Same goes for me!

  • char_stats@discuss.tchncs.de
    36·
    6 days ago

    1. Not enough niche communities. Like, not even close. Example: there are communities for general Android or general gaming, but not one for Android gaming or mobile gaming.

    2. Harder than Reddit to sign up. There’s an extra step which is instances. So first you gotta understand what instances are, how they work, and which one is suitable for you.

    3. Reddit is still doing fine, or at least not bad enough for the masses to care about jumping over to Lemmy

    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      13·
      6 days ago

      Not enough niche communities

      Not even just niche communities, either. There are interests with possibly hundreds of millions of English speakers that don’t have good representation on Lemmy (or piefed or Mbin). There’s no critical mass of discussion about sports, much less for specific sports, specific leagues, or specific teams. Same issue with food and cooking, a handful of posts on a handful of communities, but very few discussions. Television and film have seen an uptick in activity (I’m subscribed to television@piefed.social and that’s been getting better), but it’s still not quite at where reddit was in even 2010 or so.

      Local city subreddits are still a valuable source of information and discussion around what’s happening in any particular place, and I haven’t seen anything like that on lemmy.

      I don’t expect Lemmy to have the same level of discussion around smaller niches, but I hope we can soon hit the point where more mainstream topics can get actual discussion. Lemmy has plenty of great discussion around lots of topics, especially around technology, but it’s still got a long way to go.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    44·
    7 days ago

    Habits are hard to break.

    I’m predominantly here because my habit was tied to a 3rd party app that stopped working with the API changes.

    I’m still here because it’s good, but it was the habit being broken that pushed me here in the first place.

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 days ago

      I quit cold turkey by dns blocking Reddit everywhere and deleting narwhal. I don’t know how people can quit in any other way. Apps like Reddit are designed to be addictive, so it’s no surprise that people have a hard time giving them up.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        3·
        7 days ago

        like many on reddit, most of us was forced out either due to site-wide banning on all accounts they have been doing. or the sudden shadowbannings they have been doing alot lately. i do checkup on the shadowbanning subreddit , to see how aggressive they are banning people.

    • Devmapall@lemmy.zip
      6·
      7 days ago

      I had a pretty bad reddit habit. Sometimes would do the thing of quitting the app and opening it back up quickly after.

      I was using boost and it worked for a long time after it was supposed to stop working. The day it actually stopped working I went over to Lemmy.

      Reddit is pretty bad with the propaganda, bots, censorship and what not. It was definitely getting worse before I left and isn’t any better.

      I have the official reddit app installed because sometimes reddit will have something I need and using the web browser on my phone is somehow worse than their shitty app.

      I wish there was more engagement on Lemmy. I understand all the reasons it’s difficult to grow though and honestly there’s a lot of quality conversations going on

  • kemsat@lemmy.world
    23·
    6 days ago

    Lack of diversity, imo.

    If you’re (edit)NOT(/edit) into Star Trek, Linux, coding, or politics there’s not that much content. Which isn’t gonna attract too many new people, and is probably alienating to many of the new users checking out the fediverse.

    I hate the ads & the Reddit app, but Lemmy feels like more of an echo chamber than Reddit does.

      • kemsat@lemmy.world
        102·
        6 days ago

        Pretty sure christians get lots of hate on Reddit too. If you want a christian echo chamber just go to a church, not internet social media.

        Edit: to be honest, a lot of us are on the internet just to get away from religious people.

        • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
          22·
          6 days ago

          The Christian communities on Reddit didn’t appear to be downvote brigaded like they are here

  • warm@kbin.earth
    21·
    7 days ago

    Not going to lie, I prefer it that way. There’s just enough people here that it’s engaging, but not too many that it will turn into a cesspool like reddit did. Let’s just let it attract the right users naturally for as long as possible. We don’t need to mass market it and bring every reddit user over.

    • zecg@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 days ago

      Exactly, it’s the goldilocks phase right now for lemmy, to be followed by endless ululations for eternal September. This is the shit y’all be nostalgic for soon.

    • blarth@thelemmy.club
      3·
      6 days ago

      A lot of Reddit is LLMs talking to each other now. One very obvious example of this is /r/stories. Nearly every one of them has the hallmarks of AI generation. As you read through the hundreds of comments, many look like AI as well. I’ve been noticing more of it in other subs too. Dead internet theory is coming true.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
    181·
    7 days ago

    Because there is no content here.

    Every time I have a question about a TV show I’m watching, its always Reddit that have a discussion thread, never Lemmy.

  • greenskye@lemmy.zip
    13·
    7 days ago

    The fediverse lacks basically all of my niche communities and the ones that exist have zero engagement. I’m basically only on Lemmy at this point for political stuff. Politics anything is a shitshow on Reddit, but seems decent on Lemmy. But that’s just really not enough.

    Though to be fair, Reddit’s ‘suggested’ posts feature is I believe destroying niche communities on Reddit these days, so I’m not sure how much longer those will keep working for me either. Moving away from explicit subscriptions and turning your home feed into just a lesser version of /r/all is a good way to ruin most communities over time I think. I feel eventually Reddit will just become Facebook for millennials where your feed is completely divorced from anything you might actually want to see and is entirely an algorithm instead.

  • Wytch@lemmy.zipEnglish
    141·
    7 days ago

    I have a coworker who recently excitedly explained how Reddit works to someone who’d never heard of it. Never mind that all the features he was raving about are here on Lemmy without the bots, Nazis, karma farming, corporate enshittification; he’s seen as the tech savvy person in the building.

    Here I am with a 13+ year old Reddit account, nuked, and quit after the API debacle and have never returned. Just sipping my tea and enjoying my Community feed. There’s just some things people have to figure out on their own.

  • TurkishKebab@lemmy.zip
    7·
    7 days ago

    I mean i would have never came here if i didn’t get banned from reddit,not because reddit is better but because it is what everyone uses and is considered the norm.

    I didn’t even know Lemmy existed.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
    6·
    7 days ago

    reddit is more addicting, and has more communities not found in the fediverse. and likely most cant be replicated easily here. many like some specific niche forums, like school, degrees, specific diseases where peopel share thier experiences and treatment plans ,etc/. whatisthisthing, or reddit drama,etc.

    even politics/news dont get as much engagement as on reddit, even if you exclude bots/astroturfers.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      1·
      7 days ago

      the grifters are keeping engage, that includes resistance grifters which are the mirror equivalent of right wing grifters.