On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though β promising stats all in all.
Excellent. Never going back to reddit.
Forward, not backward. Upward, not forward, and ever twirling, twirling toward freedom!
Reddit lost basically 90% of its appeal to me when they banned third party apps. I am also sleeping better since purging it out of my life so screw that.
Lemmy is home now. Loving it here.
I had been using Masotodon as my main social media before, but gladly find myself on Lemmy a whole lot more. Masotodon is certainly not my type of social media, the Twitter format and lack of algorithm kills it for me. Lemmy fills that Reddit gap, and Sync makes it feel like Iβm on Reddit again. Though the website has a long ways to go. Lemmy still has a lot of features to go and things to figure out to be a Reddit killer, but I feel confident weβve hit a healthy size and are relatively stable right now.
Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.
Iβm not sure how Reddit did it, but theyβd show smaller communities to show up on Hot feed pretty often to give them more exposure. We need a form of that.
Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.
The devs are aware of this and, I believe, have a feature coming to help with that. In their recent AMA they acknowledged that itβs bothering them too.
Itβs in the accouncements community: !announcements@lemmy.ml
Iβm with you. I recently jumped on mastodon and canβt get into the Twitter style. I follow a few things of interest but itβs like comparing cable TV programming with Netflix, I donβt want to be told what to watch but I need a nudge and structure to wade around in (if that makes sense).
Its not as good as it sounds. There should be some kind of sorting. I follow #food but I get low-quality content of any random user taking a picture of their refrigerator at the top of my feed just because they posted 1s ago.
Ah, I see. Iβve never used those platforms, but I always thought that I could just see a newsfeed with posts of people I follow.
One thing you can do is to subscribe to tags (does not work in the Android app) when searching for them. Then you will get more than just the posts you subscribed to. This is somewhat ok, but I also would like a feed for things I could be interested inβ¦
Chronological timeline doesnβt really work unless you build a highly curated list. Not many people used Twitter that way.
Hell yeah. Special shout-out to Sync for Lemmy for reeling me back in as a daily user.
I just came from Reddit, and I hear a lot about Sync. Anyone willing to let me know what it is and how it is important to Lemmy?
Itβs just another third party app. But it has made the transition from a reddit app to a lemmy app.
Anything was better than reddit official app which was garbage. I preferred Relay. But for people used to sync, it is familiar and a smooth experience here like they were used to there.
For lemmy I prefer Jerboa an open source app, but sync is free to try as well (although it had ads).
Thanks, so it seems like those apps that were going to be charged for the API have a place to transition to. Nice!
Iβve been having to watch my social media usage again. Which is bittersweet.
Haha, Iβm right there with you. Iβm off Twitter & Reddit, I had no alternatives until Sync came backβ¦
As a person who recently left one community, and found lemmy, Iβm very thankful.
Agreed, I sure am glad Lemmy was here to catch us. What would we have done if it hadnβt been ready and waiting?
Based on the usual suspects from that one sub dedicated to alternatives: tildes, mastodon, or maybe one of the few devs who somehow managed to build their own alternative from ground up in a few weeks (how though?). The true question is, whether or not these other options would be worthwhile replacements and retain the refugees.
