Their loss, Lemmy is great. Everyone’s been pretty good so far, even when I’m being the annoying-preachy anarchist in a lib/nonpolitical instance. That and Sync for Lemmy have made it a pretty pleasant experience.
I’m astonished that reddit it still going after all the decent users left en masse a few years ago.
I like that it’s small enough that we all probably know who the thorn guy is.
I think I’ve only ever been banned from one community, and it was an NCD clone run by the reddit equivalent sub.
The fact that you can say pretty much anything here is probably lemmy’s biggest advantage, despite it being such a low bar these days lol.
38k is more than enough activity for a plateform to be lively. Especially when those user are spread across the world, allow for content at every hour.
That’s one thing I love about the Fediverse. Over on Reddit, if you belong to the 38k, you’re a rounding error. Here, you’re a significant part of the community.
Personal experience: the smaller group is, the more friendly and stick-together group will be.
Reddit had bots for a fucking long time. And since they allowed to close up user profiles post/comment history, tracking who is who became harder. There is no way that wasn’t by design, it most certainly is. There is no secret that reddit is in cahoots with LLM companies. They will use (or already are using) bots to populate their site and probably will skew public perception in a desired way using bots.
Not like Lemmy has no bots. But it’s so much more peaceful here.
I think it’s already too much.
More real users than Reddit
Don’t feed the trolls. They don’t need to be here anyway
I’ve found more genuine and enlightening conversations here in two years than I ever did in Reddit. They can have that trashcan. I’m having fun here without them.
By the looks of some new accounts, I wouldn’t want them here, either.
Also commercial platforms try to maximize their user count so they can sell more ads.
Meanwhile, fediverse has little interest in increasing its user numbers, because we don’t generate money from it. In fact, more users would probably mean (slightly) higher infrastructure costs, though i’m not sure how much they actually are or whether one could consider them “negligible”.
Anyways, if we had more users, we’d also have more diverse content on Lemmy, and i would definitely appreciate that. Honestly, it’s a bit sad that 50% of the posts on the frontpage are about US politics, but i guess it’s just a topic that gets a lot of traction because it affects a lot of people and also because there’s not so much other content on the platform yet. I hope we’ll get more communities about somebody’s fringe favorite topics. :D
It’s frustrating to see people considering 4 upvotes something to be frustrated about.
-sigh-
Create an instance that’s nothing but tons of bots bullshitting eachother and include them in the numbers. You know, the ways all the other companies lie about their user count.
yeah, really shows the absurdity of the metric of “user numbers” xD
you’d think the companies buying ad-space would catch onto that…eventually, but apparently not? guess in a bull market $ is infinite anyway, so who really cares just pump pump pump
The stock goes up when you buy ads. That’s all that matters.
FOMO is a weird thing. Sometimes I get in moods where it’s like, I don’t want to watch a movie from 10 years ago, it’s not relevant and no one is interested in it anymore. Or music, or whatever. We’re actually hardwired to go along with the crowd, to want to be part of the bigger crowd, etc. So cheers to all you who chose this less-trodden path, or just got banned enough times on Reddit to take the hint 🍻
Drives me nuts with games too. Some games NEED a huge userbase for balance and ELO and whatnot, but it’s always wild to see a solo or team-based PvE game billed as “dead” because it has only 5k concurrent players.
If it is a skill based PvP game it needs a constant inflow of new users or people that are just permanent bronze and happy with that. It’s considered “dead” by those players that have peaked at gold or platinum and angry at a team mate that they lost a game
quality > quantity
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hard not to read this as misogyny…
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oo, thank you!
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All the new users made Reddit objectively worse. I am not looking forward to when or if Lemmy ever blows up.
