I really wish the !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world community grows here on Lemmy. It was my all time favorite subreddit. No fighting, no toxicity, it's just straight up:
I can't decide if it's a good thing or a bad thing, honestly. I joined the initial wave of people leaving Reddit when RiF died. I was excited to see my niche communities like Skyrim Mods and ObsidianMD pop up here, but over time they stagnated as people slipped back to Reddit.
At the same time, I came to realize that I spent a lot of time on stupid subs browsing stupid content that just sucked away my time. And for even my niche subs that I missed, I realized that 75% of that new content is the same reposts, the same arguments, the same debates. I do cheat every once in awhile and go back to Reddit, but now it's to see the top posts of the month to see what I've missed. Turns out, I haven't missed much.
It has taken a while to get Lemmy where I want it. I've filtered a ton of communities and users that do nothing but talk about Russia and socialism and whatever the fuck tankies are, and there sure were a lot of cartoons of animals with enormous NSFW bits I had to filter, but it's starting to come together now for me.
give it time, people will come to their favorite instances with time. The best thing you can do is make your own posts to your favorite subs and cross post posts you see to other subs they fit into as well.
Yeah true, but chances are you'll post on a smaller """dead""" sublemmy and it'll get upvotes and responses within hours. Do the same with an active reddit and you'll be lucky if anyone responds
We gotta get niche communities that aren't just programmers and socialists... I'm a socialist, but I wanna talk to some people about how Porygon is one of the greatest Pokemon of all tiem.
On one hand, it's a great sigh of relief to not see so many communities contaminated with shallow interactions that are harbored by typical Redditquette behavior.
The other hand, it's depressing to see so much wasted potential. I mean, there was supposed to have been a big revolution, wasn't there? The fediverse did gain a large chunk of users. But, most of the time, it was treated like a temporary vacation resort or some airbnb to most users that are "so tired" of reddit. No, they were only tired of reddit because it was both the cool thing to do and it was for a short period.
But they can't escape the crack, they know it is addicting. The karma farming. The alt-account abuse. The drama. No, they want it all back and can't fathom a part of social media where none of that is existent, save for a bare minimum. Hell, millions of people still somehow use Twitter today even though Musk has done a wonderous job taking a daily dump on it.
People really are afraid of change.
I feel a lot more contributory towards other platforms not Reddit. On Reddit, I just feel like I just say things until I hit walls. Those walls being, being confronted by shithead mods, dumbass trolls or feeling claustrophobic from where I can post because of the karma.
This might go slightly against the spirit of Lemmy, but for subreddits that act like a content feed where losing comments isn't a problem, I've created a reposter bot to mirror subreddits on Lemmy.
It has proven quite popular on !100yearsago@sh.itjust.works . If anyone wants me to mirror a similar sub just drop me a comment
I'm hoping I'm able to stick with the community I made, even if it never gets anywhere. It feels nice to be working on some kind of project. I need new ideas for content, though. I doubt scanning RSS feeds for relevant articles every day is gonna keep things interesting.
Edit: Guess I oughtta plug. SFF Gaming is for sci-fi and fantasy gaming of all types, from video to tabletop and larp and anything else SFF gaming related that I may not know about.
Oof. We all have that one Lemmy community. I really like uncle jokes community but I’m one of the few who’s posted. Oh well, I’ll keep adding content here and there.
I take great solace in going to the Neoliberal attempts at communities here and finding them to be ghost towns.
Stands to reason, as most people are here literally fleeing capitalist greed rot. Im glad most neolibs trusted the free hand of the market and are probably still on Reddit for Spez to fuck with as he wishes.
Republicans are bastards, but Neoliberals are the constant, painful reminder that we once had a pro-labor party in the US pre-Reagan, and they betrayed us to take the oligarch money along with Republicans.
I often find a community i was looking for and there are often no posts. When the last post is 3 months ago, at least there is something but sometimes nothing is there.