I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.
The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.
Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?
Thanks for hearing me out.
TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.
Make the posts you want to see. I’ve posted some questions in some niche communities here and I get well thought out responses and discourse.
Best answer, Lemmy, like all social media follows the 90-9-1 rule of social media. Of 100 people, 90 will lurk, 9 will comment, and only 1 will actually post anything.
There are people in the communities that want to talk, but you gotta be the one to post.
Hey take it as your opportunity to become a name in a community!
I don’t know how someone can lurk without the urge to post something or comment, that must take willpower
A lot of people (like myself) need to step out of their comfort zones if we want Lemmy to get more conversations going. Yesterday I made a game thread in the community for my favourite NFL team; I was the only one who commented. But I’m going to try and make one for the game next week.
I’ll join you during regular season.
Not at all. The only thing taking time to build here are the art communities, but they’re growing. So I’m patient and am trying to contribute
EXACTLY
there’s just not enough in depth stuff on here. i love shitposts, i love memes, i love a chill tone. but we need people posting interesting posts, you know. i’m not even sure how to put my finger on what’s different or why, but there’s just less…stuff here. it needs to be seasoned, or something.
It’s a matter of numbers. Like sports. You get the best by having a large pool of possible posts to rise to your attention. Reddit gets a bunch of posts that never get read. Lemmy we read pretty much all of them. There are some good posts here and there in Lemmy but not to the level of reddit. And until Lemmy gets reddit numbers it will suffer from “athletes” from small towns vs athletes from big cities. No contest.
Doesn’t matter how good the content is if I have to fight the interface to get to it.
Nah, it’s true that Lemmy has less content, no matter how many communities I join. And I also feel Lemmy has slowed down a bit in the last days/weeks. But I still won’t return to reddit. It feels overwhelming, and also I think I got over FOMO. Lemmy will keep growing, I’m in no rush. Leaving reddit was definitely good for me.
Lemmy has enough to keep me entertained, and I did successfully finally break my years-long habit of going to reddit. However there are still some subs I look at occasionally since they can provide valuable information, like city-specific and subs about certain video games.
I’m not having trouble giving up Reddit. I’ve given it up. And I’ve definitely noticed the lower volume of content here on Lemmy/the fediverse, but:
- it’s getting better pretty much daily; and
- the percentage of good quality content here far exceeds Reddit, so I still feel better off.
Its still early. This is the first time there has been a legitimate alternative to reddit and thats honestly only because 3rd party apps like sync have made it usable.
Reddit started when Digg changed its site and everyone went to reddit. There has also been multiple attempts to leave reddit, but no similar alternatives. Now there is a good alternative and there will be more things reddit does that will make people look for alternatives.
I wouldn’t say it’s a problem for me but I see what you see. We have to be patient, building a community is one of those things that you have to do carefully, taking your time.
I don’t know if you tried in other instances. I just subscribed to many more communities than I did in Reddit, no matter the instance.
