Same goes for me!
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They don’t know about it.
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They are lazy and or incompetent (so many times I’ve seen people saying they can’t figure Lemmy out when it’s literally the same as Reddit on the surface. Just make an account somewhere and start using it.)
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They are bots.
50% of reddit is bots.
Incompetent? Really?
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Not on reddit any longer, but I’ve got weird problems here. Suddenly I can no longer edit my own posts, not even in another browser, and as of today I can not longer save posts. For whatever reason, lemmy.nsfw no longer loads pics. No idea WTF is going on, but odd technical issues will turn away the masses. I’m fine with that.
reddit is more addicting, and has more communities not found in the fediverse. and likely most cant be replicated easily here. many like some specific niche forums, like school, degrees, specific diseases where peopel share thier experiences and treatment plans ,etc/. whatisthisthing, or reddit drama,etc.
even politics/news dont get as much engagement as on reddit, even if you exclude bots/astroturfers.
When you say everyone, actually you don’t mean everyone, so your post really doesn’t mean much, now does it.
I mean i would have never came here if i didn’t get banned from reddit,not because reddit is better but because it is what everyone uses and is considered the norm.
I didn’t even know Lemmy existed.
Same boat as me
This may be something you don’t want to hear so please bear with me. I’ve been here since the reddit drama started.
There isn’t much engagement here. If you compare a post here to a post on reddit, there will be zero comments here and 100 to 1000+ on reddit.
Another issue is each instance has its own version of the same community. This isn’t a bad thing but it separates the comments and increases the reposts. If I’m scrolling all, sometimes I see 5+ of the same post with zero comments on each.
Another problem, it’s not inherently easy to sign up. There are hundreds if not thousands of instances. If the instance you pick shuts down or goes down for a bit, well… you’re SOL. I’ve lost two accounts on two instances that shut down.
Another problem, since it’s not mainstream, there’s not much content in niche communities. A lot of the niche communities that start up post a lot of bot content which no one engages with and then the community dies.
I still advocate moving over but there is a lot of work to be done to get the masses moved over.
…also the toxic out of control leftists
One PC community, which I’m pretty sure died because I haven’t noticed any content from it in a few months, was using a bot to copy posts from Reddit but it made no sense because 50% of the posts were asking for tech support. Every post had 0 replies because, obviously, who would waste time replying when the OP who needed answers was on a different platform entirely.
This. Actually launching a community is hard. Launching a decentralized network of communities is damn hard.
I’ve been around for long enough to remember the internet before megasites like Reddit, when every community had their own forums and/or website. Specific mod for a specific game? Unique forum. Specific sub-community of a fandom, like a bunch of tech nerds analyzing the starships in Star Wars? Unique forum.
And like, I don’t deny that losing that hurt. Each site had its own unique little flavor of community, and the great centralization of the internet definitely steamrolled that flat in favor of mainstream appeal. But centralizing did also improve ease of discovery and access. Now we’re trying to build all of those little communities back in what - 2-3 years? In comparison to the 10+ they had to grow in before? It’s not going to be easy.
Also, the lack of moderation means communities are just sort of whatever the hell people who are currently posting want them to be. Serious abuse usually gets handled eventually, but posts and comments are frequently off-topic. Lots of communities don’t even have rules.
Idk if this has been a thing or not but why isn’t there a way to “merge” viewing of communities with similar content? Like why can’t I just say show me all posts with the community named “asklemmy” and show all posts regardless of the instance it’s on as long as it’s federated with your instance. If that is a thing, why is that not extremely obvious and easy to do and arguably not just the default behavior when looking for communities? Different instances will probably have different rules but the content will probably be similar and relevant.
There aren’t much niche topics here, sure. But the fewer engagement makes your engagement more valuable. On reddit I felt that all my comments went unheard unless I browsed new. It was actually a bit stressful to make my comments not be completely useless. On lemmy you’re more likely to be heard and to emgage in actual conversation or discussion with an actual person.
We are here.
I haven’t been on Reddit in two years now.
Lack of diversity, imo.
If you’re into Star Trek, Linux, coding, or politics there’s not that much content. Which isn’t gonna attract too many new people, and is probably alienating to many of the new users checking out the fediverse.
I hate the ads & the Reddit app, but Lemmy feels like more of an echo chamber than Reddit does.
It is an echo chamber. Even communities such as /c/christianity@lemmy.world get downvoted to oblivion.
Pretty sure christians get lots of hate on Reddit too. If you want a christian echo chamber just go to a church, not internet social media.
Edit: to be honest, a lot of us are on the internet just to get away from religious people.
The Christian communities on Reddit didn’t appear to be downvote brigaded like they are here
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Not enough niche communities. Like, not even close. Example: there are communities for general Android or general gaming, but not one for Android gaming or mobile gaming.
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Harder than Reddit to sign up. There’s an extra step which is instances. So first you gotta understand what instances are, how they work, and which one is suitable for you.
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Reddit is still doing fine, or at least not bad enough for the masses to to care about jumping over to Lemmy
Not enough niche communities
Not even just niche communities, either. There are interests with possibly hundreds of millions of English speakers that don’t have good representation on Lemmy (or piefed or Mbin). There’s no critical mass of discussion about sports, much less for specific sports, specific leagues, or specific teams. Same issue with food and cooking, a handful of posts on a handful of communities, but very few discussions. Television and film have seen an uptick in activity (I’m subscribed to television@piefed.social and that’s been getting better), but it’s still not quite at where reddit was in even 2010 or so.
Local city subreddits are still a valuable source of information and discussion around what’s happening in any particular place, and I haven’t seen anything like that on lemmy.
I don’t expect Lemmy to have the same level of discussion around smaller niches, but I hope we can soon hit the point where more mainstream topics can get actual discussion. Lemmy has plenty of great discussion around lots of topics, especially around technology, but it’s still got a long way to go.
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I scuttled my own account on reddit by intentionally getting banned. That way I had no option to return.
I’m guessing its because there is a ton of people already there creating content. Its almost impossible for 50k users to produce as wide of a range of content compared to a platform of 100M but i think we do ok here.
Most probably don’t know about it yet.
Enjoy that while it lasts.
I think that there’s good to be had at all stages, be it more community feel and less spam and advertising and such when small or more options and content and higher-profile people when large.
But in the vein of your comment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users.[1][2] Prior to this, the only sudden changes in the volume of new users of Usenet occurred each September, when cohorts of university students would gain access to it for the first time, in sync with the academic calendar.
The flood of new and generally inexperienced Internet users directed to Usenet by commercial ISPs in 1993 and subsequent years swamped the existing culture of those forums and their ability to self-moderate and enforce existing norms. AOL began their Usenet gateway service in March 1994, leading to a constant stream of new users.[3] Hence, from the early Usenet community point of view, the influx of new users that began in September 1993 appeared to be endless.
They know, but don’t see the value in the effort.
They like getting data farmed . Seriously though, Reddit became what Digg was after going public. It attracted a lot of people who don’t know the old Reddit and so they don’t know how the mods are strangling it.
One day enough of them will get banned and end up here- shifting the network scale.
I’d rather they didn’t. Normies flooding Reddit is what lead to its enshitification
Well, that’s not true, is it?
Sure, enshittification comes after acquiring a large userbase, but it’s not the users that enshittify the platform. It’s about profit.
Not necessarily sayings that’s not gonna happen over here, just that I don’t agree with your framing.
r/holup and r/whitepersontwitter
Those are demonstrations.
