• onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    Damn, 40k monthly active users on lemmy? That’s much less than I expected. And the number’s dropping.

    Well, at least for me, there’s no going back to reddit.

    • Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.netEnglish
      266·
      1 year ago

      I wouldnt be surprised if much of the extremism on lemmy puts a lot of users off, tbh. Ive been seeing more and more remarks about it.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
        185·
        1 year ago

        Extremism? I’ve found it to be much less extreme than says /r/europe or /r/conservative

        What kind of extremism are you talking about?

        • MrLuemasG@lemmy.worldEnglish
          152·
          1 year ago

          I’ve had to go ham on blocking entire communities on here with Sync’s filter feature. Reddit at least has so many niche, active communities that you can actively avoid the /r/Europes and the /r/conservatives. With Lemmy, if I scroll through my subscribed communities, I get the same posts for days on end - if I scroll through everything, I get a bunch of Linux and FOSS circle jerks as well as “Tankies”, “Anti-Tankies”, commies, fuckcar communities that aren’t even realistic with the timescale they want things changes, and even more recently some posts from conservative communities.

          Like, don’t get me wrong - I refuse to go back to reddit, but I’ve definitely had the desire to just quit using Lemmy because it feels like there isn’t much here for me.

          • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            🤔 I’ve blocked a fair few too and find that contributing to different communities helps. Can’t wait for everyone else to do something if you don’t do something yourself.

            It’s still pretty small compared to reddit, and if only 1% of the 40k post, then that’s 400 people posting. You can easily have an impact at this point in time.

          • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            There’s a mechanic advice community now on lemmy.world (I think?) And we’re not… idk, not bad yet I haven’t seen any ugliness myself as of yet. Hopefully it will stay that way!

        • Lianodel@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          71·
          1 year ago

          Yeah. I guess it will vary from instance to instance, but from my personal experience, viewing “All” on Lmemy isn’t noticeably more political than /r/all. There’s maybe less diversity in the stories, and more memes, but still. It’s not bad.

          Reddit has absolutely been way worse at times, by the way. When T_D was allowed to run roughshod over the front page, and spez bent over backwards to not ban them despite clearly being a nuisance and breaking the rules.

        • 3laws@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          1 year ago

          I can eat dick all day. You got some for me? I’m not even communist, just a godless gay-ish socialist.

    • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Fuck Reddit, but I also feel like Boost will give us a boost. It’s got some features I’ve yet to find on other apps and hopefully will make Lemmy a little easier for people like me who made the switch

      It’s also pretty much exactly like the app for reddit was which had a big following so hopefully will make it easier for former boost on Reddit users to switch to lemmy