Fediverse

So, back in 2023 I discovered Lemmy, made an account, but after a bit quit again because I never checked it. I recently made an account again since Reddit has started getting really bad (tons of bots, tons of conservative posts on r/popular after the election, etc) and only recently started actually using said account.

I think using Lemmy requires a different strategy than using Reddit. On Reddit, if you wanted to subscribe to, say, a Linux discussion group, you would just go to r/linux, and there would be just 4 more even more niche subs you could join, like r/linux4noobs. On Lemmy, their are 6 main Linux groups and 14 niche Linux groups across several instances.

The first time I joined Lemmy, I subscribed to just one of these groups like I would on Reddit, but my feed didn't have enough content so eventually I got bored. The second time around, I created I've just subscribed broadly to every community related to my interests, so I if I was interested in Linux I would subscribe to all 20 Linux communities.

I then hypothesized that if I did this for every interest (ex, say my only interests were Linux & Plants, or something), that discussion of topics that was more popular on Lemmy, like Linux, would drown out my other interests. To avoid this being an issue, I made 3 accounts for 3 feeds

• My "general account" in which I subscribed to nearly every top sub, so if I found I didn't care about a certain topic on All I could unsubscribe instead of outright blocking those communities (that's this account)
• My "interests account" in which I subscribed to my personalized interests like privacy or environment
• My "fun account" in which I subscribed to just meme, gaming, cats, etc communities

That's all just me though, how do y'all use Lemmy differently from Reddit? I'm curious as to how I can git gud at Lemmy lol

Hard to believe how many of us there actually are, yet social media has conditioned us into believing a website is dead unless it has 50 million daily visitors.

We certainly aren't hurting for content (well, yes, we are, but the archive is being built as we speak.)

Thank fuck, maybe I can go back to being a lurker lol

I've probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO

So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift's armpits

I’ve logged back onto here for the first time in ages because I do not trust big tech.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Lemmy.ca signups per day if we go back to the start of the first exodus:

Yes I’m here so expect this place to be filled with awful soon.

I can’t go back to Reddit. Bots, bots as far as the eyes can see.

Hopefully people start posting in niche communities!

(But not the Taylor Swift armpit one)

In 2010 I was part of the Great Digg Exodus, and now in 2025 I'm part of the Reddit->Lemmy migration. Truly I'm part of the crowd.

I feel like as more people wake up to how social media is toxic and quite literally programming by the rich, they will seek out alternatives that are owned by the people.

This is how the Internet was intended to be.

I came back to Lemmy as in trying to avoid American corporation owned social networks. Reddit falls into that category.

I'm glad more people are realizing how evil big tech companies are.

I finally bit the bullet and deleted my 14yr old Reddit account last night. It was the only way to break my habit.

Proud to be one of the active user 🫡

Hopefully they are active and interesting people.

Lemmy has so much more and more diversified content than at the time of the API exodus. Hopefully, it will help us much more lemmygrant this time around.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Lemmy determine active users differently now, as compared to then? I recall a .world post about that, contemporaneous to when active users spiked. In any case, I appreciate the new folks!

What happened 2023?