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.

  • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 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.

  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
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    2 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.

  • agustinh88@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It happen to me, pixelfed, dedicated networks about history… And nothing happen… And I’m about of 3 years active in fediverse

  • Spiritsong@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I personally think maybe it’s also in need of quality posts or engagement, but in larger quantities.

    That said I know my post may not be quality input, but this is how I feel.

  • tupalos@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Do you guys feel like the federation hurts Lemmy?

    Like I see its benefits, but for an average user, the feel of Lemmy as an app is less intuitive than reddit

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

      Lemmy currently has 45k monthly active users: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

      Centralized alternatives:

      There was a thread yesterday on /r/RedditAlternatives talking about “how do you attract users to a new alternatives”, most of the comments where about how difficult it is: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1g4zcdi/for_those_of_you_who_started_your_own_alternative/

      Based on this, I would say that Lemmy allowing everyone to open a server helps in that regard. Instance admins are more confident in the platform as they have control on this. Users trust admins.

    • ColonelPanic@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I do, but only because the UX around federated entities isn’t great at the moment. There’s no doubt that it could be made way more intuitive and streamlined for the average user, and that more effort could be put into migration between federated entities so that it doesn’t feel like as much of a chore to jump between instances. The average user won’t care about federation, and they just want to quickly get some content.

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

        migration between federated entities so that it doesn’t feel like as much of a chore to jump between instances.

        Migration takes two clicks from the account settings, are you referring to something else?

    • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Same, I come back every few days and don’t feel like I’ve missed some big meme or event. Reddit you had to log on literally everyday or you could miss some joke and now it’s memed all over every sub and you have no clue what’s going on.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I do, yes, especially for niche communities. But other social networks aren’t the answer. Go look at what Reddit has become, or Twitter, or Facebook. It’s all junk. Half of it is AIs talking to AIs. There’s almost no meaningful conversation taking place. At least here we occasionally get some good conversations, although those are rare outside of politics and Linux.

  • RandomStickman@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Personally I don’t find a huge difference with reddit and threadiverse, at least for larger subs. Sure, on paper there are hundreds of comments, but most are the same tired decade old memes. You can predict what the comment sections are gonna be like from the title alone. At worst you get similar comments here, but you don’t have to dig through hundreds of comments before finding something worthwhile.

  • beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Yes, but also no.

    More users would be great for the fediverse, in theory. Right now Lemmy (and Mastodon) can attribute a lot of their users to people unhappy with Reddit Inc. (or X) in some way. Throwing more unhappy people into the user base would probably not lead to good outcomes.

    Personally I think Lemmy and Mastodon will never get the critical mass of users needed to maintain healthy communities because the only thing they have to offer is a less bad clone of an existing network.

    X is bad because a malignant political demagogue is actively destroying what most people liked about Twitter. Reddit is bad because reddit inc. cares more about profit more than the needs of the user base. But the platforms they created and/or operate aren’t designed with a federated model in mind.

    If the fediverse is ever going to move out of the technically savvy, early adopter nerds phase I think it’s only going to do that through something new and better than what already exists.

  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I personally love the smaller userbase. Less spam, more quality, less screentime, no doomscrolling. Its a win-win in my book.

    • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Plus you get to see the same accounts, the entirety of Lemmy feels like a community

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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      2 months ago

      Same. The only thing being niche subs on local stuff. But I remember early Reddit, and that had the same feel. Maybe with a bit more generalized memes because the hivemind was so much more exciting.

      But the lack of automated astroturf and shorter comment sections makes it easy more pleasant.

    • CO5MO ✨@midwest.social
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      2 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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      2 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.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    2 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.