I think it is kind of a mistake that Lemmy tries to replicate or replace Reddit. If you want your “niche” content (which I can never figure out what people mean but this but I digress), it requires the network effect of Reddit. Reddit still exists and both Lemmy instances and Reddit are websites. You can easily have two tabs or like both apps on your phone so I’m not sure why it has to be all or nothing.

I think a better use of Lemmy is to provide things that don’t work and don’t exist on Reddit. A good example is https://crazypeople.online/c/eternalplaylist where we post whatever we’re listening to and then sometimes comment on what other people are rocking at the time. I started https://crazypeople.online/c/streamingmovies just to post whatever bullshit I’m watching, maybe if you stream something from https://fmhy.net/ post it and we can all watch it.

I think the people using lemmy as a personal blog are more like what the platform excels at like https://lemmygrad.ml/c/spacedogschronicles and https://crazypeople.online/c/bitofarambler which became https://crazypeople.online/c/travel

Lastly I think the real win for Lemmy as a whole would be to figure out how to better interact with other fedi software. Maybe turning mastodon and pixelfed tags into communities and figuring out how to better integrate there would provide more and interesting content but in a scenario i find much easier to follow than subscribe to poster type twitter style microblogging.

TL;DR being Reddit 2 won’t ever happen until Lemmy has a reason to exist that isn’t being Reddit. Some people are building that and this is still early in the game.

Okay, now let’s see Piefed and mbin users!

I tell people about lemmy and send them links. Mostly people don’t care about anything. Abstract or remote things like “should a platform be owned by one asshole?” just doesn’t even enter their brain.

https://piefed.social/

For me I deleted my account a month ago after 2 years of lemmy. I forgot about this account and jerboa install, the only community sub is this one haha.

I figure I’ll just say why I left, this place became a depressing shit hole.

The communities aren’t niche enough because it’s not big enough, so it’s just a shit experience. I’m just going to look to old school forums again. Phpbb you must still be out there…

I figure I’ll still keep this account in case I need to use it for something useful. One never knows when they’ll get lost on the seas and need some directions.

Things will improve after the major release with more fine grained controls. Being able to limit community interactions to members will drive up quality engagement and that should drive up retention rates.

Tell your musician friends to find me here:

https://lemmy.world/c/IndepthIndie

Actually, you know what? I’ll give a free guitar lesson to the first 10 people to make a post in that group.

i remember hearing about when the empire State building was first built, the would light up some of the offices to make it look busy, to attract other people.

Everyone I try to explain it to thinks it’s reddit but worse. I’m still going to keep trying. The other thing is seeding content and not making reposts. I’m not the most creative person, but I still try to make content for this platform because I love what it stands for. Might do that right now.

Lemmy is more stable than what that graph makes it out. I’m not sure how easy it is to track fediverse since instances can pop up at any moment then grow or even the domain can change for an instance

I’ll do my best! Luckily, Lemmy still has a healthy community though

I think posting quality content (or at least trying to be quality content hahaha) and good comments keep the users visiting back.

I just try to post one or two posts a day (to not spam things), comment a little bit, it seems it grows some communities on our instance. Some communities were dead, now at least some people post at these places.

This is only looking at active users.

If we look at total users and servers across all Fediverse software you can see both are up.

I personally am not interested in making the active user count always go up. The Fediverse maybe better then Silicon Valley, but the health problems being on the internet too much is still there.

I came to this space in November of 2024.

As a trans person I wanted community. So I checked out blahaj first. But, the queer community here is controlled by Ada who bans anyone she doesn’t like and i ticked her off once by not bowing to her judgement when it came to allowing trolls to stay in the space. This drama also splintered the 196 community, and neither 196 space has had the same number of participants since.

So no more queer community for me. I’ve had to get that other places like Tumblr.

I then decide to use the .db0 community to report what I feel is abusive behavior from .blahaj staff and after enough time they realized that they really don’t like people using the “report abuse community” to report abuse of specific spaces like blahaj. Banned for using the space for what it was created for.

So no more .db0

I’m just so tired of using this space, it feels just like reddit except there’s somehow even less accountability.

Every week i feel less and less compelled to contribute

I used to enjoy posting like a dozen memes a day and now I don’t post anymore. It’s not fun it’s a chore to keep feeding memes and engagement into this space that pretty much only has told me it hates me for the last year.

Bad app :c

Here’s my approach: over the holidays I suggested lemmy to 3 people I know. I did so by emailing or texting them links to the following piefed feeds of lemmy communities:

• https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
• https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent

The first is non-political, non-tech, low-meme communities (tho sometimes those topics sneak in.) The second is non-political, non-tech meme/humor communities. One peson said they thought it was neat, the other said they bookmarked it, the third didn’t say anything. Dunno if they joined.