• Pizzareca@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.

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      1 year ago

      I have signed up to so many communities on here with the hope that once Lemmy gets bigger, I can leave the ones I don’t actually want to be involved in. I also posted my first-ever meme. Let’s contribute to make this a reddit alternative!

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      1 year ago

      I haven’t “left” Reddit yet, but I also have been avoiding the site as much as possible. If they’re going to be a terrible site, the least I can do is try to avoid going on and making them money from ads.

      Or at least only doing so at home where I have my PiHole box to remove them.

  • Sonemonkey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.

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      1 year ago

      Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.

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    1 year ago

    For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.

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    1 year ago

    I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!

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        yeah it’s important that people post and comment. lurking is only good once there’s a critical mass of content and engagement to sustain that kind of passive browsing. i hope new users will understand it’s early days on this platform and content has to come from somewhere!

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I learned so much reading other people’s comments, so I’m trying to recreate that on this site.

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    1 year ago

    A lot of us haven’t been able to create accounts due to high activity. It looks like account creation requests have finally started going through.

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    1 year ago

    No idea myself but we have to remember that not all the users that come try this will stay, so I anticipate once the Reddit nonsense blows over the community will shrink a bit. I am going to stay, but I was “lemmy curious” before the reddit business.

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    Wow, holy shit. Servers must be getting slammed with requests. Good thing there’s lots of instances to spread the burden.

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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…

  • Saprophyte@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I use RIF exclusively on mobile. I never use reddit from my computer. The interface isn’t all that different from RIF when on mobile, so I’m giving it a shot. Lots of the other places listed as “reddit alternatives” were mostly just discussion and not community focused and link sharing sites. I like it so far. (my first post!)

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    1 year ago

    I’m just here so i don’t get fined. created an account because the developer for my reddit app is working on One for lemmy. So figured I’d give this a try

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    1 year ago

    Keep in mind too that the expiration date for many of the mainstream third party Reddit apps is June 30

    Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

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      Reddit is already turning into shit. Like literall shit, except it’s digital shit, but still shit.

      Feeling horny? Visit r/horny. Oh wait, that’s christian minecraft discussions!

      Wanna learn something new? Visit r/InterestingAsFuck. Oh wait, that’s interesting porn positions!

      Wanna see what is going in gaming community? Just visit r/steam! Oh wait, it’s choo choo shitwreck powered by steam engines!

      No wonder why people are looking for Reddit alternative, and Lemmy might be just the right option. :)

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      Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

      I’m here now trying to get ahead of it.

  • cmrn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Got sick of Reddit, looked for alternatives, found sub.rehab, found Lemmy was common… here I am.