Our society is too fixated on instant gratification. People want a 1:1 Reddit replacement without putting in any work to help realize it. Let them stay on Reddit.
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025
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I've been here 2 years and it's popular enough for me 🤷.
Yeah this is good. I was a late comer, ya'll really don't want the kind of people who stayed on reddit after 2023
Things dont need to be popular to be successful. Im loving the small town vibes we got.
It's amazing how many of them don't get that Reddit was built over a very long period of time. A lot of those Niche subreddits didn't exist early on. It took a while
100% agree. A lot of my favorite subreddits, were over 9 years old! "The Great Lemmy Migration" (aka Reddit Third-Party App Fiasco) only happened less than 3 years ago. Plus, the internet has so many more places to congregate in since 9 years ago. So Lemmy's numbers are probably going to be lower overall, even with years passed. Which I'm totally fine with. I'd like for it to grow more in good content shared by more people on here, versus low quality content. This should come with time.
Honestly, I'm fine with that. I was in university back in the early 90's, and the majority of folks on Usenet were either in university, or worked for large businesses or the government. The level of discourse was surprisingly high, especially compared to the sewer that is the modern internet. I dumped reddit a couple of years ago when it closed off access to 3rd-party apps, and I'm happy to leave it for the karma farmers, bots, and AI slop. I much prefer Lemmy.
I didn't realize how angry the popular posts on Reddit made me feel. If the post isn't about some awful news going on in the world it's about someone's frustration or hot take and it makes you want to add your opinion on the matter or refute someone else's.
It's especially bad when you shit on someone's views and are "rewarded" for it by upvotes, it encourages you to be confrontational for the sake of being confrontational. I guess that's the same here, but maybe it doesn't seem as bad because we don't have as many users — for now.
Anyway. That's my opinion and I'm expecting you all to upvote me.
Well you get an upvote from me, not because you expect it but that you are quite correct in the rage-baiting that is consuming reddit ATM.
I really miss usenet.
Used to hang out on the startrek NG's and had a blast. Met a ton of people and even on soc.men - which was a rock 'em, sock 'em kind of group (flame wars galore!) there were people that I came to admire and though we had differences of opinions, (and how!) we also found a lot that we agreed upon.
It all went away for me, when my ISP (comcast) dropped access because of the threat of prosecution for distributing child porn that then NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo promised, if they didn't.
Part of why I gravitated to Reddit was that when I signed up it was the cascading newsgroup comment style (old.reddit.com) that I could make sense of.
Now I'm here via old.lemmy.zip, and I haven't missed a beat.
I'm here a month now, from Reddit - got banned there after 14 years, and honestly, find it far nicer and more peaceful than the hot mess Reddit has become since the IPO.
I think if you're looking for tons of replies, the fediverse isn't going to be it - not untll the mainstream sites become so toxic that users bolt in droves. When I think of how nice reddit was at the start, and how sparse some subs were.. it just takes time for the user base to reach a critical mass.
Patience, grasshopper.
I made the jump two years ago (on a different instance, not the piefed.ca one) when the reddit API thing went down. The fediverse has grown by leaps and bounds since I first came over. Much more activity now, almost comparable to reddit, at least from my small view of the fediverse anyway.
I think if you’re looking for tons of replies, the fediverse isn’t going to be it - not untll the mainstream sites become so toxic that users bolt in droves.
You'll start to hate Lemmy too if / when the great unwashed masses begin showing up. Those of us who've been around, shout to @kmirl@lemmy.world, have watched this play out over and over again.
When the norms start congregating in a single place you can be assured that place is going to shit.
When the norms start congregating in a single place you can be assured that place is going to shit.
While I don't disagree at all with that, the very nature of the fediverse sites means there won't be a single point of ownership that turns itself into an advertising platform.
Once the reddit algorithm started adjusting people's feed - including mine -about the time that the IPO dropped, it got really nasty, with the rage-bait subs that I never had even heard of, let alone visited, showing up on my homepage feed and then it turned bad really fast.
Straight up, it's what got me caught up in a snark-fest that got me banned.. which turned out to be one of the best things to happen to me online in a long time.
The poison on Reddit is real.
You really don't need a billion of user to have a lively social media
While that's true, but moving from the current 50k MAUs to say 250k would probably have a radical effect on more niche communities and allow for more posters on mid-sized communities.
Definitely
While that's true, but moving from the current 50k MAUs to say 250k would probably have a radical effect on more niche communities
I really don't believe so
50 to 250k a month would represent a population increase of over 4 times, so those sort of numbers would have a notable impact.
I expect those 200k extra to interact with already popular topics memes, politics and tech
Well yes, but not all of them will /only/ do that.
As a software engineer I love the idea of the fediverse [...] I use lemmy and mastodon daily but they just don't have the content or the people
In a comment:
Can I ask how does Mastodon actually work? I lurk on lemmy cause it works like Reddit but for the life of me can't figure out how to have some engagement or anything at all on M (i'm on "mas.to")
He complains about there not being content on Mastodon while not even knowing how it works. Some software engineer he is.
To be fair, mastodon does have a problem of discoverability. Your shit isn't automatically publicly federated to other instances, even when someone from said instance is following and interacting with you. IE: your account on mas.to received a comment and was retooted by someone on to.mas. Other accounts on to.mas that check their public timeline won't necessarily see that original mas.to toot.
Yeah… I mean, I've an internet dweller for a long time, and I have to stop and wrap my head around that.
It's a vibe coders probably. Not a real software engineer
Yea, its sort of weird to me that someone hasnt built some kind of bridge to just convert the front page of a federation instance to a webpage, and even let people make accounts and post
Lol
not with that attitude
Happy to see that it's getting downvoted.
Much more freedom of speech here!
I agree and that's why I'm here