and is that a good thing or bad?
Probably not materially faster than they leave - over the long run.
This first graph is mostly dominated by mastodon obviously we don’t know who did or did not use reddit previously, but its a general pattern. https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=96
Similar pattern in monthly active users for lemmy specifically. https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=96
I don’t know about newer versions like pieface or whatever - but since the total fedi population is fairly stable any specific software is probably mostly shuffling the same people around.
Though maybe the dataset doesn’t crawl stats for newer ones, I don’t really know - but it feels pretty stable population with inflows and outflows more or less matching.
i think we need more users
there i made a sticker. now i’ve gotta stick it somewhere
I hope so. My only issue so far is the lack of content
I just did.
So far really enjoying.
Reddit i really changed… forcing the app
Welcome to Lemmy, glad you’re here!
Lemmy can’t grow niche communities without significantly larger number of users.
Lots of users will not replace Reddit with Lemmy without access to the niche subreddits they’re active in.
Personally, I still use Reddit for niche communities that just aren’t present on Lemmy.
Although, if they ever shut down RedReader’s API access that would force my hand, as the official app is unusable IMO.
I use Narwhal 2 for now. $5 a month is a small price to pay for the largest aggregation of information outside of Wikipedia.
Once they force the proprietary app on me I’ll likely be out. It’s a bloated cartoonish app.
I like Lemmy a lot but like people are saying it needs more users. I try and post my own content to practice what I preach.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Yes, I think it will grow organically, and often in bursts when Reddit does something particularly publicly stupid or frustrating. We’ve seen this before, we’ll see it again. I don’t know if we’ll ever see a mass exodus. I don’t know if this will ever “replace” Reddit per se. Obviously it has for me, but on a whole, I think it will continue to be a niche community, and I’m fine with that. There are good people here, my kind of people, and I like it for what it is, not for what it could become. I really don’t need the tiktok-memelord-masses and the teenagers and the onlyfans trolls in my life. I think they’ll find their own places to congregate and feed off each other, and I don’t think it will ever be here, no matter how shitty reddit and tiktok and whatever other dumb apps they use become.
I don’t want the Fediverse to be massively exclusive but it doesn’t need to be massively inclusive either. Its nature means it can be inclusive, and I welcome any community who really feels like they belong here. But I’m realistic about who is actually going to feel included here, and I don’t think we need to go out of our way to “attract” more users, we just need to do enough that the people who want this sort of thing, can find it.
I’d go back to the actually good reddit days, oh wait were there right now on lemmy
I find the quality of discussion sadly lower than Reddit. Back therrthere you often got really thoughtful and interesting responses to posts, and indeed they were frequently more interesting than the posts themselves. Here, the quality is really poor, in general
Imma have to disagree on that one, I find discussion here on par with early reddit days. The good and the bad included. Although the internet in general has radicalised tenfold since those days.
I hope so. It’s a more open platform and in some ways the interface is better (but as with most of fediverse tools it requires a wee tiny bit of learning to undo the programming of using proprietary webpages).
I see this stated often but I switched to lemmy over a year ago and I’ve literally never had to use any sort of programming. The only thing that took me a minute was learning what’s up with separate instances, but even then, if people want to just stick with one it’s not the end of the world.
Want to politely point out that they didn’t mean computer programming. From context, they meant behavioral conditioning.
Oh lmao that makes a lot more sense thanks
Hopefully. It’ll be both good an bad. Do the majority of people know it exists? Or was it just me living under a rock until a few weeks ago 😂?
I just joined. I was a lurker and effectively banned. Honestly wish I would have done it sooner!
More? Yes. All? Probably not. Time will tell but I think the internet will fragment again, at least to some degree. It wasn’t healthy to have it all consolidated around a few mega-sites.
It’s nice to have an option that isn’t one of the corporate overlords. I want it to be successful, but I also don’t want it to be mainstream, because that brings mainstream level problems too.
I sure hope so, and yes it is.
Some will, but if they haven’t left yet I don’t see why they would. We’ll continue to get stragglers that get banned from reddit.
There are dozens of us!
Dozens !
Bakers or regular dozen?
yes
I would like to see more niche communities here. That’s tthe only reason I still visit reddit. I do not know whether more reddit users will find their way here, but I sure do hope that their niche communities will migrate with them.
One strange thing I noticed is that there are a lot of communities created here, mirroring subreddit names or subjects, with zero content. I have a feeling that the overbearing mods on Reddit have already prepared to set up shop here when the tide turns.
