I’m not leaving lol
Honestly, that’s fine - Lemmy is now a known alternative and best of all, has time to grow more naturally and be better situated for the next eventual migration (I’m a Reddit migrant myself).
But who, exactly, is supposed to create this “niche content” for them? I think this is something we underestimate—large swaths of people see themselves as consumers of quality content. It is not for them to bring in comments or interesting finds to the communities. This I think is what makes the internet ripe for centralization. You can’t be a non-paying consumer and choose your menu. You can pay with your behavior datapoints and get fads packaged to you, or you can help create an ecosystem where you don’t have to be spied on every click and tap of the day. Choose your path and make peace with it. The worst would be to help create content for a community and be spied while at it.
When Lemmy has a critical mass to support communities that aren’t the main ones the niche content will come.
It’ll just take time.
There’s no rush because reddit is not getting better.
Lemmy will only improve with more people who will come after each successive reddit fuck up.
Reddit didn’t start with niche communities, that was the tail end of years of community building.
Yeah people don’t realize a ton of the niche communities are only a few years old, if that. Even 5 yrs ago Reddit wasn’t used as often for Google searches. Reddits popularity is recent.
Agree with you.
One thing I have always found precious for my 10+ yrs on forums like reddit and 3+ yrs on fediverse is how high quality conversations are by people who usually don’t obsess about numbers and publicity in likes and upvotes etc.
Genuine communities here on the fediverse will evolve at their own pace.
You’d rather it be slow growth. The developers need time to tune the software.
That niche content is built up over years of the right person finding the right thing, which all in all is pretty rare, because only a percentage of thoses people will actually post and make their knowledge known. It’s institutional knowledge, and institutions arent built in a day.
It will happen. It will be slow. It’s how it works everywhere. The community needs to prove itself after all!
Lemmy reminds so much of the beginnings of Reddit when I started there over 17 years ago.
The cat heavy content is a throwback lol
Totally. I can only see it improving from here. It’s clear there are tons of committed users, one’s that will continue posting for years to come.
I am one of them.
Honestly kinda cool that I recognize a few recurring people
I constantly see super mega niche communities here. To the point that it is completely absurd, like a “memes with black and white pictures, no text and 2 emojis” community would be. What is up with that? Everyone on Lemmy has his own “community” or what is this nonsense?
They have next to zero regular posts
They have tons, all by bots. Like just yesterday there were a ton of new communities, all about some game, the bot posted x vs y and then commented while the game was going (what happened in the game).
Oh I see. Better than nothing I guess…?
Splitting the already small community into even smaller pieces is not going to help. These things should be posted in a/the sports related sub, where people are already engaged.
That’s true
I mean sure they exist, but they also have at most 2 posts. I understand that Lemmy is still growing, but god damn does is feel empty compared to what Reddit offered.
But that is the issue: If your have fewer people, you can not split them up over much more communities.
There are a few very active users who have started up their own favourite thing, and are single handedly posting content to them, breathing life into the subject on lemmy.
I’d love to see more niche communities, but honestly I mostly just accepted it as is. I needed less time on social media anyways so it works for me.
I needed less time on social media anyways so it works for me.
I think the rest of the world needs what you need as well. 😉
Hear me out, a good portion of Reddit posts are reposts anyways so what if we did a one time import of Reddit community top posts of all time to seed communities so there’s a place people feel more encouraged to post to? I don’t like bot posts generally, but if it’s a one time thing I think I’d like it if the communities here had some extra seed content to browse so you wouldn’t reach the end so quickly like you do now.
There is at least one bot that does this, there are comments on the posts explaining how to request more subreddits to be added to the seed list
Me: I am the niche content now. Starts up 10 communities and actually posts to them.
Like, I need help, I can’t keep this pace of posting up forever… Please contribute!
To Reddit? No. They fucked up RIF, and that’s how I browsed.
Yeah, dozens of us remain! Dozens!!
Anustart?
I’ve only gone back for a minute since College Football has resumed, but even then seeing all those ads in formerly clean Oldreddit made me feel gross. Comfortable content will happen here in time, I believe it to be true
Yah the content is becoming less and less. But it was bound to happen since most posts where how Reddit sucked.
I still use rif. Patch it with revanced
Oh fuck, now that I know this it’s actually tempting me to use it.
Hopefully the next exodus, Lemmy will have a better way to boost visibility of niche communities in active/hot timelines. Reddit was good at doing this, not sure how they did it. Right now it’s really hard to grow small communties unless you explicitly keep checking on them. So it is a problem, but there is a solution that hopefully we’ll figure out soon. Also we have pretty mature phone apps now, but the desktop site is pretty lacking unless you use one of those alternative front ends.
I’ve been wanting Reddit alternatives for a long time, I’m not throwing away this opportunity. If that also means I sift through fewer pre-packaged posts/over-moderated comment sections, I have nothing to complain about.
where did you find over moderation? I have been over here for a while now and never found over moderation. Admittedly I am not active in any communities other than asklemmy and linux.
I might have phrased that ambiguously, I meant to say there’s less over-moderation here. Reddit got to a point where the mods were almost subtractively sculpting the comment section to echo their own thoughts.
well, this I can agree with. I asked that question because I had heard that lemmy was like a leftist dictatorship and anything that didn’t agree with lemmy mods was removed but that wasn’t my experience
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Yeah it’s hard to replace reddit and lemmy is by far the best. Just needs time to mature.
I’ve been permanently banned three times. Once for answering a question honestly and politely about a sensitive subject, my opinion was “wrong”. The second was for sharing public news about a public persona and joking about the news (I won the appeal on that one), the third for threatening violence, in a conversation thread where I did NOT threat anyone, and certainly did not threaten violence on them or anyone else.
I wish I was permanently banned there faster because the memes here are much spicier!
I’m playing both sides so I always come out on top.
on top
this wasn’t funny when my girlfriend said this to me :(
What’s a reddit? I used baconreader but that doesn’t exist anymore.
HEY, there were tens of us! I honestly didn’t know about any other app until far too long to admit…but that was the only one i liked, so once it was gone so was I. I do appreciate the diversity of posts here, a LOT more than the algorithm of reddit (or any other social media). I have my setting at all, new and there is some wild shit going on around the world. Except for the russian/chinese simps, this is pretty good. (FWIW, since i stated that I should explain myself: anyone who thinks any single current government is better than another is completely compromised by that governments propaganda)
To your last point. If that were true then it follows that all governments are exactly as good (or as bad) as each other. You don’t seriously believe that every single government on earth have equal merit though? Plenty of people have unjustified opinions of certain governments but that doesn’t mean that every opinion is unjustified and there are no better/worse governments.
If I asked you which government was better, Sweden or North Korea, it’s not exactly a stretch to say there is an objective answer. A governments job is to manage the nation for the people, and some countries do a far better job of that than others.
I think the point I was trying to make was that making your whole persona about one government over another is…well…shit. I mean each one has good/bad points, however I do not see the point in working myself up over who is currently exploiting the majority of people.
Yep, no arguments there!
Baconreader gang rise up.
And do what?
BaconReader was good but Boost was god-tier.
And Apollo was streets ahead of Boost.
It’s a bit disappointing that most of the communities for specific content are so inactive on here, but I still prefer it to the types of banal, waste-of-time, repetitive content and comments that plague reddit and have caused my eyes to roll in a tailspin.
Do I really have to choose one or the other, though?
I think there’s a sweet spot in terms of population lemmy hasn’t reached yet. Reddit has surpassed it long ago and is now shit due to too many people.
