My first lemmy post. Here as a reddit refugee. Looking forward to watching a new community develop as reddit seems intent to go down the road of enshitification. I bailed on FB and Instagram as they enshitified. Reddit looks to be next.
Never thought reddit would go down that path, but glad we have alternatives now.
My first as well. Been on Reddit for a long enough to remember the DIGG exodus when they killed themselves. Interesting to see it happen again.
Yeehaw!
While this is good, I can’t help but feel that the branding of the decentralised social media ecosystem is hurting the growth a little bit. The -verse suffix, imo, is just too tainted from all the cryptobro metaverse scams and really makes this seem like some crypto scam as opposed to an alternative to the current crumbling social media platforms.
Regardless, I hope this ecosystem does take off, as it does seem useful and interesting.
If it means anything, universe and multiverse are the first that come to my mind.
It’s mostly bots, but so is Reddit. The real question is, how many of these are active participants and contributors who’ll generate content and start communities?
I came here four days ago and I’ve been commenting and voting on everything I see. I haven’t made any new posts but I’ve been pretty active otherwise.
Super important to make this place a viable alternative, rather than just another graveyard.
I’ve been posting like a madman. I hope to kickstart some activity. If this place looks halfway attractive on July 1st, it should bring in enough new posters from 3PA to make more communities self sustaining.
I had to leave behind a few communities that were small even on reddit, and hope to rebuild them better here.
Yeah, having enough activity is the only way we can make this place a viable Reddit alternative. That, and good third-party apps for a better mobile experience than Reddit. That alone could give the platform a serious edge, especially since 3PA users were some of the most active people on Reddit.
I’m not a bot, I used to post on Reddit only occasionally, (I was more of a lurker) and I only accessed it through the Apollo app. I strongly believe in the concept of decentralized platforms, and Apollo made Reddit more user-friendly by streamlining the tools, and reducing the number of ads. I recently joined Lemmy a few days ago and I already feel a surge of energy from enthusiastic migrant users like myself. If I thought my increased involvement here would contribute to meaningful discussions within the community, I will try to be more engaged. I hope that the influx of reddit users, including myself, can provide the boost that Lemmy needed without overwhelming the ‘instances’ themselves.
I’m not a bot
That’s exactly what a bot would say, a-ha!
But no seriously, I hope there’s enough of us here to make a meaningful difference; enough to give the internet a new ‘front page’.
Tbh it seems to be mostly bots adding to that growth. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to see the fediverse grow, but if it’s overrun with bots… no one will want to stick around.
Why do you say it’s mostly bots?
There was an exploit released a few days back that could make thousands extremely fast (unsure of the number).The two top user instances at this point have 50k new users a piece, and 10 users active, lol.
The relevant instances might as well remove non-active accounts that do not participates (e.g. upvotes or downvotes), I guess it would be enough to remove most of them
Wouldn’t a bot account be more likely to randomly upvote/downvote than a human?
Reddit always had a large number of lurkers who only had accounts to select which subs they wanted to see…
Maybe. If the bots have been created by opportunism during the vulnerability, they may still be “dormant” until their owner find something to do with it. So I wouldn’t be surprise they are not doing anything yet.
I realized yesterday that i haven’t been on Reddit for 3 days, but have been on Lemmy every day. It’s refreshing.
Same. I’m barely checking reddit now.
Every time I read these posts I can’t help but be sceptical: It’s bots, bots everywhere.
not a bot
That’s exactly what a bot would be programmed to say.
j/k. Er, sort of.
Can you please stop posting users numbers until the bot situation is under control? Putting it like you’re doing is misleading, half of them are bots (if not more).
When will the bot situation be under control?
I’m not denying the bot situation. These posts are for record keeping, and people in this thread seem aware of the bot situation. We need to get more eyes on this.
You’re welcome to start a conversation about how to solve the bot issue. I’d love to participate.
Are you a bot microwave?
I’m totally human.
That’s exactly what a bot would say!
Silence!
If you can’t use critical thinking skills to analyze these numbers and understand bots are included, idk what to tell you bro. We can’t censor the world cause of a few dumb people.
With that said user activity, number of posts, number of comments submitted per day would be a nice metric to look at.
If you don’t know what misleading means, idk what to tell you “bro”
We’re all bros here can we please get along?
Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.
Will there be a point when the number of new users will need to be controlled?
hey boss…
yea?
remember that Lemmy thing you made a few years ago?
yea
more people use it than live on earth…
what? it was just last month that it went over 1 mil!
uh-huh
so you’re telling me there’s more that 10 billion users?
15 billion as of 2 hours ago.
the heck?
Oh sorry bout that, my pet chicken showed lemmy to his friends at the farm
Unfortunately, some of those users are bringing the worst of Reddit with them. Their is an explosion of low value cutesy comments.
Eh, I don’t mind.
Edit: thanks for the gold kind sir
Edit: wow who would have thought such a simple comment would blow up?
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once a few of the reddit mobile apps switch users will flood in.
Hope @ruud is prepared for Jun 30 when RIF will go down… redditors will flood us
As has been asked every time, how many are bots?
Not me lol
Exactly what a bot would say
