I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.
A related contributing factor: as instances gain users, more federated content is showing up in all, so new users don’t have to jump through hoops to find it.
Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.
Try sorting by “Top Day” if you haven’t already
I do that sometimes, but that’s not even close to what I’m looking for. If they had a top hourly, that word be close
New is good
New is only good in small communities. A feed with, I’m guessing, 10,000+ users, it’s a challenge to read titles before new posts causes them to scroll off the screen.
Would anyone find it helpful if I wrote a simple bot that pulls Reddit RSS and pops a little bit of top content for various subreddits into community posts here? I can’t tell if that would be useful or spammy.
I mean, the poor Webcomics community has exactly one post, while there’s a deluge of good content out there waiting to be linked to.
I’m not sure, if most of the posts are just links to reddit, it could push people away. If it’s just like the actual image it could work. It’d probably be better to just do it manually for communities you’re personally interested in.
Respectfuly, please don’t. One of the reasons I started going on reddit a decade ago and one of the reasons I come here is to find content that other people, with either similar or distinct tastes, find interesting, and talk about it. To automate or defer to a machine, however technically interesting it might be for the creator, defeats the purpose of a social network. I abandoned many subs on reddit and have abandoned Facebook and Instagram because they are no longer human. Advertisers and a machine decide what you see. Barely tolerate YouTube but they’re honest and it has never been about following people and more like browsing TV channels.
I think my point is, if I wanted an RSS feed, I would setup an RSS feed.
Yeah, that’s exactly why I was asking. I figured this might be the sentiment.
Some of the big things that happened in the past 24h or so:
- r/LegalAdviceUK wants to move their 800k+ community to another platform. Their members might be testing Lemmy.
- Apollo developer posted another lengthy post about Reddit and their leadership.
Also r/ModCoord has started recommending moderators to move their communities to other platforms, like Lemmy.
Good hints, but these events likely were not very relevant.
While Lemmy gained almost 200,000 new users in the last two days, the active users increased by less than 3,000, just about the same as pretty much every two-day period recently. So pretty much all of those new users are inactive. That’s not hordes of Redditors coming over and exploring Lemmy, that’s hordes of bot and sleeper accounts being created.I think most are still figuring out how this all works. I barely did anything the first couple days too. Its a bit confusing at first and takes some time for people to find their place.
Do you have a link to the new post by the Apollo dev?
Reddit link for the lazy
Spez is irredeemable at this point. What an arsehole.
I found out today that Sync for Reddit developer, LJ, is making an app for Lemmy, so I made an account here. (I’ve been on Kbin since the strike started.)
Really? That’s awesome news. I loved Sync.
I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!
Yeah I learned so much reading other people’s comments, so I’m trying to recreate that on this site.
totally agree. I’ve been trying to engage more myself to encourage others to do the same
yeah it’s important that people post and comment. lurking is only good once there’s a critical mass of content and engagement to sustain that kind of passive browsing. i hope new users will understand it’s early days on this platform and content has to come from somewhere!
Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…
spez’s continued jackassery. I made the switch about 24h ago.
The post by the Apollo creator was the final nail for me. It really laid everything out there pretty well. Let it go be Tumblr somewhere
I saw that post too. I can’t even begin to imagine the July 1st surge when all 3rd party reddit apps are forced to shut down.
Honestly, I’m excited! We are potentially the early comers to get the ball rolling if/when a huge number joins. We are the early people (not to discount those who came before everyone coming from reddit originally) that can help out and grow the communities
I witnessed the digg to reddit switch in 2010, now potentially seeing the beginning of reddit to lemmy/kbin. Fresh start, new communities, better connections. Can’t wait!
This also was the realization point for me that was the last straw for me. It was a hard struggle not opening Apollo first thing in the morning and all throughout the day for the first time in such a long time. But now I do my best to avoid touching anything on reddit at all.
has there been some particularly recent? It seems that the protest is slowly dying with sped not willing to budge and seems to be winning, unfortunatelly.
Probably a significant number of bots tbh.
As much as I’d love to think that it’s all users, the reality is that it was partially bots.
It’s going to take a lot of bots to compare to the amount of bots and sock puppets on Reddit. At the very least we’re comparing apples to apples by including them in the “members” counts.
@ruud did turn on the captcha for registration, so that should prevent it in the future. Unless they become sentient :)
It’s possible for some bots to pass captcha actually, which is why Google has reCaptcha now. It’s essentially an arms race.
There was also just a huge dump of mods off some big subs, and a post about it on Lemmy with a link…I had been thinking about coming here specifically when I left Reddit, and the mod dump coupled with the link was the perfect opportunity, probably not just for me
Also yay, my first ever comment on my new news platform
Got sick of Reddit, looked for alternatives, found sub.rehab, found Lemmy was common… here I am.
Could it be because r/ModCoord recommended moving to kbin, lemmy etc.?
Yeah major mods are now actively promoting the switch to lemmy.
Didn’t know that subreddit existed. Thanks!
/u/spez brought us here.
Thanks spez!
Think he has an account here to check it out? I hope he does and sees this: Fuck. You.
In another way: “Thank you and fuck you /u/spez, I hope your IPO crashes and burns.”
Reddit’s meltdown
Anything in particular happened over there?
To make a long story short… Reddit’s doing a DEEPLY UNPOPULAR API change that effectively wipes out 3rd party tools and clients, which sparked site-wide protests. Reddit’s CEO is now having a pretty public meltdown and threatening moderators partaking in said protests. Lemmy popped up in a good number of discussions on Reddit in regards to the situation. Queue the start of a mass-exodus of Reddit users and mods to Lemmy
Gotcha. I’m generally aware of what’s going on over there but wasn’t sure if a particular post or action caused the big surge today.
What caused me to just delete the app and my account is the post by the Apollo creator today. When you see it all put together, it’s really shameful how poorly the community, moderators, and devs are treated. It was a huge post and on popular
It’s there a screenshot or something? I’ve done good about not logging in…
Too long, it’s a bit of an essay. Interesting read though.
It’s a very long image, so I’m not sure how readable it’ll be, but I used Apollo’s awesome “share as image” feature to do this (hoping it’ll be implemented in one of the Lemmy iOS apps soon).
Here’s the archived version if you don’t want to go there: https://archive.is/AxBTl
Yeah that poor Apollo dev who was making half a million dollars a year for 10 years. Won’t someone think of the little guy for once?
May also have to do with reddit users wondering why all their favorite subs are now full of pictures of John Oliver and Wales (which are newer acts of protest).
Tasteful pictures, mind you
Announcement 📣 📣 I want to debunk Reddit’s claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_to_debunk_reddits_claims_and_talk_about/
Maybe this helped?
It’s the way tech disseminates into the world.
If you’ve been here for a month or more, you’re a first adopter and the true heroes of our cause. You take up what makes no sense to – what is untested and will likely be a waste of time.
These people then tell the early adopters, which is what you are if you’ve been here for a couple weeks.
Once we got on board, we told all our friends who join, and then the whole thing keeps snowballing.
Of course, Lemmy really has Reddit to thank for making us all balk enough to take a look at fediverse stuff. Mastodon really didn’t do it for me when I checked on it a couple years ago, but this is awesome and totally makes sense.
Playing around with Pleroma now so I can follow users here!
I joined this “fediverse” three days ago, what am I?
Keep in mind too that the expiration date for many of the mainstream third party Reddit apps is June 30
Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days
Reddit is already turning into shit. Like literall shit, except it’s digital shit, but still shit.
Feeling horny? Visit r/horny. Oh wait, that’s christian minecraft discussions!
Wanna learn something new? Visit r/InterestingAsFuck. Oh wait, that’s interesting porn positions!
Wanna see what is going in gaming community? Just visit r/steam! Oh wait, it’s choo choo shitwreck powered by steam engines!
No wonder why people are looking for Reddit alternative, and Lemmy might be just the right option. :)
Malicious compliance at it’s finest! Screwing with the Reddit admins like that will always get a chuckle out of me
Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days
I’m here now trying to get ahead of it.
They’re starting to de-mod folks.
Are they?
Yeah, the sole mod on r/celebrities was removed without warning and shadow banned
not that surprising really - many, MANY people are fed up with centralized link aggregation/social media/reddit in general & the fediverse is an excellent option
I’m not that optimistic. I think MANY people are fed up with this particular case of a centralized site being annoying, but do not really care about anything other than getting their dopamine fix, and will happily jump into sack with next big social media site, centralized or not. Most people just don’t care.
I’m tired of capitalism and greed ruining everything I love!
This is why I’m here finally. I didn’t hear about this until the Reddit shenanigans. Finally took the plunge.
