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You all need to find the courage to close with reddit forever. It's done, don't you see it? Everything was taken away from apps to moderators power, purge of old messages, and soon the reward system. What this suppost to mean? What else will be removed? It is in falldown.
Don't worry... it's all being replaced with direct payment to approved contributors... going tiktok model, it can get way shittier, and it will.
Luckily I won't be there to see it because I no longer give a fuck about Reddit whatsoever. It sucks that much of the knowledge contained there will ultimately die, but we must build anew. It has been a learning experience that hopefully enough of us have taken to heart that a new and better way of doing things will stick.
I would like to, but the fact is lemmy is 99% shitposts and memes. Don't get me wrong, I like that stuff but I also need to know wtf is going on in the world. Since losing rif and refusing to use the official app, I am now basically getting news when my wife sees it on Facebook, which means it's old news by then.
We all have our bias. My lemmy is not like that. Which means you're not curating your feed.
I block every community with content I'm not interested in. It works. My lemmy feed is very interesting.
Same. It might take a minute to curate for the specific news you want, but there are plenty of communities providing substantive news at least daily.
Any tips you can share on how you did this? I'm totally new to Lemmy, and I'm having a hard time finding and/or discovering interesting communities.
You'll have to look for the 'block community' button. Depending on the UI you're using, this can be in different places.
In Lemmy's default UI, you first click the part under the title identifying the community under which it was posted. Let's say it was posted under
[email protected]. What you do is:[email protected];On a phone app, the process may be less cumbersome. On Thunder, an Android app, you just have to click and hold the post, wait until a menu appears, and then select 'block community'.
They're saying the opposite. They block things they aren't interested in.
The reality is that the shitpost and meme communities will be the ones that give birth to the niche communities we need to thrive. It's easy, low-effort, but fun-enough and engaging enough to get people through the door.
It’s a process. Memes are the lowest common denominator, will get a lot of ppl on the site, then small communities will grow. Some are already useful, I curate a list that I follow and see when I open my app, and I can already see world news like the Italy heatwave, actor strike, etc. at the top. Not perfect, but already beter than 1 week ago.
Yeah I get that too, but it just shows we've been too reliant on others to generate content for us
If it's the news you need, there are RSS feeds from news sites, I've also subscribed to them after leaving Reddit
Precisely. Sharing your finds and commenting on what others have found is the ideal situation. When only 1% post content, and slightly more comment, it is easy to game the system - like Reddit and these other “socials”. Lemmy’s robustness will be a function of its people.
Unsub from memes. It is so much better.
This. If you're unhappy with the shitposts, block /c/[email protected] and like magic, they're gone.
That made a huge difference for me
Lemmy will hit its stride. I did some minor tweaks to my feed and it got a lot better. I'm still getting the lay of the land tho
Do you know if there's a way to group multiple instances into a "multifeed" like multireddits?
Not yet but it's been requested a million times. Someone will get to it soon enough, whether it's the devs or a third party solution.
Block memes communities in your profile settings.
I get my news from the AP and I'm very happy with it. It's one of the few apps that I allow push notifications for so I don't even need to check the app to get the top headlines, I just tap on the ones that look interesting and clear the rest.
I’m hoping the quality of the content will grow over time. I don’t even give a shit about porn but right now it’s like half this place is posts about wet pussies and subs about ass and it’s grossing me the fuck out. I’ve been curating so it’s getting better but still
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I unfortunately still have some subreddits I need to follow there, but much more of my time is spent over here these days.
If you don't mind sharing, which subreddits are you still following on reddit? Do you think they might move over eventually?
I am following subreddits related to Gamestop stock and BBBY stock.
Also, there are a bunch of very niche subreddits that haven't even got single-user communities here yet... I play somewhat obscure musical genres and instruments and nobody in those subreddits are talking about Lemmy except for me 😕
I just want to browse new guitar and bass pedals and pedal boards 😢
I thought I'd miss that sub, but I'm a bassist with a PBass into a Fuzzrocious Demon with the gate/boost mod going into my Mesa 400. I literally stopped looking at those posts because I don't need to go anywhere else with my tone these days and I don't give a shit if anyone is overpaying for a Bad Monkey. Reaching this state is quite freeing
I haven't bought pedals in 5 years but I still like viewing and discussing others' gear. I'm glad you've found your perfect setup though!
[email protected]
Might be your spot. I randomly subscribed to that one since the beginning even though I don't play the bass. But they could definitely use some more subscribers. They seem chill
[email protected]
This one I had to look up also.
Sub.rehab, lemmyverse.net, and browse.feddit.de are all very helpful tools for finding new communities.
!drs_[email protected]
That's the most active GME community I could find.
Same. Reddit is my only source of baseball news and content and there just isn't a scene for that here on Lemmy....
Maybe I should post...
You're in luck.
[email protected]
There are a few others but that's the one with the most activity, mostly because of the admin, and a little because of me 😅
They've also got links to all of the mlb team communities in the sidebar.
They should've done it during the protests. Either actually threaten to walk out or engage in malicious compliance like r/PICS, even if Reddit does replace them with paid moderators, and direct people to alternatives.