If at all possible, lol
Bigger isn’t necessarily better
That’s not what she said :'(
This.
Yeah, sure , but I believe there is a Goldilocks zone we are not yet in
It’s a reoccurring statement but I miss the niche subreddits. Yes I know I can start my own but Im not looking to become a moderator.
- Be friendly to other Lemmites. Encourage them to post and comment.
- Post and comment whenever you can.
- If you have niche hobbies or interests, try posting about them into an appropriate community.
Social networks and message boards get more popular as they get more users. Bring friendly and posting regularly should help us maintain the user base.
Lemmites, that’s a good word.
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Anything that gets that big turns into a shithole. Enshitification will find a way. So just don’t.
Enshittification is a symptom of capitalism at work. Over time products are laser-focused to be as profitable as possible. Scale isn’t the issue, capitalism is.
You’re totally right. Lemmy has no way of earning money outside of donations and the only way to earn money from donations is to make an actually good platform, no one will donate if it becomes shit.
The catholic church has entered the chat.
Religion is a superstructural element molded by the mode of production and utilized to reinforce it.
Yeah, but it was around before capitalism.
Capitalism is just one mode of production, religion has changed and shifted to suit each new mode of production over time.
Just look at every single big subreddit lmao. The only way to use that site is to leave every single default and join smaller communities.
I agree somewhat in the context of centralization. But the spread of the fediverse is a good thing. If Lemmy grows, alongside decentralization, then it should stay true to its roots.
Why would you want that? I think of lemmy as an old message board. I think it’s better that way.
Because of a severe lack of content. On Reddit you can find a community for basically anything. On Lemmy there are only a few alive ones. E.g. there are very few alive country communities.
I personally enjoy that Lemmy isn’t as popular as Reddit. It feels more home-grown and friendly because it’s not as large. That being said, contributing to and engaging with the content you enjoy is a good start. Finding a niche here can be great and there are tons of interesting communities to contribute to!
Please no
As popular as that swamp?
Oh fuck no dude. Let’s fucking notThere only thing Reddit has over Lemmy is their awesome niche subreddits. Outside of that they have nothing and being more like Reddit is not something we want. With attention comes heavier moderation.
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Reddit can keep all the gigasubs. Let the niche fandoms trickle over here…
I would say it’s slightly more than this: The vast majority of Lemmy is comprised of only a few things—politics, tech, memes—and it’s hard to find discussions or opinions about almost everything else. The main value of reddit to me is (was?) that you could find a lot of input from people involved in a wide variety of fields, from niche hobbies to more generic areas of interest like history, philosophy, or medicine.
I’ve actually found that there are people on Lemmy with similar levels of expertise, and they’re willing to share it just as well, but they have fewer opportunities to do so, because very few threads get posted outside the 3 main topics. Several times I’ve come across useful and interesting insight, but it was in the comments of posts only vaguely related, so it would have been difficult to find intentionally if I hadn’t run into it.
So, perhaps, this is what could improve Lemmy: starting more discussions about different topics. Perhaps this will attract more people to read them, which might attract more people to post.
There only thing Reddit has over Lemmy is their awesome niche subreddits I mean, to me at least that’s 99% of the point of a platform like this?
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Why would we want to do that? Please don’t.
Why would we want to do that?
So that we can discuss more niche hobbies with other people who love that hobby.
if you build it they will come
Factually untrue. There just aren’t enough people interested in certain topics who are regular users of Lemmy & Piefed to have those communities be thriving.
well you gotta advertise too of course.
Why are you being so patronising? It does not work. I told you it doesn’t work. Your patronising comments don’t help. I’ve tried it. I’ve seen others try it. To get niche Communities off the ground requires a latent interest in that community’s subject matter. You cannot just make it spring out of nowhere.
ok, sorry
Up/Downvoting is so 2015. Instead, comment on any interesting posts, and especially the ones with zero comments. This platform is meant to be about discussion, and not just mindlessly sharing links or memes.
I, personally, am more inclined to check out a post if it has at least one (non-bot, non OP) comment.I couldn’t agree more.
I appreciate you putting it into words instead of just upvoting
Not everything needs to be put in words though. Simply saying “I agree” with nothing more to the comment is just wasting everyone’s time, except for the single person they replied to getting an ego boost. The thing about comments is they’re public, they’re for more than just the recipient. You’re trying to make comments like DMs, where people can privately circlejerk until they’re both spent.
I understand what you mean, and agree that not everything needs to be put in words. At the same time though, it’s really healthy to expose yourself to others even if you just write “I like the way you formulated this.” or “Makes sense, I hadn’t thought of it like this before”. That way it turns into a real discussion - a bit like in the real 3d world.
Up/ downvoting is basically anonymous and adds nothing to the discussion.
And, sometimes, other users misunderstand our comments, and then we need to respond to them to get our point through. All of this is a healthy way to challenge our thinking.
upvoted.
downvoted.
There’s admittedly some things I miss from Reddit like bigger niche communities, but I would never want this to get as popular as reddit, because then you’ll end up just getting the same problems as reddit down the road and we’ll all have to migrate again. And who wants that?
If we could somehow keep the bigger Communities the same size they are now, while growing niche Communities, that would be ideal. It’s logically impossible though.
I don’t think the community is a reason to migrate away. If you end up disliking the community in lemmy then you are probably on the wrong instance, just chose the instance with the community you prefer.
For me I’m not using lemmy because I dislike the reddit community, Although that might be because I haven’t spent enough time on reddit to hate it. But I am using lemmy because it has better privacy, it is not enshitified and it is not likely to ever become enshitified and it follows the ideals of decentralization and free software.
Why would we want it to be? More people is what ruins websites. A big part of why reddit sucks is the large number of idiots.
Because there are not enough niche communities on Lemmy. For example as a queen fan, lemmy has no queen community but the r/queen community is thriving with many posts going up every day.
Also lemmy is currently very underfunded and the only way to really help that is by having more people.
At one point reddit also had no queen community. Someone created it and built it into what it is now. You can do the same here, that’s kinda the point.
You might be right, but this would only work to an extent. You also need enough people who are interested in in that niche community, you can’t just put a ton of effort into creating a community and sharing it around and expect it to become popular.
There is a difference between “more people” and “as many people as reddit”
This is true.
Reddit is a for profit website owned by rightwing idiots pretending to be a community space rather than a volunteer effort to help rich reddit chuds train their AI crap… so the problem isn’t inherently about the popularity here.
Regardless though, I want more people here based on the principle that when good things happen to me it is better if they happen to others and I should endeavor to destroy any barrier to seeing a fluid relationship between my wellbeing and the wellbeing of those around me.
Why?
I’d say concentrate on quality over quantity.
Exactly. I sort through the top 6 hours or top daily. There’s not a lot of posts, but they are all high quality ones.
Reddit is the opposite. I have to go through trash to reach a few good posts. Bigger =/ better
I think the ideal would be not how to make it “like Reddit”, but how to help niche and smaller communities have more members. Unfortunately, I think the easiest way is just to get more users to Lemmy in general.
It is not just niche topics, I find quite a bit of things that are not (in my opinion) niche, yet there is very little participation in Lemmy. Take for for example Postgresql. By now it is one of the most widely used databases yet there is a minuscule number of posts and users in the related communities.
Another example. Just did a search for largest communities in Reddit… One of them is music with an estimated 38 million redditors. In Lemmy the largest two music communities seem to be 9.9K (!music@lemmy.world) and 18.9K (!music@hexbear.net). That is an astronomical difference for something that is as mainstream as it gets given the broad topic.
I think the best each one of us can do is to participate and post as often as possible in the communities we would like to see grow.
