I know and can accept the response that say I should register to X site if I want more activity. I do plan to, least with Reddit, just biding some time before I make yet the 20th disposable e-mail and probably the 100th account before it gets banned again if I cross a glass person. Glass person being someone who’s so fragile on opinions and things that they’ll scream ‘BAN THEM BAN THEM!’.

I’ve been on KBin Social, Lemmy World (least 2 dedicated accounts), KBin Run, Mastodon, Blue Sky .etc

And I’d stay for a good while but I also found myself bored immediately. I check for questions to answer, it’s the same questions I’ve seen days and weeks prior. I check around for things that are reported and they’ll be hours old and some of them can be years old.

I love the idea of the Fediverse, I like some of the features that are implemented. Especially when you do ask questions on here and you’re allowed to expand on it. Unlike AskReddit for example, they don’t really like that and will remove your post because explaining what your question is about and backing it with an example is just unacceptable to them.

I don’t know. 43,000+ people sounds a lot on paper, but in practice, it feels like you’re dealing with 50 people at any given day.

  • Liam Mayfair@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    For me the biggest problem is not volume in general but volume of niche content. The best thing about Reddit was all the active, engaging communities that would sprawl around any niche subject you could imagine.

    • helloworld55@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      1000% agree. But to Lemmy’s credit, I found a greate niche community of linux and programming enthusiasts, plus I’ve noticed I run into Europeans more in the wild on here.

      I think the fediverse has it’s benefits. Still not a full replacement. Truthfully I don’t think it will ever be, those niche communities will always end up being hosted where it suits them best.

    • Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.orgOP
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      8 months ago

      You know, you actually hit the nail on the head in the context I had failed to articulate. Like yes the Fediverse does have some interesting communities, but they’re communities we expect of the fediverse to have that everyone else has. But, it does not have a dedicated Nostalgia community, it does not have AbruptChaos or anything else. Just the basics.

      And I think if more people took on tasks like running the communities while educating people the benefits of the fediverse, then we can see a bit more growth. Because the point of the matter is if people are desperate for a Reddit alternative, they’re going to want to feel like they’re home. If there’s nothing here that’s going to help make them feel that, then they’re going to just stick to Reddit for better or worse.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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        8 months ago

        But, it does not have a dedicated Nostalgia community, it does not have AbruptChaos or anything else. Just the basics.

        There’s only so many communities you can maintain active with 45k monthly active users

        And I think if more people took on tasks like running the communities while educating people the benefits of the fediverse, then we can see a bit more growth.

        Why do you think we don’t?

  • pseudo@jlai.lu
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    8 months ago

    I wish there was more people on not-so-general communities.
    If this means less meme or political posts, it would be for the best. However, more specific communities that are not part of a themed instance have very little activity. If I want to learn about ecology and its science, I know I can find many active communities on slrpnk.net, if I want content that matter to Germans, I can go it feddit.org, jlai.lu the same for Frenchs. But if I want people posting picture of nice looking sticks or find !foraging stories or connect with people doing !origami@feddit.org I know that I have to be patient and that’s to bad 'cause if people spend less time commenting US election or some shower thoughts, some people will find time and fun interacting in these communities and many others.

  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
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    8 months ago

    I would say I miss some specific people or groups, both on Lemmy and on Mastodon, rather than generally “more” people. Friends of mine, certain people I used to follow on Twitter that haven’t made the jump, some communities about specific hobbies, that sort of thing.

    Overall, I enjoy the fact that I can get a rough idea about who is who instead of interacting with a mass of faceless strangers.

  • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I’ve been on KBin Social, Lemmy World (least 2 dedicated accounts), KBin Run, Mastodon, Blue Sky .etc

    Blue sky is not on the fediverse. They’ve decided to come up with their own federating system from the ground up, which I think kind of squandered what could have been a pivotal opportunity to help facilitate a mass exodus from Twitter, contributing to fragmentation and confusion.

    But anyway. I think they intend to have their own version of federating soon but I don’t think it’s up and running yet.

      • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        Thank you for that read. Seems to completely miss the point of federation. The core motivations related to improving choices about how user names and federation structure works, and forcing their domain to be the mandatory user facing side of the whole network could not possibly miss the point more except by being actually centralized. Mandatory firehose relays of the entire networds data that can’t be federated or defederated that could be prohibitively costly to host?

        And the complexities under the hood that attempt to square this circle are infinitely more confusing than explaining Mastodon instances.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I got my first reddit ban today!! I told a gamer advocating for bikini armor or something that he should just get a second screen and watch porn while he plays if he’s so fucking horny all the time and it was flagged as “harassment”. It’s only for 7 days so I guess I need to work harder to get a permaban lol.

    • Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.orgOP
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      8 months ago

      It is stupid easy to get banned on that platform. There might as well be no rules posted there anymore.

      Because all that you have to do is simply express an opinion that’ll hurt someone’s feel-feels and that’s just grounds enough to ban you over.

      They’ll only have one rule and it’s “DON’T HURT MUH FEELINGS!”.

  • Jomega@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Absolutely. There’s just fuck all to do here. I used reddit for fan communities a lot, and most of them stayed behind. (Unless you’re a trekkie I guess. Then you’re set.)

  • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Speaking personally, while I am here, my participation in Lemmy is lacklustre at best; same with Mastodon. I got burnt out from social media and the years from 2016 - 2024 have really ruined my enthusiasm. I think maybe a lot are in the same boat. Maybe we’ll see more people come out of the “shields up, dark times overload” in a year or so… and maybe it will take longer.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Yes there needs to be more people. There’s barely any active discussion here. If you don’t want to shit on Israel, there’s just shit posts and Linux. We need more people to get active sports discussion, movies, TV, or anything else.

    • CO5MO ✨@midwest.social
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      8 months ago

      yes! I posted a similar question in a diff community and someone responded: " be the change you want to see". that’s pretty much all we can do! :)

    • Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.orgOP
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      8 months ago

      I’d like to not to.

      I would much prefer seeing other people build as well, see what they bring up and whatnot. I’ve tried before on creating communities to moderate and all I’d feel like is being some of those Reddit moderators who moderate an absurd amount of subreddits.

      That’s not what I want.

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    .world is no different than reddit so you shouldn’t expect any improvement there.

    for me the lemmyverse is better so far than reddit, x, or facebooks but that’s because i spend most of mt time away from the diet reddit lemmyverse instances; maybe that’ll work for you too.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        it a moderate playground that suppresses leftists views like reddit does and when it comes to moderates, Martin Luther King Jr said it best:

        First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Yes, I still moderate a subreddit which is a support group for a particular surgery. There isn’t such a community on the fediverse and the group of people who need this surgery seem to be few in number here too. (Won’t be any more specific about the nature of the subreddit or surgery for privacy reasons, before anyone asks)

    • Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.orgOP
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      8 months ago

      I think the Fediverse is the perfect platform for things like what you run. I also think at times how great the fediverse could be for those who’re mentally struggling. Just imagine, a decentralized platform where not only is it separated from the general network, but it’s an instance/server where people can feel safe and private. Also secure too.

      You don’t get that feeling on Reddit. People are telling sensitive stories out there for all to see on Reddit and anywhere else. They’re unfortunately setting themselves up for the chance of anybody stumbling upon those tellings and could give them hell for it. Making them worse off than they already were.