• DopaDodge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 小时前

      Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

      One of the things I feel like Lemmy is still missing or is under developed is the niche hobbyist and tech help communities. I’m referring to places users can go to ask questions and start to build up a knowledge base of sorts that people will find and reference. Kind of like how if you want to actually find useful information for something, you used to add “Reddit” to every search to get meaningful results. Hopefully, that can become Lemmy. Assuming of course search engines even index Lemmy well enough

      One way to start could be just having people post small tutorials or solutions for popular problems or topics in respective communities. I know the internet has changed a lot but “back in the old days” that was a great way to get engagement going at least on tech forums.

      • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        27 分钟前

        search engines hardly index lemmy unfortunately. Probably due to having too much repeated content on different URLs.

  • imetators@lemm.eeEnglish
    29·
    6 小时前

    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.

    • Otiz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      8·
      5 小时前

      Downloading an app instead of using the web gui helped me a lot, almost gave up on Lemmy couple days ago. But some of these apps are so well made. Really shows commitment

  • F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    7 小时前

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

  • Flummoxx@lemm.eeEnglish
    58·
    9 小时前

    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.

    • Lucky13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 小时前

      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.

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
      16·
      7 小时前

      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
        4·
        6 小时前

        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
      23·
      8 小时前

      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.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    64·
    12 小时前

    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
      54·
      12 小时前

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

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 小时前

    Wow. And we’re almost at the halfway point of the month. I wonder if we’ll reach 100k at eom.

  • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    113·
    14 小时前

    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.