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My points or whatever. I used to be a huge pot head and made some content people really liked so I had some nice numbers.
absolutely nothing.
The app - Baconreader was so smooth. I’m getting used to the fediverse one, but there are still a lot of decisions by the devs that I hate.
The sheer amount of queer porn - it wasn’t even enough because my tastes are… Varying. But the feed of porn on fediverse is weak as fuck, with a lot of it being really boring and aimed at boring people who are not me (cishet men). I’m confident this will eventually get remedied, but it DID also take like a decade for even Reddit to get good porn, with its own ups and downs.
That being said, there’s still so much more to love on fediverse that I don’t need to look back to Reddit for. It feels like going from high school to a really big, really liberal college (Reddit->fediverse). I can openly do so much stuff, like say fuck nazis, which I regularly do, and very much mean. I can even say stuff like “the only good nazi…” and people will know what I’m talking about AND agree with, thank fuck. It’s just a much more grown up place here, and I’m much more comfortable being closer to being able to speak my mind without having to censor myself, and I’ve noticed this in other people, too, that there’s far less conformity to respectability politics, and people actually say what they think, regardless of how bizarre or unhinged it is, I truly love that.
The app - Baconreader was so smooth. I’m getting used to the fediverse one, but there are still a lot of decisions by the devs that I hate.
Have you used Voyager, Thunder, Summit?
In like 2023 and a little last year, I tried out literally a dozen of them. Most of them were in earlier stages of development and were VERY space wasteful whilst also showing very little data AND having no customizations to fix that stuff. I’m currently using Sync, and as long as I customize the shit out of it, it’s bearable.
I tried: jerboa, kbin, connect, voyager, lemmotif, thunder, liftoff, summit, sync, a different voyager, tundra, and artemis.
I eventually got burnt out on trying and trying to customize each app, and settled on sync I guess.
Sync hasn’t been updated for a long time, and will stop working with Lemmy 1.0, I would recommend to have a look at the 3 above when you have some time.
!summit@lemmy.world has been active lately
The subreddits for individual sports teams, posting comments in game threads with a hundred other fans of your team from around the world.
Subs/communities for actively watched shows. I find myself needing to browser redlib for insights on, most recently, the white lotus and the last of us
I still go back to reddit for r/severanceappletvplus.
!severance@lemmy.world is nice, but not the same.
r/libraryofbabel, r/tragedeigh, and r/everyoneknowsthat. But I can live without them.
Tragedeigh gets depressing sometimes as someone who had a horrible name growing up. Libraryofbabel kinda encourages my maladaptive daydreaming and honestly creating !0x255@sh.itjust.works wasn’t the best for trying to break out of my daydreaming addiction.
However I can get my Who’s Who updates somewhere else. Everyone knows
thatit, you’ve got ulterior motives!Really just the quantity of people, especially on ask subs. Lemmy just feels incredibly empty. And the breadth of topics people discuss here is extremely small.
It’s the worst thing about Lemmy and all it really does is make me more hesitant to squander potential friends by acting shitty, and less liable to spend hours chatting.
I could go on a sub like NoStupidQuestions or AskElectricans, etc where someone would ask a question about some super obscure topic I happen to be knowledgeable on. I could write a long, in-depth response which would then get dozens of responses and further questions. I’d be engaged in the same conversation about this topic or that for days.
Here, it feels like 99% of conversations are about IT/programming, which is not my field, or about American politics.
Yeah no, it’s not the best. But I’d still curl that monkey’s paw any day
Larger population of users = more content and more communities
AITAH
Mostly the funny memes but also nothing else
Active posts that aren’t about linux or politics.
Have a look at the pinned post on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Specific TV show episode threads. I loved reading what people thought, things I’d missed, etc.
Same. The r/severanceappletvplus threads are amazing.
r/simpleliving or, more exactly, a more active version of it since the community is there: !simpleliving@lemm.ee. And more people participating in the !journaling@sh.itjust.works community too but hopefully we’re slowly getting there.
I always feel like people living simply minimize their time online, so this kind of communities tend to be a bit quiet
Many do limit online time but there is also 8 billions of us on this planet. So, no matter how strictly we limit our involvement, I think the community itself, not each individual member, should be a little more active at any given time. But like with many communities on Lemmy we lack more participants ;)
We don’t have 8 billions people, we have 50k monthly active users.
!Football@lemm.ee is the most popular sport on the planet, the community is quiet quiet
Active communities that aren’t about Linux
Active communities, period.
Reddit started out without subreddits. Eventually grew too big for that so split into topical channels. Then the channel would get too big and a niche would subdivide out. When Lemmy started, or more so when there was the first big exodus from Reddit, all of that was recreated, but without the users. So we have a ton of dead communities that really need to be rolled up and cleaned up.
That happens regularly on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
Have a look at the pinned post on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Active niche communities
Any that you’re willing to start up? I’m always looking for new communities to join!
Starting them up isn’t particularly difficult. Keeping them alive is.
Without enough users (and old content), it can be hard to keep a community afloat
