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I've tried moving to Lemmy, but as you've said it's less populated, significantly less from what I've seen. Almost to its detriment. What makes Reddit great is
by 7ewis 3y ago
I've tried moving to Lemmy, but as you've said it's less populated, significantly less from what I've seen. Almost to its detriment.
What makes Reddit great is the niche smaller communities and the historical data they have (despite the search being awful). Lemmy sadly doesn't have this, small and even some big communities aren't there - wallstreetbets for example. Even subs with 100k+ users have low hundreds of members on Lemmy.
- squiffsquiff 3y agoYou realise that the subscriber count is typically showing only the subscribers from your own instance?
- kramerger 3y agoWell, speaking from experience... most people are waiting for a client that doesn't suck before moving away from reddit.
- corrigible 3y agoI've jumped completely over to lemmy and am mulling writing a bot to replicate external content to my instance (from e.g., unmigrated subreddits); the UX is fantastic though, tons of original content with almost zero spam. scaling the network seems hard as every event is a POST request (lol) but the community will persevere and overcome this imo
- rglullis 3y agoDid you look into https://lemmit.online https://lemmit.online?
- corrigible 3y agooh wow, thanks for this!
- mdaniel 3y agoI would encourage you to post that as a separate submission, since I have so many questions (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lemmit.online https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lemmit.online shows nothing)
- rglullis 3y agoDone! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37027946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37027946
- mgrandl 3y agoI mean the posts are hardly what I visit Reddit for. The true value is in the comments. For posts I could simply use RSS instead.
- rglullis 3y agoOk. Supposed I go on to write a service that lets you replicate a selection of your favorite subreddits on lemmy. Would you pay for it?