That's it? Wow, a lot fewer people were upset about the loss of 3rd party apps than I thought. We need to add at least 3 more zeroes to that number if this place stands a chance at taking down reddit.

[–] Dnn@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, many more were upset - just too lazy to inconvenience themselves with switching platforms.

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’d say this is only half of the answer.

After browsing Lemmy for a while, you get the sense that the average user here is the type that gets upset about a social media company making changes to an API. That is a very specific type of person and you can see it in the comments.

I’d guess people get turned off by that type of person and leave.

I come here once Reddit and hacker news content is old. This isn’t a place I’d recommend to anyone, unfortunately. There are extremely strong biases all over and deep echo chambers. Users here seem like the perpetually online type. Most perspectives I’ve seen have been heavily influenced by online discourse rather than reality.

I visit this site less and less due to the user base.

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

The perpetually online type is on Mastodon.
Here on Lemmy are the people who disconnected from social media, block or boycott 95% of today's internet and self-host matrix servers to discuss about self-hosting matrix servers.

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

Every once in a while I check up on what reddit looks like now.
I find the same or similar topics posted, with 600 comments instead of 30, and 570 of those 600 are just whatever's the first thing that pops into everyone's mind after reading the post title.
I like it better here.

[–] xfc@lemdro.id -1 points 7 months ago

Does it need to?

[–] Thorgs@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

Very Nice! - Borat

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wanna get more ppl on Lemmy?

Just show them the dope apps like sync. The web interface low key sucked at the start and almost drove me away.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah the webUI is horrible. Jerboa is the best FOSS app

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jerboa was a mess when I first got it as well.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

No its the best lemmy app in my experience

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I really like lemmy as a platform. The only thing I miss is better search options.

Someone knows a efficient way to search for a topic using lemmy or some search engine? Some trick or something?

The fact that topics are dispersed in many instances makes kind of hard to try to find a post where someone may be talking about the topic you need.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Low-skill option would be backfilling entire lemmy on mastodon and using elasticsearch.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

Lol thats an interesting idea

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I assume this latest bump is due to lemmy.world updating and now counting lurkers when assessing active users.

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Its still only voters, lurkers that dont do any actions arent counted

[–] Katzastrophe@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

Don't forget that Reddit was made up of 90% lurkers, and less than 1% of active posters, the rest would comment but rarely post themselves. These numbers are great if we keep those statistics in mind