• @Sonemonkey
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    1851 year ago

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

    • @cerevant
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      871 year ago

      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.

    • @danc4498
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      531 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.

      • @MicroWaveOP
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        Try sorting by “Top Day” if you haven’t already until it’s fixed.

        • @danc4498
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          181 year ago

          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

          • @Ryumast3r
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            41 year ago

            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.

          • @tburkhol
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            41 year ago

            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.

          • @dystop
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            11 year ago

            I use New as well.

    • Pennomi
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      51 year ago

      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.

      • @dustyData
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        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.

        • Pennomi
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          101 year ago

          Yeah, that’s exactly why I was asking. I figured this might be the sentiment.

      • @Darorad
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        171 year ago

        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.

      • @dystop
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        31 year ago

        someone already did that on kbin.social/m/BotIt i think.

  • @ClassyHatter
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    1241 year ago

    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.

    • YMS
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      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.

      https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

      • @Cytoplasm2435
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        161 year ago

        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        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.

        • YMS
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          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.)

    • GraceGH
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      191 year ago

      Do you have a link to the new post by the Apollo dev?

    • @nepenthes
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      181 year ago

      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.)

      • Peetabix
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        51 year ago

        Really? That’s awesome news. I loved Sync.

      • @SMT42
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        41 year ago

        Exactly why this is my first ever Lemmy comment today!

  • Saintpaul
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    991 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!

    • @MicroWaveOP
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      291 year ago

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

      • @Tired8281
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        11 year ago

        I’m here to make comments! Guess it’s both our lucky day! :)

      • @caephi
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        131 year ago

        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!

  • @KuroJ
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    821 year ago

    /u/spez brought us here.

    Thanks spez!

    • @dustedhands
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      271 year ago

      In another way: “Thank you and fuck you /u/spez, I hope your IPO crashes and burns.”

    • @ewe
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      61 year ago

      Think he has an account here to check it out? I hope he does and sees this: Fuck. You.

    • @tj111
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      451 year ago

      Yeah major mods are now actively promoting the switch to lemmy.

    • @MicroWaveOP
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      211 year ago

      Didn’t know that subreddit existed. Thanks!

  • @dan96kid
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    701 year ago

    Reddit’s meltdown

    • @MicroWaveOP
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      191 year ago

      Anything in particular happened over there?

      • @dan96kid
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        351 year ago

        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

        • @MicroWaveOP
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          331 year ago

          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.

          • @Grant
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            411 year ago

            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

            • @danc4498
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              111 year ago

              It’s there a screenshot or something? I’ve done good about not logging in…

              • cod
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                121 year ago

                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).

              • @Therefore
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                31 year ago

                Too long, it’s a bit of an essay. Interesting read though.

            • @Dexies
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              -401 year ago

              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?

          • Sir_Kevin
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            241 year ago

            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).

            • @Grant
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              181 year ago

              Tasteful pictures, mind you

  • @Protegee9850
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    671 year ago

    Probably a significant number of bots tbh.

      • @kinther
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        111 year ago

        @ruud did turn on the captcha for registration, so that should prevent it in the future. Unless they become sentient :)

        • @dystop
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          191 year ago

          It’s possible for some bots to pass captcha actually, which is why Google has reCaptcha now. It’s essentially an arms race.

      • drphungky
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        101 year ago

        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.

    • @Tigerfishy
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      81 year ago

      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

  • @psycho_driver
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    641 year ago

    spez’s continued jackassery. I made the switch about 24h ago.

    • @Grant
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      491 year 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

      • @MicroWaveOP
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        301 year ago

        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.

        • @Grant
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          221 year ago

          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

          • @MicroWaveOP
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            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!

      • Sisko Urso
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        91 year ago

        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.

    • @JonnyRobbie
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      31 year ago

      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.

      • @psycho_driver
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        51 year ago

        The “turn your subs back on or we’ll replace you with our people” decree was it for me.

        • @Tired8281
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          41 year ago

          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.

  • XYZinferno
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    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

    • @zikk_transport2
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      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. :)

      • XYZinferno
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        251 year ago

        Malicious compliance at it’s finest! Screwing with the Reddit admins like that will always get a chuckle out of me

    • Buelldozer
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      121 year ago

      Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

      I’m here now trying to get ahead of it.

  • @Yolohansolo
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    541 year ago

    They’re starting to de-mod folks.

      • @Grant
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        321 year ago

        Yeah, the sole mod on r/celebrities was removed without warning and shadow banned

        • kratoz29
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          81 year ago

          Oh yeah, I saw that post, luckily he might found a best home here.

  • @markr
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    521 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.

    • @quazar
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      251 year ago

      Hear Hear!

      I’m sick of the internet being only 5 websites!

        • @BeMoreCareful
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          21 year ago

          The air was warmer then. It was like the old days of finding a “other links I like” on someone’s about me page.

        • klieg2323
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          21 year ago

          StumbleUpon was such a game changer for me. Used it to get so much nothing done before reddit and now Lemmy.

  • Aax
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    Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…

  • Pizzareca
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    511 year ago

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

    • @bl4ckblooc
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      241 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!

      • @ignism
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        51 year ago

        This is the way

    • @puppetx
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      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?

    • @Chocrates
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      81 year ago

      Just continue to post and make content!

      • Pizzareca
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        11 year ago

        Idek what goes into his head. And at this point, it’s too scary to know.

  • @dgilluly
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    501 year ago

    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.

    • @MicroWaveOP
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      191 year ago

      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.

      • @dgilluly
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        11 year ago

        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.

    • @phonecase
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      181 year ago

      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

    • @Salvo
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      41 year ago

      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.

      • @dgilluly
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        11 year ago

        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.

  • @quazar
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    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