The biggest problem people run into is a lack of thier niche communities here, and that's mostly due to a lack of overall numbers. Reddit, while a festering hellhole, still has that. I'd be thrilled to see that change one day, but it's definitely gonna be a while.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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another issue is: most of the people want to consume, very few contribute and most "contribution" is a link-posting, even without a personal opinion for it.
Ironically, right now Lemmy is better for contributors than lurkers. The limited amount of content means than any post/comment that I submit is more likely to be seen and get engagement. I already get more comment replies on Lemmy than I usually did on Reddit.
your profile says that you created 1 post. And this is just a link post.
Yep I mostly comment. Back on Reddit I used to almost never post because most posts would get buried in New. I might post more here since there is a need of content.
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I’m optimistic that more niche stuff will come with time
Lemmy has been growing alot lately, so there's certainly reason to have optimism. It's really just a numbers game to get more niche communities here.
Reddit's jumped the shark and will continue Tod slowly bleed users until everything of value's over here
Agreed, the top suggestion here is a community I've been subscribed to from day 1 and it's always felt dead. Lemmy is good for specific tech niches but outside of that it feels like the same generic meme stream that /r/all is. Also a red flag that nearly all of the communities listed here are attempts to recreate a reddit niche 1:1 which obviously was never going to work as long as the main reddit version is still around
Unfortunately I don't think recommending dead communities with 9 MAUs and 1 post/month is the solution to building up Lemmy's userbase but I respect the attempt
I’m getting tired of Musk, left wing news stories and left wing memes myself
I’ll join these communities simply because lemmy seems so one dimensional looking through my feed.
If there is non-political content here, I’d appreciate it being brought more to the front, at least for my own feed.
I’m hoping for more diverse topics than what seems to hit all day after day. To the point where I’m usually not even logging in as often as I could be.
The topics are boring, one sided and just … lame
If there is non-political content here, I’d appreciate it being brought more to the front, at least for my own feed.
That's the main issue Lemmy has right now. I blocked myself all news, politics, memes and almost tech, because it was just... too much.
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If you're interested in gardening or ecology, the entire Solarpunk instance (slrpnk.net) is full of great munis for you:
And I think the following is a comprehensive list of cycling munis:
Similarly, science geeks of all sorts (biology, nature, space, math, physics, etc) should check out the mander.xyz communities.
[email protected] is not terribly active but they have pinned posts of a lot of health based communities and resources in the fediverse.
do you know what community is a proper place to ask questions about indoor flowers/plants?
I feel like I saw one but I don't remember where. I didn't sub because all my plants are outside. Sorry. The community search is pretty good, though!
Or you could create your own muni, post it to ! [email protected], and the first comment will be practically guaranteed to be someone telling you the community already exists and where you can find it.
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Nice little PSA, good stuff!
Thanks!
Im waiting for niche instances like those dedicated to specific video games to take off. They exist right now but have approximately zero traffic
https://lemmy.film/ is quite active, https://literature.cafe/ is getting there.
The one for Star Citizen etc could indeed get more activity.
Hopefully we indeed see more in the future.
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This doesn't address your question directly OP, but something I've been doing here (as a sad former redditor of over a decade) is to relentlessly upvote anything I like or that contributes to communities I'm subscribed to. I was more of a lurker on reddit but I think if we can push more niche communities and posts into the "everything" feed this problem will hopefully resolve itself eventually through organic growth.
Indeed!
[email protected] is one I'm hoping will grow with time. As is, we get probably a couple posts a week, and honestly, roughly the same amount of comments as on r/cocktails, despite it's much higher user and post count, so it seems like people are enjoying the engagement. If you're into fun drinks, stop by!
I just subbed. Next time I make one of my favorites -- a White Russian or a Mudslide -- I'll try to remember to take a picture. (And yes I know I have the palate of a six year old girl.)
Edit: One of these days I'll watch enough "How To Drink" videos to make me ambitious about mixology again.
Hey, they're classics for a reason. Don't be afraid to experiment though! I love a White Russian with rum subbed for the vodka. And I bet both of those cocktails would be great shaken with an egg, and topped with grated nutmeg
What's the deal with eggs in cocktails? Raw egg yolk is approximately the grossest thing I have ever experienced, texture wise, so... yeah. ELI5?
In cocktails, eggs mostly just give texture, so putting a whole egg in a drink makes it rich and silky, which is good in a desert drink. Cocktails with whole eggs are called flips, and you can make all kinds. I did one once with bourbon and apple cider to make apple pie
Great list!
It's not a great list for me. I'm not interested in 90% of what's in it. Maybe because their posts in reddit were uninteresting.
But I do appreciate the effort!
I’ve been in tech for thirty years and my answer is, no, I don’t. I saved your message along with some others that I hope to read in depth one day because it seems helpful. I just have less and less of a desire to fuck with shit anymore. I remember how excited I was about tech at various points in my career. I used to be so into tech. Anymore, I get off work supervising over twenty other folks on implementing, managing, and maintaining disparate technical solutions and products on and off prem along with a slew of cross functional organizations and my desire to do anything tech dies just after the surface. So I dumped Reddit because I agree with the reasons and jumped on lemmy. I use wefef. That’s as far as I’ve gone. I won’t use reddit anymore out of principle but I miss it.
As another example, I used to pirate the shit out of stuff. Into the scene big time. Became ‘successful’ and subscribed (and invested) in all the services. Just recently canceled all my subscriptions and moved to real debrid with torrentio or w/e. I was able to get it going in an hour and it makes sense. Hell I’d pay $100 a month for what I have now but whatever. It’s not about the money as much as the ease of experience. I keep Netflix because it makes it easier to find stuff I want to watch but that’s all.
I know I could sit down and spend an afternoon getting my shit setup to better deliver content to me across instances and everything if I’d just do it. Instead I just see what’s in the standard feed this evening and start doing some crosswords before bed instead. I think I’m just burnt out on technology. Kudos to what everyone is building and all the investment being put into educating folks though. I don’t think I have any critique other than it’s just too much more difficult for me than Reddit was to find everything and I’m getting old and tech disinterested.
I really appreciate and understand the value of federating services but to claim theirs no value, big picture community wise, in having a central access point to content is willfully ignorant of a broad user base in my opinion. None is this stuff is new, it’s just a new wave of human nature with updated technology.
Most folks barely know how to utilize a web browser, that doesn’t mean that they have less value or less interesting or compelling information to provide the world; it just means it won’t be shared on the platform, or even if it is they likely won’t be heard.
For broad user adoption systems need to be designed for our grandparents not our peers because most folks are a lot closer to the former than the latter, even our peers in tech.
I really wanted to be a part of CasualConversation on here, but my posts and comments aren't submitting. Not sure if it's a glitch or if it's an intended effect of the federation thing.
Okay, I just noticed we don't allow English as a language, could you please give it another try?
It should be fine from a federation perspective because this person commented from Lemm.ee: https://lemm.ee/comment/2814981
Interesting, let me have a look. I think we had commenters from lemm.ee in the last few days.
Simple: lurk until I see something I like, then follow that community if I want them in my filtered feeds
Efficient? No. But I also never looked up communities for Reddit so 🤷🏻♂️
Interesting, did you discover a lot of them that way? It's usually difficult to me, small communities content are buried under the popular ones
I've found about as many as I personally like to keep track of (about 10ish varied active communities, another 10 to 15 less active ones)
Most of my interests are things it's quite easy to find from my instance though (growing mushrooms for example) so that probably helps me, as reddit took way longer to build out my sub list
Thankya! I subbed to over half of those just now.
Great!
If you're a fan of XCOM, I made and have been slowly trying to grow a comm for it here:
It would be cool to have posts like this regularly so that people can find niche subscriptions, because I think that's what people are craving.
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