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That's one of the reasons I use Lemmy. I see links to major news stories, those I'm likely to care about and nothing else news related. I think there are celebrity news and sports communities. I'd also be surprised if there isn't a Eurovision community out there. But if the things you've described are "pop culture" then seemingly I have no interest in it.

Nah I'm with you on this. I have this weird set of interests that align me well with Lemmy, but also as a dirtbag couch goblin who binges reality TV like my life depends on it. I feel like Lemmy can get a little uh... holier than thou about it and I don't feel like I have any trashy echo chambers anymore. I miss Instagram reality and all the snark subs tbh.

'there is no posts related to my interests' 'go to domains specific to your interests!' domain specific to your interests: last post is a reddit screenshot from 3 months ago, 0 comments

Gonna be honest, pop culture is the thing about Reddit I miss the least. I couldn't care less what drama some rich people are getting into, unless that drama is their yachts being sunk by killer whales.

Got to be the change brother. Start posting stuff. I'll read it.

DAE died a violent death on reddit years ago. I was there. I remember the backlash.

Let's not revive it here. This place is special.

You can always create posts in appropriate communities to start conversations on topics you're interested in. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

I don't care much for most pop culture stuff and get enough by happenstance from other sources/people.

Yes and I love it.

Even when I was still on Reddit, I needed a friend to explain to me that Funko Pops don't do anything - you just have them.

So really I think it's just me.

No. I make my own pop culture.

Go on asklemmy and ask what people think of the situation. Go on casualconversation and talk about your opinions.

I think this is a problem with the Fediverse in general.

Search Kendrick Lamar on BlueSky and it's filled with people celebrating it, breaking down different aspects of the show, and making memes. Search the same on Mastodon and you get news articles about the show and the occasional personal post. A majority of the posts have 0 engagement on most of the posts.

Personally I'm longing for more discussion about ideas and less about events and definitely less about people.

There are bajillion other sites where you can wallow in mainstream pop culture and consume whatever slop that has been deemed as sufficently advertiser friendly. I am here to fly my freak flag high.

I hear you. I could go on about how pop culture is lame etc and not really answer your question but I think, the more the merrier. If I'm not interested in the Lakers, I can ignore it and scroll past it. Easy. It would be nice for people who want to discuss the Lakers to have a place to discuss the Lakers, though.

Honestly this place is starting to piss me off a little bit sometimes. Because it's like the users here actually want 'All' to just be politics all the time and for there to be no variety to anything. You can talk about missing features from Reddit and think of ideas to make this place a little better and you'll get responses like "No. Why would anyone want more features? I know that I don't have to personally use them if I don't like them but I prefer pretending it's 1998, so no one can have them. And why would we want more users? I like empty communities with no activity. And then complaining about empty communities with no activity."

So I dunno. It's gonna be interesting to see if this place actually grows or if it just stagnates. I'm right there with you though. I'd be more than happy to see pop and sports and things I'm not really interested in because then there's a bigger chance of things that I am actually interested in taking off here.

I used to interact with people from my country on reddit

Because of that, along with me not watching/reading romanian news, i miss big events like the country being invited to schengen

I dunno I barely know what people are talking about anyways even when using reddit or twitter because most of my interests are aren't that mainstream

Only when it comes to hearing about new games. For all the people I see in random non-game threads that mention games or get game references, there's next to no activity in the game-related communities.

It's a bit of a mixed bag, and the real thing is that there are other people who want to talk about it here. Trust me, I run a Taylor Swift community here, and it is an uphill battle - but it's worth it because there are people who care and enjoy the community.

If you're up for it, choose one or two communities and then nurture them. When reddit imploded 2 years ago we came over and we had a ton of people open hundreds of communities and then abandon them, people just opened them left and right and then expected a large audience the next day. Instead expect it to follow the 90-9-1 rule. Out of a hundred people, 90 of them will lurk and never participate. 9 will comment, and one will post. You will need to be the one to post for a while - but it will grow over time.

Take care of the communities, let them know you're here to stay, and that it's a place where you can chat about it. We're a lot of nerds here, but nerds can also like football, there's [email protected] that is usually pretty quiet but obviously people subscribed to it.

And if you're a swiftie make sure to stop by [email protected]

Yeah, but every time I hear about celebrity shit it's fucking stupid and it pisses me off so I consider missing it a good thing.

I’ve been way out of pop culture loop even before I started using Lemmy.