I’m a long time reddit user… I should say I’m quite hooked. But lemmy feels a lot quiet. My primary interests are electronics, embedded programming, piracy 😏 and selfhosting. Apart from the last community the others are quite deserted.
I’v been on and off since past 1 1/2 years. No change…
On the other hand Mastodon is going well. And I nurture the interactions there. Lemmy could be the same. I too feel Reddit is kinda on-to-your face and aggressive.
Check multiple instances. .ml may be the flagship instance, but a lot of communities are more busy on topic specific instances. Nice thing about lemmy and federation is that you don’t need to hop sites to get their communities.
Programming.dev has most of the programming related comms. lemmy.dbzer0.com for piracy (and self-hosted AI). There’s a furry run instance, blahaj for LGBTQIA+ stuff, an anime focused instance, a literature focused one, a nsfw one, and lemmy.world for most else.
Yeah also check https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Personally I think of myself as holding space and keeping the current communities active while waiting for the software to mature. The devs have been making big strides with Lemmy 1.0, I think in a year or two we’ll begin to be a viable competitor to “normie” Reddit users similarly to how Linux achieved new levels of mainstream adoption in 2025.
piracy comm is quite deserted?
The one on dbzer0 is active enough, and maintains a useful wiki I keep bookmarked.
It’s the Network effect. At the end of the day, Lemmy is still a lot smaller than Reddit, and of course that means there is less content, especially in more niche communities. The only way to really improve the situation is to grow the network with more users and more diversity.
I feel like the activity level is good enough to use it mostly, but I also still check in on Reddit regarly because some communities are simply very inactive on here.
I guess what you can do as an individual is to post more content, participate in the community, and help spread the word that the fediverse even exists.
hmm yeah thanks. the interface is also rather inviting… :)
I feel like sometimes I click on an interesting post and the loudest voices are the most negative.
Eh, mastodon is more like a twitter/instagram type thing, and thlse are both way bigger than reddit. So it’s natural that mastodon will have a lot more activity than lemmy.
But reddit is completely owned by the corporate elite, turns out u/maxwellhill was ghislaine maxwell, like it’s pretty bad how much reddit is in bed with evil powerful people.
So for that reason I’ve stopped using it.
yeah that comparison makes sense
And of course yes, I would love to see more activity on lemmy!
If you don’t use it then it will always be quiet.
That being said there is a slow change happening and personally right now I use Reddit, Mastodon, Blue sky and Lemmy.🙂
yeah sure, but it’s gotta be a collective thing… btw what makes you stick to reddit over lemmy?
I like it, I know exactly what kind of person seeks this out lol. You should hop on Rednote. Just give it a try. Not as an alternative, just a whole new thing
hey! that thing is for domestic chinese??
Not at all. They made it specifically for diasporoids. There are a lot of people from all over the world on there. My 2 main intl. oomphs are in Brazil and Iraq. There are people who post videos from trips in the DPRK where they have picnics and sing-alongs. Do not deny yourself
Or you guys can be miserable and circlejerk with other westerners, the only thing you know how to do. Until you die. Disabled and forgotten in a society that hates you. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, but I would wish it on random annoying folks
