• Shadow@lemmy.caEnglish
    67·
    4 months ago

    We’ve definitely noticed an increase in signups at lemmy.ca when that news was announced. Not all active users yet, but a lot of signups

      • whoareu@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        I hope you are doing a good job of converting more Redditors to Lemmy :D

        • MelonYellow@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          4 months ago

          He totally is! I’ve noticed Blaze’s posts a bunch -well assuming he goes by the same name lol. He’s doing a great job at shepherding and getting the info out there. @Blaze@sopuli.xyz

          Also I took a peek at some of threads discussing the paywalls and noticed there seems to be increased awareness about Lemmy, dare I say interest😆

        • Beaver@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Spez is a funny enemy as he is slowly breaking furniture while demanding loyalty in the fortress.

  • tehmics@lemmy.worldEnglish
    273·
    4 months ago

    Every time reddit announces something dumb I open Lemmy again. I’d rather be here on principle but the content/users just aren’t here yet. Where are the cross post bots?

      • tehmics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        I don’t have the time. This just fills the empty gaps in my day, before bed winding down

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          0·
          4 months ago

          Isn’t that how it always goes. Everyone wants the end result, but nobody wants to do the work.

          • tehmics@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            4 months ago

            Yep. Weirdly, I didn’t do any work to populate reddit either. It’s almost like that would be impractical and unrealistic for an end user to do.

            • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              It’s only impractical for a small userbase. As the userbase grows, the amount of posts each user needs to contribute in order to maintain an active community drops to a realistic level.

    • CMahaff@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      Out of curiosity, what content are you looking for? Discovery on Lemmy can be a problem, but sometimes the communities are there and even active, just buried.

      But may I also suggest searching by Top Day/12-hour/6-hour to see the most active posts. Lemmy’s scaled algorithm still doesn’t get it quite right IMO.

      • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        Scaled is intentionally promoting communities with fewer subscribers. It’s intentionally demoting the most active posts bt demoting any posts from the communities with more subscribers.

        • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
          5·
          4 months ago

          Scaled is amazing for the Subscribed feed, because I’m (obviously) interested in the small communities that I’m subscribed to. But it’s not quite the same when browsing All or Local. Usually I do stick to Subscribed though.

            • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              I also like the New Comments sort (forums style), I have a widget on my phone’s home screen showing Subscribed - New Comments

      • tehmics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Just… content. I open my Lemmy app once and I’ve seen everything it will show me for the day, or sometimes for multiple days. I open reddit and I can scroll for hours.

  • obbeel@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    I like Lemmy’s culture better. It isn’t perfect, and maybe someday I’ll create my own instance. And I can do that.

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    131·
    4 months ago

    It is lower from where it was in june (48.472) and the data seem to indicate a negative trajectory , also lemmy donations seem to be the lowest i remember them to be.

    So i would not get too confident, the project IMO needs to focus on highly requested killer features. My impression they focusing too much on technical issues that don’t seem to be really important in a way that reminds me of the infamous The CADT Model rant of Jamie Zawinski. Do we really need to do a UI rewrite?

    • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      The CADT model…that was a short but fun read. I have definitely encountered that model many times in the various jobs.

      Years ago, when I was a developer, I loved fixing bugs in other people’s code. I felt like I learned a lot from that, and I got a sense of accomplishment out of it. It made users happy, it made my boss happy, and the puzzle solving aspect of it was fun. I was what they called a “maintenance programmer” which was something of an insult, but I didn’t mind.

      Unfortunately most developers I know hate everyone else’s code, think others’ code is “garbage” (every single time) and they definitely have a lot more fun building something from scratch than doing bug fixes. They even hate their own code once it’s a few months old. Always chasing for the perfect architecture, etc. Which is unfortunate, there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

      • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

        Value created doesn’t translate to value extracted and VCs and managers and marketers and the general public fork over more money in exchange for new shiny than old, reliable, maintained. There are few exceptions.

        • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          True, but I’ve also worked at many places where they hang on to old software systems for years or even decades (think banking, mainframes). Because they “it works, and if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.

      • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        TF2 community greatly values efforts of The Janitor - sole full-time developer, fixing old bugs in TF2.

    • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I was so confused when I heard about lemmy-ui-leptos, it really sounds like a waste of time to me 🤷‍♂️

      I’m sure everyone has a different opinion, but I think the most important new feature should be the plugin system. It seems like the only way to scale up the number of contributors and support a variety of languages.

      https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4695

      • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        probably the best (or least worst) indication of that is sorting issues by “thumbs up” on github, see lemmy and lemmy-ui. I think having a survey among donors (like godot had on patreon) is a better indicator.

      • Beaver@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        I suppose for me more compact posts and in community search.

  • Yambu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    I got banned from reddit for criticizing the mods of a popular subreddit. Perm-ban on a white vest account for saying the mods are crybabies as they once again complained about having to mod the sub.

    Fuck reddit. Fuck spez.

    • Asudox@lemmings.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      I agree. I came here for two reasons:

      • Reddit is proprietary
      • Shit mods
      • API paid
      • Karma system

      Though I still do crave the niche communities from Reddit and I might occassionally visit Reddit once in a while on my browser for them, otherwise the ads are pretty unbearable for me. The UI is also so fucking bloated. Fuck spez

    • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I pretty much got permabanned for ban evasion, even though I was on an alt that has no reference to the others other than being on the same IP, my other accounts got banned simultaneously.

      • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Same thing happened to me. 7-day ban evasion suspension instantly into a perma on three accounts at once all because a single subreddit mod threw a fit when I accidentally posted there again off r/all on an alt.

        They were all made with the same email address so I could have easily made another alt by now and kept posting but I’ve taken it as an opportunity to do a Reddit detox

  • Sesudesu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    4 months ago

    I’m now here due to the Reddit news. I’m still browsing both, but I look forward to changing over.

  • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
    122·
    4 months ago

    Active accounts is not active users. We shouldn’t lie to ourselves. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of active users is half of the active account number.

    • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
      13·
      4 months ago

      More realistic than mainstream social media platforms. On Lemmy, the number of active users is measured by posts, comments and votes.

      • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        I think that’s a mistake, but also the point is that saying users when you mean accounts is lying to yourself. Users here have multiple accounts, I have 7.

        • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          Yes, almost almost all of us have more than one account, but not everyone uses more than one account at the same time. I think these numbers are correct. There should be a margin of deviation of at most 10%.

          • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            Over 6 months and over a month, I think most users with multiple accounts use their accounts at least once to post, comment, or vote. So it wouldn’t surprise me if active users to active accounts was 1:2

      • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
        31·
        4 months ago

        No. I think that there are enough users with multiple accounts including bots that it wouldn’t surprise me if the ratio of active users to active accounts is 1:2.

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    every time spez opens his mouth a bunch of people go “hmm let me see if there’s something else”

  • RangerJosie@sffa.communityEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    I’m new here coming from Reddit.

    Yalls subreddit needs links to here. And a short guide on getting started.

    I had to scroll a bunch of comments to find the right name to Google. Then I had to find the most popular app to use. It was a bit of a hassle. Not too bad. But enough to be off-putting to newbies.

    • Knossos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      The benefit is also it’s curse. It’s all open, so there can be a bunch of names and a bunch of apps. Nobody agrees what the best app is.

      But once you get your own ecosystem set up, it is amazing.

      Which is a huge hurdle for new people 😬

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I have two apps, Voyager and Connect, one for me on my instance, one on lemmy.world. They show wildly different things 😊

        • Zoot@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I loved connect, but the constant restarting and losing your spot drove me to Boost. Its basically exactly the same (minus a 2$ no ad fee) an it never loses my spot! Connect handled markdown considerably better though. Has the app crashing issue been fixed?

          • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Boost is fantastic for keeping my place. I just don’t have to worry about switching to the web to look something up, or even just to do some math. Even if the app gets killed in the background, you’ll be returned to where you were. It’s great, I wish every app could have such a good memory.

            • Zoot@reddthat.comEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              Lucky ducky. Does it take you back to the start if you ever run another app? Even if I turned battery saver off for the app (besides it destroying my phones battery) it would still restart all the time.

              • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
                0·
                3 months ago

                I don’t really get what you are saying but for me at least it’s a totally normally functioning app, no quirky stuff etc.

    • Beaver@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      3 months ago

      Please tell your friends to join LemmyWorld (biggest instance) and install the app Voyager (cross platform support) to get started on the platform!

        • Beaver@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          I just thought that LemmyWorld would be the easiest to get started from Reddit as it has the least discoverability issues with Lemmy communities.

          • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
            5·
            3 months ago

            For the vast majority of active communities, they should be discoverable from lemm.ee as well. It’s the second most active instance, chances that someone looked up that community is quite high.