Its a bit chicken and the egg cause we likely need one for the other. But with the users proclivity for bans, and blocks you end up with a user base even smaller and discussion that more feels like a battle to be right most of the time because intellectual superiority is looked up to rather than conversation.

I still think a community of people competing to be the most right in every comment section does not lead to actual community and doesn't even help provide facts or info to most communities when there are not many niches to which people in here can participate in. Objective facts work best not in fandoms but in crafts. Like what glue doesn't melt Styrofoam when doing prop building not which show or game is best.

I may be alone in this but I yearn for "the normies".

[–] Zero@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 minutes ago

Just keep posting and being the type of person you want to see as a community member here. The other site was exactly like you described above for a very long time!

[–] Picasso@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago

This is great but i feel like we still need some speciality communities that will drive people here. This is an amazing start though

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 15 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I hope they feel welcomed here to stick around. I've quit Reddirt in 2023 during the API exodus, came to Lemmy and never looked back.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Samesies. About the only thing I ever go back for is askhistorians

[–] bingBingBongBong@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

I think it's OK here, but some communities here are a bit shit and very vocal

[–] amos@mander.xyz 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Fantastic! New people (and old as well), please give to the community! Post and/or comment as much as possible, to make Lemmy an even better place!

You can do so by just regularly commenting and/or posting, but also by creating new communities and bringing some activity to inactive ones!

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

This!!

Help the communities you like to see grow.

Just making one or two posts in communities that seem dead gets the ball rolling in making them alive.

It also motivates others to post.

[–] metalsd@eviltoast.org 9 points 7 hours ago

I hope this keeps growing. I'm loving it here, and the fediverse idea is amazing. I hope we succeed and descentralize social media. Power to the people again

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 97 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

[–] DopaDodge@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

One of the things I feel like Lemmy is still missing or is under developed is the niche hobbyist and tech help communities. I'm referring to places users can go to ask questions and start to build up a knowledge base of sorts that people will find and reference. Kind of like how if you want to actually find useful information for something, you used to add "Reddit" to every search to get meaningful results. Hopefully, that can become Lemmy. Assuming of course search engines even index Lemmy well enough

One way to start could be just having people post small tutorials or solutions for popular problems or topics in respective communities. I know the internet has changed a lot but "back in the old days" that was a great way to get engagement going at least on tech forums.

[–] henry1917@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Wouldn't that be closer to stackexchange?

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

search engines hardly index lemmy unfortunately. Probably due to having too much repeated content on different URLs.

[–] DopaDodge@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Probably due to having too much repeated content on different URLs.

It seems like its gotten better in the last 2 years as I can at least get lemmy results now, and popular instances show up more but yea, still not great.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 57 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

For real we need more uplifting subs, my feed is just Musk and Trump diarrhea.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 37 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

be the change you want to see. Post and upvote.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 8 points 12 hours ago

Instructions not clear. Posted upvotes.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I think this is an artifact of what's oddly the biggest weakness of the fediverse: decentralization.

When I used reddit back pre-api stuff, my front page was 100% niche subs I'd subscribed to, but those niches have trouble le growing here because there's so many instances.

I was super active in the scuba subreddit. Here on Lemmy, there's several scuba groups that tried to form, but none of them stuck because they were all on different instances instead of one central location where everyone could work together to make the community.

As a result, most of us haven't been filtering out 99% of Lemmy because the 1% where we'd be active doesn't exist. It's like joining reddit and having your frontpage be /r/all. It's a shitty experience that g9ves a lot of weight to political posts.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 15 points 13 hours ago

I don't think the subs failed to get off the ground because of federation, I think they did because they didn't have a dedicated person tirelessly filling them with posts and single-handedly carrying them. Because that's still where we are population wise. 50k+ MAUs is very nice, but not nearly enough for niche subs to be self-sustaining. Look at any small but active Lemmy sub right now and it's often a single person doing 90% of the posting. The only real way to get a new sub going is to be that person.

At least now we have stuff like Lemmy Federate and places like !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca that are both fairly active, so getting a new sub off the ground should be much easier than two years ago.

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 12 hours ago

It doesn't matter almost at all which instance a community is on. People could just unite the different scuba groups into one. Basically any they see fit. I'm not sure the decentralization really causes this effect. Or does it make it too difficult to find communities? I've been plenty able to find communities from various instances, at least.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

Lemm.ee has been lagging for me lately idk if it has to do with all the new signups

[–] imetators@lemm.ee 37 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Lemmy is more polished and populated now than before. Hope influx stays and we got all the real people from reddit and bots stay there.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 8 hours ago

Onboarding process is definitely smoother, and we fixed a lot of the Federation bugs. Usability is an all-time high. I don’t know what the critical mass is, but we are definitely gaming momentum.

[–] Otiz@sopuli.xyz 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Downloading an app instead of using the web gui helped me a lot, almost gave up on Lemmy couple days ago. But some of these apps are so well made. Really shows commitment

[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

I dig alexandrite if you are looking for a web ui.

[–] JoeKis@lemmy.world 38 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

[–] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 30 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

Reddit refugee here. Can I say Luigi?

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

Only if you finish in a sock or something.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 22 points 14 hours ago

It's more frowned upon to not do so.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago

Friend, you can say Luigi is a hero.

lemmy.world might have some rules against endorsing violence, but on most Lemmy instances, I can even tell you I hope all the healthcare CEOs are assassinated the same way. No corporate overlords to appease here!

[–] Lucky13@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

Can you say Luigi lol. Son, you're required to pledge allegiance to Luigi before every post you make here.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

Can I say Luigi

https://lemmy.world/c/luigimangione

[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 12 points 15 hours ago

We can say whatever the hell we want

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[–] Flummoxx@lemm.ee 63 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

I'll just say, the more I hang around Lemmy, the more I enjoy the genuine conversations. It feels like less snark, less joke replies, and just a generally more community-type feeling. Reminds me of when I first tried Reddit after leaving Digg way back when.

Hopefully, us exiles can leave the Reddit back at Reddit.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 8 hours ago

A democracy, if you can keep it, in a sense. Lemmy is healthy. Time will tell if the idea works, but I think it is a huge advantage tearing away corporate ownership and really investing in a platform that is owned by its users.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I feel the exact same, and I’ve been hanging around here for almost two years (the great 3rd party app exodus of ‘23).

This place feels more like a community filled with people versus a firehose of internet wrapped in layers of corporate and right wing BS.

Reddit was almost exclusively read-only for me. Here, I am commenting all the time.

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[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 29 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah in a few days I'm going to delete my Reddit account, liking this place so far, you get news and genuine discussion.

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[–] Ravenfreak@discuss.online 10 points 14 hours ago

Let's go! I hope to see these numbers continue to go up as the days go on.

[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 8 points 14 hours ago

To the moon 🚀

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