Lots are here. I joined a while ago on a different server and the content was slow. But by now it's like always fresh content.

I can tell you the traffic rose up.

This is probably where most of them ended up, a few communities here are the official replacements too.

The problem is that Reddit is MASSIVE compared to any of the alternatives. More people are moving over slowly, it just takes time. As for why you aren't seeing much, maybe your feed is set to 'local'?

You can also subscribe to communities you like. Try looking for topics here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Just browsing /c/everything top-6 hrs and then getting into arguments in the comments.

It's like I never left.

Well I don't really consider myself a refugee so much anymore is the thing, it just feels like home here now

Another ex redditor here. The issue seems to be that a lot of people created communities but never bothered to post something. Even my little ubuntu server community has nearly 90 subscribers by now.

We should work on more visible „you‘re here, what to do next“. Something like „go to communities tab, all, subscribe to each one you like“, missing any? Make them yourselves, but dont forget to post on them since very few people will subscribe to an empty community. 10-20 posts over a month should be a good start. Generally avoid bots since they dont boost interaction at all (my personal impression).

Or a reminder for people who have made communities but no posts. That would stress them a bit I suppose but I thought I‘d bring the idea to the table.

Anyway, have a good one. :)

Lurking, just like I did on reddit. Lemmy is amazing and scratches most of the same itch reddit did for me, but I just read, vote, and move on.

Lemmy is getting a lot of content these days. So I'm happy with it.

Most of us are here! If you're just joining us, Welcome to the Party!

Present. Using this as I did reddit. It’s like browsing a lot of the smaller subreddits I enjoyed, but all the time.

Downsides are less content, and definite growing pains. I think there are some aspects of the platform severely limiting its growth at this time, and I’m not sure how it’s going to tackle them yet. But I’m along for the ride.

I'm here!! And there are 'developed communities'... Lots of them. Keep looking and you'll get how things work here.

Lemmy is kinda nice but still kinda quiet, also as a 30 something I feel that the crowd here is quite young and immature which isn't that great

I'd rather not browse Reddit if it means having to use the official dumpster-fire of an app... since that's the only option now, I just deleted my account.

Lemmy definitely scratches the itches I used to rely on Reddit for - I've had zero urge to relapse.

I'm here, but barely. I've not went back to Reddit (got IP banned during the migration), but Lemmy is too focused on certain topics for me to enjoy it.

Mainly FOSS and Linux community FLOCKED to Lemmy. You really can't say anything about anything without people coming out of the woods screaming about how stupid you are, how FOSS is better, and Linux is superior.

Remember the backlash over Sync for Lemmy? Massive hate from the Lemmy community because it wasn't FOSS. Wouldn't be shocked if the Boost for Lemmy dev stopped developing his app after seeing that. I feel like Lemmy is shooting itself in the foot and pushing people away.

EDIT: case in point. https://lemmy.ca/comment/3131292

I've just been here since the API change. I've been more or less happy with it. Some things are dissapointing, like there being just as much of a hive-mind mentality as reddit. But I guess that's probably just inherent to online vote-based communities.

I also wish there were an easier way to find new communities - and good ones. I don't want to browse shitty memes. I want stuff where people are participating in good faith genuine discussion about meaningful topics.

I've found some of that here so far.

At the end of the day though, this is open source and decentralized. It's everything a social media should be. To me, anything less than that is a waste of time. There is zero reason to spend your personal time creating content for a company to profit off of.

Reddit is old enough to vote and has several orders of magnitude more users. You can't create that much content organically overnight. As more content gets added it will attract more people who are interested in that content. In turn those users will contribute even more, even if it's just in the form of engagement and upvoting posts they like.

Lemmy is already experiencing some growing pains because the decentralized, user hosted nature of the platform will never be able to react quickly across all instances. We deal with it because we don't want to be controlled by one overarching entity and this is the ONLY alternative. Are there issues? Yes. Are there fewer issues than other social media sites? I don't know, but the problems are at least different and potentially more fixable in the long run.

https://sub.rehab is a good place to look for former Reddit communities that made the move.

Not every community made the move. Tech related ones are definitely here, not so much for games or anything in humanities unless we're counting very small communities. But it's a start.

A lot of communities went to Discord for some reason. I don't get it, its not the same as reddit at all.

I'm here. I left reddit for good, I don't even lurk it anymore.

I would say 99.9% of people are still on Reddit. I mainly use Lemmy to get the bigger news stuff and the gaming community is pretty active here too. Also I use Lemmy on mobile only really since the Reddit app is still terrible.

If I want to read about one of my other interests I'll go to the specific subreddit on my desktop browser and use old Reddit but with no account since I deleted mine a few months ago. Sometimes I'll post or comment on one of those smaller communities here but I don't want to be someone who posts tons of things to a community. Too much work for me.

Hopefully the user base and engagement will grow over the next few years. Welcome to being an early adopter!

I'm here still. It is much slower here than reddit, but there are some upsides to that. One is that I spend way less time on my phone, scrolling

I am on Lemmy (here and a few other instances) but when I get into discussions in comments here I am starting to wonder if I should just quit the whole social media concept altogether. So far I have mostly stayed since I still need to get some news from somewhere but RSS might be a better option in the long run.

I’m here! How did you not see me?

Discuit seems to offer nothing new but more promises of not falling down the same buisness practice pitfalls as reddit. I am sure they are well intentioned. But intentions are not enough.

I am on Lemmy for one simple reason. I am done trusting corporations to run projects for any extended poeriod of time without succumbing to corruption, greed, or missmanagement.

Spend a few minutes going through the all communities here, a number of active communities moved across, you just have to look for them.

I'm here working at developing a community every day. It's the community for my hometown, a large city on the coast of California. I try to post some interesting original content at least every other day, including photos.

Sometimes I feel like it's a personal echo chamber, but there are lots of lurkers and upvotes, so I keep going. Reading lots of other Lemmy communities going forward. It's all good.

I'm assuming Discuit is a private company using proprietary software? If that's the case, may as well just crawl back to Reddit and gently place the boot back on your neck.

The ex-reddit users who choose to not let sociopath scumbags golden shower them can still be found here.