It's funny because for new low-traffic communities now, Reddit is worse than the Fediverse in my opinion. The Fediverse has an effective catalog on every instance, you can search instances, you can rename your community to be more visible (you can't do this on reddit). I would also suggest you look into Piefed, which has even more tools here.
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PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 1 week ago
There were several issues on GitHub regarding proposals on how to solve the low visibility of small instances. However, after the Scaled Sort was implemented, all those issues were closed, yet the problem persists. I continue to use Reddit the same as before because I primarily used it for niche communities, which are lacking here. The few times I’ve posted to a niche community here, I’ve either received no answers or been subject to drive-by downvotes, likely from users not even subscribed to the community. As a result, I now only post on Lemmy when the post is directed to a large community, and I use Reddit for the rest.
Skavau@piefed.social 1 week ago
Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Yeah because first of all, content had to be spread out across 562826 different communities for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities, after growing for many many years. It started with just a few.
Then 99% of those were created on Lemmy.world, and every new user was directed to sign up at Lemmy.world.
I guess a lot of people here are younger than me and didn’t experience forums, but we had like 30 forum channels. That was enough to talk about anything at all. And I believe it’s the same here, it would have been enough. And then all channels would have easy to find content.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 week ago
this makes me think we should have a marker for communities that are inactive/dead or an easy way to hide them or filter them out in favor of more active communities
Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
They should just be locked down until we have a bigger userbase
The topic comes up regularly on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
If they are locked, the people who come here and see them locked will go elsewhere instead of contributing, because they literally can’t.
Some people came here to creat communities (eg.: in the wake of Reddit stuff) with the hope that it would catch on. But we can’t expect them to do all the work.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 week ago
for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities
Yea, looking back we probably should’ve had limits on creating communities. We all created too many lol
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 week ago
I’m not really sure this is a software issue, if anything Lemmy probably handles it better than Reddit does. We just don’t have as many users.