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I think it is kind of a mistake that Lemmy tries to replicate or replace. If you want your “niche” content (which I can never figure out what people mean but this but I digress), it requires the network effect of Reddit.

I think a better use of Lemmy is to provide things that don’t work and don’t exist on Reddit. A good example is crazypeople.online/c/eternalplaylist where we post whatever we’re listening to and then sometimes comment on what other people are rocking at the time. I started crazypeople.online/c/streamingmovies just to post whatever bullshit I’m watching, maybe if you stream something from fmhy.net post it and we can all watch it.

I think the people using lemmy as a personal blog are more like what the platform excels at like lemmygrad.ml/c/spacedogschronicals and crazypeople.online/c/bitofarambler which became crazypeople.online/c/travel

Lastly I think the real win for Lemmy as a whole would be to figure out how to better interact with other fedi software. Maybe turning mastodon and pixelfed tags into communities and figuring out how to better integrate there would provide more and interesting content but in a scenario i find much easier to follow than subscribe to poster type twitter style microblogging.

TL;DR being Reddit 2 won’t ever happen until Lemmy has a reason to exist that isn’t being Reddit. Some people are building that and this is still early in the game.

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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Maybe turning mastodon and pixelfed tags into communities and figuring out how to better integrate there would provide more and interesting content

yeah, i’ve been thinking about the same thing. how to properly embed mastodon content into Lemmy? Maybe one community for each poster? Is that the right approach?

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- hamid@crazypeople.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Interestingly each community shows up kind of like a user in Mastodon.
  
  I think hashtags should be communities but I can see from an ActivityPub POV that would be difficult to dynamically create. Worth while though.
  
  It also makes sense that a mastodon user should kind of look like a community or a maybe user in Lemmy but I personally don’t like following people and much rather follow topics.
  
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  - gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Maybe there’s only underlying posts and users to the fediverse, and the difference between Lemmy and Mastodon is mostly how they’re organized and presented in the feed
    
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- TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  This is something I think whatever lemmy 2.0 is going to be really needs to focus on.
  
  Just be a content aggregator for ALL of the fediverse. Everything. One feed.
  
  Or maybe more clever ways of integrating. But right now, we’re still relying on video mostly from YT (not peertube) and screenshots of things happening on mastodon. We need more connective tissue.
  
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  - gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    yeah i think to meaningfully embed peertube, we’d probably have to copy the peertube video player into the Lemmy frontend/app.
    
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