• Sonemonkey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.

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      1 year ago

      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.

  • Pizzareca@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.

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      1 year ago

      I have signed up to so many communities on here with the hope that once Lemmy gets bigger, I can leave the ones I don’t actually want to be involved in. I also posted my first-ever meme. Let’s contribute to make this a reddit alternative!

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      1 year ago

      When Digg put business above users and reddit growth exploded it (reddit) wasn’t a great “alternative” at that time either. But at that time they were putting users first. Isn’t that what makes this (lemmy) a great alternative?

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      1 year ago

      I haven’t “left” Reddit yet, but I also have been avoiding the site as much as possible. If they’re going to be a terrible site, the least I can do is try to avoid going on and making them money from ads.

      Or at least only doing so at home where I have my PiHole box to remove them.

  • markr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.

  • Saintpaul@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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!

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        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!

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I learned so much reading other people’s comments, so I’m trying to recreate that on this site.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is probably just the first big wave. The biggest will be when the apps themselves actually shut down - fence sitters will then have to make a choice to download the official app or try an alternative and I think a lot of people will be curious to see if the grass is greener.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The grass is always greener where one side has grass and the other side is a desolate nuclear wasteland created by the incompetence of the land owner.

  • lanolinoil@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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!

  • Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No idea myself but we have to remember that not all the users that come try this will stay, so I anticipate once the Reddit nonsense blows over the community will shrink a bit. I am going to stay, but I was “lemmy curious” before the reddit business.

  • hungover_pilot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been thinking about joining for the last few weeks. The reason I did today was because the developer of my favorite app (sync) announced they would be releasing a lemmy version

  • ShadedCosmos@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    A lot of us haven’t been able to create accounts due to high activity. It looks like account creation requests have finally started going through.

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.world
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      It likely is spam/bot accounts. Multiple admins of instances with open reg have commented/posted about having to fight bot sign-ups the past few days. The only fix that helped (they said) was to enable captcha. There’s a git issue on the lemmy project mentioning that they are removing captcha, so the admins are particularly worried about that…

      • Thorgs@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        I came too because off the newest anti user behavior of reddits CEO and Admins. Made an Account on feddit.de and now have access to all Communities in the Fediverse.

        I was using Infinity for reddit most of the past years and would not switch back to the awful reddit default Android App.

        The official lemmy App is not perfect. But all ready good enough to be used with mostly no bigger issues. Mostly lacking in some features compared to infinity.

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    Wow, holy shit. Servers must be getting slammed with requests. Good thing there’s lots of instances to spread the burden.

  • rocnile@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m just here so i don’t get fined. created an account because the developer for my reddit app is working on One for lemmy. So figured I’d give this a try