The great thing (though it's sometimes a curse) is that posts in any community will show up in the local and all feeds on the host instance, and the all feed on remote instances so long as at least one user is subscribed. So even communities with low subscribers can reach a wide audience.
Which also gives the all page it's purpose in some form because it does exactly what promised, show everything. This gives everyone a chance at being seen
I want to see reddit mods "expanding" their subs to Lemmy. I'm making a new reddit account expressly for subtly shifting people here. Make friends and invite people to specific servers. Skip the server that overloads some people and just send them to lemm.ee, programming.dev, ani.social, etc...
I just uploaded a pic of my portable CD player from 1990 to a community for CD collectors. Nobody had uploaded in a couple months and the only person who had ever uploaded was the creator.
It proceeded to get quadruple the upvotes of the last post. People are there. You just have to share what you've got.
Did the same with ![email protected] and same situation :) but it doesn't matter, I've met some great people there :)
I've noticed that there's only a small percentage of overall people that I think have the "right" views about the world, and it's totally fine that it's only 1% of all people or whatever. As long as there's one other person I think it's all worth it, but in reality, there are likely millions, just hard to find them under billions.
Have you tried promoting your community on the subreddit? People might not know about it. I occasionally visit the Czech Republic, definitely subbing to your community.
I know, you're probably Czech because you replied to my post in perfect Czech. Do you think your Reddit repost bot, while not 100% ethical, could help boost that community?
To be honest, Reddit’s practices are even less ethical (process known as enshittification so I don't really care if we break their TOS. Too bad they don’t allow direct i.redd.it image linking anymore, it was annoying even before I left it.
Hmm, I think the bot works well for subs that are mainly a content feed so losing the comments isn't a big deal (like eg. r/EarthPorn). But with r/Czech there is quite a lot of discussion so I'm not sure if reposting just the posts and losing the comments makes sense. I really don't gaf about Reddot's TOS, the thing I was ethically unsure about was if flooding Lemmy with Reddit reposts (ie. creating 'fake activity') wouldn't be detrimental. But with ![email protected] it seems to be going well.
Also yes I am Czech (I can also speak a bit of German like you do).
I really wish the ![email protected] community grows here on Lemmy. It was my all time favorite subreddit. No fighting, no toxicity, it's just straight up:
I can't decide if it's a good thing or a bad thing, honestly. I joined the initial wave of people leaving Reddit when RiF died. I was excited to see my niche communities like Skyrim Mods and ObsidianMD pop up here, but over time they stagnated as people slipped back to Reddit.
At the same time, I came to realize that I spent a lot of time on stupid subs browsing stupid content that just sucked away my time. And for even my niche subs that I missed, I realized that 75% of that new content is the same reposts, the same arguments, the same debates. I do cheat every once in awhile and go back to Reddit, but now it's to see the top posts of the month to see what I've missed. Turns out, I haven't missed much.
It has taken a while to get Lemmy where I want it. I've filtered a ton of communities and users that do nothing but talk about Russia and socialism and whatever the fuck tankies are, and there sure were a lot of cartoons of animals with enormous NSFW bits I had to filter, but it's starting to come together now for me.
There were/are a lot of dumb subs full of dumb content for sure, but what I miss about Reddit are the subs that have a super deep expert knowledge base. The plumbing sub, the mechanic advice sub, the vacuum sub, the fountain pen sub, etc. I've saved a lot of money and heartache by asking knowledgeable people naive questions in niche subreddits. Lemmy just plain doesn't have the numbers for those kinds of subs to exist here at that level yet. But I hope we get there because for me that was the best thing about Reddit (though I also have a soft spot for the big "what's your true real life paranormal experience" mega-threads that would pop off every few months.)
Your comment resonates with me on more than one level. I joined Lemmy after Apollo went down, and incidentally was also excited to see ObsidianMD (hello, fellow Obsidian user). I was hoping people would migrate over from Reddit but alas, I still have to go where the discussion is. I kind of feel bad about it, but still do it. I also feel like moving away from Reddit saved me from hours of mindless doom scrolling,although I suspect that now I am doing that when reading Lemmy local.
Well, yeah, but sometimes I don't think I can make a high-quality post to a community like "Data is Beautiful." I was mostly a watcher. But you are right, of course, it's in our power to bring communities to life.
When I first arrived in Lemmy the top posts were about 100 likes and 5 comments. It has grown so much since then that I was already super happy but then this week they launch Boost for lemmy (I was a boost user on the before times) and now my life is finally complete again. Have faith guys, things will get better!
Yeah true, but chances are you'll post on a smaller """dead""" sublemmy and it'll get upvotes and responses within hours. Do the same with an active reddit and you'll be lucky if anyone responds
My favs from Reddit were "Data is beautiful," "Next fucking level," "Life pro tips," maybe their more active alternatives exist on Lemmy under some other names?
Unless you had a previous account, I definitely saw someone else complaining about the lack of active disc golf communities recently. Hope you find each other and talk about disc golf.
I don't have friends. I'm a Lemming (former Redditor), after all.
elsewhere on the Fediverse
Good point.
There's ![email protected] but federation with Lemmy does not really work at this point.
There are several Mastodon instances like witter.cz which are reasonably alive but I prefer Reddit-style social media. I might need to compromise on this, though. Hive and Dread have been suggested but I can't imagine the crypro-heavy or dark web platforms attracting a meaningful crowd.
Oh, you're the lifeblood of @gameart, aren't you? I tried to contribute once, but then my favorite screenshot I ever took never even federated at all and I got too discouraged.
Still sad about it, tbh. No idea if it would happen again or not. I should dig through my folders again. I don't think I have much, but I must have something
We gotta get niche communities that aren't just programmers and socialists... I'm a socialist, but I wanna talk to some people about how Porygon is one of the greatest Pokemon of all tiem.
Oh cool, where do I find the spirituality folks? Cause I have this on-off relationship with God that I should probably get a definitive on or off answer to. I mean at this point I'm worried I"m making the coupling toxic with this indecisiveness, ya dig?
I wish you the best of luck in your spiritual journey, but the idea of getting a definitive answer to the God question is something humans have been working on for thousands of years. I wouldn't beat yourself up about not having one lol
I feel like the mystical, the supernatural, is something that doesn't exist, but it's "supposed to", and we're witnessing the timeline where they don't.... a timeline that is for that reason.. defective.
It depends on what you're looking for but it seems like they hang out on general servers like lemmy.ml or lemmy.world. The Lemmy Community Browser should help you look for any communities you want to find out more about.
On one hand, it's a great sigh of relief to not see so many communities contaminated with shallow interactions that are harbored by typical Redditquette behavior.
The other hand, it's depressing to see so much wasted potential. I mean, there was supposed to have been a big revolution, wasn't there? The fediverse did gain a large chunk of users. But, most of the time, it was treated like a temporary vacation resort or some airbnb to most users that are "so tired" of reddit. No, they were only tired of reddit because it was both the cool thing to do and it was for a short period.
But they can't escape the crack, they know it is addicting. The karma farming. The alt-account abuse. The drama. No, they want it all back and can't fathom a part of social media where none of that is existent, save for a bare minimum. Hell, millions of people still somehow use Twitter today even though Musk has done a wonderous job taking a daily dump on it.
People really are afraid of change.
I feel a lot more contributory towards other platforms not Reddit. On Reddit, I just feel like I just say things until I hit walls. Those walls being, being confronted by shithead mods, dumbass trolls or feeling claustrophobic from where I can post because of the karma.
The largest problem I see is that I would use reddit to keep up on local events, since at the time I preferred it to using Twitter or FB for the same. Now I avoid all three but the community that posted for the local stuff in my city didn’t move to Lemmy or Mastodon. I don’t have a way to post the local stuff myself because if I had a good way to keep track of it I wouldn’t have needed reddit for it in the first place!
Which I guess is just me unhappy that more of the communities didn’t move over, I really don’t have a solution to the problem. Other than continuing to engage here as often as I can and hoping for the best.
FYI the episode discussions on [email protected] are automated by a bot (the same used on Reddit in fact) and us Kbin users can't see bot posts, so it looks like there are none. I have high hopes that the next big Kbin update remedies this issue.
Kbin is an absolutely fantastic platform that has held up remarkably well given that it was not ready for the sudden influx of new users.
Plus side: a lot of bugs are being identified and quickly.
Minus side: Poor ernest can only do so much about them in a given time frame.
I still want to make this my primary Fediverse account simply because I like the idea of being able to use one account for both Lemmy and Mastodon content, but I have a backup on SDF that I need to use sometimes because things just don't work right here.
Also not being able to see bots is a massive downside. Rather, not being able to see the formally declared bots; the dodgy bots masquerading as actual users slip through just fine.
Thanks for the hot tip. I had no idea. I already had a duplicate username over on Lemmy.World so it's not too hard of a jump. Even still 13 hours, 4 days, 16 day old posts being the top posts doesn't bode well lol.
This might go slightly against the spirit of Lemmy, but for subreddits that act like a content feed where losing comments isn't a problem, I've created a reposter bot to mirror subreddits on Lemmy.
It has proven quite popular on ![email protected] . If anyone wants me to mirror a similar sub just drop me a comment
There already seems to be one that has activity: ![email protected]
I guess we could ask them if they'd like my bot to repost stuff from the subreddit there too though
Haha, yes I can try adding them!
There's no easy way to add more because the reposts are just made by a program that I've set to run on my laptop. If you're feeling particularly techy you could try running it too if you like: https://github.com/albert-tomanek/reddit-to-lemmy-reposter
I'm hoping I'm able to stick with the community I made, even if it never gets anywhere. It feels nice to be working on some kind of project. I need new ideas for content, though. I doubt scanning RSS feeds for relevant articles every day is gonna keep things interesting.
Edit: Guess I oughtta plug. SFF Gaming is for sci-fi and fantasy gaming of all types, from video to tabletop and larp and anything else SFF gaming related that I may not know about.
SFF Gaming is for sci-fi and fantasy gaming of all types. It's kinda broad scope but I don't really wanna narrow it too much. Something I'm wrestling with is how "mainstream" of news should I post? I won't stop others from posting things as long as they're relevant, but for example would it be constructive for me to post the story about the Talos Principle 2 release date? It's cool news but I'm sure most people will see it elsewhere so I feel like me posting it to my community would only serve to clog feeds.
SFF Gaming is for sci-fi and fantasy gaming of all types. It's kinda broad scope but I don't really wanna narrow it too much. Something I'm wrestling with is how "mainstream" of news should I post? I won't stop others from posting things as long as they're relevant, but for example would it be constructive for me to post the story about the Talos Principle 2 release date? It's cool news but I'm sure most people will see it elsewhere so I feel like me posting it to my community would only serve to clog feeds. I would like to mainly focus on smaller stuff, though. Projects that might not other get many eyeballs.
Maybe you can find an interesting angle on a popular post. I saw the Talos 2 announcement and got super excited. But there was little discussion about what the story could be, which is what I am really interested in. So maybe you could start a discussion around that?
or FOSS nerds flooding in any post to do with technology that isn't FOSS, ruining the discussion and downvoting everyone who even mentions anything that isn't FOSS.
Like the post about Windows Paint getting layers and transparency support, and every person trying to discuss it is downvoted, and there's a flood of comments talking about how you should use Linux because Microsoft is spying.
The thing is, what exactly would you want from a czech-specific community? I mean "my" German one is decidedly not dead, but I see no reason to participate because I just don't care about "Germany" as a concept that much. It's the actual topics that interest me, and there it doesn't matter where someone is from.
You probably don't get the purpose of the community. At feddit.de, you have no shortage of communities from ![email protected] to ![email protected], but similarly to Czech subreddits, we only have two, separated by language:
So ![email protected] is not exclusively about the state. It is supposed to be an alternative to r/czech, discussing anything “Czechs” might be interested in, as opposed to broader audiences like ![email protected]. This is purposefully vague and highly inclusive.
I would suggest you to consider joining/posting if you meet at least one of the conditions:
Czech speaker, any level
culturally Czech
has been / plans to go to the Czech Republic
interested in anything about our country, culture or life
have content/question that people who meet the above criteria might want to respond to/answer, as opposed to people in or other broader communities
if you read this far, you 100% qualify
If you're still unsure, look at some posts at r/czech, not necessarily top ones, and see what fits. There is a large gray area, for example this map is unlikely to classify as Czech-related but this one could despite both having been created by a Czech.
As for topic separation, r/czech has tags HUMOR/META/PICTURE/POLITICS/CZECH MADE/QUESTION etc. but not only does Lemmy not support them yet, the current amount of content is more than manageable without them. After growing enough, r/czech was “split” into other subreddits, like r/czechmemes (CZ/EN memes) and r/okkamaraderetarde (CZ Gen Z dank memes).
The battle won't be won until there are active communities for every fetish, I'm talking butt expansion, breast expansion, inflation, weight gain, bondage, body swapping, body part TF, ALL OF THE WEIRD STUFF!
That's true, but most Lemmy clients default their sort to "Local" (only posts from the instance you registered on). I don't think there are many dedicated NSFW instances that are federated, at least not with my instance (lemmy.ml). Your experience may differ. The problem is that if few people can access and are aware of a community, then fewer people will post in it. That might explain why there is a lack of good porn communities on Lemmy compared to Reddit.
But it’s very common to have nsfw alts in other instances. My feeds in Reddit were also quite different depending on which account I was using. When people are wanting to “discover” content, they’ll find it, they don’t need to have it intermixed with their memes, news, politics, recipes, weird hobby community (ok maybe here’s overlap lol), etc.
Oof. We all have that one Lemmy community. I really like uncle jokes community but I’m one of the few who’s posted. Oh well, I’ll keep adding content here and there.
Lemmy's admins is partially at fault here. Like, you go into the Fediverse to give users refuge from the burnout and dissastifaction as to what they have seen and experienced on bigger social media platforms. Where distrust is at an all time high.
And then you go and decide to host your main announcements over on a platform where people have stirring feelings of contempt for the platform that is centralized. You are going to alienate your audience.
I take great solace in going to the Neoliberal attempts at communities here and finding them to be ghost towns.
Stands to reason, as most people are here literally fleeing capitalist greed rot. Im glad most neolibs trusted the free hand of the market and are probably still on Reddit for Spez to fuck with as he wishes.
Republicans are bastards, but Neoliberals are the constant, painful reminder that we once had a pro-labor party in the US pre-Reagan, and they betrayed us to take the oligarch money along with Republicans.
I often find a community i was looking for and there are often no posts. When the last post is 3 months ago, at least there is something but sometimes nothing is there.
Be the change you want to see!
Precisely! I try to comment and post partly for the purpose of generating activity
Me too. I'm doing my part!
Content!
Somewhat but I could be happier.
https://media.giphy.com/media/87CKDqErVfMqY/giphy.gif
The great thing (though it's sometimes a curse) is that posts in any community will show up in the local and all feeds on the host instance, and the all feed on remote instances so long as at least one user is subscribed. So even communities with low subscribers can reach a wide audience.
Which also gives the all page it's purpose in some form because it does exactly what promised, show everything. This gives everyone a chance at being seen
Yeah, but you have to scroll a lot to get past Politics or Memes
Depends on what you search for, active usually gives more populat stuff but you can get lucky by searchin with new
Commenting for the purpose of generating activity is my favorite activity
c/spacedicks will rise again from the ashes, like a beautiful, mutilated penis.
I want to see reddit mods "expanding" their subs to Lemmy. I'm making a new reddit account expressly for subtly shifting people here. Make friends and invite people to specific servers. Skip the server that overloads some people and just send them to lemm.ee, programming.dev, ani.social, etc...
In my experience, a lot of these subs aren't abandoned and have plenty of subscribers, so if you post, people will jump on it.
Can confirm I'm sitting in many communities waiting for content, and always delighted to see it.
If I was interesting, maybe I'd make some of my own.
Agreed! I'm a boring person (that's why I'm on social media)
Being boring is a thing people do.
I just uploaded a pic of my portable CD player from 1990 to a community for CD collectors. Nobody had uploaded in a couple months and the only person who had ever uploaded was the creator.
It proceeded to get quadruple the upvotes of the last post. People are there. You just have to share what you've got.
Now this is the inspirational content I want to see out of The_Picard_Maneuver
Duplicate comment
Thanks, deleted the other.
My app (or instance?) has been acting a little buggy today.
That’s what I’ve been doing at ![email protected] and it isn’t growing :( Czechs seem to be comfortable with Reddit.
Did the same with ![email protected] and same situation :) but it doesn't matter, I've met some great people there :)
I've noticed that there's only a small percentage of overall people that I think have the "right" views about the world, and it's totally fine that it's only 1% of all people or whatever. As long as there's one other person I think it's all worth it, but in reality, there are likely millions, just hard to find them under billions.
Have you tried promoting your community on the subreddit? People might not know about it. I occasionally visit the Czech Republic, definitely subbing to your community.
That’s what one of the links points to (via Google Translate so you can appreciate).
I feel your pain. I've subbed to the czech-lemmy communities btw
I know, you're probably Czech because you replied to my post in perfect Czech. Do you think your Reddit repost bot, while not 100% ethical, could help boost that community?
To be honest, Reddit’s practices are even less ethical (process known as enshittification so I don't really care if we break their TOS. Too bad they don’t allow direct i.redd.it image linking anymore, it was annoying even before I left it.
Hmm, I think the bot works well for subs that are mainly a content feed so losing the comments isn't a big deal (like eg. r/EarthPorn). But with r/Czech there is quite a lot of discussion so I'm not sure if reposting just the posts and losing the comments makes sense. I really don't gaf about Reddot's TOS, the thing I was ethically unsure about was if flooding Lemmy with Reddit reposts (ie. creating 'fake activity') wouldn't be detrimental. But with ![email protected] it seems to be going well.
Also yes I am Czech (I can also speak a bit of German like you do).
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
enshittification
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
they're the one who won't leave reddit
I really wish the ![email protected] community grows here on Lemmy. It was my all time favorite subreddit. No fighting, no toxicity, it's just straight up:
"I forgot this thing"
"You mean THIS thing?"
"Yeah! That thing!"
Everybody wins.
Please link it
Edited my original post
Thanks!
Subbed!
thanks for a great tip, did not know about this community!
True. They helped me a few times and I'm very impressed
I can't decide if it's a good thing or a bad thing, honestly. I joined the initial wave of people leaving Reddit when RiF died. I was excited to see my niche communities like Skyrim Mods and ObsidianMD pop up here, but over time they stagnated as people slipped back to Reddit.
At the same time, I came to realize that I spent a lot of time on stupid subs browsing stupid content that just sucked away my time. And for even my niche subs that I missed, I realized that 75% of that new content is the same reposts, the same arguments, the same debates. I do cheat every once in awhile and go back to Reddit, but now it's to see the top posts of the month to see what I've missed. Turns out, I haven't missed much.
It has taken a while to get Lemmy where I want it. I've filtered a ton of communities and users that do nothing but talk about Russia and socialism and whatever the fuck tankies are, and there sure were a lot of cartoons of animals with enormous NSFW bits I had to filter, but it's starting to come together now for me.
There were/are a lot of dumb subs full of dumb content for sure, but what I miss about Reddit are the subs that have a super deep expert knowledge base. The plumbing sub, the mechanic advice sub, the vacuum sub, the fountain pen sub, etc. I've saved a lot of money and heartache by asking knowledgeable people naive questions in niche subreddits. Lemmy just plain doesn't have the numbers for those kinds of subs to exist here at that level yet. But I hope we get there because for me that was the best thing about Reddit (though I also have a soft spot for the big "what's your true real life paranormal experience" mega-threads that would pop off every few months.)
Your comment resonates with me on more than one level. I joined Lemmy after Apollo went down, and incidentally was also excited to see ObsidianMD (hello, fellow Obsidian user). I was hoping people would migrate over from Reddit but alas, I still have to go where the discussion is. I kind of feel bad about it, but still do it. I also feel like moving away from Reddit saved me from hours of mindless doom scrolling,although I suspect that now I am doing that when reading Lemmy local.
So you make a post, right?
Right?
Well, yeah, but sometimes I don't think I can make a high-quality post to a community like "Data is Beautiful." I was mostly a watcher. But you are right, of course, it's in our power to bring communities to life.
When I first arrived in Lemmy the top posts were about 100 likes and 5 comments. It has grown so much since then that I was already super happy but then this week they launch Boost for lemmy (I was a boost user on the before times) and now my life is finally complete again. Have faith guys, things will get better!
Boost is best! 🚀
I am more of a lurker. I browse and not post. I don't have anything to add really.
Yeah true, but chances are you'll post on a smaller """dead""" sublemmy and it'll get upvotes and responses within hours. Do the same with an active reddit and you'll be lucky if anyone responds
There's no better feeling than making a post to a dead community, and then suddenly tons of posts start flooding in lol.
I actively try to post when I see this happen.
What communities are you experiencing this with? Maybe we share some interests.
My favs from Reddit were "Data is beautiful," "Next fucking level," "Life pro tips," maybe their more active alternatives exist on Lemmy under some other names?
I know the other two, but what's "next fucking level"? Just crazy, over-the-top shit?
Not even, on reddit it's just reposts of cool but rehearsed tricks.
There was plenty of wtf talent on there too. It wasn't all the 7000th try to make a basket from the top of a building.
https://lemmy.ml/comment/4236457
For me it's disc golf.
Funny animals.
Trackers.
A lot of the OC nsfw subs aren't nearly as active yet, especially if they're more niche.
MMA.
I'm holding out for ButtSharpies, not really the change I want to be in the world though.
That sounds like quiter talk
Unless you had a previous account, I definitely saw someone else complaining about the lack of active disc golf communities recently. Hope you find each other and talk about disc golf.
What mma community are you watching? I want to find a place to talk about mma
Kbin is somewhat active, particularly on fight nights
I only know of ![email protected]
![email protected] is much more active
![email protected] is much more active
That’s what I’ve been doing at czech-lemmy.eu and it isn’t growing :( Czechs seem to be comfortable with Reddit.
How bout your friends or Czech spaces elsewhere on the Fediverse?
Just trying to be helpful and optimistic
I don't have friends. I'm a Lemming (former Redditor), after all.
Good point.
There's ![email protected] but federation with Lemmy does not really work at this point.
There are several Mastodon instances like witter.cz which are reasonably alive but I prefer Reddit-style social media. I might need to compromise on this, though.
Hive and Dread have been suggested but I can't imagine the crypro-heavy or dark web platforms attracting a meaningful crowd.
Me: single handedly keeping 9 communities alive
...
I need help
Hero
Hey, I see u doin numbers, too!
Oh, you're the lifeblood of @gameart, aren't you? I tried to contribute once, but then my favorite screenshot I ever took never even federated at all and I got too discouraged.
Still sad about it, tbh. No idea if it would happen again or not. I should dig through my folders again. I don't think I have much, but I must have something
I am! If you have screenshots to share ![email protected] is a great place, too!
💪 💪 💪 💪 💪 💪 💪 💪💪
We gotta get niche communities that aren't just programmers and socialists... I'm a socialist, but I wanna talk to some people about how Porygon is one of the greatest Pokemon of all tiem.
We have the science folks over and mander.xyz and slrpnk.net. Lemmy.world also seems like a very diverse instance to star whatever you want on
Oh cool, where do I find the spirituality folks? Cause I have this on-off relationship with God that I should probably get a definitive on or off answer to. I mean at this point I'm worried I"m making the coupling toxic with this indecisiveness, ya dig?
I wish you the best of luck in your spiritual journey, but the idea of getting a definitive answer to the God question is something humans have been working on for thousands of years. I wouldn't beat yourself up about not having one lol
I feel like the mystical, the supernatural, is something that doesn't exist, but it's "supposed to", and we're witnessing the timeline where they don't.... a timeline that is for that reason.. defective.
Ever feel that way?
It depends on what you're looking for but it seems like they hang out on general servers like lemmy.ml or lemmy.world. The Lemmy Community Browser should help you look for any communities you want to find out more about.
Lemmy Community Browser is cool, that's a great resource I did not know about. Thank you.
Hey I got c/goblincore going again singlehandedly. Post! People will participate.
![email protected]
This is how you link to communities
Thank you.
I love that place, it’s so soothing.
I absolutely love it! Want to see all the nuts I've harvested lately? Because, nuts.
I'm not interesting enough to post...
You seem plenty interesting.
be the change you wish to see!
Subreddit? More like Sublemmy
Actually "communities". But terminology really is beside the point here.
I like sublemmits lol
Did you post tho
Do my best
I was so excited to find a scuba group.
Then it just kinda went nowhere.
I feel like a "sinking" pun was right there.
Just keep breathing, it'll be ok.
Well, it was a minute ago.
They were so close to saying "Then it just kinda went under"... so close....
It just ran out of air.
This belongs to [email protected] Seriously
damn it's me every time to find a circle :^)
Your mouth floating away may or may not be related.
"We have determined that your injuries are not service related."
On one hand, it's a great sigh of relief to not see so many communities contaminated with shallow interactions that are harbored by typical Redditquette behavior.
The other hand, it's depressing to see so much wasted potential. I mean, there was supposed to have been a big revolution, wasn't there? The fediverse did gain a large chunk of users. But, most of the time, it was treated like a temporary vacation resort or some airbnb to most users that are "so tired" of reddit. No, they were only tired of reddit because it was both the cool thing to do and it was for a short period.
But they can't escape the crack, they know it is addicting. The karma farming. The alt-account abuse. The drama. No, they want it all back and can't fathom a part of social media where none of that is existent, save for a bare minimum. Hell, millions of people still somehow use Twitter today even though Musk has done a wonderous job taking a daily dump on it.
People really are afraid of change.
I feel a lot more contributory towards other platforms not Reddit. On Reddit, I just feel like I just say things until I hit walls. Those walls being, being confronted by shithead mods, dumbass trolls or feeling claustrophobic from where I can post because of the karma.
Yeah, the reddit "protest" died pretty quickly and now its all but forgotten
The protest is forgotten, or reddit is? Cuz I haven't touched reddit since my app stopped working 🤷♂️
died? murdered by admins
the alternative protests (john oliver, topic change, etc.), those died on their own iirc
The largest problem I see is that I would use reddit to keep up on local events, since at the time I preferred it to using Twitter or FB for the same. Now I avoid all three but the community that posted for the local stuff in my city didn’t move to Lemmy or Mastodon. I don’t have a way to post the local stuff myself because if I had a good way to keep track of it I wouldn’t have needed reddit for it in the first place!
Which I guess is just me unhappy that more of the communities didn’t move over, I really don’t have a solution to the problem. Other than continuing to engage here as often as I can and hoping for the best.
Sometimes it feels like I'm writing a journal entry for myself because no one else posts.
Actually, this is a valid use of Reddit or Lemmy, a blog =)
Sad !anime noises... I miss episode discussions.
FYI the episode discussions on [email protected] are automated by a bot (the same used on Reddit in fact) and us Kbin users can't see bot posts, so it looks like there are none. I have high hopes that the next big Kbin update remedies this issue.
Kbin is an absolutely fantastic platform that has held up remarkably well given that it was not ready for the sudden influx of new users.
Plus side: a lot of bugs are being identified and quickly.
Minus side: Poor ernest can only do so much about them in a given time frame.
I still want to make this my primary Fediverse account simply because I like the idea of being able to use one account for both Lemmy and Mastodon content, but I have a backup on SDF that I need to use sometimes because things just don't work right here.
Also not being able to see bots is a massive downside. Rather, not being able to see the formally declared bots; the dodgy bots masquerading as actual users slip through just fine.
Thanks for the hot tip. I had no idea. I already had a duplicate username over on Lemmy.World so it's not too hard of a jump. Even still 13 hours, 4 days, 16 day old posts being the top posts doesn't bode well lol.
https://lemmy.world/c/anime for the lazy
This might go slightly against the spirit of Lemmy, but for subreddits that act like a content feed where losing comments isn't a problem, I've created a reposter bot to mirror subreddits on Lemmy.
It has proven quite popular on ![email protected] . If anyone wants me to mirror a similar sub just drop me a comment
HistoryPorn please!
There already seems to be one that has activity: ![email protected]
I guess we could ask them if they'd like my bot to repost stuff from the subreddit there too though
Sure!
You sir are doing god's work!
Can you do it for gymemes?
Here ya go! ![email protected]
Woooo! Can I trouble you for some more?
r/analog r/architecturerevival r/artefactporn r/arthistory r/dildont r/farpeoplehate r/houseporn r/liminalspace r/thalassophobia r/theyknew r/truefilm r/ukiyoe
How can I add more if i want to?
Haha, yes I can try adding them!
There's no easy way to add more because the reposts are just made by a program that I've set to run on my laptop. If you're feeling particularly techy you could try running it too if you like: https://github.com/albert-tomanek/reddit-to-lemmy-reposter
Ofc!
I personally real like this idea, keep it up!
Thanks!
I'm hoping I'm able to stick with the community I made, even if it never gets anywhere. It feels nice to be working on some kind of project. I need new ideas for content, though. I doubt scanning RSS feeds for relevant articles every day is gonna keep things interesting.
Edit: Guess I oughtta plug. SFF Gaming is for sci-fi and fantasy gaming of all types, from video to tabletop and larp and anything else SFF gaming related that I may not know about.
What community is it? Maybe people here will have some ideas for you
SFF Gaming is for sci-fi and fantasy gaming of all types. It's kinda broad scope but I don't really wanna narrow it too much. Something I'm wrestling with is how "mainstream" of news should I post? I won't stop others from posting things as long as they're relevant, but for example would it be constructive for me to post the story about the Talos Principle 2 release date? It's cool news but I'm sure most people will see it elsewhere so I feel like me posting it to my community would only serve to clog feeds.
that's kind of a mix of Gaming and Sci-Fi communities I am subbed to. But I will give it a try!
Yeah, one of my big challenges is carving an identity out. Also carving one out for the community badum tss Thanks for giving it a try!
Keep it up!
Thanks!
What's your community?
SFF Gaming is for sci-fi and fantasy gaming of all types. It's kinda broad scope but I don't really wanna narrow it too much. Something I'm wrestling with is how "mainstream" of news should I post? I won't stop others from posting things as long as they're relevant, but for example would it be constructive for me to post the story about the Talos Principle 2 release date? It's cool news but I'm sure most people will see it elsewhere so I feel like me posting it to my community would only serve to clog feeds. I would like to mainly focus on smaller stuff, though. Projects that might not other get many eyeballs.
Maybe you can find an interesting angle on a popular post. I saw the Talos 2 announcement and got super excited. But there was little discussion about what the story could be, which is what I am really interested in. So maybe you could start a discussion around that?
That's a very good idea!
I made a post to discuss the first game. I'm playing it now and once I've beaten it I'll make a post to discuss what people expect of the second game.
Or all it is a bot that reposts reddit posts with no comments
or FOSS nerds flooding in any post to do with technology that isn't FOSS, ruining the discussion and downvoting everyone who even mentions anything that isn't FOSS.
Like the post about Windows Paint getting layers and transparency support, and every person trying to discuss it is downvoted, and there's a flood of comments talking about how you should use Linux because Microsoft is spying.
Like ok? Or lets discuss the fucking topic?
I mean at least there's some related conversation. You could just ignore that comment or down vote it.
You're lucky, at least you have ![email protected], ![email protected], ![email protected], ![email protected], ![email protected], ![email protected], ![email protected] and lots of other trans-adjacent communities. We Czechs have ![email protected] and ![email protected] and they’re both dead.
The thing is, what exactly would you want from a czech-specific community? I mean "my" German one is decidedly not dead, but I see no reason to participate because I just don't care about "Germany" as a concept that much. It's the actual topics that interest me, and there it doesn't matter where someone is from.
You probably don't get the purpose of the community. At feddit.de, you have no shortage of communities from ![email protected] to ![email protected], but similarly to Czech subreddits, we only have two, separated by language:
So ![email protected] is not exclusively about the state. It is supposed to be an alternative to r/czech, discussing anything “Czechs” might be interested in, as opposed to broader audiences like ![email protected]. This is purposefully vague and highly inclusive.
I would suggest you to consider joining/posting if you meet at least one of the conditions:
If you're still unsure, look at some posts at r/czech, not necessarily top ones, and see what fits. There is a large gray area, for example this map is unlikely to classify as Czech-related but this one could despite both having been created by a Czech.
As for topic separation, r/czech has tags
HUMOR/META/PICTURE/POLITICS/CZECH MADE/QUESTIONetc. but not only does Lemmy not support them yet, the current amount of content is more than manageable without them. After growing enough, r/czech was “split” into other subreddits, like r/czechmemes (CZ/EN memes) and r/okkamaraderetarde (CZ Gen Z dank memes).The battle won't be won until there are active communities for every fetish, I'm talking butt expansion, breast expansion, inflation, weight gain, bondage, body swapping, body part TF, ALL OF THE WEIRD STUFF!
I think many major instances prohibit NSFW communities.
But there are instances dedicated to nsfw
That's true, but most Lemmy clients default their sort to "Local" (only posts from the instance you registered on). I don't think there are many dedicated NSFW instances that are federated, at least not with my instance (lemmy.ml). Your experience may differ. The problem is that if few people can access and are aware of a community, then fewer people will post in it. That might explain why there is a lack of good porn communities on Lemmy compared to Reddit.
But it’s very common to have nsfw alts in other instances. My feeds in Reddit were also quite different depending on which account I was using. When people are wanting to “discover” content, they’ll find it, they don’t need to have it intermixed with their memes, news, politics, recipes, weird hobby community (ok maybe here’s overlap lol), etc.
Huh really? That's a shame, was wondering why I couldn't find many here.
Oof. We all have that one Lemmy community. I really like uncle jokes community but I’m one of the few who’s posted. Oh well, I’ll keep adding content here and there.
Maybe you could link the community so others can join?
My 2 favs are: [email protected] or [email protected] (it’s like a nsfw dad jokes sub). Check them out, it’s goofy humor.
FTFY
Thx bro.
Do you like it more than Dad Jokes? Haven't tried Uncle Jokes
!philosophymemes, where you at
🥺 I feel sad when I see lemmy's dwindling numbers...
Be not sad. Numbers are growing.
Lemmy's admins is partially at fault here. Like, you go into the Fediverse to give users refuge from the burnout and dissastifaction as to what they have seen and experienced on bigger social media platforms. Where distrust is at an all time high.
And then you go and decide to host your main announcements over on a platform where people have stirring feelings of contempt for the platform that is centralized. You are going to alienate your audience.
Same. that's why I'm commenting on posts that are several months old.There's nothing else to see here.
I take great solace in going to the Neoliberal attempts at communities here and finding them to be ghost towns.
Stands to reason, as most people are here literally fleeing capitalist greed rot. Im glad most neolibs trusted the free hand of the market and are probably still on Reddit for Spez to fuck with as he wishes.
Republicans are bastards, but Neoliberals are the constant, painful reminder that we once had a pro-labor party in the US pre-Reagan, and they betrayed us to take the oligarch money along with Republicans.
you find your favorite subreddit on lemmy
it's from lemmit.online:
I often find a community i was looking for and there are often no posts. When the last post is 3 months ago, at least there is something but sometimes nothing is there.
Where's 2latino4u gang? 😭
I just want to see fellow assholes debating on PCM
Wrong, all funny memes are here. [=
It’s cool tho it’s like we’re a tiny civilization— I say as a person who made an account a week ago
@nodimetotie Pretty much any topic that I enjoy, I try and add a new post when I subscribe to it and see if people are just waiting for new posts.