• TheForvalaka@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    Whatever the number, I’ve definitely noticed in the past few days that there are getting to be enough people having conversations and posting content for this place to feel like a legit community instead of a ghost town. I’m really glad to see more people joining and taking part.

    • Moohamin12@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      For example, your comment is the first one I have seen that has over 30 upvotes since I came on board a week back.

    • barry_budapest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s been amazing to feel like we’re part of something that’s growing so fast. I’ll miss Reddit but I expect Lemmy will fill in the role sooner rather than later.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    Line goes up?

    You failed to continue multiplicative growth therefore your investors are going to pull their money… Wait there are no investors, there is no ipo. I’m going to donate 10$.

  • ProficientTroll@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    This is my first comment on Lemmy , excited to be here as we embark on a new journey away from Reddit.

    I’m excited for Sync coming to lemmy , my go to app for reddit browsing was Sync.

    And obligatory fuck spez

    • Kostya@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Just heard the news about Sync and instantly registered here. I’ll still be hoping for Boost to cross over, but Sync is infinitely better than Reddit’s app. A decent client was all that was missing for me to make the plunge, let’s hope that’s the case for more people.

      And yes, fuck Spez

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    Soon, the novelty accounts are going to start showing up here again.

    something something undertaker mankind cage something.

  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Ngl, I’m gonna miss these early days I think. Hopefully we have instilled some type of decent, thoughtful culture on here that can keep us grounded and keep flourishing.

    I really like getting in on these big threads later at night when everyone is chopping it up and making me think.

  • ThreeChonkyCats@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    How easy is it!

    I just used my Reddit name and continued here.

    No effort what so ever.

    Bit to wrap my head around the idea of subs being completely different communities on different servers, but I LIKE that idea… no Fascist Overlords to control the groupthink.

    I guess (if this is how the Lemmyverse/Fediverse works) is some AWS/cloud instances are going to be spun up hard and fast!

    • twistedtxb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yes, I expect some instances to have some difficulty coping with the traffic in July

      I sometimes go to Reddit again, mostly by habit, but once Relay stops working, I’m done.

  • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    2 years ago

    I understand the bot concern, but when I look at the comment and active user figures, they’re all in the same trendline of exponential growth. This is the exodus just beginning. Personally I’m finding Lemmy to be a refreshing alternative that serves far better than what Reddit has become. I think it’s what we’ve all been waiting for, and the secret’s starting to get out.

  • Matthieu@piaille.fr
    9·
    2 years ago

    @MicroWave
    There is a huge bot issue right now (started 3 days ago). All the numbers are worthless.

    It’s a known issue, all admins should add captcha to the subscription page, delete the bots and re-compute the actual number of users. Unless we do that, we won’t have a correct number.

    We can still look at the Monthly Active Users. Bots don’t post (yet)

      • nero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        This is a bot made to repost from reddit to generate content for remade subs, thought i don’t know if that’s the right thing to do, it’s not made purely to spam communities afaik

        • Wolfie 🐺🌙@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I have mixed feelings about this. We should try to get more people here to make this content. Maybe it’s just me but I when I see a whole page with bot posts I stay away from that community. I would rather see posts from real users, engage with them, share my thoughts with the author and I am not able to do that if it’s a copy from somewhere else made by a bot

        • LUHG@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 years ago

          Bots get a bad rep. Bots are fantastic, it’s just a shame they are prejuded to be bad. I’m sure signup has a bot mode on some instances.

          • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
            01·
            2 years ago

            I have no problem with bots in general (there were some really cool novelty ones on reddit, as well as moderation ones, etc). When large amounts of accounts are created for bots, it seems a bit shady, however. Will those be used to push political opinions and guerilla marketing as Lemmy gets bigger, or did someone just create a bunch of accounts to simulate conversations using an LLM?

      • zamboniman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        They’re supposed to be bot posts. That’s what lemmit.online is for. To copy Reddit content into communities on lemmit.online.

        • Wolfie 🐺🌙@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Good to know. Also I have mixed feelings about this. It’s great to see more content but I would rather see more of original posts here than a copy from reddit.

      • memchr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 years ago

        There are many more bad instances like this in the statistics. I think it will become a problem for Lemmy sooner or later.

        • House.of.Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I believe instances can block other instances entirely, right? Or have I misunderstood that? This would mean none of those bots in there could ever post in our threads here. I’m sure there will be cooperation between the instances on this.

    • TheFence@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      The best way to solve that is post some links and get the ball rolling. Can’t get engagement without something to engage with. (I am guilty of not posting links myself lol)

      • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        I’m doing that but I don’t know for how long if I’m the only one doing the effort

        • XYZinferno@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Unfortunately, there’s no real way of knowing. But for any community someone’s gotta take that initial leap of faith and build it up from just a few people, even if it sounds like you’re talking to yourself sometimes. At least until like-minded people start to show up and be drawn in to what you’ve built.

          Even for the community that I’m trying to start up here, !presidents, it might just be my friend and I making posts, and it might stay that way for weeks, or possibly months. But that’s a possibility you have to be okay with when starting up a community.

          Try and talk to other individuals who are as passionate about your community’s premise as you are. Friends you know irl, or people you’ve met in a similar community on Reddit. Having even just a few other people to engage with can make the process seem a lot less lonely and futile.

  • JellyOsaurus@cyberfurz.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    @MicroWave the fact that there are almost a million people that are users on lemmy shows that there are a million more on the fediverse as a whole. i am very glad lemmy federated on activitypub. so i can use mastodon to communicate to lemmy communities.

  • oaschbeidl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    So now I just gotta build up a new feed from scratch, that’s the part that sucks the most. So many nice niche communities I’ve discovered over the years on reddit… But it was time, reddit has been going downhill for years.

    • FlayOtters@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’m in the middle of doing the same. Its a shame when you go through your list of subreddits and can’t find an equivelant community on here. Nevermind niche subs, there will still be plenty of 1mil+ subs which are missing from here.

      Nor do I want to create and be the only mod of about 20 different subs. I feel like that requires a special sort of person lol.