• metalsd@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 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

  • imetators@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    11 hours ago

    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.pubEnglish
      2·
      3 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.

  • Flummoxx@lemm.eeEnglish
    53·
    14 hours ago

    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.pubEnglish
      2·
      3 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.devEnglish
      12·
      12 hours ago

      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.

      • CarrierLost@infosec.pubEnglish
        6·
        11 hours ago

        This is one of the reasons I stayed. It was still small enough back then that you actually started to recognize people you had conversations with, and not just the troll farms.

    • Lexxly@lemmy.caEnglish
      22·
      14 hours ago

      I find a bunch of snark here, but it absolutely feels more genuine. With reddit it felt like half the comments I saw were from bots. More than half, maybe.

    • Lucky13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      10 hours ago

      I like a lot of things here better than Reddit. For one thing, I don’t see the stupid buzzwords like literally or cringe in 98% of all posts. There’s no hivemind here…yet. And hopefully there won’t be.

      Also not the same 5 memes repeated for 15 years.

  • F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    12 hours ago

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

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    61·
    17 hours ago

    Woo! That’s awesome. I am seeing quite a few more people.

    We are already successful, I’m seeing stories, news articles, and videos that normally would never get pushed to the top. We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

    • cm0002@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      491·
      17 hours ago

      We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

      • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Maybe just maybe a link aggregator and discussion platform doesn’t need to make money. Maybe it can just be good and make the users happy.

  • WhyFlip@lemmy.worldEnglish
    262·
    15 hours ago

    MAU? Mostly Anal Users? Martian Appalachian Upholstery? Mass Ass Underwear? Missing Alligator Utensils? Moldy Apple Uterus? Massive Arctic Uranus?

  • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    103·
    20 hours ago

    Worth noting is that what counts as an “active user” has changed between now and then. During the Reddit API exodus, an “active user” was a user who had posted or commented in the past month. Now, it includes users who have voted. If the 54k MAU record was set using the first algorithm, it is likely that the MAU using the new algorithm (which includes voting) would have been much higher.