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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.
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
Commenting for the purpose of generating activity is my favorite activity
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)
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.
Or if an otherwise popular community seems dead- maybe your instance just isn’t federating them right, or was never federated before you browsed to it.
That’s what I’ve been doing at czech-lemmy.eu and it isn’t growing :( Czechs seem to be comfortable with Reddit.
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.
Did the same with !dota2@lemmy.ml 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.
going outside
they're the one who won't leave reddit
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.
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 !mma@lemmy.ml
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
your friends
I don't have friends. I'm a Lemming (former Redditor), after all.
elsewhere on the Fediverse
Good point.
There's !czech@kbin.social 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 !photomode@feddit.uk is a great place, too!
So you make a post, right?
Right?
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?
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.
I really wish the !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world 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!
Hey I got c/goblincore going again singlehandedly. Post! People will participate.
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…
!goblincore@lemmy.blahaj.zone
This is how you link to communities
Subreddit? More like Sublemmy
Actually “communities”. But terminology really is beside the point here.
I like sublemmits lol
Didn’t you understand? Or you trying to be funny?
Did you post tho
I was so excited to find a scuba group.
Then it just kinda went nowhere.
I feel like a “sinking” pun was right there.
Well, it was a minute ago.
Just keep breathing, it’ll be ok.
Sad !anime noises… I miss episode discussions.
FYI the episode discussions on anime@lemmy.ml 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.
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.
I just miss femboymemes :(
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
Huh really? That’s a shame, was wondering why I couldn’t find many here.
You’re lucky, at least you have !femboy_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz, !femboymemes@lemmit.online, !rolereversal@lemmy.ml, !femboy@lemmy.blahaj.zone, !femjungenmaimais@feddit.de, !195@lemmy.world, !femboy@lemmit.online and lots of other trans-adjacent communities. We Czechs have !czechrepublic@czech-lemmy.eu and !czech@kbin.social and they’re both dead.
