• Nostromo Survivor @lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Found my way here as part of the Grand Reddit Migration. Applying for refugee status please. (1st day on Lemmy, looks good gotta say)

  • banned@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Even if you do nothing else, make sure to upvote content and comments, and subscribe to communities. Bringing content over from reddit (or even just googling stuff) to the new applicable community would be extra helpful (a lot of empty communities at the moment).

    Things keep looking better here, so I’m optimistic about lemmy.

  • MathAndBall@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been mostly a lurker on Reddit for the past 10 years but something about Lemmy just makes me want to engage in the community more than reddit ever has. Also it’s incredibly impressive how quickly lemmy improved over the last weeks.

    • LightProtector@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I still think that Lemmy needs to be more user-friendly before it starts to gain a lot of traction. Right now, the decentralization is an aspect that makes it so great, but it also creates a lot of pain points.

      • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        A month ago there was only around 1k active users and the two primary devs. Things have blown up FAST, but they are working overtime to make changes and establish coordination to help improve the overall experience.

    • octopus5866@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I was frequent poster/commenter on Reddit before having a mini burnout by so many of my comment chains just randomly escalating into pointless arguments by toxic people, so I turned into a long-term lurker after that.

      Conversations on Lemmy are definitely way, way more inviting to partial lurkers like me who want to join in conversations once in a while without having to think about some random toxic people basically hijacking the conversation I’m having to satisfy their need to vent their toxicity onto the internet.

    • iknowyouare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I agree. I lurked on Reddit for most of my time there. But here, it feels like I can get a fresh start and be a part of a new community. Kinda feels like I have a responsibility too. I want this place to succeed, so I have to contribute.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I wasn’t a lurker on reddit. But damn, lemmy has somehow supercharged me into posting and commenting at ten times the rate I used to.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    It is very clear that new content per day has been steadily increasing the past 14 days.

    Lemmy is no longer just promising, it is already good. With signs of getting even better.

    With more active users, more niche communities should soon be able to do fine too.

    • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I already didn’t read past the first few hundred comments on reddit- Lemmy already feels almost as good to use, way more than mastodon did coming from Twitter.

      • rezz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Mastodon is simply not as good. Lemmy achieves its objectives very cleanly and seems to leverage ActivityPub the best in the fediverse by far.

        • Chreutz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Twitter is also focused around individuals. Reddit around communities. I believe different dynamics of those two are why Lemmy works better.

    • like47ninjas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Watching the last 3 weeks has been exciting. Dead subs springing to life & much more content. New subs every single day.

  • iaamp@programming.devEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    This feels great. The posts right now seem a lot more genuine compared to reddit lately. Keep it up!

    • Maple@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oh, hi Margot Robbie. I loved you in Suicide Squad… the first one, I couldn’t be bothered to watch the second one. Sorry 😅

    • Maple@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Agreed, after using it for a few days it’s actually not too bad. Doesn’t quite have the QoL stuff that some of Reddit’s 3rd party apps had but it’s still pretty good.

      • sriracha_no_big_deal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        the dev of Sync is making a Sync for Lemmy app. I’m assuming it’s going to be a similar UI to the Reddit version, which I’m stoked about because that was the majority of my Reddit experience

  • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    There will probably be another bump on July 1st, and probably more to come as Reddit makes more horrible decisions going forward.

    100% honestly, I’m not married to the whole concept of the Fediverse - I think it’s interesting and solves some problems plaguing modern social media, but has other issues of its own - but Lemmy has, overall, put out a good showing in the various instances’ content so far. So here I am with an account and actively posting. Looking forward to continued growth!

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Welcome! Search Lemmy for “3 Day No Poop” to be totally caught up with last week’s major events here.

  • You are irrelavent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    As a Reddit user for over a decade that got perma-banned for reporting repost bots and blatant misinfo — Glad to see new site where I can actually be involved.

  • MrBobs@lemmy.oneEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Just realised I have not replied to anything yet, so using this thread to check it works.