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Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Lemmy won’t catch on until there are groups of communities you can ban at once. Sports, Linux, German, pervy anime… It’s a very rare user who will put up with the absolute dreck of the initial feed and manually block communities until they have a feed that’s marginally personalized.

Then there’s the fact that any communities that are specific to peoples interests are completely empty.

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Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Then there’s the fact that any communities that are specific to peoples interests are completely empty.

Those should be locked, and redirect to more generic active communities for the time being.

Any example in mind?

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- Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Sailing. Boating. Sewing. Those are they tops ones I miss from reddit that had active users. Instead we have 7000 communities for linux and pervy anime.
  
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  - cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I mean it predates a lot of the pervy anime, but Usenet looked the same at the start with lots of Unix/computer boards and an alt.
    
    Computer enthusiasts gonna enthusiastically talk about computers. People who pick up and move to a new platform are likely to be united around being technically competent enough to get there first, and everything else second.
    
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  - mark@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Very true. But that’s what we can create whole instances for: to be the site you think will attract the users you want. There’s nothing stopping anyone from starting a whole new world they want to see in the fediverse. Lemmy and other fedi apps are built like they are for that very purpose.
    
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    Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yes, but I’m talking about mass adoption. Very few users care, they want to scroll through and see stuff they like. They don’t want to curate and host and delve into the intricacies. Until such time as someone makes lemmy palatable, the masses won’t eat it.
    
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lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The “instances hosting communities” structure alleviates albeit not solves this problem; communities about related topics end in the same instances, that you can block.

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