At least that’s my calculation right now

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    As much as I hate to say it, the “migration” wasn’t as large as some people would have thoughts it’s going to be. Hoomans. Stoopid hoomans.

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      I’m not sure about raw numbers but Lemmy feels like home now and Reddit’s content is significantly worse so it’s still a win for me

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        I didn’t look back after moving here. The only thing where Reddit still excels is its old content that you bump into when searching stuff on Google and the presence of official corporate accounts/ subreddits.

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            Life definitely feels simpler here and nice, like I moved from a huge and toxic metropolis to a wonderful small town, but I would still like this town to grow into a city.

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          I went back by accident by following a search result, and was still logged in. Had a notification. It was a reply to a comment I’d made about a month prior, asking a question. In the comment I even attempted to clarify that it was a genuine question with no judgement attached, and I got a couple answers at the time.

          Anyway, found myself back on Reddit with this belated comment reply. The person went on a whole rant related to my question, didn’t answer it of course, but just went off on one accusing me of nefarious motives.

          It’s weird to think back on how stressful it was to interact over there for fear of being misinterpreted and drawing out the crazies. If something like that happens here I just block them and go on with my day safe in the knowledge that the nice folks have them massively outnumbered. And hence my nearly 2000 comments here over two accounts in the space of about six weeks…oh my.

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            Man I remember the same thing. I mentioned that my cats deworming pills are relatively expensive (as in expensive for a simple mass produced pill) and some person went on a rant how there are so many animals that are disregarded by their owners and what not. It’s strange.

            I didn’t mention that I’m not buying them for her or that I’m avoiding other expenses.

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          speaking of searching stuff, how does lemmy work in that space?

          Like would I ever find this comment if I search it on Google?

          “Alibaba DQC Matrix Peanut Butter”

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        It definitely does yea. I haven’t been on plebbit outside of a random search result for something I could not find otherwise.

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        For me reddit content was pretty shitty for the last couple of tears. Like 10 years ago I could scroll the front page and find everything pretty funny/interesting and that made me want to discuss the topics with the people there. In the last years, the front page become pretty dull to me, I was just going to reddit only to specific subs.

        Lemmy feels now to what reddit felt 10 years ago.

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      It wasn’t during Digg either and they declared victory. It took time to build. Lemmy is currently growing at about 65,000 more posts every day over the last and is on an exponential curve discounting the massive initial spike. There’s been some cleaning of the bot accounts that mess with the numbers a little. https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=120

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        I’d rather like this platform to have a slow and steady growth rather than a massive peak which is unbearable for the servers, immediately sending lemmy to the graveyard.

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      All the subreddits I followed have not had the migration to Lenny, as the equivalent here is pretty much a desert. Only 1 or 2 people are actively posting every day to keep it active

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        Its going to take time to rebuild, especially the smaller niche communities. 1-2 regular posters at least ensures there is content to slowly accrue more subscribers. The best thing you can do if you have deserted small subs is starting to post yourself. Doesn’t matter if you think the content is of poor quality, just the fact that someone is posting makes it more likely that others will, too. Like the first guy starting to dance to the music at a party.

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          As a DJ, I really like that analogy. Dancing by yourself is a worthy endeavor by itself, folks. Put yourself in that place in life.

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      Eh, it happens. At least you have us, your fellow bots, to keep you company.

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      I read that the reddit userbase fell 3%. All those blackouts which ended without achieving anything. I left reddit when they announced the death of the API and never looked back.

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        No, no, the seeds of the site’s downfall have been planted by the administration, you gotta remember these sites depend on a tiny amount of power posters, not to mention the moderator contingent, which they pissed off. Not all migrated away, but enough did to hurt the quality of the site, and any that remain will remember. They HAVE lost a lot and haven’t noticed yet. Sites that big will not fall in a day, it will be alive a decade from now, like Livejournal or Slashdot are still alive.

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      The more important thing is that lemmy is now active enough to retain users. Before the exodus it was pretty quiet here. The userbase needed to hit a critical threshold to generate enough content and earn people’s interest. I think that, at least, was accomplished.