More original content, less crap reposted via bots.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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I just block all the bots so that I only see original content.
More stuff that isnt political
Just decent quality content for various topics which aren't politics or tech. For the good of increasing the size of Lemmy, I think everyone ought to find a couple things they're interested in as hobbies and just dare to make content about them.
Lots of niche communities have the problem where no one posts because no one posts. At some point, you have to just pull the ripcord and start the darn thing, even if it takes a while.
Definitely more of this, there are a lot of cool people with different interests and no spaces for it. Make the content and people will come
For some things it might also be good to make partnerships with other spaces, such as niche subreddits
I'll hop into inactive communities for things that interest me, and after posting for a bit, others eventually show up and start commenting/posting too.
If you build it, they will come!
Definitely
More fun and hobby related stuff. Lemmy is depressing and hateful AF. Feels like most of the people here are afflicted by "Politics as a Personality". At least on Reddit it is pretty easy to avoid that by only subbing to hobby subs but most of those are dead on Lemmy. I switched to using mostly Reddit on my PC again and just using Lemmy on my phone since there is no good mobile reddit app anymore.
Less hate and radicalism. I’m sorry to say this because I would love Lemmy to rule over Reddit, but most headlines I get are about hate: from Elon Musk, to Apple, to any browser not being Firefox or any OS not being Linux or Android.
Absolutely this. As if browsing Popular on reddit wasn't bad enough, but I really only look at my subscriptions on Lemmy
More activity in the hobby subs.
I wish people would actually use the writing and art ones in particular.
More explanation without toxicity. I think I have gotten shit on on lemmy more than I did on reddit by this point.
Don’t get me wrong. I‘m incorrect sometimes but if I see someone being confidently incorrect, I tell them and explain. And if I tell them that I find their attitude lacking and would like to learn, they get even worse.
A lot of people here are just dicks and the moderators don’t react to reports. They can tell you you‘re a fucking moron for not knowing everything and get away with it. Worse, they dogpile on you with their schoolyard bully attitude.
This is kind of a reason for me to leave if this goes on and it will keep other people from joining, hampering the growth.
I really hope this changes.
More explanation without toxicity. I think I have gotten shit on on lemmy more than I did on reddit by this point.
This doesn’t surprise me. I’m more of a lemmy person than I was ever a Reddit person, but I’m in the same boat.
Along with some of the cultural issues that have happened over on masto, I’ve come to suspect, somewhat controversially, that there is a major difficulty in founding a new and niche social media platform off the back of discontent with a major platform. And that’s because unless the discontent and migration is widespread, but instead marginal, those inclined to reject the mainstream in favour of something niche for some reason will often enough include people who aren’t the most naturally social people and can create and establish somewhat unpalatable cultures.
I hope I’m wrong, and hopefully it’s clear that I’m speaking statistically. But it makes some sense and could be real, both here and other Fedi places.
I really like your explanation! Thank you very much. Would you mind helping me make some kind of community with the idea of bringing some anti bullying standards to lemmy?
I have moderation experience both on reddit and on lemmy and I‘m pretty surprised at the passivity of mods here. It’s not that surprising considering that reddit is a single (sueable) entity.
I mean, those in Ireland can already sue for cyberbullying and the rest of the eu hopefully soon follows.
We might find more of our kind and actually get good content on this place as not every sane person leaves after being shit on 3 times a day.
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Any conclusions or constructive ideas to take from this?
I mean we could potentially have all kinds of policies, technical solutions or learnings for future platforms. At this point I struggle a bit to imagine a way to apply what you're saying.
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More sharing of hobby pictures
Askahistorian but it needs to have the same level of moderation
Yea the moderation tools just aren't there yet for such a nicely organized community
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One of the history communities on here is looking for mods IIRC, thought I saw a request on !moderators@lemmy.world
Trackballs i came here because my favourite trackball group migrated here but there is very few posts from them now.
Link?
!trackballs@apollo.town https://lemmy.guide/link?target=[!trackballs@apollo.town](/c/trackballs@apollo.town)
More communities for making friends, casual discussions, and local Lemmy meetups.
Niche content. I miss my balisong and machined pens communities. Some of them are in EDC. There's lots of tech because only tech people would use this, if we make it as easy to use then more normal people would come over. Which is good in bad because it would essentially bring the regular reddit society over again.
Boobies
- Video/film production
- Audio production
- More activity on https://kbin.social/m/truegaming (we got a little community but would love more posts! We’re fun I swear lol)
- home brewing
- coffee
- creative writing
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Mental health and mental health related communities. Especially ones where we humor each other to cope.
More entertainment, whether the content is original or not.
What I miss from reddit are the funny videos, memes, the crème de la crème of tiktok and youtube. It doesn't have to be original, it has to be high quality and entertaining or insightful. I miss the old r/videos before it got split into r/videos and r/publicfreakout.
Not always, but most of the time when I come back home, I want to turn off my brain, laugh and be entertained at random shit. I don't want to see random political debate, outrage, etc...
More sports related communities
More of the masto crowd getting involved here. We'd enjoy each other's company, and many of us probably enjoy both formats (microblog/reddit). That much conversation is basically split and mostly cut off along platform lines feels like an unnecessary failure of the fediverse.
In a way this is a bad answer as it's essentially a technological issue. Yes there are things that are possible now, including kbin, I know about them, but they don't really provide truly usable bridges between spaces. But it still irks me a great deal.
crime
Original content and dank memes.
I haven't explored communities much lately, what are some good dank meme communities that aren't 196?
196 is so good tho, feels better then /c/memes or /c/dankmemes to me
I got no issue with 196, I'm just already subbed and looking for others.
Modded Minecraft. The community seems to stick with Reddit. There are communities here, but not very active.
God yes. I miss my cooking Subreddits. I haven't really seen too much content like that. I pretty much only read asklemmy even though I'm on kbin. I don't care for the memes and political news and it seems like that's all there is.
I want to see more people subscribing to and promoting their stuff on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Also more content on 3D graphics, film, and art.
I'd like to see people talk in a wide variety of communities. I've been trying to post to !malefashionadvice, and there are a handful of people upvoting there, but the only other posts are super basic questions once in a blue moon. Most posts don't get commented on, and most comments are empty one liners about how nobody should enjoy X type of clothing, rather than anything positive or engaging. I haven't found another fashion community half as active as that.
There doesn't seem to be a Jewish community here... the television community I've found is kind of active, but not really... The NYC community sees maybe one post per week...
It seems like there are plenty of niches going entirely untouched. I feel like people are less likely to discuss hobbies here unless those hobbies are focused on "nerd culture," software, etc. Most communities are just memes or something. !asklemmy seems to be 30% askreddit-type questions, 30% questions about fediverse, and 40% are like, "hey, how do you fix a broken air conditioner" or, you know... non-discussion questions, non-opinion questions, non-story questions, just "help me with this shit" or stuff you could look up in an encyclopedia.
!foodporn seems to be pretty good...
!malefashionadvice@lemmy.world , and indeed thank you for posting there
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Science. I find /r/science to be one of the best subs in reddit. Not perfect, but one of the best. It would be great if those with a science background moved to lemmy.
More people being active within the XBox subs
The Imaginary Network from reddit moving here it's the one thing i miss
mapping
Communities with older people. I still need Reddit for communities on old motorcycles, cars, etc
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