Right now lemmy's growth is driven by people pre-emptively leaving reddit even though their choses mobile apps still function. We'll probably see another influx come July.
But for now all we as a seed community can do is engage the other topics we enjoy and build communities that have substance.
Eventually people will join to engage those topics instead of grip reddits demise.
Very good response. To see less complaining about Reddit, make more posts about other things. Lemmy will be what we make it. I have spent two weeks posting into the void with the community I started and I'm finally starting to see engagement. These things take time.
I think this is what a lot of people are missing here. Lot of people asking for specific content, but very few are willing to make it.
Like I used to do some amateur in-depth looks at my college basketball team, but stopped due to just general life stuff and that is would get drowned out by memes about bar graphs. Now, though, there is an audience hungry for it, and it may be something I get back into a little bit.
Doesn't work for lots of useful applications of this feature. I want to avoid movie spoilers, so I had all the major marvel and star wars keywords, names, etc in a block list for my reddit client. I could browse all of reddit and (basically) never run into spoilers. There are also people who want to avoid stress triggers for them to just keep their mental sanity. Like blocking posts about Trump or Musk or Biden. It's not a matter of waiting for some trending topic to boil over.
I'm already starting to see mentions of Reddit die down here as posts shift to trying to build this thing up with more content instead of just talking about how bad things are over there.
If you're using Lemmy in a browser, you can block posts that contain certain keywords using uBlock Origin. I made a YSK post about it: https://lemmy.world/post/435133
This is SUCH an important feature. I swear… being able to filter out the words “Trump” and “Hannity” have allowed me to continue enjoying Reddit through some very dark times.
I also have a particular phobia which is easily triggered by certain photos. Without filters, I actually struggled to get through a day on Reddit without getting triggered.
No such feature exists yet on the desktop version, but I am sure it's on the wishlist already. Apps might be able to implement this themselves, but I can't say whether any have yet.
If it isn't, OP should add it to the issues tracker! Adding things there gives the project leads, plus anyone who is willing to volunteer some time, to know what features people are asking for, and to choose some ready made things right off of the shelf to work on.
The devs have always been pretty helpful and responsive on Lemmy. I imagine that has changed a lot in the last few weeks, but they're basically always checking the issues tracker.
It’ll slow down within a month or two. We’re still kind of right in the middle of all of it right now.
I experienced something really similar when swapping from Twitter to Mastodon; we were all talking about Twitter a lot because a lot of users just came from there.
After a while people stopped meta posting and it went back to normal, and we have little spikes in posts about Twitter when ever musk does something stupid but that’s fine.
Just give it some time. We can swap from one link aggregator to another and instantly act like the other side isn’t on fire
Most of it is contained to specific forums, there's just more than one across a few instances, RedditMigration on Kbin is another.
The more time I spend here the more I'm realising blocking communities/magazines is as much a key to a good experience as subscribing to them, of not more.
It'll all die down anyway, to a degree there's just a lot of people here who just arrived from reddit. I'd avoid blocking the word itself as the wave will pass plus it's being used as a comparison in meta threads about features and UI and you might find you want to see those conversations.
I’m realising blocking communities/magazines is as much a key to a good experience as subscribing to them, of not more.
100%
While I do consider it important to not isolate one's self too much, we also don't need to subject ourselves to everything, especially when it's having a noticeable negative effect.
I doubt that. It's not gonna "finish". It's gonna be a slow migration over time as Reddit's quality changes, more people become aware of the feasibility of alternatives, and alternatives becoming more usable (listen, kbin and Lemmy are great, but they have massive UX issues -- even I got very confused by one such issue despite being knowing how this all works).
As long as Reddit makes blunders or protests continue, there'll be news about Reddit on this site.
I agree with OP though. There's a dozen communities for Reddit oriented discussion. We don't need it in every single community. Kbin and Lemmy cannot be just about Reddit. I'm not saying don't discuss Reddit. Just do it in appropriate communities so that it doesn't drown out everything else and so every article isn't cross posted into every news, tech, internet and whatever other communities vaguely apply.
I am trying to make the best of it. I realized that I don't really need to read every post in the migration threads. I can't fix the situation and everyone has to make their own personal choice.
I usually stay in my subscribed feeds and can dodge the majority of it
Not to disrespect peoples feelings, it's a situation with a lot of valid emotions in the face of crap
About the only thing we can do is unsubscribe from and block the dozen or so "Reddit Sucks" communities/magazines, and report the "We Still Hate Reddit" threads that pop up elsewhere for being posted in the wrong place (like Technology or Gaming or wherever).
I don't mind the Reddit posts until 7/1. On that day, if the apps go offline, Reddit will have won for all intents and purposes and it'll be time for Kbin and Lemmy to just be themselves and stop talking about Reddit.
Not exactly. The apps going offline will spring a new set of outrage, and another migration. After that it'll die down, with people either leaving reddit or staying there. And the ones that stay may eventually move away, but only if kbin/lemmy grow more engaging than reddit.
I just went to reddit and redditmigration and blocked those magazines, and just do that for the magazines/communities I get annoyed by since each instance has their own. It's actually kind of nice, people are at least forced to add a tag to every post (unlike mastodon where we have to rely on text filters when people do cute mispellings like "elno tusk" or whatever).
Sure you can! Made this quick and dirty userscript for kbin (probably a lot of things could be done better, but hey it works for me). But you get the gist... hopefully
I asked somewhat the same. Would love to search what im subbed on and search all with a minus something. In my case I was saying I would like to search minus titan but minus reddit sometimes and minus ukraine and others. Its just at times mind you. I see the articles, am are aware, and maybe even did my commenting and might even continue those convoes but I don't need anymore dups about the subject matter.
Reddit definitely has better features. It's not even a competition. The reason we're here is because of the Reddit administration and because of future potential. Eg, the apps are so new right now that Reddit's official app is better. But in a couple of months, that won't be the case anymore.
I do too, but this thread is about ways to filter or block content so I'm not really sure what that has to do with it?
I'd love a way to filter by keyword, which the Reddit Enhancement Suite and some of the 3rd party apps allowed. Maybe the upcoming Sync for Lemmy will port over its filters by domain, user, subreddit, flair, and keyword.
As for Reddit posts invading Lemmy, it seems like most of them are contained to c/reddit and c/RedditMigration, so blocking those two should fix most of OP's issue and that's easy enough to do without any extra tools.