Lemmy and 90% of the people here honestly suck and are circlejerky bastards with shit content but it’s also the only good option right now.
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Jargus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No wonder since most topics on all are:
- Capitalism is bad
- Landlords are evil
- US Politics
- Linux
It’s a huge circlejerk here and there isn’t that much engagement in other smaller communities. And I highly doubt that it will change for the better since I already see that a lot of the remaining people love this little circlejerk and don’t even want more people that could diversify the content. More power to them, I have already given up on Lemmy as a Reddit replacement.
wokehobbit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
RobotToaster@infosec.pub 9 months ago
As someone who mostly likes those things, that does seem to be a big problem here.
_number8_@lemmy.world 9 months ago
i’d rather see a circlejerk over capitalism being bad than people accepting the shittiness
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Don’t forget…
- Boomers are responsible for all of my problems
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I just made a new community yesterday about objects that looks sort of like private parts, if that helps? !mildlyprivates
I’ve also got cute bugs and sea critters here: !awwnverts
And cute bees here: !beebutts
But for the life of me I can’t get any engagement on my r/legalcatadvice dupe at !cattorneys_at_paw Maybe I should have used the original name. I really miss that one.
shagie@programming.dev 9 months ago
Reddit cat subs are tightly knit with people suggesting other related subs for some content. Being able to say “aww, cute angry black cat - this would fit on /r/stealthbombers” that sort of interconnection is difficult on Lemmy making the tangent discovery, reposting and niche cat subs more difficult.
Without the fairly consistent cross posting (and thus part of the discovery), such niche subs are going to be harder to grow a community for.
It might be a bit more feasible if there was a “cats and only cats” lemmy instance where all things cats are posted (compare programming.dev and startrek.website which are two single topic instances and browsing communities on each makes targeted discovery more feasible).
The other part is that those niche cat subs are filled with “normal” people. There usage stats show most people used new.reddit.com or the official mobile app - even before the api changes. Most of those people didn’t leave Reddit (with the exception of a few mods where /r/cathostage is restricted but /r/cathostages which was created in response has even more activity).
This also gets to a “there aren’t enough fun things on Lemmy”. The flairs of /r/cathostages are fun.
If you look at /r/leagalcatadvice you will see that most of its activity is from crossposted (not by original poster either) into the sub and then people are having fun there.
The software supporting fun (flairs, easy cross posting) and culture are currently working against Lemmy for niche cat subs. Consider that !cat@lemmy.world has 84 users per day and fewer posts per day than /r/oneorangebraincell - it might not be able to support the range of niche cat subs that Reddit is able to.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think you have a good point about flairs. The lack of flairs is especially noticable in sports communities. On Reddit, a lot of sports subreddits would have flairs of team logos, which set up for a lot of friendly teasing between fandoms. The lack of flairs in Lemmy takes away the teasing because nobody knows who supports what fandom.
There’s also a similarity between cat communities and sports communities in that there’s probably not enough people to support individual team communities similar to how there isn’t enough people to support more focused cat communities like one orange brain cell.
CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months ago
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PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Good bot
mouse@midwest.social 9 months ago
There are also some of us that are/were trying and experimenting with different types of the fediverse, such as Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, Firefish, Pixelfed, etc. I have found myself gravitating toward Firefish, and Mastodon for the feed style, where as Lemmy, and Kbin are better as a forum or Pixelfed for image feeds.
CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Be the change you want to see; add new/different content.
gsa32@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thus the reason for !lemmymoment@lemmy.world
explodicle@local106.com 9 months ago
To be fair, part of the reason to use a decentralized platform is because these topics are de facto censored on most of the internet.
FWIW early Bitcoin was the same; they were much more anarchist than they are today. Long after merging with the mainstream, the most anarchist thing most users do today is running the software itself. It’ll be the same way with Lemmy - eventually most users won’t care about anything leftist, they’ll just happen to be using p2p free software because it works better for reasons they refuse to acknowledge.
Here’s a classic must-read essay that explores other facets of this evolution: meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world 9 months ago
because these topics are de facto censored on most of the internet
Complaining about capitalism, landlords and US Politics are censored on most of the internet? Have you been to Reddit or Twitter? And aren’t a bunch of other websites specifically dedicated for discussing specific topics? I.e. modding video games, agriculture/horticulture, etc? Are there like a bunch of bloggers complaining about living in the West that are being censored, or are they just not popular because they’re terrible writers and have 0 reach?
Also no one talks about Linux besides weird and niche communities. It’s not censored either. I say this as a Linux user.
explodicle@local106.com 9 months ago
Sorry if this was unclear, I only meant the points about capitalism, landlords, and politics are censored. Not Linux.
What do you think we should _ actually do_ about those problems? Ask nicer? Vote harder? Since you used Reddit a lot, you must be familiar with “[REDACTED]” - it’s one thing to just complain, but quite another thing to coordinate a defense.
AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What do you think we should actually do about those problems? Ask nicer? Vote harder?
I think your rent should be due a week early this month.
Forfaden@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And fuck cars!
calavera@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Honestly, fuck cars though