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• Mars2k21@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tech geeks and nerds (no offense, I'm one too) tend to be the first people to populate any sort of new online social network. Just the way of the internet.

  While I do like Linux and talk about it pretty often on the fediverse, I do realize that 96% of internet users don't care about it and the lingo is...incomprehensible for most people. Even I get kind of sick of talking about Linux on here sometimes lol but unfortunately many of the things I wish I could build a community around simply don't have the fanbase needed on the fediverse to begin a community for the moment. While not impossible, building a community for relatively niche subjects on a small platform like this that is in direct competition with sites like Reddit is very difficult and easier said than done.

  My advice is just try to search around and find things as close to your interests that have active people as possible. Looking for broad communities can help out here, for instance, just go to /c/art of whatever instance instead of trying to find a /c/painting. Also, for Mastodon especially, use hashtags if you haven't begun to already. Mastodon was wack until I started using hashtags extensively, they somewhat make up for the lack of a recommendation algorithm.

  Its pretty rough around here if your interests aren't related to tech/FOSS/linux, but that should make things a little better. Hopefully there will be more diversity in subjects on the fediverse in the future.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tech geeks and nerds (no offense, I’m one too) tend to be the first people to populate any sort of new online social network.

    Seems more likely to be political extremists, tech nerds is a lucky outcome IMO

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• HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Its built by and run by mostly nerds. But maybe see if there are communities that match your likes & such.

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• ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Weird. Most of my feed is filled with embedded systems stuff, left-leaning politics, and a few jokes. There’s Linux stuff here and there, naturally, because of the overlap with embedded, but it’s hardly dominating.

  Perhaps you need to learn how to curate your feed? Try subscribing to hashtags and to people talking about the things you want to talk about. And there’s also the possibility you’re on an instance that is more Linux-focused and thus getting that artificially increased; changing your instance to something you’re actually interested in will likely help. For example if you like tabletop games, dice.camp is an instance where a LOT of tabletop game designers and players hang out.

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• TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just try to remember… https://i.imgur.com/QtHlYcL.jpg

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• krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You build your own mastodon feed, I’ve barely seen any posts about linux unless I’m looking for them.

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• figaro@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I recommend becoming friends with the furries and anarchists on mastodon. They are all pretty cool

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• Landmammals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have you tried appreciating Star Trek memes?

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  • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    .website approved

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  • podperson@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think OP has been to risa yet. My new favorite place on the web:

    lemm.ee/c/risa@startrek.website

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    • CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !risa@startrek.website

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• Bebo@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t do gaming and don’t understand or use Linux. But I have found lots of cute cats, dogs, beautiful photography on Mastodon. Also had occasional conversations about books. I would suggest that you consider keywords of what kind of content you want to see and browse hashtags of those keywords and interact with people.

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• uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Time to install some Linux

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• stella@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s definitely nowhere near 75%.

  Maybe 75% of people talking about computer operating systems, sure.

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• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some apps default to the local server feed versus all of the fediverse feed.

  If you create an account on a server that’s technical oriented, then you’ll get more of what you described.

  Make sure you try changing your viewing options.

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• thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As someone who spends most of her time on Mastodon looking at pics of cool craft projects and cute otters I would have to disagree with your sweeping title! 😉

  But onto the less sarcastic and more actually helpful stuff:

  If you’re on a smaller instance like I am, searching by hashtag will often miss stuff especially if it’s not the sort of thing others on your instance are likely to be following. You can use tools like Fediverse Explorer to search more widely and find likeminded folks, for example here’s a search for just #gaming but you can obviously look for whatever specific tag you’re after.

  I’ve also had great success with just tooting about what sort of people I’d like to meet, and asking for boosts.

  It takes a bit of effort to curate your feed(s) into what you need, but it tends to get easier as you go because discovering likeminded people means you also start discovering the people they talk to, the people they boost, etc etc.

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  • Jezebelley@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or spam. Lots and lots of spam.

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    • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I don’t use the home feed but I use the web advanced view with various hashtag searches and often have the same problem there. Luckily what I’m mostly interested in is visual, so language often doesn’t matter, but that’s obviously niche-specific. If actually following the tags isn’t working for you, then seeking out specific interesting people with methods like those couple I suggested becomes even more vital imo.

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• gigachad@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s cool, but what distro would you recommend?

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  • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hannah Montana Linux

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    • 257m@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The only right answer.

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  • ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    HarmonyOS.

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It comes with the territory. You’re on a FLOSS network where many people are here out of conviction.

  If you don’t want to talk about linux or see it, do what I do about American politics: block the communities and block the people talking about it. Soon you’ll be able to block entire servers and that’s the first thing I’ll do too. Any American server will be blocked. On mastodon, I think you can filter out posts by hashtags.

  Also, join communities that don’t talk about the things you don’t like. This is my programming account, created specifically on an instance about programming. Anything non-techy or non-programming related is blocked on this account. Other accounts are also topical and don’t mention linux at all.

  And finally, make posts unrelated to linux. Cooking, animals, extreme sports, carpentry, knitting, home improvements, whatever else you’re interested in.

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• ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think part of it is how lemmy sorts content. It doesn’t weigh the number of posts per sub the way reddit did, allowing disproportionately larger niches to dominate (like Linux or NSFW in my case)

  I’m on sync for lemmy, which allows filtering users, communities, or instances. My feed has gotten a lot better with this

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• m3t00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  car feels lonely w/o oil

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  • LemmyInRedditSux@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now you’re just being elitist. True, cars cannot run without oil. But fediverse CAN run on different things besides linux.

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    • mayoi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And while you can use anything for servers, even Microsoft refuses to own Windows Server for their servers and uses Linux based OS, so go figure.

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• regbin_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love Linux and Windows 11 (I use both daily). It’s quite tiring to see that the usual discourse about Windows is to switch to Linux, instead of actually about using Windows.

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  • Pixelologist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I understand using it, but you LOVE windows??

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    • regbin_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Of course I do. It’s the most convenient desktop OS I’ve used.

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Definitely a trend on the fediverse is that conversations really seem to always drift back to Linux and FOSS applications. Like can we just stop talking about how Microsoft is the devil for 5 minutes? The please no talk about how capitalism/google/apple/bermuda grass lawns are the devil either

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  • jack@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But it is really important. If you don’t care about free software, what’s stopping you from going back to reddit?

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    • Kiosade@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re missing the point…

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do care about free software. If the fediverse never grows beyond discussion about tech, free software and shitposts I will still use it. But if Lemmy/Mastodon only ever got traction on posts about particle physics, I’d ignore it because I don’t really understand or care about that.

      I also want this and other fediverse platforms to grow. And I think that even non-tech people care about FOSS concepts even if they can’t articulate it. People want to feel like their privacy is respected and they want to feel like their favorite platforms are democratic in control. So I think the fediverse will continue to grow and grow. It’ll take a while for us to grow out of the niche tech phase though.

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• DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And Star Trek.

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  • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t blame startrek.website, blame all the other unrealized .websites that could exist if only someone was brave enough.

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• Navarian@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is interesting as I have had much the opposite effect. I very rarely see anything Linux related. Though honestly I don’t use Linux so that works just fine for me.

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• Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also "self hosting " is huge also and their crazy fucks also. Some one was asking about copying a Spotify link to send to a friend. And the self hosting literally said. You don’t. Create your own server and run a media streamer.

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  • plague_sapiens@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the way!

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• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Goodness, yes. I have used “block community” so many times for Lunux related things. Seems like half the site is gone, but I do feel like I belong more in the communities I’ve found

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• Amends1782@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use arch btw

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Legit, the only time I see Linux stuff on mastodon is from the linux related accounts I follow.

  Lemmy though? I’d say it’s a matter of curating your feed. If you want to avoid it, there’s plenty of ways to do so and still have a full feed a few times a day. If you use an app, you can even directly filter linux out and not miss much of anything other than linux posts and comments (depending on the app, not all of them filter as well as others).

  Hell, I’m subscribed to most of the linux C/s, and I can’t say that it’s even a quarter of my feed, much less 75%.

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• Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can always use a keyword filter depending on what client you use to browse Lemmy- it makes browsing a lot more enjoyable.

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• kttnpunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The fediverse cares about Linux and that’s one of the reasons I love it fy. We all should be doing MORE to oppose the world’s most overinstalled piece of S̶o̶f̶t̶w̶a̶r̶e̶ spyware, but especially talking about Linux nonstop. It is the last fucking hope for human rights IMHO.

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  • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At least there’s a point to talking (and complaining) about Linux, because we can actually contribute to its development.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So honest question, what do you want to see more of? Someone has to be first to start talking and posting about it here

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Find yourself another instance. Whatever community you found yourself in isn’t for you.

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• art@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The knitting and writing crowd seems to be quite big but that might just be my feed. That’s something to keep in mind, different communities are on here, you just might not have found them yet.

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• SeethingSloth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could become an anarchist.

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  • Rottcodd@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The implication here is that anarchists are relatively common on the fediverse, and if so, it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen this idea expressed.

    But the thing is that I am an anarchist, and I’ve been keeping my eyes open, and I haven’t seen any other anarchists here. LOTS of authoritarian leftists, ranging from naive social democrats to full-blown “submit or die” tankies, but not one single other anarchist.

    So are you actually trying to say that anarchists are common here? And if so, where are they?

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    • SeethingSloth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I fully agree that the majority of Lemmy users (and probably Mastodon, though I haven’t checked) appear to be authoritarian Marxists, but both my local syndicates and the international workers confederation ICL-CIT have active Mastodon presences, so there’s definitely an effort by anarchists to move away from corporate-owned communications platforms. Could do without the marxist-leninists though, who sadly seem to make up 100% of the Lemmy dev team.

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    • ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …

      Really?

      You’re having problems finding Anarchists on Mastodon?

      😲

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