I tried using Lemmy, but it’s unusable. Every thread has <5 comments. It’s a ghost town.
I’ve seen this type of comment multiple times on reddit and I still don’t understand this sentiment. It just shows that the OP has not once sorted by active and “nobody is using it so I’m not using it” is a pretty weak argument if you claim to “really like the idea”.
Honestly, I agree that it’s generally pretty “dead” (esp. compared to Reddit), but to your second point, I still use Lemmy exclusively because I really do like the idea. Plus, it’s already good enough to be a fairly viable Reddit replacement imo.
Of course Lemmy doesn’t yet offer the same variety of content that reddit does but there are still very active discussions on the frontpage right now. Just on page one of my instance there is one post with 300+ comments and 5 more with 100+. Calling it a “ghost town” is just such an exaggeration that I felt the need to call it out.
He basically says “I won’t comment because there are no comments.” Where does he think the comments are coming from? It’s up to us to do this, and it’s pretty successful so far for me.
I’ve seen this type of comment multiple times on reddit and I still don’t understand this sentiment. It just shows that the OP has not once sorted by active and “nobody is using it so I’m not using it” is a pretty weak argument if you claim to “really like the idea”.
Honestly, I agree that it’s generally pretty “dead” (esp. compared to Reddit), but to your second point, I still use Lemmy exclusively because I really do like the idea. Plus, it’s already good enough to be a fairly viable Reddit replacement imo.
Of course Lemmy doesn’t yet offer the same variety of content that reddit does but there are still very active discussions on the frontpage right now. Just on page one of my instance there is one post with 300+ comments and 5 more with 100+. Calling it a “ghost town” is just such an exaggeration that I felt the need to call it out.
He basically says “I won’t comment because there are no comments.” Where does he think the comments are coming from? It’s up to us to do this, and it’s pretty successful so far for me.