Personal experience: the smaller group is, the more friendly and stick-together group will be.
Reddit had bots for a fucking long time. And since they allowed to close up user profiles post/comment history, tracking who is who became harder. There is no way that wasn’t by design, it most certainly is. There is no secret that reddit is in cahoots with LLM companies. They will use (or already are using) bots to populate their site and probably will skew public perception in a desired way using bots.
Not like Lemmy has no bots. But it’s so much more peaceful here.
Drives me nuts with games too. Some games NEED a huge userbase for balance and ELO and whatnot, but it’s always wild to see a solo or team-based PvE game billed as “dead” because it has only 5k concurrent players.
If it is a skill based PvP game it needs a constant inflow of new users or people that are just permanent bronze and happy with that. It’s considered “dead” by those players that have peaked at gold or platinum and angry at a team mate that they lost a game
It’s frustrating to see people considering 4 upvotes something to be frustrated about.
Don’t feed the trolls. They don’t need to be here anyway
I’ve found more genuine and enlightening conversations here in two years than I ever did in Reddit. They can have that trashcan. I’m having fun here without them.
By the looks of some new accounts, I wouldn’t want them here, either.
Their loss, Lemmy is great. Everyone’s been pretty good so far, even when I’m being the annoying-preachy anarchist in a lib/nonpolitical instance. That and Sync for Lemmy have made it a pretty pleasant experience.
I think I’ve only ever been banned from one community, and it was an NCD clone run by the reddit equivalent sub.
The fact that you can say pretty much anything here is probably lemmy’s biggest advantage, despite it being such a low bar these days lol.
I’m astonished that reddit it still going after all the decent users left en masse a few years ago.
I like that it’s small enough that we all probably know who the thorn guy is.
FOMO is a weird thing. Sometimes I get in moods where it’s like, I don’t want to watch a movie from 10 years ago, it’s not relevant and no one is interested in it anymore. Or music, or whatever. We’re actually hardwired to go along with the crowd, to want to be part of the bigger crowd, etc. So cheers to all you who chose this less-trodden path, or just got banned enough times on Reddit to take the hint 🍻
Also commercial platforms try to maximize their user count so they can sell more ads.
Meanwhile, fediverse has little interest in increasing its user numbers, because we don’t generate money from it. In fact, more users would probably mean (slightly) higher infrastructure costs, though i’m not sure how much they actually are or whether one could consider them “negligible”.
Anyways, if we had more users, we’d also have more diverse content on Lemmy, and i would definitely appreciate that. Honestly, it’s a bit sad that 50% of the posts on the frontpage are about US politics, but i guess it’s just a topic that gets a lot of traction because it affects a lot of people and also because there’s not so much other content on the platform yet. I hope we’ll get more communities about somebody’s fringe favorite topics. :D
More real users than Reddit
That’s one thing I love about the Fediverse. Over on Reddit, if you belong to the 38k, you’re a rounding error. Here, you’re a significant part of the community.
38k is more than enough activity for a plateform to be lively. Especially when those user are spread across the world, allow for content at every hour.
It’s okay, if Reddit is what “has users” looks like, then I’m perfectly happy to have “no users” over here on the Fediverse.
Reddit has about 38,000 people on it, the rest are bits as far as I can tell.
Lemmy is reddit without the bot swarms
It would still be nice to have more than one active poster on topics as general as
I think that says more about the state of movies and TV than it does lemmy.
I don’t post because nobody is posting there lmao
There are at least 5 posts a day on both communities, with usually 50-100 comments total per day
If you want to see an actual inactive community there’s [email protected]
You’re not wrong. I think we need to start de-specializing some in compensation on the Fediverse. Like maybe there’s not enough content to specifically support a !television community at the scale you’d like, but maybe there’s enough content if we rolled them together into !entertainment or !media.
But also, no community happens out of a vacuum. If we want a viable community here, sometimes that means putting in the work of regularly contributing posts knowing fully well they’ll be ignored and receive no engagement until doing so has proven enough continual activity that people feel worthwhile investing into.
But yes, in general I agree, it would be nice if we had a little more activity around here. But I’d still rather us be on the smaller size than the too large to manage size of Reddit, given the option.
You’re not wrong. I think we need to start de-specializing some in compensation on the Fediverse. Like maybe there’s not enough content to specifically support a !television community at the scale you’d like, but maybe there’s enough content if we rolled them together into !entertainment or !media.
When I originally set up television on lemm.ee I made it the largest community on the instance within 2 months lol.
It works on its own
I think we need to start de-specializing some in compensation on the Fediverse. Like maybe there’s not enough content to specifically support a !television community at the scale you’d like, but maybe there’s enough content if we rolled them together into !entertainment or !media.
This is a valid concern for other communities, but interestingly enough in the case of two two, there are enough posts and comments to still keep them separate, the issue is that most of the posts come from a single poster on each topic.
If we want a viable community here, sometimes that means putting in the work of regularly contributing posts knowing fully well they’ll be ignored and receive no engagement until doing so has proven enough continual activity that people feel worthwhile investing into.
Indeed, look at the weekly posts on [email protected]
Even some of reddit biggest comms like games, still have one primary user posting
Interesting, I never noticed
Ye, it’s underestimated how many communities are reliant to one passionate enthusiast.
yeah also the r/MarsSociety community for example. mostly one user posting all the news article, though maybe 5-10 people actively commenting.
That’s true, but I am not interested in any of those. I’m mostly fine with the topics here, and I’m happy that the idiots of Reddit stay on Reddit.
There’s a sweet spot with internet forums, and the exact number varies by community, but every forum I’ve ever been on got shit after getting too big.
Yep! As soon as a comm gets big the quality plummets and bots swarm to it, I’d rather have small but quality
Exactly. Assholes like that can stay on Reddit and suck more spez corporate bot cock.
I think it’s more just that most of the users are bots or marketing interns.
-sigh-
Create an instance that’s nothing but tons of bots bullshitting eachother and include them in the numbers. You know, the ways all the other companies lie about their user count.
you’d think the companies buying ad-space would catch onto that…eventually, but apparently not? guess in a bull market $ is infinite anyway, so who really cares just pump pump pump
The stock goes up when you buy ads. That’s all that matters.
yeah, really shows the absurdity of the metric of “user numbers” xD
Especially when each Lemmy user is valued at 342 times the worth of a Reddit user.
How dare you insult all lemmings with that low estimate haha
Are you saying that comments like came here to say this take my upvote who’s cutting onions saving this for later laughed at this harder than I should have tell me you’re x without telling me you’re x not all heroes wear capes sigh unzips pants thank you for the gold kind stranger are somehow less valuable than a genuine human thought?
Preposterous! Laughable!
quality > quantity
Like complaining about the number of people on the rafts versus the Titanic. You can stay there if you want, but you are never going to “fix” a platform that you don’t control.
