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> The engagement reason is the simplest, so let's look at that first. Just looking at where people spend their time, short-form platforms like Twitter, Instagra

by sph 3y ago

> The engagement reason is the simplest, so let's look at that first. Just looking at where people spend their time, short-form platforms like Twitter, Instagram, etc., completely dominate longer form platforms That might be the reason. I'd rather poke my eyes than "hang out" on Twitter or Mastodon. My day worsens by the minute the longer I am on those websites, with the amount of bad takes and terrible idea slogans. I hate the Twitter style posts because I exist outside that all-consuming bubble of neurosis. Reddit is dead, HN is alive and kicking, so this is basically my front page of the Internet (:

sanroot99 3y ago
How is lemmy nowadays?
- brabel 3y ago
  When the Reddit strike started, I tried Lemmy for a few weeks. Absolutely the only content that got any discussion was posts about how Reddit was bad or about Lemmy itself (both criticizing the owners and extolling the platform). I was interested in programming posts but there was almost nothing interesting there :( so I was quite happy when Reddit came back (it seems to have come back to normal levels now).
  - BeFlatXIII 3y ago
    > Absolutely the only content that got any discussion was posts about how Reddit was bad or about Lemmy itself I call this the new social death spiral. When meta-discussion dominates for too long, it kills the community. I'm surprised Mastodon has lasted for as long as it has for precisely this reason.
    - thejohnconway 3y ago
      Mastodon definitely got a critical mass of non-Mastodon subject matter.
  - CM30 3y ago
    Yeah, this is kind of a problem with a lot of 'alternative' social media sites and platforms. They become places where the majority of discussion is "why the existing site/service is trash and why the people using it are idiots/wrong" But that's not an interesting topic to discuss, at least not for very long. A community based on negativity towards an existing community is built on sand, and probably isn't going to last very long. So they need to find a way to attract people who discussing 'normal' things, and don't spend every waking moment of their life being obsessed with the platform/the old platform.
- qznc 3y ago
  Looking at https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy The Reddit exodus brought "active users" from ~0 to 70k. Half of them have left again since then. That matches my subjective perception. Activity has significantly waned again. Larger communities are good (e.g. !europe@feddit.de). Smaller ones (e.g. !rpg@ttrpg.network) were good but are dying now. It would be good timing for another exodus scandal by Reddit now.
- zilti 3y ago
  At least the "generic" instances are full of edgy far-left wannabe-revolutionaries and wannabe-intellectuals.
mlrtime 3y ago
>Reddit is dead Reddit is different. Reddit still holds a lot of value for me only in the subs I join. The smaller the community (niche) the more likely politics or social topic of the week will not get inserted into a post. Stay off /r/all and the main politics-esc subs (There are many now) and it is fine.

by sph 3y ago

sanroot99 3y ago

How is lemmy nowadays?

brabel 3y ago
When the Reddit strike started, I tried Lemmy for a few weeks. Absolutely the only content that got any discussion was posts about how Reddit was bad or about Lemmy itself (both criticizing the owners and extolling the platform). I was interested in programming posts but there was almost nothing interesting there :( so I was quite happy when Reddit came back (it seems to have come back to normal levels now).
- BeFlatXIII 3y ago
  > Absolutely the only content that got any discussion was posts about how Reddit was bad or about Lemmy itself I call this the new social death spiral. When meta-discussion dominates for too long, it kills the community. I'm surprised Mastodon has lasted for as long as it has for precisely this reason.
  - thejohnconway 3y ago
    Mastodon definitely got a critical mass of non-Mastodon subject matter.
- CM30 3y ago
  Yeah, this is kind of a problem with a lot of 'alternative' social media sites and platforms. They become places where the majority of discussion is "why the existing site/service is trash and why the people using it are idiots/wrong" But that's not an interesting topic to discuss, at least not for very long. A community based on negativity towards an existing community is built on sand, and probably isn't going to last very long. So they need to find a way to attract people who discussing 'normal' things, and don't spend every waking moment of their life being obsessed with the platform/the old platform.
qznc 3y ago
Looking at https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy The Reddit exodus brought "active users" from ~0 to 70k. Half of them have left again since then. That matches my subjective perception. Activity has significantly waned again. Larger communities are good (e.g. !europe@feddit.de). Smaller ones (e.g. !rpg@ttrpg.network) were good but are dying now. It would be good timing for another exodus scandal by Reddit now.
zilti 3y ago
At least the "generic" instances are full of edgy far-left wannabe-revolutionaries and wannabe-intellectuals.

mlrtime 3y ago

>Reddit is dead Reddit is different. Reddit still holds a lot of value for me only in the subs I join. The smaller the community (niche) the more likely politics or social topic of the week will not get inserted into a post. Stay off /r/all and the main politics-esc subs (There are many now) and it is fine.