• TheForvalaka@lemmy.world
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    Whatever the number, I’ve definitely noticed in the past few days that there are getting to be enough people having conversations and posting content for this place to feel like a legit community instead of a ghost town. I’m really glad to see more people joining and taking part.

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      Agreed. It’s really nice to see top posts having a lot of thoughtful engagement. Hopefully we’ll have enough to start seeing people branching out to smaller niche communities too.

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      For example, your comment is the first one I have seen that has over 30 upvotes since I came on board a week back.

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      It’s been amazing to feel like we’re part of something that’s growing so fast. I’ll miss Reddit but I expect Lemmy will fill in the role sooner rather than later.

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    Soon, the novelty accounts are going to start showing up here again.

    something something undertaker mankind cage something.

  • ProficientTroll@lemmy.world
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    This is my first comment on Lemmy , excited to be here as we embark on a new journey away from Reddit.

    I’m excited for Sync coming to lemmy , my go to app for reddit browsing was Sync.

    And obligatory fuck spez

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      Just heard the news about Sync and instantly registered here. I’ll still be hoping for Boost to cross over, but Sync is infinitely better than Reddit’s app. A decent client was all that was missing for me to make the plunge, let’s hope that’s the case for more people.

      And yes, fuck Spez

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    Ngl, I’m gonna miss these early days I think. Hopefully we have instilled some type of decent, thoughtful culture on here that can keep us grounded and keep flourishing.

    I really like getting in on these big threads later at night when everyone is chopping it up and making me think.

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    I don’t doubt there’s a great amount of user growth, but it appears that many of those are account creation spam on instances with 1 active monthly user though.

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      Yeah, no idea whether this is spammers trying to stake turf or someone trying to inflate the user count to stick it to reddit (or something) but the numbers from the 18th on are clearly inauthentic.

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        TBF reddit’s numbers are also inauthentic.

        Hell, fake it till you make it isn’t that bad a strategy to attract new users.

        Of course, you also need content. I hope people start making bots which steal content from reddit, which bots on reddit steal from twitter/insta/tiktok/snapchat. That way we can all cut out the middle-man.

        On a side note, I think it’s really cool that I’m on kbin and commenting on something on lemmy.

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        Conspiracy theory: what if Reddit is using it’s not army to make a bunch of dead/spam accounts to try to make Lemmy instances more expensive solely to try to price them out of their space so they can then turn and point to how “Reddit alternatives aren’t viable/stable.”

        On one hand, that’s obviously stupid and not true. On the other hand, I can see Huffman being petty and malicious enough to do something like that.

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          Inactive accounts don’t really add any expense. Creating a bot farm to create large amounts of artificial traffic to crush competitors would risk antitrust lawsuits that would actually cripple the company.

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    Line goes up?

    You failed to continue multiplicative growth therefore your investors are going to pull their money… Wait there are no investors, there is no ipo. I’m going to donate 10$.

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    How easy is it!

    I just used my Reddit name and continued here.

    No effort what so ever.

    Bit to wrap my head around the idea of subs being completely different communities on different servers, but I LIKE that idea… no Fascist Overlords to control the groupthink.

    I guess (if this is how the Lemmyverse/Fediverse works) is some AWS/cloud instances are going to be spun up hard and fast!

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      Yes, I expect some instances to have some difficulty coping with the traffic in July

      I sometimes go to Reddit again, mostly by habit, but once Relay stops working, I’m done.

    • ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.world
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      Apparently a lot of those bots are just farming reddit and reposting here. Which I think in the short term is a good thing. People are more likely to join/stay if they see content. On the other I hope lemmy has the tools to prevent bot content from overwhelming user generated posts to the point that it loses the authenticity.

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        That’s an interesting take, but I could definitely see it working out. As long as the reposted content isn’t ads or spam, it could help the fediverse have content while it grows.

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        I would love to have a bot/a few scripts to migrate a lot of the useful posts that were on reddit over here for a few of my hobby communities instead of having to move them manually. I can definitely see a lot of use cases for those.

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      I don’t see the proof in that link, although maybe I’m missing something, it just seems to imply that is the case.

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        Agreed. It’s literally just them saying “there are a lot of new users and theoretically they could all be bots, therefore they are all bots”.

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    I wonder if these are real users or if someone wrote a script to register users via the lemmy API… 🤔

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      I can confirm that after a week of people posting links, I - a real user - finally took the plunge to sign up today.

      -Sincerely, cdipierr-bot

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        HELLO A REAL USER. I AM ALSO A REAL USER AND LIKE TO DO NORMAL HUMAN THINGS LIKE CONSUME, SCROLL, LIE MOTIONLESS FOR 8 HOURS, AND MANY OTHER NORMAL HUMAN ACTIVITIES. I PARTICULARLY ENJOY THE HUMAN ACTIVI

        Segmentation Fault

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    I understand the bot concern, but when I look at the comment and active user figures, they’re all in the same trendline of exponential growth. This is the exodus just beginning. Personally I’m finding Lemmy to be a refreshing alternative that serves far better than what Reddit has become. I think it’s what we’ve all been waiting for, and the secret’s starting to get out.

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    So now I just gotta build up a new feed from scratch, that’s the part that sucks the most. So many nice niche communities I’ve discovered over the years on reddit… But it was time, reddit has been going downhill for years.

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      I’m in the middle of doing the same. Its a shame when you go through your list of subreddits and can’t find an equivelant community on here. Nevermind niche subs, there will still be plenty of 1mil+ subs which are missing from here.

      Nor do I want to create and be the only mod of about 20 different subs. I feel like that requires a special sort of person lol.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.works
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      Were you using new reddit? I don’t find it that different from old.reddit (which is fine by me).

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      Exactly! I’m so happy it finally seems to be an alternative to Reddit, which has mutated into such a weird monster

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        I’ve tried moving away from Reddit several times with varying degrees of success, this time though it’s felt really easy - the more i learn about Lemmy the more i like it and look forward to seeing it evolve. There are some really nice communities here too, feels like a lot of the most interesting people have come here but the spammers, bots and trolls haven’t yet – i’m sure it’ll change as things grow but i’m going to enjoy it while it lasts.