I went and looked at tildes as a result of this, and it seems aggressively dead. Like, the fediverse is pretty dead and tildes makes it look positively thriving in comparison. Yeesh.
What are you talking about, Lemmy is great and Matrix is absolutely thriving for things I care about.
Sure, Lemmy doesn’t have 300M users or whatever Reddit has, but that doesn’t mean it’s dead, it just means it’s small. Valuable discussion happens here, and it seems to be improving.
No shit you think it’s fine, you’re a techy linux weirdo. Good luck discussing like, musicals or tabletop roleplaying games or homemade moonshine or anything in that general vicinity of “niche” on here.
It’s small enough to literally have zero posts of a variety of topics, and that number isn’t improving. Get outside of your own circle every once in a while.
Well yeah, you are probably going though Reddit withdrawal. Comparing anything to Reddit and it’ll seem dead.
techy linux weirdo
Get outside of your own circle every once in a while
Not a fan of your incendiary language and provacatory flaming attempts, but pretty on-brand for refugees who misses Reddit like an ex. I mean, Reddit is still around and I’m sure they’ll take you back, just apologize and use the Official App™!
Yes, the variety is certainly an issue. I do miss certain communities on Reddit.
It’s not to the point where I’d recommend it to my wife (she’s the opposite of a techy Linux weirdo), but it works for what I wanted Reddit for, which was tech news aggregation and a place to discuss games.
Maybe I’ll get around to trying to start some of the other niche communities I miss.
That said, you would probably have luck discussing tabletop gaming on one of the gaming communities here. I personally don’t play any (I’ve played one DND campaign and decided it wasn’t for me, open to trying again though), but I have coworkers who do, so maybe that’ll change.
That said, here are two that I really like here that I was surprised to find here that aren’t Linux or tech related:
- !bicycling@lemmy.ca
- !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works - are video games “techy”
But relatively niche things like musicals aren’t really a thing here, though I never felt much of a need to look for stuff like that. When I want to watch a play or musical, I generally look for expert reviews.
I do miss some subreddits for recommendations (especially “Buy it for Life” and related purchasing communities), but that’s usually a read-only thing for me so I just check back on Reddit as needed.
It’s been invite-only for a long while, so they can manage the userbase easier. I imagine that, plus the lack of support for visual content makes it challenging for engagement.
