this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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I think it is annoying that most posts, like this one, are about Lemmy itself. I hope this will change soon.
I've been thinking about this as well. Most reddit clones or reddit-likes in the last decade have failed after a wave of talking about how much "better" or "different" it is from reddit.
There's an imbalance in the userbase that makes it impossible to compare to the digg migration or past forum community migrations.
What I mean by that is before digg died or fark or slashdot or msn messenger or myspace... the competitor was not only alive but thriving with an organically built local community.
The difference here can be seen in how "reddit refugees" are not looking to integrate but rather supplant. If not intentionally, simply by sheer numbers.
I don't think there is an answer to this in a world where the internet has become 5 or so companies. At least not until there is at least an attempt at a more federated possibility. Like there was in the days of friendster and before.
well, everyone has to get comfortable first and had questions. also now with many more people, much more bugs show up.
there are some communities to report those issues to (like [email protected] ) or you can probably use github to report an issue.
but maybe we should build up a New Lemmings community for those kind of questions, with a guide and FAQ. also those questions wouldn't spill over as much in other communities.
You're probably right, that this has a big potential to be annoying. but I also understand people with questions.
as currently Reddit is taking a dive and many people are newly discovering Lemmy, it's currently also a topic of major interest.
I think it's good for the project, when new ideas come up and people start to contribute more - be it content, code, documentation or moderation
Don't worry, they'll all be about reddit in no time ๐
I can suggest subscribing to a broader range of communities. I think you can expect to find a lot of these kinds of lemmy-related questions and discussions on the most populated communities on the most populated instance, like here, where all the new users are landing.
Since you're registered on feddit.de, you can browse communities and subscribe to them pretty easily here:
https://feddit.de/communities/listing_type/All/page/1