• li10@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18210·
    11 months ago

    Where they at tho?

    We all know there’s barely enough people here. It’s not unusable, but there are so few people it’s always the same users posting and commenting, and it can be a bit dead occasionally.

    I’m committed to the fediverse, but we could do with another big push from people dumping Reddit. Part of that would also rely on us (🫵) not being obnoxious towards the potential new users 👀

        • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          There are a lot of forks of Misskey which are more popular in the “West”. I recommend you to have a look at Firefish, Iceshrimp, Catodon or Sharkey. Firefish used to gain a lot of traction but there was some personal drama going on with the original maintainer, causing the project to feel unmaintained for a while. Luckily the do have a new maintainer now. Anyway partially due to this problem some folk like the former community manager created a new fork Catodon. Iceshrimp also another direct fork of Firefish. So a bit of trivia from the FOSS Mastodon world. In the you might as well just use Mastodon if you are fine with the UI. But I love that we have so much variety in the FOSS ActivityPub World.

      • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
        192·
        11 months ago

        I don’t get why people like the microblig format. It’s so terrible for anything more than snarky quips.

        • blind3rdeye@lemm.eeEnglish
          20·
          11 months ago

          I’ve got a mastodon account. The people I follow don’t mark snarky quips. Instead, they post updates of things they are making (music, games, and comics mostly); and they share photos that they’ve taken, and links and comments to news that they find interesting. Compared to Lemmy, it’s more personal, because when you respond you are talking directly to a person that you are likely to talk to again.

          Mastodon doesn’t use a personalised algorithm. So your home feed will only show hashtags and people that you follow. (There is an ‘explore’ feed for seeing other stuff that might be ‘trending’ or whatever.) So if you are seeing too many snarky quips - just unfollow the person making them.

          • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            they post updates of things they are making (music, games, and comics mostly); and they share photos that they’ve taken, and links and comments to news that they find interesting. Compared to Lemmy, it’s more personal, because when you respond you are talking directly to a person that you are likely to talk to again.

            You can do all that same stuff on Lemmy/reddit, except the comments are actually organized and readable. Trying to read a continuous comment thread on Twitter is such a pain.

        • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          For years Reddit and Twitter were coexisting peacefully and it should be clear for everyone by now that each format has its pros and cons and they are used for different purposes. Was is a bit interesting though is that the active users gap between Mastodon and Lemmy seems to be much higher than it was/is with the corporate originals.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
      432·
      11 months ago

      A lot of the thousands of Reddit comments per post were variations of ‘this!’ or inane joke responses, and I don’t miss that at all. It’s not the quantity, but the quality, and I’ve found discussions here to be more like Reddit’s early days when comment threads were more worthwhile.

      But if you’re looking for the Reddit experience, I’ll help:

      Came here to say this.

      Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.

      Username checks out

      This deserves more upvotes.

      I’d give you gold if I could.

      Shots fired.

      Nailed it.

      You. I like you.

      Tree fiddy.

      You had one job.

      That’s enough internet for today.

      Happy cake day! 🎂

      I have the weirdest boner right now.

      Directions unclear.

      Banana for scale.

      5/7 with rice.

      Mom’s spaghetti.

      I laughed harder than I should have.

      Sauce?

      Someone give this man gold.

      Circlejerk is leaking.

      This was not my proudest fap.

      What did I just read?

      Risky click.

      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

      (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞

      (ಠ_ಠ)

      ¯_(ツ)_/¯

      You dropped this: \

      Woosh!

      This is why we can’t have nice things.

    • Poe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      I don’t mind the idea of seeing the same user around. Feels more community centered

    • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      Isn’t the stat that like 95% of users only lurk? You’re measuring this by posters, not users, if you’re going by who you see post and comment.

    • catculation@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      As per the website there are around 900 active users servers on lemmy I recently joined the fediverse both lemmy and mastodon and tbh lemmy is more active. Mastodon is just an echo chamber only bots are reposting from reddit and twitter.

    • Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I’m just kind of over social media. I gave this a try but I realised* I’m *the problem, not Reddit

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1435·
    11 months ago

    Everyone wishing for more users might be wishing on a cursed monkey paw. I don’t know what the sweet spot number of active users is — I want more so we can have contributors to niche communities — but there’s a tipping point. You want your favorite bar/restaurant/message boards to be popular but not too popular.

    • shrugal@lemm.eeEnglish
      87·
      11 months ago

      Personally I think it’s more important to break big-tech’s hold on online communication. Every single user who leaves a centralized platform to join the Fediverse is a win in my books! Another thing is that we never had a mainstream decentralized, nonprofit and non-algorithmic social network before afaik, I’m actually not sure if the climate will evolve like it did with the other networks.

      • IAmTheZeke@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        11 months ago

        I guess I just don’t have faith in the majority’s conversation. Once you have a lot of dumb people, all the content starts devolving. Especially the comments.

        As a dumb myself, it’s a difficult problem that I don’t have an answer to.

        But maybe it’s a net positive. Don’t spend all day on one platform. And the dumb jokes are nice for being less serious all the time. As long as there is still good conversation

        Bro, we’ve had like 3 dozen memes at the top about Taylor Swift’s airplane just in the last week. We are not exactly avoiding what I just complained about. So I guess it’ll be okay

        • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          11 months ago

          Once you have a lot of dumb people, all the content starts devolving. Especially the comments.

          As long as the influx of dumb users is matched by a sufficient influx of less-dumb users to help grow niche communities, I think it might be fine. I rarely browsed the large 1M+ subreddits, and mostly stuck to the subs with a few thousand users.

          • Klear@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            51·
            11 months ago

            Honestly I feel like the proportion of dumb people here is ever so slightly worse than it was on reddit. It feels like people here are always missing the point of everything, not getting simple jokes, arguing about dumb stuff…

            Yeah, even more than on reddit.

      • WolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Honestly, I’m scared of what will come of it. Lemmy is fragile and the lessons of yesteryear don’t apply thanks to AI and evolving spam methods. That said, I’m still cautiously optimistic about the future of lemmy.

      • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        I don’t get the hate against algorithms, they’re just a tool, can be good and bad

        • shrugal@lemm.eeEnglish
          10·
          11 months ago

          I’m referring to recommendation algorithms, the bad thing about them is that they can be used to manipulate people. Algorithms in general are fine of course.

          • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
            41·
            11 months ago

            recommendation algorithms are fine too, the problem with modern social media is algorithms tuned for engagement.

              • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                Whatever algorithms youtube, tiktok, instagram etc. use to drive engagement. They don’t have any names that I’m aware of

                • shrugal@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  11 months ago

                  The problematic ones for that are mostly recommendation algorithms afaik, but there are others like gamification ofc. You can call them engagement algorithms if you want to be a bit more broad. But that’s what I mean when I criticize “algorithmic” platforms, and I think that’s what most people mean when they talk about algorithms in this context.

    • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      11 months ago

      I still can’t believe we haven’t seen a @whitehouse.gov.social or whatever spring up. Why in the world would they not want to control their social media presence in house? Why allow Twitter that luxury?

      If they went cold turkey on Twitter and set up @potus@whitehouse.social the posts would still end up on Twitter because people would cross post them (just like we see Twitter posts on Masto or lemmy).

      At least some EU governments have started making their own accounts.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        11 months ago

        I emailed my region’s national weather service and asked that they join Mastodon and the meteorologist said they wanted to but there’s an approval process for communications and it takes awhile to add new services.

        I’m basically completely off X (and haven’t had a Facebook account for years) but during a recent storm, I made a new Twitter account that just follows local government accounts. It’s annoying that the fastest way to find out about flooded roads and stuff is X and I really hope that changes soon.

        • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          11 months ago

          I emailed my region’s national weather service and asked that they join Mastodon

          Thank you for doing that!

        • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          I follow a couple of not stations that have a Masto presence, but I get where you are coming from.

          Hopefully the tide will shift more this year.

          I know that some people are upset about Threads federating, but I feel like some people may never end up on Masto but could have a Threads account. A local weather station, for example. But if you could simply subscribe to them via Masto without ever making a Threads account that’d be great. And the weather station gets to serve more people (the “normies” — for lack of a better word — on Threads and the nerds on Masto).