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Just a little rant. When I first visited Lemmy Sites a couple of months ago it felt empty. Besides the really mainstream community pretty much everything else just felt empty.

Meanwhile though traffic has increased a lot and I feel well entertained by the traffic in c/hfy c/noncredibledefence c/keepwriting c/worldbuilding and so on. It is certainly less than Reddit but often quality is substancially higher and is "enough" to keep me entertained.

Also I like that you can actually post something without running into a bazillion deletes, bans and moderator shitshat because your post was two words to short, not NCD enough and so on.

Sure, the C64 community on Lemmy is laughable. So is the ARMA community. I still use REddit for that. Also I often check up stuff on r/hfy and r/NCD but since one week I have been prefering Lemmy for that.

Also my longer posts don't get eaten up any more. God, three weeks ago most posts with 3k an more just got lost without feed back. Nowadays I have even manges posts around 20k without breaking them up. Though the editor is still lacking for longer posts. On Reddit I can copy-paste pretty much anything from Libreoffice into Reddits Editor (which is also pretty lacking but differently lacking). On Lemmy I have to run most text through a little perl script to get them even using correct line breaks perl -pe 's/\n/\n\n/' and different sizes for Headlines are much to few to select from.

Not perfect, not even very good but definitely promising.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Slowly? Lemmy is easily as entertaining as Reddit and it is just getting going.

[–] papajohn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I have way more fun on Lemmy. I do need some of the more esoteric an vast archived content from reddit from time to time. For that I just google reddit and no longer sign in. Fedi will get there soon enough though.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 1 year ago

I certainly hate the people here a lot less. I like how it isn't the same garbage comments on every post where they hyper analyze videos frame by frame just to call things fake.

[–] wth@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its getting there, and there is some entertaining content on here (comments and posts). But I think we are still missing the super high end responses. No matter what the topic, one or two people would jump on and have deep specialised knowledge of the field - be it naming an insect from a blurry image or commenting on a geopolitical situation. I still see lots of posts that generate nothing more than “huh” or “wow” type comments.

When that starts appearing more broadly, I think the quality here is going to take another leap.

[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I think that'll only really start to happen once you start getting more of the general population on here.

Reddit always had a reputation for being dominated by techy people, that is significantly more so the case here.

Signing up for Lemmy, even knowing where to start is a bigger leap than it is over there. Personally I'm hoping third party apps will be able to help with that by offering some kind of setup wizard with easy options of suggested instances to join.

[–] StoicLime@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy just needs to stop talking about itself so much. The only reason I still use Reddit is because I find fresher and more varied content there. Lemmy users need to provide more content than just the fact that they are on Lemmy.

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I stopped posting to Reddit because frankly it felt like throwing a pebble into the ocean.

I love the smaller approach here

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

My posts will get no engagement, negative engagement, and very rarely do I get upvotes. Here in lemmy, there's lots of quality posts and nice people who engage with my posts.

[–] Disgustoid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't understand the "slowly" part at all. I joined Lemmy about a month ago when Reddit third party apps went dark. Lemmy was largely a ghost town then, with most of the relatively mainstream communities I sought out having newest posts that were days or even weeks old. That desolation was gone after the first few days, with a ton more engagement from others who migrated over and a steady stream of new content. The communities I frequent have grown by leaps and bounds since then. "Slow" isn't a word I'd use to describe Lemmy's growth.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 points 1 year ago

It started to slow down, or at least in my instance. People still post and people from another instance visit frequently, but the hype seems to already slow down. I don't mind though, i don't think any instance can take the heavy load, it will kill lemmy faster if the instance constantly facing down time.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since the spike in content that came with the Reddit migration, I feel like things have slowed down. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't have any stats to back that up.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe "plateau'd" is a better phrase. There has been growth since the Reddit migration, but it has decreased since the spike. Not that that's a bad thing

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say plateaued. Decreased. A number of the communities that I subscribe to seem to have fewer daily posts than they did a few weeks ago.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] limerod@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is the new way of life. Reddit is the toxic ex.

[–] ancientwoodsy@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy feels a lot like hackernews

[–] sickmatter@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With a bit less bigotry, but otherwise yes.

[–] DM_Gold@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

hackernews is bigoted? Well that's news. I had no idea.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Lot of empty communities still. Thinking about posting in writingprompts to try to get something rolling there.

[–] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

c/worldbuilding

Thanks for the shoutout! It's going to be a slow climb up, but I'm looking forwards to growing this place as well.

[–] Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I posted there already :-) because r/worldbuilding had his "thursday don't post day" or something like that. I didn't even consider Lemmy an alternative before.

[–] butterflyattack@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When you say C64 do you mean the old commadore? Me, I was always an Amiga / Sinclair spectrum guy. But I live with someone who has a working c64 and uses it for music so they are still around.

[–] Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the C64 is so much fun because it is so different. Really something else. It feels so... raw and full of surprises. I did program a lot on it. I also own an Amiga (two actually, a 1000 and a 3000) but they are so far ahead of the C64 that you can not compare them. I have Web, Mail, a ton of Unix stuff and more on my 3000. It pretty much feels like a modern system just a really slow one. Loading a JPEG with 1024x768 in 24bits - the highest resolution my Amiga can display - takes like 30 seconds ;-)