• Dave@lemmy.nz
        6·
        10 months ago

        The great thing (though it’s sometimes a curse) is that posts in any community will show up in the local and all feeds on the host instance, and the all feed on remote instances so long as at least one user is subscribed. So even communities with low subscribers can reach a wide audience.

        • Micromot@feddit.de
          5·
          10 months ago

          Which also gives the all page it’s purpose in some form because it does exactly what promised, show everything. This gives everyone a chance at being seen

            • Micromot@feddit.de
              3·
              10 months ago

              Depends on what you search for, active usually gives more populat stuff but you can get lucky by searchin with new

  • StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world
    642·
    10 months ago

    I can’t decide if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, honestly. I joined the initial wave of people leaving Reddit when RiF died. I was excited to see my niche communities like Skyrim Mods and ObsidianMD pop up here, but over time they stagnated as people slipped back to Reddit.

    At the same time, I came to realize that I spent a lot of time on stupid subs browsing stupid content that just sucked away my time. And for even my niche subs that I missed, I realized that 75% of that new content is the same reposts, the same arguments, the same debates. I do cheat every once in awhile and go back to Reddit, but now it’s to see the top posts of the month to see what I’ve missed. Turns out, I haven’t missed much.

    It has taken a while to get Lemmy where I want it. I’ve filtered a ton of communities and users that do nothing but talk about Russia and socialism and whatever the fuck tankies are, and there sure were a lot of cartoons of animals with enormous NSFW bits I had to filter, but it’s starting to come together now for me.

    • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
      18·
      10 months ago

      There were/are a lot of dumb subs full of dumb content for sure, but what I miss about Reddit are the subs that have a super deep expert knowledge base. The plumbing sub, the mechanic advice sub, the vacuum sub, the fountain pen sub, etc. I’ve saved a lot of money and heartache by asking knowledgeable people naive questions in niche subreddits. Lemmy just plain doesn’t have the numbers for those kinds of subs to exist here at that level yet. But I hope we get there because for me that was the best thing about Reddit (though I also have a soft spot for the big “what’s your true real life paranormal experience” mega-threads that would pop off every few months.)

    • nodimetotie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      Your comment resonates with me on more than one level. I joined Lemmy after Apollo went down, and incidentally was also excited to see ObsidianMD (hello, fellow Obsidian user). I was hoping people would migrate over from Reddit but alas, I still have to go where the discussion is. I kind of feel bad about it, but still do it. I also feel like moving away from Reddit saved me from hours of mindless doom scrolling,although I suspect that now I am doing that when reading Lemmy local.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
    532·
    10 months ago

    Yeah true, but chances are you’ll post on a smaller “”“dead”“” sublemmy and it’ll get upvotes and responses within hours. Do the same with an active reddit and you’ll be lucky if anyone responds

  • LolaCat@lemmy.ca
    48·
    10 months ago

    There’s no better feeling than making a post to a dead community, and then suddenly tons of posts start flooding in lol.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
    431·
    10 months ago

    give it time, people will come to their favorite instances with time. The best thing you can do is make your own posts to your favorite subs and cross post posts you see to other subs they fit into as well.

    • null@slrpnk.net
      241·
      10 months ago

      Can confirm I’m sitting in many communities waiting for content, and always delighted to see it.

      If I was interesting, maybe I’d make some of my own.

    • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Or if an otherwise popular community seems dead- maybe your instance just isn’t federating them right, or was never federated before you browsed to it.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    10 months ago

    We gotta get niche communities that aren’t just programmers and socialists… I’m a socialist, but I wanna talk to some people about how Porygon is one of the greatest Pokemon of all tiem.

    • Daryl76679@lemmy.ml
      5·
      10 months ago

      We have the science folks over and mander.xyz and slrpnk.net. Lemmy.world also seems like a very diverse instance to star whatever you want on

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Oh cool, where do I find the spirituality folks? Cause I have this on-off relationship with God that I should probably get a definitive on or off answer to. I mean at this point I’m worried I"m making the coupling toxic with this indecisiveness, ya dig?

        • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
          5·
          10 months ago

          I wish you the best of luck in your spiritual journey, but the idea of getting a definitive answer to the God question is something humans have been working on for thousands of years. I wouldn’t beat yourself up about not having one lol

          • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            I feel like the mystical, the supernatural, is something that doesn’t exist, but it’s “supposed to”, and we’re witnessing the timeline where they don’t… a timeline that is for that reason… defective.

            Ever feel that way?

  • ItzLiftin@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    I often find a community i was looking for and there are often no posts. When the last post is 3 months ago, at least there is something but sometimes nothing is there.

    • snownyte@kbin.social
      1·
      9 months ago

      Lemmy’s admins is partially at fault here. Like, you go into the Fediverse to give users refuge from the burnout and dissastifaction as to what they have seen and experienced on bigger social media platforms. Where distrust is at an all time high.

      And then you go and decide to host your main announcements over on a platform where people have stirring feelings of contempt for the platform that is centralized. You are going to alienate your audience.

    • Polar@lemmy.ca
      24·
      10 months ago

      or FOSS nerds flooding in any post to do with technology that isn’t FOSS, ruining the discussion and downvoting everyone who even mentions anything that isn’t FOSS.

      Like the post about Windows Paint getting layers and transparency support, and every person trying to discuss it is downvoted, and there’s a flood of comments talking about how you should use Linux because Microsoft is spying.

      Like ok? Or lets discuss the fucking topic?

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        I mean at least there’s some related conversation. You could just ignore that comment or down vote it.

  • snownyte@kbin.social
    3·
    10 months ago

    On one hand, it’s a great sigh of relief to not see so many communities contaminated with shallow interactions that are harbored by typical Redditquette behavior.

    The other hand, it’s depressing to see so much wasted potential. I mean, there was supposed to have been a big revolution, wasn’t there? The fediverse did gain a large chunk of users. But, most of the time, it was treated like a temporary vacation resort or some airbnb to most users that are “so tired” of reddit. No, they were only tired of reddit because it was both the cool thing to do and it was for a short period.

    But they can’t escape the crack, they know it is addicting. The karma farming. The alt-account abuse. The drama. No, they want it all back and can’t fathom a part of social media where none of that is existent, save for a bare minimum. Hell, millions of people still somehow use Twitter today even though Musk has done a wonderous job taking a daily dump on it.

    People really are afraid of change.

    I feel a lot more contributory towards other platforms not Reddit. On Reddit, I just feel like I just say things until I hit walls. Those walls being, being confronted by shithead mods, dumbass trolls or feeling claustrophobic from where I can post because of the karma.

    • Savaran@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      The largest problem I see is that I would use reddit to keep up on local events, since at the time I preferred it to using Twitter or FB for the same. Now I avoid all three but the community that posted for the local stuff in my city didn’t move to Lemmy or Mastodon. I don’t have a way to post the local stuff myself because if I had a good way to keep track of it I wouldn’t have needed reddit for it in the first place!

      Which I guess is just me unhappy that more of the communities didn’t move over, I really don’t have a solution to the problem. Other than continuing to engage here as often as I can and hoping for the best.