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Cake day: September 28th, 2023

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  • This may be something you don’t want to hear so please bear with me. I’ve been here since the reddit drama started.

    There isn’t much engagement here. If you compare a post here to a post on reddit, there will be zero comments here and 100 to 1000+ on reddit.

    Another issue is each instance has its own version of the same community. This isn’t a bad thing but it separates the comments and increases the reposts. If I’m scrolling all, sometimes I see 5+ of the same post with zero comments on each.

    Another problem, it’s not inherently easy to sign up. There are hundreds if not thousands of instances. If the instance you pick shuts down or goes down for a bit, well… you’re SOL. I’ve lost two accounts on two instances that shut down.

    Another problem, since it’s not mainstream, there’s not much content in niche communities. A lot of the niche communities that start up post a lot of bot content which no one engages with and then the community dies.

    I still advocate moving over but there is a lot of work to be done to get the masses moved over.






  • I came over when reddit said no more third party apps. I’ve been faithful to lemmy for nearly two years since.

    I’ve experienced the same feeling. There can be hundreds/thousands of posts and yet no discussions. I pass by many interesting topics because there’s zero comments and it was posted to 10 different communities/instances. I know that’s how federated content works, but this method discourages interaction.

    Then there’s communities like hacker news that doesn’t even post the content on lemmy, just the title and a link. I’ve ended up blocking them because I don’t want sign up on another site, I like my cozy app.

    There’s a lot of niche communities from reddit here that people attempted to make but they ended up not taking off and are now wastelands.

    I miss old reddit, but I’ll never be going back to what it’s become.