Slowly? Lemmy is easily as entertaining as Reddit and it is just getting going.

Please for anyone reading, just be patient. Keep posting and commenting and it WILL grow. There are only like 1.2 million Lemmy users versus hundreds of millions of redditors.

If you follow the 90-9-1 rule, that leaves very few actual contributors and still Lemmy has a lot of good content daily. Just be patient and it will come.

I stopped posting to Reddit because frankly it felt like throwing a pebble into the ocean.

I love the smaller approach here

Maybe someone here already said this but if you find a community with not a lot of traffic here, make sure to post in it. Others might go looking for it and find nothing, just like you did. Perpetual cycle of I see nothing, I leave. If someone's active, maybe someone else will be active with you. And then two turns to four to 8 and so on. Even if it feels like you're screaming into the void, keep screaming. The void is infinite and someone's bound to hear you eventually.

I don't understand the "slowly" part at all. I joined Lemmy about a month ago when Reddit third party apps went dark. Lemmy was largely a ghost town then, with most of the relatively mainstream communities I sought out having newest posts that were days or even weeks old. That desolation was gone after the first few days, with a ton more engagement from others who migrated over and a steady stream of new content. The communities I frequent have grown by leaps and bounds since then. "Slow" isn't a word I'd use to describe Lemmy's growth.

Just joined after sync for lemmy has been released to the public. As a sync user since it started a decade ago lemmy already feels more familiar to me than reddit. I don't quite understand exactly how it all works just yet but I can definitely see myself using this over reddit.

Not to sound like a jerk but I don't understand what most people expected. All new sites start slow. Facebook was slow at the beginning. Reddit too. It's not like they had millions of users and subs day one. We have the responsibility to build up this community. We want a site like Reddit but without the u/spez crap. So we better start building it up and complain less. Criticism is ok but saying "it's slower than Reddit" is kinda useless and obvious.

I fucking love Lemmy.

Lemmy just needs to stop talking about itself so much. The only reason I still use Reddit is because I find fresher and more varied content there. Lemmy users need to provide more content than just the fact that they are on Lemmy.

i disagree. Lemmy is quickly getting better.

Lemmy feels a lot like hackernews

I reckon after all is said and done, the biggest issue I had with Reddit is that people felt they had to be heard. Like, we just needed to know that you also thought that certain thing (“came here to say this”) or that you are morally superior to everyone else (“oh but I don’t do it that way OP”). It’s 90% of the reason the content on Reddit had deteriorated, because people crave the attention, and thus the imaginary number going up.

Now I’m not saying Lemmy is different. In fact, I fully expect it to go the same way. But right now, there are far fewer people here who just have to give their opinion (I see the irony), and therefore less shit to wade through to get to actually good content.

As an example, look at the top comment on any default sub post on Reddit. It will have heaps and heaps of replies that are just valueless crap. This is what makes Reddit seem “faster” than Lemmy. The reality is that most of it is fluff, most of it is irrelevant to you.

Lot of empty communities still. Thinking about posting in writingprompts to try to get something rolling there.

Here here, was a RIF user but after the blip, I haven't looked back. More and more ppl are migrating over, and I really enjoy no ads!

I would suggest starting a community if one doesn't appear.

I'm regularly seeing hundreds of comments on posts now and only a month ago it was rare to see a dozen comments on a post. I really don't need more engagement on a post, that's plenty. Lemmy still needs more users to sustain more niche communities, but in the places that people are it's already great.

As of this last month, Lemmy is my new “go to” for scrolling social media. My Reddit usage is probably 20% or less of what it used to be.

A part of this was Voyager’s Progressive Web App (https://vger.app), it made me feel right at home after Apollo shut down.

Reddit literally commiting suicide its helping...

Is anyone else having trouble with the "show context" button? When someone replies to you, it only shows what they said. When you click "show context", it.... only shows what they said. The only way to see what you said is to copy their reply and "show rest of comments" and then search for it - that is if it isn't on an instance that hides replies after the second level.

Slowly? Bro for years reddit was mostly pictures of delicious sandwiches.

Lemmy is orders of magnitude better than old reddit.

Reddits deaddit, it just doesn't know it yet.

Best thing is, lemmy is open source. You can submit your feedback and code to the devs.

I'm hating all the Reddit spillover commenters that take the internet way too fucking seriously. They were easily the worst part of Reddit.

When I first seeked asylum here, people were being sarcastic in the comments and everyone knew, dark humour was being pushed, and there were no Well Actually Guys around. Now there's a big uptick in petty "discussions", know-it-alls, and those losers that break your comment up gaslit straw man style, to just put words in your mouth to try make you look like an asshole.

I'm hating all the Reddit spillover commenters that take the internet way too fucking seriously.

Says the person ranting about Reddit users destroying Lemmy. Maybe you're part of your own problem.

They were easily the worst part of Reddit.

That would be /u/spez, but okay, bro.

When I first seeked asylum here, people were being sarcastic in the comments and everyone knew, dark humour was being pushed, and there were no Well Actually Guys around.

First of all, it's not your internet. Not everyone is as "intelligent" as you think you are and sarcasm is actually hard to detect in text.

Second of all, not everyone appreciates dark humour because it can be very.offensive, just like using derogatory terms like "Well Actually Guy". If you want people on Lemmy, you need to make it a safe space for all.

Also, your account is only 5 weeks old.

Now there's a big uptick in petty "discussions"

So, now you're just anti-discourse? How is Lemmy meant to grow if comment section are empty, you bigot?

know-it-alls

Again, derogatory.

and those losers that break your comment up gaslit straw man style, to just put words in your mouth to try make you look like an asshole.

Oh, shit.

I haven't went back to reddit since july 3rd... Not even once! I like Lemmy the way it is because I don't scroll for hours anymore and I like that.

Although I wish the comment section was a little more active in general.

haha it's funny i felt the opposite - when i got here at the beginning of the 'exodus' i already felt like Lemmy was a small but thriving little community that i enjoyed much more than reddit.

not sure why some want it to be just like reddit but the fediverse. i don't and i'm glad it's a smaller bunch of people and hope it stays that way.

Enough of the subreddits I enjoyed are here in some variation, enough so I haven't been to Reddit in weeks. I'm fine with that.

I have to disagree about Lemmy not being very good. It is, IMHO, already very good indeed. It will only improve with time.

old.lemmy.world is a God send, haven't been back to reddit since!