Hi all! I used to be a daily r/selfhosted lurker and a bit active user. Since the Reddit saga I thought that r/selfhosted would be one of the first and bigger community to move to Lemmy due to the IT knowledge of all of their users and the sensitivity about self host/privacy/open source, but I see that not only the community is still all there, but it’s rising. :( That really makes me sad. How can we convince the mods there to move people here? Is it allowed to talk about Lemmy on Reddit or do we risk of being banned?

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    1 year ago

    Stop obsessing about Reddit and create a content on Lemmy instead. People will come once they see there’s enough activity here.

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      It would be nice if there was less focus on “not being Reddit”, and more focus on “being better than Reddit”.

      What makes Reddit a good site is that it actually has a lot of “good posters”, no one is going to switch from Reddit to Lemmy just to read a lot of shitposter posting about Reddit and Threads all day long.

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        I’d prefer if we stopped bringing up Reddit altogether. We no longer use the platform, we should be happy with what we have here instead of constantly peeping into the neighbor’s garden.

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        Yah but that seems to be what lemmy is turning out to be and I don’t see it being sustainable.

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      It’s not an obsession! Simply if all the good poster/commenter that are there would come here, this place would be better!

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        1 year ago

        Be the change you want to see.

        You thought they were the leaders. They’re the followers, staying near the crowd.

        Building communities is hard and takes time.

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      Same with r/antiwork they closed briefly and when Reddit sneezed their way, they opened the sub instantly. Talking about hypocrisy.

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        There’s a lot of subs like these which I don’t want to name. Basically, subs with anti-corpo principles but refuses to leave corpo Reddit. I’m happy for the subs who are still dark even until now (and even more reason to be now that Reddit is deleting older DMs and removing awards/coins).

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          Why not name them? Personally, I’m most disappointed in r/cyberpunk. They kind of proved they are all about neon lights.

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            Every movement, subculture, whatever is just about fashion for 98% of the people involved. Fashion is easy. Values are hard.

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          Basically, subs with anti-corpo principles but refuses to leave corpo Reddit.

          See also: Discord

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        Well, imho, at least half of r/antiwork posts were escapist fiction of how one should have replied to their manager.

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      Everyone there probably decided not to self-host because they can’t hide it behind their VPN lol

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    If you look at the charts you linked, you can see the users activity (post per day and comments per day) is falling sharply since last month. Subscribers count mean nothing if a big proportion of the active posters leave.

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      Makes sense, the people who have both the tech knowledge and conviction on the advantages of selfhosting, were probably the most active posters.

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      Post per day seams steady at about 30/40, comment per day seams to have dropped from 3/400 to 250/300, I would have expected a great fall.

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        If you compare post per days from before the strike, it definitely falls. It’s no longer an upward trajectory despite subscribers growth.

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          Yeah I wouldnt be surprised if spez is bolstering subscriber numbers for larger subs with bot accounts

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            If you look at the chart, pretty much nothing comparable to the same period last year. January 2023 is a lot higher than January 2022 for example. July 2023 is also higher than July 2022.

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      It’s interesting how Lemmy shows active users before subscribing. Even reddit shows “readers” (people currently online), but people hyperfocus on subscribers (which can be dead accounts).

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    The change will come once people start searching for stuff on Google and they get results which link back to lemmy. For that to happen we need people asking for help/feedback and getting their answers here.

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      The most useful comment in this entire thread, the search results are a bit of a mess currently and that’s a huge stumbling block.

      I tried a simple search query with lemmy and the way results come back is not good

      it’s going to take a long time for that to change but just as a casual user I doubt I’d click anything past the first few reddit links.

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          It’s definitely progress and seeing myself in one of the top results was nice but it’s going to take a lot more work and tbh the decentralised nature of the links might also hurt because clicking on the dbzero link looks like a hackerman link if you know what I mean

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      I’m happy to help provide answers on my fields of interests but they are pretty much dead on Lemmy for now, it’s a chicken and egg thing.

      It doesn’t help that because we don’t really have good algorithms, my feed is dominated by generalist topics, memes, news and tech stuff. So even if I subscribe to smaller communities, if I don’t intentionally go visit them they’re never in my feed.

      We need to better surface posts from smaller communities by having a weighted algorithm so that your feed is a mix of big and small communities.

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        This was actually mentioned in an issue on the github. I can’t quite remember whether it was turned down or just inactive. I totally agree. If we’re going to compete with big social medias then we also need some kind of algorithms. Opt-in/out of course.

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        Isn’t Hot supposed to work like that? When it’s not broken, of course.

        I feel like some simple algorithm like the ones used in dithering may be used to mix up the feed.

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          My understanding was that hot was just posts with rapidly increasing upvotes, but it’s still not weighed between big and small (could definitely be wrong).

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      Google’s algorithm might actively down-rank Lemmy sites though, as the messages appear duplicated on multiple sites, which is usually a sign of SEO blog spam.

      Probably needs a change on Google’s side to better recognize federated websites. Not impossible that they will do this, lets see.

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      Hmm does Lemmy need search engine optimization? I have no idea how seo works these days :/

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    Well firstly, why do you care about being banned if you’re leaving Reddit?

    Come to terms with Reddit not dying overnight. Lemmy isn’t going to vanish if people don’t move over straight away. Reddit will eventually succumb to the 1000s of tiny self-inflicted cuts. Post content that isn’t on Reddit and people will have a motivation to stay here.

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      Make Lemmy the place to be when reddit kills the next thing, and the next thing, and the next thing. Yeah we’re small, but we’re something crazy like almost 10x the size we were before the 3rd party app shitshow.

      We aim to be the place where people can migrate to next time reddit causes a freakout, like killing old reddit

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    If you link to Lemmy on Reddit, the admins sometimes delete the comment.

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    You would think, of all the communities that would be comfortable with migration, it would be the folks from /r/selfhosted!

    Fellow user from there, btw, nice to see we’ve got a decent pool of people on this board instead.

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      Well that’s probably a reason why this community is so strong compared to other nieche communities

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    allowed to talk about Lemmy on Reddit

    if /r/lemmy is any proof; A) its ok to talk about lemmy on reddit and B) /u/spez has some validity in his point about users would be back not just because of the ‘48hr’ thing.

    That said, yes a loud enough minority can create change and that discussion does need to happen where the users are for the network effect to kick off.

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      Some mods are deleting comments/posts promoting lemmy. I made a post in my fav sub about the community in lemmy and the mods deleted it.

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        Same, the big 3 communities I host here I made very open posts, not pleading or encouraging people to move even, just “hey, we exist over here if you are curious”. All immediately removed, the mods were having none of that

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        I had at least three comments talking about Lemmy removed too. For all I know it was many more than that because I didn’t get any notice or explanation.

        My take is that they’re censoring without even informing people because the fediverse is a real threat to them.

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    Subscriber numbers mean little. Take a look at the trend for the posts per day and comments per day graphs. They’re far more accurate indicators of the level of engagement actual users are having with reddit.

    I’ve just checked for 10 of the subs I used to subscribe to, 2 of which have over 30m subscribers - all of them have the same downward trend in terms of posts and comments. I’m not saying reddit is in trouble but less new content is being created and that which is is being talked about less, eventually that will take a toll.

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    Ever since the api shit happend, and mods left their subs unmoderated, I feel like there are more bot accounts/posts on Reddit than ever.

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      That’s also because a lot of mods used the API to detect bots and other malicious users. These tools were removed so even if the mods didn’t leave, they are now significantly less effective.

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    I agree with all the comments so far but would like to add my own thoughts. Users are not important. Personally I moved to lemmy because the quality of discussion on reddit dropped so much.

    This has been my trajectory:

    • avid reddit user and content creator there (not sure if the right term) 2016 - 2018
    • lurker from 2018 to 2023
    • completely dropped reddit and moved to lemmy

    My hope is that we can have the same kind of content and discussion in pre 2020 reddit

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      yeah the comment per day graph is not doing too hot. Subscriber count may be rising but comment count is constantly in the valley.

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    I’m one of them! I didn’t even know about r/selfhosted when I was on Reddit but I found this place when I joined kbin. I’ve been thinking on-and-off over the last year about self hosting so subscribed. I still occasionally look at Reddit in view-only mode though (largely for legacy content) so I also subscribed to r/selfhosted over there too last time I checked it.

    It’s not subscriber numbers that matter though, it’s active users and quality new posts - people who go to the sub regularly, upvote, comment, and create content that causes other people in turn to look at the sub. I’m still a subscriber to a tonne of Reddit subs that I used to post and comment regularly on, and now don’t. If every active Reddit user became a passive user then Reddit would grind to a halt overnight, regardless of how many users they notionally have.

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    So…I own a .com domain that’s really, really good as far as being lemmy-related (it has lemmy in the name).

    Not exactly a s self-hosted question, and I’m an old geek so I can arrange hosting and set things up myself when I have time, but anyone have a guess as to my traffic costs if I decide to turn it into a federated lemmy instance and open it up to the public? Just looking for thoughts and opinions.

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      I wouldn’t worry about it too much. The per-user traffic costs appear to be low enough that it seems likely you’d be able to sustain the instance on donations, even with a low percentage of altruistic users.

      You could also try asking @Ruud.

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      Only one way to find out. ;) You can always limit signups if you get overwhelmed. Get yourself one of those DMCA protection licenses too, they’re very cheap afaik.

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          https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca I am not sure how it all works. However, there is some registration you can sign up for to help comply with: “The “safe harbor” provisions (section 512) protect service providers who meet certain conditions from monetary damages for the infringing activities of their users and other third parties on the net.” You will have to read about it further, but I saw it mentioned when others were discussing setting up an instance. There is a very good Matrix chat where you can get a lot of help too with set up, etc. There’s also a few communities for hosting lemmy, such as !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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    I like it here on Lemmy as there are quality talks from people and not too much circlejerking same concepts around. I actually like going trough here.

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    The fediverse keeps sabotaging itself with instances defederating left and right, that way it’ll never become an alternative regular user would want to join.

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      Defederation isn’t sabotage. It’s a feature for healthy communities. Anyone that is interested in discussions on either defederated community, will create an account for both.

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        Anyone that is interested in discussions on either defederated community, will create an account for both.

        And that is the reason why reddit is still growing. If you are required to make multiple accounts just to engage with the communities you want to engage with, Lemmy is no better than separate forums. And those all got overshadowed by reddit for a reason.

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          I still like individual forums and use them on occasion. For me, the reason why Reddit was better is because of the UI. The default phpBB skin is awful for following a dialog in my opinion; Reddit’s much more compact threads free of annoying signature blocks and giant user profile panels is much nicer. Personally I’d be perfectly happy to go back to the days of individual forum accounts if the forums had nice UIs like Reddit or Lemmy. Even Flarum is an example of a traditional forum software with a decent UI. The big missing thing though is threaded conversation which I much prefer over a flat forum, something that Lemmy offers.

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        Honestly, for anyone not particularly tech literate it’s a bit confusing. It’s got Lemmy in the name. It’s the same UI. Most are going to wonder why they’re suddenly logged out or why they need another account. It’s not intuitive if it’s not something you’re particularly used to.