• dystop@lemmy.world
      23·
      2 years ago

      The most important is to keep up the momentum. Users don’t mean anything if there’s no content. We all need to keep posting stuff and keep actively disucsing stuff!

    • Halo@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      That’s what I love about it, though. The fact that it is still maturing means that we as a community have a say on how Lemmy will evolve.

    • ArtemZ@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 years ago

      To be honest, the fact that such immature software is capable of being a viable alternative to one of the biggest websites on the internet is already super impressive.

      Let’s see where we will head in a couple of years.

      • HKPiax@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Damn right. I’ve been using Reddit for years, and after this shitshow I moved to Lemmy and honestly, it doesn’t feel that much different. I don’t make content, nor do I moderate, so I just scroll and lurk, and comment sometimes, and Lemmy has a steep, extremely short learning curve (you can call it simply a barrier to entry), but after understanding very few basic concepts, this shit feels as natural as Reddit. Besides, I’m testing the Memmy app for iOS and it’s improving exponentially. I seriously feel like Lemmy can become a good alternative, for real, not for the memes.

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
    423·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy has a lot of obstacles that will prevent it from truly going mainstream:

    1. The community browser is complete dog shit for discovering content on different instances, and trying to view another instance’s content from your own community is just needlessly complex. Discoverability is still a lot better than Mastodon though, where you’d look at all post and see nothing but hentai reposting bots regurgitating stuff that isn’t even allowed on NSFWLemmy…

    2. Due to the nature of federation, you also run the risk of committing to an instance only for them to defederate entirely, or disassociate from content you want to see but they don’t agree with. Beehaw is a very good example of this.

    3. As there’s no option (yet) to migrate to a different instance, and Lemmy is a FOSS project that cannot be monetized in the same way as a traditional social media site, what happens when instances start shutting down due to being unable to keep up with server hosting costs?

    4. I cannot speak for the iOS option available, but Jerboa is barebones. For example, you can’t even tap on a post/comment reply in your inbox to go to that comment’s permalink and view the context. This is incredibly basic functionality for any social news aggregator. Even with the fediverse in general surpassing 150,000 users, I don’t see Lemmy getting the same level of third-party app support as Reddit had.

    • redminer@lemmy.world
      24·
      2 years ago

      These are all valid complaints, but I feel like you need to put this into perspective. This platform has blown up in the last week, change is going to come but it’s going to take some time. I’m sure it will go faster now that it is really taking off though.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@feddit.uk
      12·
      2 years ago

      These concerns are valid.

      Some are transitory however - 1, 3 and 4 all reflect the current state of Lemmy and the similar Kbin are in currently. The Reddit issues were unexpected and people have migrated en masse to Lemmy/Kbin and have found was is in many ways Alpha software. This issues will mostly be resolved with time, and that is probably accelerated now as more people means more people interested in development, and motivated by anger at Reddit. I don’t think Lemmy/Kbin will replace Reddit right now, but I think a new trajectory has been set. Communities are hitting critical mass to keep growing.

      Look at Mastodon, it’s at 1.2m-2m active users each month; it is still small fry and niche compared to Twitter but it exploded thanks to Twitter’s mess, and is growing. I think we’re seeing something similar with Lemmy and Kbin, but this is just the start of a long road and an expanded community will accelerate improvement and growth.

      But point 2 is fundamental to the fediverse - fragmentation due to defederating could be a concern. I get Beehaw’s motivation but I think their actions will consign them to a niche part of the Fediverse, but that may be what they want. Ultimately I suspect the biggest servers will dominate a main interconnected fediverse through sheer size and notoriety - new servers will need to federate to the big players to grow. It’s not necessairly a bad thing - but people may end up signed up to a “main” large interconnected “fediverse” and separately to smaller niche communities they’re interested in but sitting in their own walled gardens/bubbles. It’s not necessairly a bad thing though - it is just different to what people are used to with social media like Reddit. It’ll be a trade off - servers and communities have complete independence and some will go for what suits them - part of a big fediverse or only federating to smaller aligned communities.

    • Dandroid@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      you can’t even tap on a post/comment reply in your inbox to go to that comment’s permalink and view the context.

      You can, but only in the latest version. It takes multiple taps, though.

    • Airazz@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      A lot of these issues are temporary. Also, this is all happening very fast, it’s entirely possible that some other website/service will pop up that’ll be a lot better thought out.

      Reddit was already well established and functional during the Exodus of Digg, so there wasn’t much discussion about where to go. Today we have no solid alternative, so people are trying Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, Squabbles and other websites.

    • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      2 years ago

      undefined> what happens when instances start shutting down due to being unable to keep up with server hosting costs?

      Well idk about you guys but self hosting is always an option. Not easy, but an option

      • socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 years ago

        4 is already fixed in the alpha of jerboa, and the functionality is there but got accidentally hidden in the current version. You have to hold-click in your inbox to see context. These kind of hiccups are normal in a very new foss browser.

    • daniskarma@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      Server costs are not as high as Reddit made us believe. You can probably run a 10 user instance for less than 10€/month.

      If the instance is good donations could keep it up forever, not even expensive donations. Certainly a fraction of what reddit is asking for reddit premium.

      • Clbull@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        It’s one of those times where I wish I learned programming/computer science and not History and accountancy.

        • daniskarma@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          I studied something completely unrelated with computer science. I started with programming and then with general computer science and now I know a lot of things and I’m quite probably going to land a job in IT field next year. It’s never late to learn something new.

          • Clbull@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 years ago

            Coding is hard though, especially when you go past the basic tutorial stuff (Hello World, if statements, for/while loops, libraries, etc.) Actual computer science and understanding all the technical and mathematical aspects of computing is orders of magnitude harder than writing some C# or Javascript code.

            Last time I actually tried to make an effort to learn how to code was back in the days when /r/CarlHProgramming was still active, long before Carl Herold was arrested on heinous child sex crimes.

      • zouden@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 years ago

        If the fediverse gets very big, won’t your instance need a lot of bandwidth and storage to sync all the content?

        • daniskarma@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          It’s requirements will grow, but it’s still mostly text and some images. Mastodon is kind of big (not twitter big but bigger and more active than lemmy) and there are people still self hosting their instance and there’s lots of donation supported instances.

          I think fediverse being instance-oriented should scalate well. As no instance really needs to hold the whole thing by its own.

  • doehni@lemmy.world
    34·
    2 years ago

    😄👋🥂🌱

    I really hope the momentum holds and the numbers will continue to grow!

    I’m really excited to be here, Lemmy feels like reddit in the golden years (long gone).

    • lunarshot@kbin.social
      9·
      2 years ago

      agreed, I have found that interacting with content here has been more meaningful and the interactions to be more welcoming. Happy weekend to you!

    • KidsTryThisAtHome@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      I completely agree! And I don’t think we’ve really started to see people leave reddit yet, that’ll happen when the 3PAs stop working

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      I do expect that it will taper off eventually and then drop for a bit before leveling out (not being pessimistic, it’s just a simple fact that much of the current growth of Lemmy, or for that matter kbin or other reddit alternatives, is due to people leaving reddit, and eventually everyone that wants to leave who is willing to consider this place will have come over, so the growth will stop or at least revert to a more “normal” pace, and not everyone will end up liking Lemmy, and so there will be some fraction of people that don’t stay long once the hype over people moving from reddit has died down). However, it should still stabilize somewhere much higher than things were before the migration, so my hope is that it gets enough momentum that the number of people that remain when this incident is over is enough to sustain a functional community.

      • Phil@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        Realistic assessment but the way reddit’s ceo is going ,I think we will see more exodus 1st july and again shortly after that, I do think reddits bad news train has only just left the station.

      • Sens@feddit.uk
        6·
        2 years ago

        Have to agree, I don’t really mind how many total users or active users there are at this point, there’s enough talk to engage in proper conversations now

        • philz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          Yup finally seeing a lot of good conversations now. Which was really always the best part of Reddit.

  • Nihlan@lemmy.world
    23·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy gives me that new frontier feeling. Win 98SE times was the last time i felt it.

  • beerd@lemmy.world
    253·
    2 years ago

    I would like it if lemmy had near the numbers of reddit (although i dont think that will happen), but the userbase is already big and diverse enough to sustain some good communities that have an (imo) better feeling to them than reddit.

    • samus12345@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 years ago

      I would like it if lemmy had near the numbers of reddit

      I wouldn’t. People need to get away from the notion that more users = better. With more users comes trolls, bad faith actors, etc. Quality over quantity.

      • beerd@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        It depends on the goal of the platform. For spending your free time on and socializing i fully agree that smaller communities are the best. However as a forum for getting information (especially on niche subjects) more users = better more or less.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      Which is a good point to remember I think. Having the community grow is good for people using lemmy as it allows smaller, more niche communities to have enough people interested in that thing to actually functionally exist, but at the end of the day it doesn’t have to have the same number of users as reddit to be usable for you. Once enough people are here to be usable (which depending on what kind of communities you use, it may already be), it doesn’t really much matter how much bigger lemmy gets. After all, it isn’t some company where the point is growth at all costs.

  • tim@lemm.ee
    221·
    2 years ago

    Reddit killing 3rd party apps can be a blessing in disguise.

  • cosmic_slate@dmv.social
    16·
    2 years ago

    I’m excited to see this grow. I’ve been watching activity on the Github repos and it’s neat seeing a number of people contribute. I’ve been able to build out a list of communities to follow and have almost filled my doom-scrolling itch.

    My favorite thing so far is seeing people actually having back-and-forth conversations in the comments again. Many subreddits seemed to get too big where comments felt more “fire-and-forget” instead of people coming back to have a conversation.

    • Phil@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      This, methinks we have a wondrous opportunity to develop something just better.

      • cosmic_slate@dmv.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, even if Lemmy/Kbin/etc doesn’t get as big of a following as Reddit I think we’re in for a treat as long as the general community keeps up the good vibes. Much like how while Hackernews is a lot smaller than a number of tech/programmer subreddits, it’s content is much more enjoyable.

    • Altomes@lemm.ee
      91·
      2 years ago

      Are we allowing emojis here? If so just another reason for people to flee Reddit

      • Slashzero@hakbox.social
        131·
        2 years ago

        Are we allowing emojis here?

        You need permission to use emojis? 🤔

        Oh, you mean in the sense that “emojis = downvotes” on Reddit. I still used them on Reddit anyway. 🤷‍♂️

        BTW: you can use : shorthand for emojis, in case you didn’t know. 👍

        • Reoru@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 years ago

          In my opinion emojis are great for casual discussions and they convey a little playfulness.

          For more serious topics they might be a little inappropriate or appear out of place for some people.

      • polaroid@kbin.social
        61·
        2 years ago

        Grow 🌱🪴 up ☝️👆

        Edit: jk I misinterpreted I thought you were raging about them lmfao

        I need to grow up

      • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social
        5·
        2 years ago

        I don’t care much about the emoji option, but the ability to add an image to a reply without having to do it manually through imgur etc is something I’ve wanted for years!

  • Darnov@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 years ago

    Neat, anyone else having problems upvoting anything? I try but it just goes right back down.