I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.
The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.
Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?
Thanks for hearing me out.
TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.
Make the posts you want to see. I’ve posted some questions in some niche communities here and I get well thought out responses and discourse.
Don’t let your dreams be memes as they say it today
A lot of people (like myself) need to step out of their comfort zones if we want Lemmy to get more conversations going. Yesterday I made a game thread in the community for my favourite NFL team; I was the only one who commented. But I’m going to try and make one for the game next week.
I’ll join you during regular season.
Well done, what is the community? !nfl@lemmy.world ?
Thanks. It’s a smaller instance for the Steelers, !Steelers@lemmy.world
Ah no wonder you had no discussion
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I see. If I may, you may want to comment on a larger community, as a way to get more people reacting.
I used to post to !fantasy@sffa.community , but now I do it in !fiction@literature.cafe because it will have a larger audience.
Lemmy is still a small population, so you might to go to the larger common denominator
Thanks for the advice, there’s definitely a lot more people on the NFL community but the Steelers are generally not viewed well by the NFL fans at large haha.
I ended up subscribing to the Athletic since they have a discuss section. Any sports threads on lemmy are small af rn unfortunately
Not only are they small, they keep appearing in feeds and people downvote them because they don’t want to see sporting content instead of just blocking the community.
Not at all. The only thing taking time to build here are the art communities, but they’re growing. So I’m patient and am trying to contribute
EXACTLY
there’s just not enough in depth stuff on here. i love shitposts, i love memes, i love a chill tone. but we need people posting interesting posts, you know. i’m not even sure how to put my finger on what’s different or why, but there’s just less…stuff here. it needs to be seasoned, or something.
It’s a matter of numbers. Like sports. You get the best by having a large pool of possible posts to rise to your attention. Reddit gets a bunch of posts that never get read. Lemmy we read pretty much all of them. There are some good posts here and there in Lemmy but not to the level of reddit. And until Lemmy gets reddit numbers it will suffer from “athletes” from small towns vs athletes from big cities. No contest.
I think a lot of the hobby and project posts on Reddit aren’t necessarily created by people who (also) have the internet / computers / net culture as an interest. Say, a hobby carpenter who only uses Facebook and Reddit casually, why and how would this person end up on Lemmy? The seasoning missing is all the people we left behind.
For me it’s just too much political stuff. On the other hand, if I block some keywords, I might only be left with memes and shitposts.
Doesn’t matter how good the content is if I have to fight the interface to get to it.
Lack of search really makes it hard to find a discussion on anything, which is what I used reddit for. I hope its a thing that gets implemented eventually.
But reddit search also sucks, TBF.
I’m using Memmy and I can search.
https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
several lemmy instances host this port of the old reddit interface at old.example.com
The lemmy interface is fine. It’s the reddit one I’m sick of dealing with.
Lemmy has enough to keep me entertained, and I did successfully finally break my years-long habit of going to reddit. However there are still some subs I look at occasionally since they can provide valuable information, like city-specific and subs about certain video games.
Same here. No longer on Reddit every day since I deleted Relay from my phone. But I do still tack “Reddit” at the end of my searches since it makes my searches much, much more useful.
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because low density of content, i browse lemmy by all and just block spammy communities im not interested, my home looks too empty for now, but still don’t feel the need to hang out on reddit
I’ve tried to do that so many times, but I just get inundated with such a massive volume of porn that it’s difficult to wade through to get to discussion communities I’m interested in.
Sure, Lemmy allows you to block NSFW content as a whole, but I don’t like doing that. I still want to see things like NSFW memes or NSFW discussion topics. Going nuclear and blocking all NSFW doesn’t really help the problem.
Try sync, there’s a multitude of block options. By instance, domain, user, community, etc.
There’s the porn, and then there’s some bot instances, right? And then there’s the pornbots that bring you a little mix of both.
Maybe it’s a lesser issue on world, but on some other instances I’ve found that bot instances are arguably worse than porn by sheer volume of posts, but they can be pretty close.
Its still early. This is the first time there has been a legitimate alternative to reddit and thats honestly only because 3rd party apps like sync have made it usable.
Reddit started when Digg changed its site and everyone went to reddit. There has also been multiple attempts to leave reddit, but no similar alternatives. Now there is a good alternative and there will be more things reddit does that will make people look for alternatives.
But the Reddit switch happened fairly quick. And there was content doesn’t seem to be the same with Lemmy. It’s all just memes and complaining about Reddit. Most of the communities I followed are a couple posts a day now and some are dead now.
I’m experiencing the same thing, so I’ve been doing the following:
I made a new main account on a different instance so I can get content from communities that were defederated from lemmy.world
I regularly toggle my main feed sorting from “active” to “hot” to get new posts
I actively post to some stagnant communities that haven’t taken off yet on Lemmy in the hopes that it starts to snowball
The preponderance of Lemmy users are currently disenfranchised former redditors (myself included) who have been able to figure out the fediverse. Memes and complaint discussions are relatively easy content to produce, and Linux/FOSS posts just come with the territory when a user base is technically savvy. No complaints on this front from me, however!
Really the only communities I’m currently missing are posts from my fellow JDM and German car enthusiasts and a few podcast communities.
What are your interests?
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Haven’t gone back to Reddit since. But what I do miss most is the sorting algorithm. I don’t know if it was just the abundance of posts, or better sorting. But on lemmy I keep seeing the same posts over and over again, regardless of my sorting setting. But I’ll be patient and hope that it gets better.
I’ve been using relay for the past month or so since it’s still up, and honestly a lot of content on Reddit feels like bot posting now. The communities seem to have gotten nastier as well, with incel type posts and hateful propaganda being the main themes I’m seeing there. I hope Lemmy can become a last bastion of content for me, but maybe I should just touch grass lol
I am of the opinion the algorithm is fine, these are just the dominant posts both in subject and engagement. And this is the problem. The place just isn’t big or diverse enough.
Reddit basically doesn’t exist to me anymore. Lemmy is hardly a substitute but it’s the best there is (because reddit doesn’t exist) so it’ll have to do. Every now and then I manage to bait someone debate me here but unless that happens I go thru the content pretty quick and then just have to come up with something else to do. It’s not what I would have wanted but it’s probably good for me. Social media is just entertainment. It’s in no way essential and probably has net-negative effect on society.
My reddit usage is 99% mobile app and 1% desktop. Since there are no more suitable reddit mobile app. I stopped. The only time nowadays that I visit reddit on desktop is google search and reddit is on top result.
I was disappointed the first couple of weeks after I moved here, but the communities that interest me have filled in quite well and I feel quite at home now.
Good luck.
I still have a Reddit account, but I only subscribe to the communities that aren’t replaceable yet.
But I refuse to use the Reddit app, so I only access on desktop, with adblock, maybe 3 times a week just to check in.
Being unsubscribed from the mains keeps it from being a rabbit hole.
Redreader still works, apparently they could prove their indispensability for the blind community.
You can still use TPAs (Boost at least) if you’re a mod. Just create a subreddit, set it to private and NSFW if you want and enjoy your fully functional TPA.
Here’s a little known secret: you can still enjoy Lemmy without giving up reddit. I use both. There are some sports subreddits that I am not prepared to walk away from.
