Selfhosted

Reddit is dead to me and blocked in my router, so I'm good sharing knowledge and cool stuff here.

reddit is dead to me so I only see what gets posted here anyway.

edit: Steven Huffman is a greedy pigboy 🐖🐖

Reddit is dead to me, and given their stance on their apis, should be dead to pretty much all hobbiests deeply interested in self hosting.

Seems like we get plenty of replies that have solid answers, we are just missing posts... So just post stuff! If the content is here, it'll start to grow.

I see more engagement across my Lemmy feeds every week. It's definitely smaller and slower here but there are real relationships and communities forming. I think the fediverse is strongly positioned to outlive and maybe even outgrow closed social ecosystems. If you're frustrated with a lack of a certain kind of content on Lemmy make it your responsibility to go create or share some of that content.

Geocities, Myspace, Digg, Reddit all started somewhere. I think any good underlying framework (federated social networks) that enables strong communities will always stand a chance. I really do get early reddit vibes on here.

I community dedicated and in love with the idea of self hosting their own software yet avoid a self hosted alternative to a hostile service...

I actually don't think anyone in the subreddit is actually self hosting anything and if they are the irony is heavier than actual iron.

I've stopped using reddit the moment they locked out third party apps. I still read one community in read-only mode. I'll stop doing that when they'll kill off old.reddit.com.

I think federated networks are healthier and better in the long run. Also there should be more smaller instances so the load is not too heavy to bear for any one instance.

Id much prefer people just posted on Lemmy.

The Reddit space is just a bunch of pictures of people's home Labs it's not really a self-hosted community at all.

It's not interesting to explore and read like this one is.

It's suffered from a common phenomena of any community that grows in popularity where it caters to the lowest common denominator and loses its niche.

Believing that either the Reddit exodus was negligible to that community, or that it was entirely decimated and left to Lenny are both inaccurate opinions. There was a very tangible effect on the selfhosted subreddit specifically when many left for Lemmy, and now both communities both feel like two halves of the same whole. Enough people moved over to lemmy that I truly don’t feel the need to open reddit hardly ever, but I do from time to time. I think lemmy also has a benefit that other fediverse sites like Mastodon don’t, in that Lemmy is not quite as allergic to the concept of discoverability, and the fact that Lemmy is inherently based around communities means that you don’t have to do the Mastodon thing where you spend the first month having to go out and follow a ton of individuals. You can just follow a couple communities and the content flows in.

This post is written as if there's only one "community". Why does there need to be a primary? I'm here and I'm happy. If I have questions I search online or ask here, same as any other community

Continuing to use Reddit is just sunk cost fallacy, does it have more posts? Yes but Lemmy can have more posts if we use it. As someone who spent a long time building and maintaining subreddits did it hurt a bit when I left? Yes. Was it worth it? Absolutely

As much as I like the interface and idea of lemmy, I think the content traffic is not enough for me.. and keep going back to reddit :/

It wasn't always followed on Reddit, but downvoting there was supposed to be for comments that don't contribute to the conversation.

Here the guidance is looser -- the docs don't address comments, but do say to "upvote posts that you like."

I've tried contributing to some conversations and sometimes present a different viewpoint in the interest of thought exchange, but this often results in massive downvotes because people disagree. I'm not going to waste my energy contributing to a community that ends up burying my posts because we have different opinions.

That's true on Reddit to, so I'm kind of being tangential to the original question. I guess what I'm saying is that some people might feel like I do and won't engage in any community, be it Reddit or Lemmy, if it's just going to be an echo chamber.

Of course it is. People at large don't care if their social media goes to shit. They're going to keep using it and complaining about it even as it gets worse and worse.

I didn't really care about the subreddit even before the API shitshow, as I find the place filled with toxic, elitist gatekeepers.

As I was just starting to self-host and was merely a modest hobbyist, I only encountered hate and downvotes there.

In short, I don't miss that place.

That said, I find the community here much more helpful and positive. It could use a bit more engagement, and we should all post and share more—myself included. But overall, I like it.

/r/selfhosted remains just an entry in my RSS feed to ensure I don't miss anything of interest; mostly, I just read post titles.

So let them have their primary space over there.

I think it's great there's a lemmy community for selfhosted but honestly the subreddit often has more information and replies.