How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

  • other_world@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    I went from Digg to Reddit and now I’m looking for a new home. I’m really liking what I’m seeing here!

  • Noisy@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    Whilst I’m somewhat sad to be here (Reddit has eaten up a significant portion of my time over the past 10+ years), I’m happy to be learning new things and exploring a new way of doing things.

    • kunday@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      I honestly thought this would reduce my screen time as Reddit is on the top of the list. But here I am at Lemmy lol.

  • Sponholz@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I honestly can’t say about the influx. Since I’m part of it.

    But man…

    This does feel like home.

    I was already loving Mastodon.

    Honestly, the real question is:

    What took us soo long…

    I was lurking on Lemmy for a long time now read only mode, not signed up, but never had the urge to actually making an account.

    I try not to have so many feeds where I’m active at once, to try and better manage the time I spend on this feeds.

    Twitter and Reddit were the ones I engaged the most

    Twitter became Mastodon and Reddit became Lemmy on that matter, so that I can focus on being active and helpful whenever possible.

    So, what took me so long…?

    Definitely something I will be asking myself for a while, since so far the experience here have something that reddit just don’t. The quality over quantity aspect.

    Finally…

    Thanks for having me here, I hope I can contribute the best I can to maintain Lemmy awesome as it is. I don’t post or reply like a madman, but I like to participate on constructive discussion every now and then.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      0·
      1 year ago

      what took us so long

      “Inertia is a property of matter” -Bill Nye the Science guy

      What I mean by that is that it takes a force to move a large mass. People behave in much the same way. It takes a push to get people to move in large numbers from one place to another. I personally have been philosophically very pro-fediverse ever since I heard about it, but I was waiting for it to reach a critical mass before really switching over.

      • Andreas@feddit.dk
        1·
        1 year ago

        That, and for Lemmy specifically, its history of being a tankie forum. Without the Reddit refugee migration, if you joined Lemmy as a single user, you would be alone among communists and eventually get bullied into leaving. Already in 2020-2021, Fediverse users knew about Lemmy, but they avoided promoting it because of its userbase. This Reddit situation provided the push to get many normal users over to Lemmy at once to drown out the communist users.

        • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          That’s a good point. Personally I like when there’s a diversity of political opinions that are able to have reasonable discourse. My favourite political subreddit for a while has been /r/stupidpol. It has lots of Marxists, but lots of internal variety in terms of viewpoints, and respectful debate has always been allowed there while also maintaining a lighter atmosphere.

  • hydra@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    It makes me hopeful for the future. Enthusiasts priming the pump for people embracing a more sustainable and less exploitative business model to organize the Internet. Instead of putting all the information on a big centralized locked down platform we share the load and costs between instances.

    I love what is happening now, it is pretty much the biggest display of resistance against big tech I’ve ever seen in my life by a long shot. I’ve seen most of the internet gradually decay to a shadow of its former self so this is a return to form and a switch to a better model in the long run.

    People are finally adopting the Fediverse and if the adoption rates keep up we might start going mainstream with all the advantages and disadvantages, but it will be alright since Lemmy is both federated and FLOSS. Lemmy is a Rust-based, AGPLv3 platform and that means it will be protected against corruption in the foreseable future, I hope.

    EDIT: Over 30% of Reddit already went dark!

  • 0xCAFe@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m not one of the new users but I’m happy because the Lemmyverse feels much more alive now compared to a year ago. ☺️

  • Alligatorade@lemmy.ca
    0·
    1 year ago

    Je trouve ça incroyable, je me suis inscrit ya à peine une semaine et les postes avaient genre 50-100 upvote max et la ça touche les 800. Puis c’est sympa de voir d’avantage de contenu.

    • Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hey everyone, let’s not be quick to downvote just because it’s not in English today. As proud Lemmy users, let’s seize this opportunity to showcase our incredible diversity. Let’s demonstrate to the world just how unique and amazing we can be. Together.

      Je comprend clairement ce que tu veux dire, même si je suis perso un peu perdu parce que en catégorie “Hot” ou “Active” j’ai toujours les mêmes premiers post qui reste pendant 2 jours entier et que c’est un peu frustrant quand je l’ai déjà bien vu

      • Borgzilla@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        I find the hot/active categories pretty confusing too. It would be nice to be able to show subbed communities either across the top of the page or on a sidebar like old Reddit.

  • croobat@lemm.ee
    0·
    1 year ago

    A little bit worried. I am a recent migrator myself so this may a bit hypocritical, but I feel a lot of people will want to “redditize” here, just like how people tried with mastodon a couple months ago or (in a larger level), how people want Linux to become “another Windows”.

    These are not replicas, Lemmy doesn’t work like Reddit, neither does it try to be, and that is by design, not a flaw. Things work differently, over and under the rug, and I think users should be entitled to doing some small effort to readjusting and have an open mind.

    I’m all for UI/UX improvements, like most community projects, the front design part is more of an afterthought, and in that matter Lemmy has a lot to improve, but always keeping in mind what it is aiming to be.

    For example, I am thinking in working on some simple browser extension to rearrange the UI in a way similar to Reddit’s (nothing fancy, the upvote/downvote and collapse buttons locations, simple things). Maybe even some redirecting magic so if you open a link to another instance’s community, it instead opens it in your current one, so you can still interact without having to go to your instance and search this one.

    If anything, as a FOSS and federated content advocate, I wish this project nothing but the best so that one day we can escape the clutches of greedy companies.