• _number8_@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Plus building it is kind of the easy part – the hard part is getting people to migrate over and having enough active posts / users that people feel it’s worth their time to stay and post as well. Migration will inevitably splinter communities as well, especially small ones, where not enough people move over (or don’t move quickly enough). I’ve seen so many alternatives where the userbase was too small or not posting enough or just right wing trolls or the site was unusably buggy. lemmy managed to be good enough in all those categories at the perfect time - when reddit spat in the face of their users.

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      10 months ago

      It’s the niche topics that need more activity. I love science - mostly space/physics - and it’s mostly a ghost town. Once the unique corners grow their activity, it’s going to be great.

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        10 months ago

        I would have assumed spacey topics would sell like hot buns.
        I guess Physics are more of a niche and you would probably find more armchair physicists here than actual physicists.

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        10 months ago

        Agree.

        Even simple things like subs for particular cars/car brands were thriving on Reddit but don’t exist here.

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      10 months ago

      Regarding the content problem, I see the repost bots are still active, I wish they could be either turned off or have their rates severeöy limited.

      At first glance they make Lemmy seem active and vibrant, but since they are just bots few people vote on the posts and fewer comment on them, they post so much the any original Lemmy content in those communities gets drowned out by the bots reposting Reddit threads.

      During the influx of users after the apikalypse these bots where probably needed to not scare people that there was zero content from different subreddits, but now they just seem to be holding those communities hostage.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah, I know, but they make Lemmy look like a place full of fake content

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      10 months ago

      Plus building it is kind of the easy part

      I mean… not entirely. I’ve been on quite a few reddit alternatives over the years. Most of them passion projects by indie devs, and start struggling the moment they hit 4 digit users. Ruqqus was nicknamed “dumpster fire” because it would go down every time a new wave from reddit came over.