Please stop talking about reddit. If you want this to be the next reddit, I beg of you to stop mentioning it. Otherwise all this placewill be is a temporary hold over until we all just fall back on what we know cause we keep hammering in the name into our brain over and over again. I think the same sort of thing happened with the original “black out” of Twitter but we all came back to it because we kept thinking of Twitter in regards to whatever new site we tried. If you want Lemmy to succeed, let Lemmy be Lemmy
Fundimentally, as long as people get enough content to last their commute/poop/lunch break without crawling back to reddit for additional memes, Lemmy will be in a good position to make it.
But I agree with you, discussions about reddit don’t make for good content for everyone in a sustainable way. Those discussions I’d wager appeal most to the true believers who left on principle, not the average user.
As of right now, I’m finding Lemmy has more than enough content for my daily browsing. However, that’s because I took a few hours last month scouring as many instances as possible for the highest usercount communities that I wanted to get in my feed.
Reddit has a decent default sub list, and that’s what’s going to push new people away from Lemmy imo. I was frustrated enough with Spez to ditch reddit and dedicate a few hours to making this my new home.
Lots of people aren’t going to want to put that effort in, especially when their feed at Reddit was not effected by any of the changes made.
Please stop talking about reddit. If you want this to be the next reddit, I beg of you to stop mentioning it.
I wouldn’t be too concerned about the references to Reddit. It’s precisely that upset toward what we’re seeing happen to Reddit that is driving even greater usage of Lemmy. The same thing happened with Digg, which contrary to some of our collective memory did not take place all at once. Many moved over to Reddit in 2007 following the HD DVD encryption code scandal, with many still using Digg to some degree. Sentiment toward Digg continued to decline and Reddit traffic continued to climb until the final mass wave in 2010 with the arrival of Digg v4 that shifted emphasis away from user generated content toward heavier curation - this sealed Digg’s fate with folks deciding to switch for good.
I think it’s a good thing that Lemmy users continue to view themselves as displaced Redditors. You don’t want that energy to fizzle out. It’s what’s driving people to volunteer more of their time and effort into community building.
Exactly … I think people are just impatient … there is a change happening, to what degree of a change it will be only time will tell.
Reddit is collapsing in bits and pieces … it’s going to take time to see it go down the tubes.
Also, most people don’t want to change, no matter what the circumstances are, they like familiarity and things to stay constant because it is comforting … so they keep drifting back to Reddit hoping against hope that things will just keep going the way they always did. Eventually, the site will go stale due to all the infighting, protesting and regurgitation of the same old threads that people keep repeating.
Once people get tired of it all and realize that the old Reddit they once enjoyed no longer exists … then they will drift into new alternatives like Lemmy, Kbin or Mastodon or whatever else and settle there.
Give it time guys … nothing is going to change overnight. Personally, I’m staying here on Lemmy and Kbin and enjoying the hell out of it. I feels like 2010 all over again and it’s great!
I can confirm we are seeing very similar levels of engagement on !android@lemdro.id as on /r/android despite significantly smaller subscriber numbers.
Lemmy really does scratch the itch for me. It’s refreshing, even if mod tools aren’t there yet.
I think you nailed it. The more we can harness the “fuck Reddit” energy, the better we can focus on creating what we wish we had there, here. Don’t forget the parts of Reddit you despised. That’s what we will avoid here. Let’s make this a place we all love!
I got here after they announced the API changes. Took about a week for the reddit posts to slow down at all but they’re back in full force now that the changes have been implemented.
It’s just people discussing something that’s relevant to them. It’ll go away eventually.
Wtf is Twitter?
It’s like Mastodon, but shittier
Fuck your dick you shitty pissbanana. Let people talk about things that are going on and let the conversations develop naturally. If you really want to control what people can and can’t talk about go back to Reddit and start your own sub where you can aggressively moderate until you’re happy with your finely cultivated echo chamber.
man there is no need to be so insulting, maybe a snarky quip woulda been fine, but this is so far past the line, its not cool at all to be that rude to a guy posing a question, participating
Participating being a key word here. I’ve been trying to get conversations going on other things going and so I do know what this guy means - I also know it probably will just take a matter of time for things to settle down.
But that’s the insulting kind of talk I haven’t seen on here much, compared to Reddit
I think i was slightly shocked. Apparently I left one comment that said wholeheartedly agree, and another that criticized the tone so lol.
I’m gonna talk about Reddit even harder.
I’m gonna talk about Reddit even harderer
