Look at this one, doing a high quality wholesome post in a shitposting community.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
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I checked the rules for posting here - they said "anything goes." The part that convinced me to post this: including "banter."
Thanks for calling it high quality. You are one of many lemmings whom I love.
The truest shit you can post.
What is shit to shit? Flowers.
Yeah it's a good experience being on here, sometimes I catch myself thinking that I'm glad those api changes were made - if not for them I would never found lemmy and many awesome people I interact here with.
Really, thank you all
I feel the need to point out (like others in the original post) that the absolute user count isn't very helpful. At one point there were millions of users on single instances because of bots and unprotected signup pages on some instances.
More important is the number of active users. There are about 45k users who have posted, commented, or voted in the past month. Still pretty good!
I'm cool with that.
The reality of the situation for me is, without people talking here, it wouldn't matter how good or awful Lemmy itself is. Fortunately there are enough quality people here that the conversation is engaging and that's all I need.
I'm very happy here.
I've seen lots of posts about how "I barely miss Reddit" or "I only use Reddit a little" or "I only go back to Reddit for the niche communities." All are valid points and I don't begrudge anyone that decision. However, the only times I've been on Reddit since the API debacle have been when I clicked a link in a search result. I legitimately don't miss the behemoth that they are. More people are welcome here in my eyes, but 45k active users - as you referenced in the last line of your comment - is plenty because they are comprised of the most interesting and largely pleasant subset of the millions or whatever Reddit has.
Like you said. Pretty good.
It feels like I’ve been here forever but I’ve only been a part of Lemmy for less than 18 months.
I was on twitter since 2007 and hardly posted shit (400 posts in almost 20 fucking years), but when I switched to mastodon I felt like I had been there forever. 400 posts in less than a year.
I am really glad to see the communities thriving.
I find it way easier to post here due to the smaller, more pleasant community. It's less intimidating.
Aw c’mere you
Welcome fellow Rexodus member! Have a shitpost! And a tea! We're all making life changes to fit not being in an abusive relationship with spezzy.
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Pretty much the exact same story here except my app of choice was Relay. I've been enjoying Lemmy and Connect though, had to filter out some stuff as always but generally there are good folks here.
I use the same app for here as I did on Reddit, Boost for Lemmy. It's easy to forget I'm on a different platform sometimes.
I haven't quite had that experience yet, but I think that's mainly because of how much Lemmy is still developing on both the client and server side. The experience might be different with another client like Boost and maybe I'm just not getting the full benefit with Connect, but every other client I've tried has been missing something I didn't want to forego. Admittedly it has been a while since I've tried another client, though.
However, as I said in another comment, since the API debacle the only times I've been on Reddit have been when it came up in a search result and, in the same timeframe, I haven't missed Reddit in general. While I'm aware of the changes, I'm very happy here.
Same