy is reaching equilibrium between where it was before the protests and the mass in rush during
I’ve found my participation slowly declining here on the Fediverse, and ramping back up again on Reddit. I think I’m never going to stop coming here entirely, there’s plenty of neat links that come along to explore, but the main thing that’s causing decline is that IMO the communities here are a lot “bubblier.” It’s probably inherent in the simple fact that they’re small, and that they’re populated by a very self-selected fragment of social media, but the result is that if I “say the wrong thing” I get pummeled with downvotes and snide comments a lot easier here. Makes it less interesting to comment at all. Some of Reddit’s communities are pretty insular too but at least there are enough of them that I can find ones to my taste.
As a major example that comes to mind, all of the technology communities I’ve found here seem to be quite strongly anti-AI. I have an interest in AI, but when I click through to the comments on stories about AI topics it’s often nothing but rants about how awful it is. And if I say anything - even to correct a factual error - I get piled on. So lately I just sigh and move on.
As a major example that comes to mind, all of the technology communities
I’ve blocked most of them a while ago. Still seems strange that there is no AI enthusiast community somewhere, that should definitely exist
Back then, !selfhosted@lemmy.world was one of the most active communities, LOL. There might be somewhat fewer people here right now, but at least the content has diversified somewhat since we settled in.
(Not that I dislike self-hosting, mind you. In fact I wouldn’t mind if that community were a little more active…)
Maybe I have been a little less active, but that is because Sync for Lemmy is too broken to use.
My two best alternatives are Boost (currently using it) then Summit for Lemmy :)
Voyager has been working well for me.
It is great, but it never feels smoother than Summit, Boost or Sync :/
Especially while scrolling, swiping back posts or going to your subscriptions.
Try out Jerboa as well! Did it on day 1 of the exodus and had zero problems.
I can’t use Lemmy without mark as read on scroll and clear read posts (client side), are those both features on Jerboa?
which protests? there have been many.
Y’all know which one, the one that brought most of us here.
June 12, 2023, nothing happened on the front page, it was a peaceful day, there is no protest, carry on, internet user.
(It was June 12 right? My post-covid memory has been a bit blurry)
Edit: typo
us?
Us as in Lemmy Users who came from reddit
