• DopaDodge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      27 minutes ago

      Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

      One of the things I feel like Lemmy is still missing or is under developed is the niche hobbyist and tech help communities. I’m referring to places users can go to ask questions and start to build up a knowledge base of sorts that people will find and reference. Kind of like how if you want to actually find useful information for something, you used to add “Reddit” to every search to get meaningful results. Hopefully, that can become Lemmy. Assuming of course search engines even index Lemmy well enough

      One way to start could be just having people post small tutorials or solutions for popular problems or topics in respective communities. I know the internet has changed a lot but “back in the old days” that was a great way to get engagement going at least on tech forums.

    • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      4 hours ago

      For real we need more uplifting subs, my feed is just Musk and Trump diarrhea.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 hours ago

        I think this is an artifact of what’s oddly the biggest weakness of the fediverse: decentralization.

        When I used reddit back pre-api stuff, my front page was 100% niche subs I’d subscribed to, but those niches have trouble le growing here because there’s so many instances.

        I was super active in the scuba subreddit. Here on Lemmy, there’s several scuba groups that tried to form, but none of them stuck because they were all on different instances instead of one central location where everyone could work together to make the community.

        As a result, most of us haven’t been filtering out 99% of Lemmy because the 1% where we’d be active doesn’t exist. It’s like joining reddit and having your frontpage be /r/all. It’s a shitty experience that g9ves a lot of weight to political posts.

        • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          It doesn’t matter almost at all which instance a community is on. People could just unite the different scuba groups into one. Basically any they see fit. I’m not sure the decentralization really causes this effect. Or does it make it too difficult to find communities? I’ve been plenty able to find communities from various instances, at least.

  • F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    6 hours ago

    Yeah in a few days I’m going to delete my Reddit account, liking this place so far, you get news and genuine discussion.

  • WhyFlip@lemmy.worldEnglish
    163·
    9 hours ago

    MAU? Mostly Anal Users? Martian Appalachian Upholstery? Mass Ass Underwear? Missing Alligator Utensils? Moldy Apple Uterus? Massive Arctic Uranus?

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    8 hours ago

    Wow. And we’re almost at the halfway point of the month. I wonder if we’ll reach 100k at eom.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    16 minutes ago

    I guess some people get off on go team go, but to me looking at market share is very corporate thinking. If lemmy is better than reddit (which I think it is) it will just naturally grow, which is great. Whet I’m cheering for is that developers of federated platforms are slowly taking social media away from the business world by doing it better for free - whether that turns out to be lemmy or some other software.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    85·
    17 hours ago

    The growth in 2025 has been staggering, ngl. And this is the kind of thing which converts from a trickle to a tsunami very quickly. It never happens with one shock. But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks. Reddit’s desperate struggle for profitability practically ensures those will keep happening, so this is all inevitable at this point. The only thing that is uncertain is whether digg can recapture the fleeing masses who are not cognizant of the dangers of corporate vc-backed enshittification yet, like bluesky did to Twitter.

    • DeeDan06@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      18·
      12 hours ago

      Yeah. Reddit is currently enshitifying in overdrive. They used to just do dumb features nobody wants, but now they are actively harming the base. The entire Luigi over-moderation this is just bad, and it feels like they want the formerly leftist site to go full maga now. and even if I do have to use it, the website often tends to not function properly these days, with the site constantly reloading, or voting functions to be broken. This is the year of lemmy.

    • justsomeguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      17 hours ago

      But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks

      I think the proper term is enshittification sharts

  • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    28·
    16 hours ago

    It’s so nice to see the servers are not crashing anymore this time around like how Lemmy.world did for me a few times back when I first joined in 2023 and I remember when the only app that was available on ios was just Wefwef before Memmy and Mlem came out of testflight. Today the apps are much more developed as we now have: 6 ios apps, 10 android apps, advanced search, moderator tools, user tags, in-app video playback, baby account indicator, advanced markdown editors, crossposting, watch support, expanded customizations, content filters, fediseer integration, side by side posts, alternate sources menu, song service integration, direct messages in app, gallery view, local sub count on communities, troll buster, user theme directory, open web post in app, gestures, media bias check, alt check and personal contribution stats.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      17 hours ago

      Yes I remember the lemmy.world servers being DDOS’ed every couple of days and having to switch between 3 clients and the webinterface because all of the apps were missing some features. The alternative frontends like photon and tesseract have really improved and imo should be the new defaults.