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.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.eeEnglish
    792·
    11 months ago

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

    • Bucky@lemmy.worldEnglish
      60·
      11 months ago

      I don’t think people really understand that reddit is an 18 year old product. Their original site was iterated on for 10 years before they stopped building on it.

      Lemmy will get there and beyond. As the fediverse attracts more users, it will also attract more contributors. I’m starting to learn Rust myself in hopes I can contribute to the project at some point down the line.

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldEnglish
        28·
        11 months ago

        Yeah Reddit 10 years ago was very different than Reddit now. Too many people expect a 1 for 1 replacement right now.

        • Riker_Maneuver@startrek.websiteEnglish
          17·
          11 months ago

          I was on reddit before the digg exodus, and the current state of lemmy feels somewhat reminiscent of those times. When communities are smaller there is just a completely different feel than the 1 million+ subscriber goliaths some subreddits became.

          • Kikkertje@aussie.zoneEnglish
            6·
            11 months ago

            That’s exactly what it feels like. It’s so refreshing and I like the fact I can scroll for about 30 mins, exhaust my feed and step away. I don’t get sucked in for most of the day like Reddit.

            • MarsAgainstVenus@fedimav.winEnglish
              3·
              11 months ago

              I completely agree. I’ve been hopping on in the morning and in the evening and I don’t feel like I’ve missed anything and I still feel like I’m contributing. The complete opposite of how it was with Reddit.

        • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
          41·
          11 months ago

          That was the best era. The source code was open sourced, subreddits members know each other pretty well, the most prolific reditors are not reposters or super-mods. Actually fun AMAs and community-initiated events (meetups, secret santa, etc). Now it’s all gone, replaced by a TikTok clone.

      • vamp07@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I also think you’re going to see Lemmy continue to grow overtime because it does not need to be a Comercial success. It doesn’t need to go through the new owners, whims or financial needs. It’ll just continue to slowly grow until someday it overtakes Reddit. The mere fact that it can’t be taken down is in itself a huge advantage/defense.

    • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
      5·
      11 months 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.worksEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      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.ukEnglish
        3·
        11 months 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.

    • papajohn@lemmy.caEnglish
      41·
      11 months 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.