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I was saying the other day there’s been a noticeable uptick in activity in some of my favourite arts & crafts type communities over the last couple of weeks. Probably just a temporary blip, and our numbers are still quite precarious, but it’s encouraging nevertheless.
As good as I feel Lemmy is, I find a lot of the meme & humor communities alarmingly depressing.
I’m not looking for 24/7 wholesome! But, man… I just want to see funny memes.
If I could post a comment on here without someone ranting at me about capitalism I would be so happy.
Same here. I wish that we could have more powerful filtering even when browsing all. personally, I don’t want anything to do with memes so finding interesting new lemmy nooks is like wading through a haystack.
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You have made a total of 1 post(s). Maybe step up?
Meh idk. I only go here for memes and news.
Honestly, kind of but maybe not really. I mean, yes there are improvements of course, but a bunch of them aren’t very visible, and of course I understand that. It just feels very stable.
It kind of just works, for the most part, which is a good thing - minus this bug which has been fixed over a month ago but I guess is not live yet on every instance: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1968 because I still run into this bug, and it’s still annoying unfortunately.
Outside of that, there’s not really too much going wrong for me to notice any huge improvements.
edit: Oh, it’s because 0.19.0 UI has not had a stable release yet (nor has 0.19.0 server), once that releases as long as there aren’t many regressions I won’t really have any more complaints about Lemmy (other than maybe the non-SEO-friendly URLs).
One thing that I’ve noticed as someone trying to wean myself off of Reddit: Lemmy just feels more chill. Like no I don’t have to open it every few minutes and doomscroll, it’s going to be a lot slower coming than the firehouse that is Reddit.
Tbf I don’t think that’s a design as much as it is just smaller, but it still feels nice.
The reddit exodus has almost equalized things I think, there’s still more stuff posted on reddit but it’s low quality garbage (noticeably more than before), most interesting news etc. are here as well.
We’re at where Reddit was in roughly 2008 or so. The problems really started when DIGG died, and the toxic user based changed homes.
I deleted my 10 year old Reddit account and just left it behind. Lemmy is just Lemmy now. I don’t really tgink of it as a replacement. That’s just me.
13 years old account with tens of thousands of comments, I deleted it all
16 years. Deleted all comments but kept the account active.
It’s decent after blocking all the fluff/low-quality communities. But it needs a way to follow threads & highlight new comments.
Not really.
The high volume of unoriginal Linux content is getting old, and that’s coming from somebody who uses Linux.
Behind that, there’s very little in the way of niche communities/interests. But I suppose that’s just because the total number of users isn’t high enough for people with specific interests to reach some critical mass .
So for me, Lemmy hasn’t been anything more than a news aggregator interspersed with the occasional funny meme.
The high volume of unoriginal Linux content is getting old, and that’s coming from somebody who uses Linux.
I can’t really complain about the content being a bit stale when it feels like the alternative is nothing. So many communities that had vibrant counterparts on Reddit struggle to get one post per week. If it’s ditto-memes on Lemmy, I’ll take it.
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This is a must for any part of the fediverse. Blocked both terms and my experience is so much better.
For me, it’s not great. The web interface and apps I’ve used are kind of bad, there isn’t a lot of content in the topics I’m interested in. I’m mainly here because I refuse to go back to Reddit.
I’m kind of the same way, though I’ve found most of the communities I’m looking for.
My main complaint is just how many leftists there are here, which wouldn’t be an issue if the selection of communities was a bit better. I have no issue with leftists in general, I just get a little tired of low effort posts like “because capitalism” or “unions ftw” on any post where it’s remotely relevant. I get it, unions can be cool, and capitalism has its warts, but those comments aren’t constructive. Fortunately, this is mostly on the more popular news communities, so I just don’t sub and it doesn’t bother me.
I’d love a handful of well moderated communities similar to the following:
- /r/neutralnews - strict limits on acceptable sources, and all comments must include sources for factual claims
- /r/neutralpolitics - similar to neutral news, but specific to political discussion
Reddit also has a huge leftist slant, but it at least has moderation tools to help make certain types of community moderation feasible.
I just want to point out that I’m far from a conservative and I don’t want to go the opposite direction and have mostly conservative viewpoints (that would probably be worse), I just like seeing multiple opinions for a topic, and that seems to happen less here because moderation tools kinda suck, which means poor quality sources that agree with the predominant opinion tend to get more attention than more reputable sources that have a more mixed view of things.
Regardless, I’m not going back, but that doesn’t mean lemmy has better content, it just means I refuse to support Reddit anymore.
I’m sure there must be a Trump ass-kissing community here, or a “climate hoax”, or a Jan-6-was-antifa-FBI, or some such communities you could enjoy.
I explicitly said I didn’t want that, I want communities where facts matter far more than whatever the dominant political opinion is.
For the record, I cannot stand Trump or his ilk. I also cannot stand dogmatic leftists. I want fact based discussions, not left v right BS.
Just because people are tired of a leftist slant doesn’t make them automatically right leaning. Right wingers who are right wing because they’re annoyed by leftists are weak. Leftists get annoyed by leftists every day, and that’s the essence of Lemmy.
Use Sync! I used it for years for reddit. They had to shut down with the other third party apps, but they just came back with Lemmy.
I found Alexandrite to be my favorite front-end on the browser.
Web UI works great for me except for the few already reported bugs that are not experience breaking.
In terms of ui and apps it’s perfect because I was using boost for reddit and now using boost for Lemmy and it’s nearly identical.
Definitely agree that there’s not much content, or at least much variety. Pretty much all I see is news, nauseating amount of memes and communists, frankly not much thought provoking content honestly. I’m really wishing for the hobby subs to grow, after that I’d be way more active.
For me the level of interesting content is just about spot on now, but obviously it depends on your interests.
I do have one suggestion though. Whenever you feel the urge to comment about how “hobby” communities are too dead, be more specific. Which hobbies? Which communities? Every time you mention one, the chances that someone who didn’t even know it existed sees that comment and finds the community increase.
Look I’ll start. I wish there were more crocheters around to liven up [email protected] a bit.
Word of mouth is how niche communities grow.
(p.s. also spend some time blocking the news communities if you’re not into that stuff, it makes a massive difference)
Okay, I’ve found the Battletech and Satisfactory communities to be nearly deserted.
[email protected] and [email protected] by the looks of it, for anyone passing by who has an interest in either 😉
Is there a homelabsales yet?
i find it’s mostly content my older colleges in tech would find funny
I’m trying to do my part by posting more content.
The only problem this site has is lack of content. And the only thing that would fix it is more people.
But it is steadily improving. A couple of months ago the everything feed would hardly change in 24 hours. Now when you refresh after 4 hours you already see a lot of new content. It’s not a sprint, this is a marathon and lemmy has a highly engaged user base.
The mod tools are improving, the content is improving, the user base is active and engaged, the larger instances have become stable and there are a ton of third party apps available now. Things are looking up for lemmy, and the users will come whenever a large site like reddit screws up again.
It’s been pretty stable and usable.
But has there been an increase in hiveminded threads and trolling?
At first it felt like dissenting opinions would lead to an informative discussion, but more and more having an unpopular opinion - or just stepping into the wrong thread - means someone resorting to insulting your mom. Ok, thanks Xbox live gamer.
Yeah I’ve felt that.
If your not joining the side the article or post is aiming to engage in, you get downvoted hard, even if you are correct.
I got nuked twice for correcting a fact which lessened the outrage the article posted was eliciting. Annoying, but could be worse.
Votes are unimportant, and the sooner you stop caring about them the easier it is to interact on the site without feeling attacked.
Is it satisfying to see a big number next to your comment? Sure, but the more you think of it as just talking with people even if you ultimately disagree it’s a healthier environment.
Yeah, a not-insubstantial portion of Lemmy users are people who were banned from Reddit and unwilling/unable to adjust behavior to different communities. Good mod/admins should alleviate this over time hopefully.
