Ok , here we go.

I like lemmy a lot.

Mastodon and all the others are too complicated with too many dam options for threads. Not to mention I hate the Twitter layout.

Like look,

I want lemmy to have more users. The lack of engagement here is just beyond sad.

I’ve seen a lot of lemmy instances with like 1 user a month. Seriously? What the fuck?

I’m entertaining a thought to create a lemmy instance, but is there even a point? Should i even bother?

I feel like the issue with these reddit alternatives, is the LACK of content and users.

What do you think?

  • PicoBlaanket
    11·
    2 years ago

    I guess that depends on how you define success:

    • If I make an instance for writers, and 30 writers use it … success.
    • If I make an instance for my friends, and we use it … success.

    Personally - I’d rather have a tight-knit community than a zillion spammers regurgitating low-effort posts (like many reddit subs).

    The cool thing about success is - you get to decide what it means.

  • jackalope
    81·
    2 years ago

    Yeah I think lack of content and engagement is a problem.

    I agree in many ways with the politics of the devs but I think it means that lemmy instances generally attract a pretty narrow range of people. Want to talk politics and tech? Lemmy isn’t bad. Want to see cute pictures of cats? Not much here.

    I think it also doesn’t help that the native app for it isn’t great. I can’t get jerboa to login and lemmur has some seriosy ux issues.

  • chobeat
    7·
    2 years ago

    I feel like the issue with these reddit alternatives, is the LACK of content and users.

    You’ve just found out that software by itself doesn’t create communities. My teacher of Online Communities in university used to say that “you can’t create communities online, you can just intercept them”.

    Reddit is successful because it managed to give space to plenty of communities that had no space before.

    Lemmy won’t grow until reddit starts kicking out bigger chunks of people beyond nazis and tankies larpers that go too far or until it develops features capable of serving communities that reddit cannot serve (very unlikely, but not impossible even though I have no idea what those communities could be).

    If you have a community that you think could benefit from lemmy, then go on. Hosting an instance won’t make a difference if you don’t.

  • Openmastering
    6·
    2 years ago

    I think the only way is to start a community and care/animate it. Even with several hundreds of people, instances aren’t really lively. But we’re responsible for this. If we offer regularly quality content, some people will come and stick around. In 2 words: provide value.

      • graphito
        2·
        2 years ago

        You got me curious! Could you share some of your hidden gems of lemmyverse: has <10 subs and posts quality content at least once a month?

      • guojing
        1·
        2 years ago

        Isnt this similar to Reddit? There I also found interesting communities mostly when other people recommended it, and not through some kind of algorithm. If you just got a list of all federated communities, most of them would probably be dead or irrelevant.

  • jackalope
    84·
    2 years ago

    Honestly don’t get why the devs don’t just write some bots to auto clone content from reddit.