• Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    It is very clear that new content per day has been steadily increasing the past 14 days.

    Lemmy is no longer just promising, it is already good. With signs of getting even better.

    With more active users, more niche communities should soon be able to do fine too.

    • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I already didn’t read past the first few hundred comments on reddit- Lemmy already feels almost as good to use, way more than mastodon did coming from Twitter.

      • rezz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Mastodon is simply not as good. Lemmy achieves its objectives very cleanly and seems to leverage ActivityPub the best in the fediverse by far.

  • MathAndBall@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been mostly a lurker on Reddit for the past 10 years but something about Lemmy just makes me want to engage in the community more than reddit ever has

    • RealHumanBeann@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I agree. I lurked on Reddit for most of my time there. But here, it feels like I can get a fresh start and be a part of a new community. Kinda feels like I have a responsibility too. I want this place to succeed, so I have to contribute.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I wasn’t a lurker on reddit. But damn, lemmy has somehow supercharged me into posting and commenting at ten times the rate I used to.

    • LightProtector@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I still think that Lemmy needs to be more user-friendly before it starts to gain a lot of traction. Right now, the decentralization is an aspect that makes it so great, but it also creates a lot of pain points.

      • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        A month ago there was only around 1k active users and the two primary devs. Things have blown up FAST, but they are working overtime to make changes and establish coordination to help improve the overall experience.

    • octopus5866@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I was frequent poster/commenter on Reddit before having a mini burnout by so many of my comment chains just randomly escalating into pointless arguments by toxic people, so I turned into a long-term lurker after that.

      Conversations on Lemmy are definitely way, way more inviting to partial lurkers like me who want to join in conversations once in a while without having to think about some random toxic people basically hijacking the conversation I’m having to satisfy their need to vent their toxicity onto the internet.

  • MrBobs@lemmy.oneEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Just realised I have not replied to anything yet, so using this thread to check it works.

  • iaamp@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    This feels great. The posts right now seem a lot more genuine compared to reddit lately. Keep it up!

  • banned@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Even if you do nothing else, make sure to upvote content and comments, and subscribe to communities. Bringing content over from reddit (or even just googling stuff) to the new applicable community would be extra helpful (a lot of empty communities at the moment).

    Things keep looking better here, so I’m optimistic about lemmy.

  • Nostromo Survivor @lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Found my way here as part of the Grand Reddit Migration. Applying for refugee status please. (1st day on Lemmy, looks good gotta say)

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Oh so lurkers aren’t counted as active? That’s even promising since many users on any site never comment or post.

    • Maple@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Oh, hi Margot Robbie. I loved you in Suicide Squad… the first one, I couldn’t be bothered to watch the second one. Sorry 😅

  • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    There will probably be another bump on July 1st, and probably more to come as Reddit makes more horrible decisions going forward.

    100% honestly, I’m not married to the whole concept of the Fediverse - I think it’s interesting and solves some problems plaguing modern social media, but has other issues of its own - but Lemmy has, overall, put out a good showing in the various instances’ content so far. So here I am with an account and actively posting. Looking forward to continued growth!

  • Nano@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    This is great news for Lemmy, let’s hope that community grows even larger, as more users leave reddit.