Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
Lemmy is my personal soapbox where I can scream into the void without the fear of corporate censorship.
I almost never get censored on most instances because I act like a normal human being never post stupid bigoted stuff like a conservative jackass lol.
Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement?
It is a forum Website. The same way every shooter game is not a doom clone and every car is not a Ford clone.
What is the user count vs reddit?
relevancy. As long as you find people to talk with, that is irrelevant.
Is it worth it sticking around?
You decide.
however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
I would count it as a positive, that Lemmy is not shoving me posts up my ass that I may or may not even want to see, just so I create more content/Data for advertisers. If I want to eat, I go to a community and eat the things I want. I don’t want to be force fed like a pig.
Or even if I want non personalized stuff, I just go to the all tab.
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Do you scroll all??? Because that should not be empty. If your subscribed is empty and you want to scroll on subscribe then yeah you have to subscribe to stuff. Personally I just scroll all and then block communities im not interested in. My main examples are sports and meme ones.
I think it’s better. Reddit seems mostly bot regurgitated content these days. Also I’m still salty after getting site banned.
Complaining mostly
Let go of user count; return to quality.
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Harambe died so the orange-tan could go apeshit
- yup, link aggregator / forum site that is not controllable by a corpo or single individuals
- hard to measure, but here you can see a bit more info regarding activity on the lemmy part of the fediverse. 3)for sure. pros of lemmy: you don’t get drowned out if you comment by a horde of meme comments, discourse is mostly civil and a lot more real discussion takes place in comparison to reddit. Lemmy also has a lot of apps that reddit lost.
Yeah, it’s basically an alternative to Reddit that federates. Since Reddit is centralized and closed source, they can push a lot of content on you immediately to get you started, which is a good thing. Lemmy, being decentralized and open source, would have a lot of push back if they tried to do that (which imho is bad, because it’s hostile to new users, but understandable, because there’s a sense of fairness that would be lost with that approach), so you start off with a blank slate, like you described. I recommend following some news and memes communities just to get started. You can also browser the All feed and follow some communities you see there.
One of my biggest gripes with Lemmy’s approach is that I’ll see the same things over and over when I refresh my feed.
Overall, I think Lemmy is good. Its upsides outweigh its downsides to me.
It’s an alternative to Reddit in the Fediverse.
The Fediverse is a network comprised of such software (Lemmy, Mastodon, PieFed, PixelFed, etc.)
Federation is the ability for different platforms to communicate using an agreed upon language.
So if Instagram and Twitter were federated, you’d be able to post your photos on Instagram and have them also be on Twitter, all without having a seperate account at Twitter. All the likes and comments on Twitter will be available on Instagram and vice versa.
A nice video explaining the Fediverse by the Peertube team: https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD
Thanks a lot for the explanation, this is awesome, I’ve always hated any kind of social media, but I think I could live with something like this
Yes, it’s like Reddit. But you’ve got a much much smaller population. And it attracts a certain type, you have to have a certain minimum tech aptitude to be able to figure out the fediverse.
You won’t find anywhere near as much content here. You need to browse “all” and will run out of fresh content if you spend too much time doom scrolling. But it’s still good and worth checking out.
What is the user count vs reddit?
I’m not sure instances actually publish their user counts. You can measure by activity, which adds up to maybe 10 events a second. If you could figure out the average rate per user you could get an estimate from that.
When reddit kicked out my preferred client I edited/shredded all my posts and comments, deleted my account, and came here. I don’t regret it one bit.
Like reddit but feels like an actual community. Just be forewarned, there are angry troglodytes here, just like any other online forum. Keep the positive, ignore the negative. Many people say to block .ml/etc adresses as they are here only to flame, but I haven’t seen that correlation yet.
