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[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If anything, I almost wish there were less communities. There aren't many users, so what little content there is gets splattered across so many communities that I sometimes feel like the user-to-community ratio is one to one.

I understand why Reddit needed super niche subreddits, to filter their massive user base, but we don't have that problem yet.

In fact, it's even worse in our case, because each community can exist in duplicate on several instances - further fragmenting users.

I'm not necessarily saying it's bad that we have so many communities, and hopefully we'll grow in to them over time, but I do think people can sometimes get too focused on the Reddit mindset of creating a community for every little thing, when we just aren't there yet.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

You’re on point. The niche communities are too niche right now now and content should be posting to the more general communities.

Except tenforward.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Even worse is the lack of normie content.

Theres like 75 communities for Linux and theres only 1 post in the weightlifting community with the most subs and that post is "what kind of community is this?"

I like nerd shit, but I also like normie shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think weightlifting is very normie to a userbase similar to reddit. Reddit had many nerds and it seems so far Lemmy is even more nerdy. When I first came here I saw many posts about people creating their own Lemmy instances.