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 until it’s fixed.
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 okay, but especially as more content is generated, all/new is going to become unusable.
Local/New is still pretty good for now, but all/top-day is working pretty well for me since I can only be on before/after work.
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.
I use New as well.
Just started using this and it does work better.
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.
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.
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.
someone already did that on kbin.social/m/BotIt i think.
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.
While Lemmy gained almost 200,000 new users in the last two days, the active users increased by less than 3,000,
I’m pretty sure that’s just how social media works. Only 1-3% are active users, while the rest of it are lurkers.
Well, for Lemmy 1 of 5 users was active right before the jump, and when the 219’519 new users (*) came, the active user count only increased by 2,873, so 1 of 74 new users was active.
When hundreds of thousands of users are so interested in a new platform that they storm it in a few hours, wouldn’t you expect them to initially engage a lot, rather than basically all being inactive from the start? Especially if they are early adopters, coming just days after most of the other users which turn out to be pretty active?(*: Apparently the latest numbers from fediverse.observer are live or updated multiple times a day, so it’s again some 20,000 new users since my earlier post which already had different numbers than the OP.)
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.
Exactly why this is my first ever Lemmy comment today!
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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.
I’m here to make comments! Guess it’s both our lucky day! :)
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!
/u/spez brought us here.
Thanks spez!
In another way: “Thank you and fuck you /u/spez, I hope your IPO crashes and burns.”
Think he has an account here to check it out? I hope he does and sees this: Fuck. You.
Could it be because r/ModCoord recommended moving to kbin, lemmy etc.?
Oh another theory is that Hexbear started federating. But who are Hexbear?
Seems like it is just bots.
Yeah major mods are now actively promoting the switch to lemmy.
Didn’t know that subreddit existed. Thanks!
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…
Here’s the archived version if you don’t want to go there: https://archive.is/AxBTl
Thanks!
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).
I’ve created a pastebin as well so feel free to read either. Thank you to the person who did the giant screenshot!
Too long, it’s a bit of an essay. Interesting read though.
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?
@dan96kid @MicroWave nope, it’s federation with the existing network actually
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.
@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.
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.
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
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.
The “turn your subs back on or we’ll replace you with our people” decree was it for me.
I saw someone in a YT video say it was like Reddit was breaking a strike, and that just instantly crystallized it for me. That’s abhorrent behavior and I won’t be near it. I gotta leave.
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
Oh yeah, I saw that post, luckily he might found a best home here.
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.
Hear Hear!
I’m sick of the internet being only 5 websites!
I miss when StumbleUpon
The air was warmer then. It was like the old days of finding a “other links I like” on someone’s about me page.
StumbleUpon was such a game changer for me. Used it to get so much nothing done before reddit and now Lemmy.
Apparently they’re still in business as mix.com? Giving it a try.
Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…
The answer no one wants to hear lol
https://lemmy.world/post/293545
Lots of bots and spam accounts. Wherever people go, shit follows close behind.
Everyone so busy wanting to talk shit they don’t go looking for the real reason.
I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.
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!
This is the way
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?
Just continue to post and make content!
Same!!
Idek what goes into his head. And at this point, it’s too scary to know.
What do you mean?
I personally jumped ship because of the API pricing changes of Reddit.
I don’t even use third party apps. It’s just that I can’t give an entity my business when they treat folks who volunteer to make their platform better like that.
That’s a good reason to jump ship. And wow, I think you missed out on not using the 3rd party apps, but they’re coming to lemmy soon.
I may give them a try. If I did have a learning disability or sight issues, I would have tried third party apps though (Reddit’s app support of screen readers sucks).
Personally, especially given that context and that the third party apps have better moderation tools too, I think it’s very important to allow people to use third party apps, if the first party sucks.
So that is why it was important to me to take a stand on that too.
Same here, I’m a software dev for a living and it resonated differently/pissed me off hearing about the API pricing changes and what happened with Apollo’s developer
I am the opposite. I had a Reddit login for years but never used it. When I found out about Apollo, I gave it another go and it quickly became my Number 1 Internet time sink.
With Apollo no longer functional, Reddit (for me) is no longer functional.
The fuckery was just the icing on the cake to force me to delete my account.
That’s why I took a stand even though I didn’t use Apollo myself. I think people having a choice of what third-party apps they want to use is important regardless if I use it myself. I stand with you on that.
it was reddit banning the mods of /r/mildlyinteresting that had me sign up with lemmy an hour ago.
They are back now, but still
They’re back? When did that happen?
very recently some other subs still have no mod team though
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14eq8ip/the_entire_rmildlyinteresting_mod_team_has_just/
