I'm very hopeful for the future of Lemmy. We stand at a turning point for Internet culture right now. It's time to turn away from the curated big boys and return to the open liberty that the old days were all about. I think Lemmy can be the vessel and it seems to be a touch more active every day.
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Lemmy is so chill right now. Part of me hopes it doesn't get too big
That’s the best part, IMO.
Good communities can band together and not allow bad apples from spoiling the bunch.
The decentralized nature of it is a huge feature.
Granted, I think I’m understanding that correctly but am still wrapping my head around certain aspects.
I agree, but I just wish it was easier to find interesting communities. Sorting by "hot" definitely dredges up more content, but they're all like 0-5 comment posts. Sorting by active shows the same few posts for a few days. I've been trying to sub to communities that seem interesting in "hot" content, but there just doesn't seem to be a lot of content yet? I may just be spoiled by the scale of reddit, but this seems fairly low and feels a little empty.
Am I just missing good communities? Is there somewhere to find them? Or are we still just really "too early" where most content is only getting 5-10 comments?
This might be a weird take because I only thought about it after reading your comment, which I am really curious to hear others opinions on as well. On Reddit, I can usually guess the 3 top level comments, and for any others that I don't - the comment came from a repost bot detecting bot that reposts the previous top level. The number of comments is higher, but sorting by new or controversial is a test of patience and morbid curiosity, so who actually sees these thousands of posts? I'm not saying what Lemmy has is better by any stretch, but it's novel for the time being and a good break from all the stuff I've been complaining about for years now.
I do get FOMO from not having all that information on r/all immediately within reach, but Lemmy has really helped me curb my reddit addiction in a good way. I don't think this really answered your question at all, but I think I am getting closer to understanding others that look past it. I was a digg refugee as well, so maybe I'm just getting used to the idea of starting over.
While I agree with your position of current reddit comments, the OP was comparing to old reddit. I feel like it's only been true in the past 5-8 years of reddit. And while that's not what I'm looking for, the low amount of engagement here is a bit too low where I start considering just getting like a news aggregator app. I'd prefer something with SOME discussion as that was part of the value of reddit for me.
Currently, the best way to find new interesting communities is through [email protected]
Am I just missing good communities? Is there somewhere to find them? Or are we still just really "too early" where most content is only getting 5-10 comments?
We're still way, way too early for the kind of activity Reddit offered in the smaller niche communities. The best thing anyone can do right now is finding one or two small communities they care about and starting posting to help populate them with content, which will help slowly attract more users over time.
As an example, I've been trying to be active at [email protected], and we're still waiting for a third active user beyond me and the founder.
It's just going to take time.
Maybe my interest are too niche, but the trending communities stuff has felt too.... Bland/general for me. I'll keep trying it though, thanks.
The stuff I've seen has had communities with many posts but only a handful of comments. Maybe that only exists in those larger, more general communities for now though.
Maybe my interest are too niche, but the trending communities stuff has felt too.... Bland/general for me. I'll keep trying it though, thanks.
The formula for it is still being worked on, so I think just keep following that sub. I agree in general, but I still tend to find a couple of smaller more niche subs on the list every day.
The stuff I've seen has had communities with many posts but only a handful of comments. Maybe that only exists in those larger, more general communities for now though.
I mean yeah, that's kind of what I was trying to say. For most of the small niche communities, we're still at a point where there will be one or maybe two people taking the initiative to post, a handful of people voting, and maybe a couple commenting here and there. That's just where we're at, population and growth-wise.
That's why everyone needs to take initiative to participate. Humans tend to follow the herd, so if a community has no posts or comments, new visitors - even those interested or even subscribed - will just think "this place is dead" and move on. If we populate them with content, we slowly lay the foundation for others to trickle in over time.
Yeah, I've noticed that I'm far more engaged in lemmy than I was in reddit. I wish I'd find lemmy earlier!
Same! I had a 10 year acc on Reddit with a grand total of 3 comments. Lemmy has a waaaaay better community feel
I disagree and not because I don't like Lemmy.
All I seem to find are memes. And the 196 and memes communities just take over every feed.
Where's the discussion? Where are the video games? Where is important news? Where are the artists and music and photographers?
Maybe I'm just using Lemmy wrong.
Curate your feed. Block unwanted communities. My lemmy feed has no memes.
Unlike Reddit you have to put in the work subscribing to all the stuff you’re interested in, and then start blocking the communities you don’t want to see (such as the memes you’re getting bombarded with). Once you spend 30 minutes doing that, your feed will be 100x better.
Lemmy reminds me of back in the day when we all used to use Livejournal, before Facebook or Twitter or anything else existed, and it was the most beautiful platform that ever existed for a brief shining moment. I made friends there that I still have 25 years later, and have never met any of them. It has that organic feeling where we are breaking new ground together.
Yep, it's certainly easier to actually get a response that sounds like it came from a human. I'm also seeing so many more links to interesting, niche articles and blogs. Especially on the smaller communities, people are posting substacks and blogs from some pretty alt-culture or radical thinkers. That stuff would definitely be drowned out on Reddit for whatever the top gotcha on Twitter was that day.
The community is still small enough that anyone can be part of the main thread of any comment section.
It's nice.
I love it just the way it is.
I mod 6 communities and over the last month have only had to take 1 action as a mod. It's lovely.
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