I know and can accept the response that say I should register to X site if I want more activity. I do plan to, least with Reddit, just biding some time before I make yet the 20th disposable e-mail and probably the 100th account before it gets banned again if I cross a glass person. Glass person being someone who’s so fragile on opinions and things that they’ll scream ‘BAN THEM BAN THEM!’.

I’ve been on KBin Social, Lemmy World (least 2 dedicated accounts), KBin Run, Mastodon, Blue Sky .etc

And I’d stay for a good while but I also found myself bored immediately. I check for questions to answer, it’s the same questions I’ve seen days and weeks prior. I check around for things that are reported and they’ll be hours old and some of them can be years old.

I love the idea of the Fediverse, I like some of the features that are implemented. Especially when you do ask questions on here and you’re allowed to expand on it. Unlike AskReddit for example, they don’t really like that and will remove your post because explaining what your question is about and backing it with an example is just unacceptable to them.

I don’t know. 43,000+ people sounds a lot on paper, but in practice, it feels like you’re dealing with 50 people at any given day.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    2 hours ago

    Yes there needs to be more people. There’s barely any active discussion here. If you don’t want to shit on Israel, there’s just shit posts and Linux. We need more people to get active sports discussion, movies, TV, or anything else.

  • celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    Not overly. More people will be good at first because it’ll mean more content, but with more people and more popularity comes the corpos and enshittification.

  • NaNin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    It just takes time. More passionate posters will come. Reddit is mostly ai-generated at this point.

    I wish more technically focused communities had a real home here. I’ll google something, and see that the project I’m working on has a dedicated subreddit where someone asked my question. Wish I could see lemmy in my search results.

  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
    22·
    7 hours ago

    I personally love the smaller userbase. Less spam, more quality, less screentime, no doomscrolling. Its a win-win in my book.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Same. The only thing being niche subs on local stuff. But I remember early Reddit, and that had the same feel. Maybe with a bit more generalized memes because the hivemind was so much more exciting.

      But the lack of automated astroturf and shorter comment sections makes it easy more pleasant.

  • HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 hours ago

    I’ve been using this account for over a year since the Rexodus. Haven’t had this disinterest problem. Do I wish there were more users, sure, but it takes time. Work on making this place great and they will continue to move here. Create, mod, or just post to a niche community.

  • abbenm@lemmy.ml
    7·
    6 hours ago

    I’ve been on KBin Social, Lemmy World (least 2 dedicated accounts), KBin Run, Mastodon, Blue Sky .etc

    Blue sky is not on the fediverse. They’ve decided to come up with their own federating system from the ground up, which I think kind of squandered what could have been a pivotal opportunity to help facilitate a mass exodus from Twitter, contributing to fragmentation and confusion.

    But anyway. I think they intend to have their own version of federating soon but I don’t think it’s up and running yet.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    4 hours ago

    I got my first reddit ban today!! I told a gamer advocating for bikini armor or something that he should just get a second screen and watch porn while he plays if he’s so fucking horny all the time and it was flagged as “harassment”. It’s only for 7 days so I guess I need to work harder to get a permaban lol.

  • Matengor@lemmy.ml
    20·
    8 hours ago

    Yes, I wish there would be more. But I am okay with the state it’s in. The engagement is good enough, and I discover interesting things every other day. You can’t force it anyway.

    • ChuckEffingNorris@lemmy.ml
      8·
      7 hours ago

      When I used to have Reddit on my phone, I’d look at it as soon as I woke up. There was new content constantly throughout the day so I kept coming back.

      Lemmy doesn’t have the content churn, so I can genuinely just look once a day and spend an hour or so catching up. No FOMO! I much prefer it.

      However I do miss some of the niche subreddits that got reasonable activity on Reddit and absolutely zero activity here. They were my favourite part of Reddit.

      I’d take more activity in those niche places, but I don’t miss the addiction I had.

      Spez let me go cold turkey for a while. Thanks (fuck) Spez.

      • GeneralInterest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        7 hours ago

        Niche subreddits can have good content, and also I find myself looking at Reddit threads that come up in web searches, like if I search for a tech problem I’m having. But yes, the behaviour of Reddit as a profit-hungry corporation makes me want to not use Reddit or see their ads.

        • Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 hours ago

          Same here, Reddit has a lot more people one there. With more people posting funny memes, videos and other things that make using Reddit more enjoyable. I try to limit my time on Reddit as much as possible

  • GeneralInterest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 hours ago

    Lemmy seems to have quite a lot of people to be fair. Apparently Lemmy.world has nearly 7,000 users a day, which is quite a lot when you think about it.

    One thing I think about is that maybe there are drawbacks to the Reddit-style format of Lemmy. A cool thing about old internet forums is that posts were show in chronological order with no upvotes, which is more similar to a real world conversation. You’d read the most recent posts, rather than the most upvoted posts. This means somebody new to the conversation can have their opinion seen.

    The upvoting system means that a small number of posts get nearly all the upvotes and attention, and people who post later have their posts largely ignored.

    Maybe I’m wrong but it’s just something I thought about.

    • ooli@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 hours ago

      The problem with chronological forum, is that it was a used tactic to post massively new topics to “hide” some controversial topic on the “second page”. Not to say that voting doesn’t have its own problem.

    • Blaze@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      9 hours ago

      “New comments” allows to see the latest comments in conversations. Which is why I’m replying to you, while there are already 97 other comments here.

      • GeneralInterest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 hours ago

        Sure that is true. Thank you for looking at my post and replying to it by the way. But I was just thinking how some people might just look at the top comments and nothing else. Maybe the upvote system does have some benefits though, like making bad posts less visible.

        • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I imagine it’s something of a difference in expected audience behavior. I would think that, for most people, looking at a few of the top comments and their replies is all the engagement with a post they want to have. So, a voting system facilitates that process by highlighting a few items the hive mind likes, and leaving the rest in relative obscurity. Whereas forum style posting sort of assumes that everyone present in a thread is in conversation with one another, hence chronological organization.

    • Aria@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Lemmy’s frontend default sort (Hot) is weighted heavily by time. Your comment is currently at the top, being the most recent. The second most recent is the second to top comment.

  • Spiritsong@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 hours ago

    I personally think maybe it’s also in need of quality posts or engagement, but in larger quantities.

    That said I know my post may not be quality input, but this is how I feel.

  • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world
    171·
    3 hours ago

    Maybe less content is good? Infinitely scrolling is not great, and we all know that. Having limited content on Lemmy allows me to at least move onto something else.

      • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
        4·
        9 hours ago

        Yeah and it depends. The fact that there is no easy way to search the fedi for similar posts right now is a bit cumbersome for sure.

        I see a lot of new users post something that has already been answered a 10000x times (What’s the best Linux distro? It depends !) And luckily there’s always someone to give a mature and comprehensive answer to a new comer without scaring him or down voting him to oblivion. This shows that there are a lot of people who believe in Lemmy and are ready to repeat themselves to keep Lemmy alive and give new comers a warmly welcome ! However I have only seen that kind of interaction in the Linux/self-hosted communities… Most memes/ask Lemmy/political views/… Communities seems rather hostile on their own opinions and quickly become a cesspool of anger and hate :/.

        Also a lot of people think because some communities have a lower user base they won’t get any answer or interaction I was quite surprised to get a comprehensive answer and help in the bash@lemmy.ml community which has only 50 users/month !

        • im sorry i broke the code@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          9 hours ago

          I wasn’t referring to that kind of posts, since they “plague” Reddit too, but the posts from Reddit that gets crossposted on Lemmy. It’s like there is little to no original content here. Maybe mastodon is a bit better, though I feel like it’s slowly dying ngl

          • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
            2·
            30 minutes ago

            This whole thread is wild with Lemmy expectations lol. Reddit is a link aggregation site, same as here. Are you wanting more artists and authors posting on here for it to be considered “original”? All the links to articles or sites people are posting…aren’t really considered original. There are plenty of discussions going on that are original, but they tend to be upvoted less than posted link content so you have to usually search them out in the actual community.

            • Blaze@feddit.orgEnglish
              1·
              14 minutes ago

              This whole thread is wild with Lemmy expectations lol.

              Yeah, it feels like people have expectations like the website is 100k or 200k monthly active members. We are barely 45k, so the scope has to be limited

          • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Likely to promote and increase activity people will try to repost what was already popular on reddit. It’s no different than movie studios wanting to only make movies that have preexisting fanbases.

            I don’t think there’s much that can be done other than being patient and guiding how things grow. Reddit took a decade to build. Lemmy’s journey will likely be long, but it probably won’t take 10yrs. Solutions to existing problems will happen over time.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    16 hours ago

    I do, yes, especially for niche communities. But other social networks aren’t the answer. Go look at what Reddit has become, or Twitter, or Facebook. It’s all junk. Half of it is AIs talking to AIs. There’s almost no meaningful conversation taking place. At least here we occasionally get some good conversations, although those are rare outside of politics and Linux.

  • superkret@feddit.org
    40·
    19 hours ago

    I just wish it had more diversity.
    Everyone’s a white 40-year-old born male Linux admin in here.

  • beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    8·
    15 hours ago

    Yes, but also no.

    More users would be great for the fediverse, in theory. Right now Lemmy (and Mastodon) can attribute a lot of their users to people unhappy with Reddit Inc. (or X) in some way. Throwing more unhappy people into the user base would probably not lead to good outcomes.

    Personally I think Lemmy and Mastodon will never get the critical mass of users needed to maintain healthy communities because the only thing they have to offer is a less bad clone of an existing network.

    X is bad because a malignant political demagogue is actively destroying what most people liked about Twitter. Reddit is bad because reddit inc. cares more about profit more than the needs of the user base. But the platforms they created and/or operate aren’t designed with a federated model in mind.

    If the fediverse is ever going to move out of the technically savvy, early adopter nerds phase I think it’s only going to do that through something new and better than what already exists.