I’m pretty sure Lemmy has also gone down a lot recently based on the number of upvotes things are getting
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With Lemmy, it’s because a bunch of bot accounts got deleted I think.
Yeah I agree, its user count is still growing on .world alone, and so fast in fact that I’m starting to consider making my sopuli alt my main account to not add to the load.
While the apps we have now are really great, I think that number will go back up a bit once boost and sync for Lemmy are released.
I find myself missing so many features I would consider super basic from Boost. Things that would make my Lemmy experience so much better. Even if the apps we have now do those things, they feel clunky and not as good.
Even features aside, the UI makes a huge difference. There are a few Reddit apps I personally couldn't get into, because of font sizes, spacing, contrast, etc. I'm feeling the same way with Lemmy. I'm tolerating the app I currently use, only because I know Boost is on the way.
Yeah, same here with Infinity
It was my app of choice and I got so use to it, whenever I go back to it every once and a while, I just remember everything I miss since switching to jerboa
Biggest one is definitely the smoothness, idk y but jerboa has a subtly noticable stutter every time I swipe around the feeds, whereas Infinity is completely smooth, running at 90hz flawlessly
And there's alot of other small QoL and rough-around-the-edges things, too
The minute that Infinity for Lemmy comes out, if at all, is the minute that I return to my home app
Honestly I'm liking Liftoff more than I liked Infinity. Maybe you could try that.
I used connect for a while, it was ok, then liftoff, it was a little better, but I've been using voyager as of late and it's been really nice.
Honestly really wasn't a big fan of the look and functionality back when I first tried it, but it looks like it got updated recently with some more customization and theming options
Closer to Infinity but still I miss it
It also still has the weird scrolling stutter, but overall does seem more polished than jerboa
Thanks for the recommendation!
If you haven't tried it (or have but not recently), Thunder is getting better by leaps and bounds week over week - highly recommend checking it out! I'm still really excited for Boost but I think as Thunder continues to mature it will likely be my daily driver. Great that it's open source, too!
I use thunder and for the most part, it's great. I would love to be able to delete comments and copy text from other comments without needing to open a reply window, though. I think this functionality would fit perfectly as a long-press menu.
Also, sometimes on posts with lots of comments, not all of the comments will load, and there is no easy way to force the app to refresh.
I believe deleting comments is either getting implemented or refreshed in the upcoming release! If you're comfortable running nightly builds from GitHub they're usually quite stable (probably because they're not really nightly, hahah). If you don't mind filing bug reports/feature requests on GitHub, I'm sure the team can take a look at the other issues!
Competing with the summer weather?
Also some who vowed to leave reddit undoubtedly recanted
I think even users who are still here, like myself, just don't have the same energy from when I first started. And it's a snowball effect, less engagement results in even less engagement from others.
It would be a sign of health in our societies if people stopped using the services of these leaches.
Well said. The name and logo reminds me of a parasitic worm.
The app feels very one-dimensional. There’s a reason the algorithm exists despite it being publicly derided: it works.
IMO, the fact that there's no desktop version (AFAIK) and they made it so difficult to discover new content, pages/people. etc., & how many of the users are probably just Instagram users who had accounts auto-added & have no interest in Threads, are the main reasons for the decline.
I always got the impression it was more geared towards pushing brands and celebrities in front of you rather than being an engaging social media platform.
That doesn't sound like meta, they're all about love and bettering the life of everyone!
Oh no wait, I think I had my dog in mind. Meta is nothing like that.
Does your dog have a social media platform? I would like to join this site.
No, but it would probably look like that
Pupper!!!
Oh my god your dog is adorable!
He is. I didn't manage to take a video yet, but when he finds a stick or a ball he really finds worthy playing with he jumps and frolics around with it, throws it into the air for himself and just has the best time all by himself. I've never met a person not laughing tears at that.
All users were forced users. Meaning, everyone who had Instagram also had a threads account. No wonder everyone leaves.
Is this actually accurate though? From my understanding you had to "activate" threads access, and those who did this are those who have been counted in the numbers.
I wasn't an user, I could be wrong, but I remember reading multiple times that all users of instagram were automatically users of threads.
Not automatically. You had to click 'sign up for threads'. Still, it was very seamless and even let you auto follow those you had on Instagram, so the user count was definitely inflated. It's not surprising the number of active users are way down.
I feel like that was by design, make your numbers look better than they actually are. The thing that zuck the cuck seems to always forget is that Facebook grew organically by word of mouth, not forced through tricks and metrics. That's the main advantage of lemmy and kbin right now, their growth is by sheer word of mouth, completely organic.
Threads users down by more than half ... so far
Maybe they're just chilling in Mark's metaverse.
Ah, the humans.
On one hand they’re all for peace and unity but on the other hand they’re still using platforms owned by a man who had a hand in orchestrating military killings, swinging the US elections, facilitating Brexit etc and a man who, amongst other things, has been photographed partying with Maxwell, Murdoch, Trump and all the other evil fucks.
Yes, this always happens, on every platform. Lemmy did the same. It's not newsworthy.
I think they blocked European users from using a vpn to access it. Maybe that was part of the reason. Someone else said that it might be the algorithm, but honestly, mastodon doesn’t have that and it’s a great community.
why would anyone use a vpn to surpass an European law that cares about your privacy?!
@stebo02 @worfamerryman, not only for privacy, its also to bypass country restrictions, eg, try to watch a movie or serie in the German publicTV in their official Homepage, from other country, even of the EC. You can't without VPN.
i wasn't talking about using vpn in general, that's ok, but using it to have Facebook steal your data is pretty wild isn't it