Theres only so much one man can do to prop up a community. Reddit is still where you have to go for anything even remotely niche, since Reddit is thousands of times the size of the Fediverse. For example, if you wanted to get an alternative to the Dota 2 subreddit, you’d need a community maybe a 10th the size of Reddit’s Dota 2 community - equivalent to 5% of the Fediverse posting on a weekly basis. Right now, its roughly 0.0004% of the Fediverse, for reference.
“My (25F) bf (61M) burned down my house after he got mad at me for ‘not being servile enough’. I asked him to please consider thinking about a plan to try not to do this again, but he won’t promise. This seems wrong but I’m not sure. AIO?”
Unfortunately it’s captured a lot of information and resources.
Think about crafting - I’m going to find a lot more knitting tutorials on Reddit than I will here. Lemmy is very like early Reddit, where it’s only really active on topics like politics and technology.
Ravelry is a archive (want to know the attributes of any yarn or errata on any pattern ever?), project journal, occasionally interactive (imo the forum/groups can be dead).
Knittit is just FO’s and chat (chat good for exchanging technique knowledge).
To be fair, I was totally lost even as a Reddit veteran, for quite a while, which is why my adoption to Lemmy was slow. It took me a very long time to really start to understand how the federation worked, and I still would not say I’m an expert in any way.
I still need to use mobile apps’ auto-fill features to help myself properly tag users and communities on other instances, an issue I never one had on Reddit.
If someone says something incorrect on Reddit there’s a good chance there’s someone pointing it out. AI will insist it is correct when it tells you “strawberry” has 2 “R’s”.
If someone says something incorrect on Reddit there’s a good chance there’s someone pointing it out.
There’s a very small chance of someone pointing it out. There’s a better chance they’ll be downvoted. There’s an even better chance someone right will be downvoted and someone pointing out their mistake, incorrectly, will be upvoted.
You can’t be serious if you’re telling me you’re going to use Reddit comments as a reliable source of information, but then ideologically object to the idea of using an LLM for the same purpose.
AI will insist it is correct when it tells you “strawberry” has 2 “R’s”.
That sounds like a work problem on the work computer for the work IT people to fix. Don’t get tricked into fixing the boss’s electronics for free on your own time!
I understand why people on lemmy look at the outlook subreddit. Sometimes they have to use it at work, and outlook breaks in difficult to understand ways. Poor chaps
There’s also people who are and have been involved in interests for a long time that are well covered by discussion on Reddit and Facebook.
We like to give these networks shit and justifiably so but unfortunately there are no genuine alternatives for things like Marketplace, Facebook groups and subreddits in terms of complex discussion.
I mean yeah, if i can’t browse reddit on my mobile browser I guess i’ll just have to find something else to do but i just checked then and it still worked
I like lemmy but there is just not enough content, it’s like if reddit was youtube, lemmy is dailymotion, there’s just not enough content for me to stick just here
the main comm I use on reddit is !nrl@aussie.zone and it’s completely dead here :\
I like lemmy but there is just not enough content, it’s like if reddit was youtube, lemmy is dailymotion, there’s just not enough content for me to stick just here
Well, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” - Ghandi. Keep cross-posting stuff from there to here. It takes real work to build up massive, highly active communities. Lemmy is a nonprofit so it doesn’t have the marketing power of Reddit. We have to grow it ourselves and usage is the biggest way.
i have nearly 3000 comments, this is the same number of comments as i made on reddit in 15 years, i have over 1000 posts which is 990 more than i made on reddit
in 2 years the population of aussie.zone has gone from 158 daily active users to 155
I genuinely miss having discussions with Maga people. Even though the conversations are rarely productive, I still have hope that my comments will sometimes give that person (or a Maga lurker) some food for thought that could potentially get the ball rolling for them to eventually find rationality and basic decency.
However, I haven’t found any places to have those types of civil conversations on here.
Listen up, blue hair, soy boy, beta cuck. I’ll gladly pay out the ass for gas so trans people don’t get to place 4th place in college badminton that I was previously unaware of.
Wouldn’t that mean someone who likes enshitification? Which is what OP implied. But using the term enshitified means the person themselves has gone through the enshitification process. Maybe then one implies the other?
If you are still active on Reddit after all the enshitification, you are enshitified and getting furious is no longer an option.
Theres only so much one man can do to prop up a community. Reddit is still where you have to go for anything even remotely niche, since Reddit is thousands of times the size of the Fediverse. For example, if you wanted to get an alternative to the Dota 2 subreddit, you’d need a community maybe a 10th the size of Reddit’s Dota 2 community - equivalent to 5% of the Fediverse posting on a weekly basis. Right now, its roughly 0.0004% of the Fediverse, for reference.
until people start posting their relationship melodrama on lemmy, i’ll still be lurking reddit unfortunately. i need my soaps.
“I stole my girlfriend’s dog and emptied her bank account without her knowledge and now she’s mad at me for some reason. AITA?”
“My (25F) bf (61M) burned down my house after he got mad at me for ‘not being servile enough’. I asked him to please consider thinking about a plan to try not to do this again, but he won’t promise. This seems wrong but I’m not sure. AIO?”
Unfortunately it’s captured a lot of information and resources.
Think about crafting - I’m going to find a lot more knitting tutorials on Reddit than I will here. Lemmy is very like early Reddit, where it’s only really active on topics like politics and technology.
What do you need to craft in your life besides building the perfect Linux distro? /s
On a side note, how do you find Reddit vs Ravelry for knitting?
Two toooootally different formats.
Ravelry is a archive (want to know the attributes of any yarn or errata on any pattern ever?), project journal, occasionally interactive (imo the forum/groups can be dead).
Knittit is just FO’s and chat (chat good for exchanging technique knowledge).
That’s our intellectual property! For various values of “intellectual”.
And a LOT of really odd niche stuff. The biggest nerds migrated to here.
To be fair, I was totally lost even as a Reddit veteran, for quite a while, which is why my adoption to Lemmy was slow. It took me a very long time to really start to understand how the federation worked, and I still would not say I’m an expert in any way.
I still need to use mobile apps’ auto-fill features to help myself properly tag users and communities on other instances, an issue I never one had on Reddit.
Just search on one of the AIs that scraped Reddit.
I’m sorry were we not just talking about trying to get back on Reddit?
Enough with the anti-AI bs, it’s cringe.
Enough with pretending AI is useful for looking things up, it’s cringe.
It’s a lot more than using Reddit’s search engine.
You’re willing to use Reddit but not AI?
I’d rather use Reddit than AI, yes.
If someone says something incorrect on Reddit there’s a good chance there’s someone pointing it out. AI will insist it is correct when it tells you “strawberry” has 2 “R’s”.
There’s a very small chance of someone pointing it out. There’s a better chance they’ll be downvoted. There’s an even better chance someone right will be downvoted and someone pointing out their mistake, incorrectly, will be upvoted.
You can’t be serious if you’re telling me you’re going to use Reddit comments as a reliable source of information, but then ideologically object to the idea of using an LLM for the same purpose.
Have you used AI in the past year?
Current outlook issues are currently being talked about at length over on r/Outlook, and last I searched no one had even mentioned it on Lemmy.
There are definitely some legit reasons people still go there.
Who on lemmy uses outlook???
My job requires it.
Same… though I guess the alternative would just be Google anyway…
Literally anyone who works at a company they don’t own with more than 20 employees.
That sounds like a work problem on the work computer for the work IT people to fix. Don’t get tricked into fixing the boss’s electronics for free on your own time!
but I AM the work IT people and I DON’T understand it EITHER!!!
Loving FOSS and being able to use it are different things - plenty of people are required to use outlook at work.
I use Outlook for work, but it will be a cold day in hell when you catch me reading an Outlook subreddit
I understand why people on lemmy look at the outlook subreddit. Sometimes they have to use it at work, and outlook breaks in difficult to understand ways. Poor chaps
I view Reddit for that kind of stuff, still. But don’t participate.
At risk of posting a long list of grievences, well, I’m not giving them my engagement. And for reference/issue stuff, you largely don’t need it.
There’s also people who are and have been involved in interests for a long time that are well covered by discussion on Reddit and Facebook.
We like to give these networks shit and justifiably so but unfortunately there are no genuine alternatives for things like Marketplace, Facebook groups and subreddits in terms of complex discussion.
I buy used all the time and once never used fb marketplace. I promise you it’s easier to replace than reddit.
Go on, where do you buy from?
Actually, Im embracing the Fedi and find it more real, aproachable and relatable.
I’m new and enjoying the rarity of morons compared to Reddit.
Don’t you worry, we’re here too :)
we are the algorythm!
They are not so loud and abundant xD
With posts like that, I’m sure you are approached a lot.
Thanks Dog, Im doing my best
I mean yeah, if i can’t browse reddit on my mobile browser I guess i’ll just have to find something else to do but i just checked then and it still worked
I like lemmy but there is just not enough content, it’s like if reddit was youtube, lemmy is dailymotion, there’s just not enough content for me to stick just here
the main comm I use on reddit is !nrl@aussie.zone and it’s completely dead here :\
Well, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” - Ghandi. Keep cross-posting stuff from there to here. It takes real work to build up massive, highly active communities. Lemmy is a nonprofit so it doesn’t have the marketing power of Reddit. We have to grow it ourselves and usage is the biggest way.
i have nearly 3000 comments, this is the same number of comments as i made on reddit in 15 years, i have over 1000 posts which is 990 more than i made on reddit
in 2 years the population of aussie.zone has gone from 158 daily active users to 155
it is what it is
Dang… That sucks… Pin a paper saying “Leave Reddit for Aussie.zone” to community bulletin boards over there, maybe lol!
If browsing is all you need, I’m quite content with Stealth.
Is this platform the best alternative?
I genuinely miss having discussions with Maga people. Even though the conversations are rarely productive, I still have hope that my comments will sometimes give that person (or a Maga lurker) some food for thought that could potentially get the ball rolling for them to eventually find rationality and basic decency.
However, I haven’t found any places to have those types of civil conversations on here.
Most of them on Reddit are bots dude.
Let me try to help.
Listen up, blue hair, soy boy, beta cuck. I’ll gladly pay out the ass for gas so trans people don’t get to place 4th place in college badminton that I was previously unaware of.
Does that do it for you?
Is someone who has been enshitified an enshitiphile?
Wouldn’t that mean someone who likes enshitification? Which is what OP implied. But using the term enshitified means the person themselves has gone through the enshitification process. Maybe then one implies the other?