Important to remember only 3200 subs originally committed to the blackout. We had almost 3x that number join. More than 2x are still dark!
I really want to exclusively switch to Lemmy, but as it stands I’ll probably end up starting to use Reddit again as soon as the the vast majority of the blackout ends (I’m not gonna give in easily, but once it’s mostly over, there’s no point in me continuing).
The problem for me is that on Reddit even extremely niche communities had a substantial amount of members and activity, whereas Lemmy is smaller than Reddit, so everything scales down proportionally, meaning that suddenly communities that were niche on Reddit are infinitesimally tiny or even just absent on Lemmy. Like, there’s no malazan community, elitedangerous and wheeloftime are dead, amiga is dead, and so on.
I actually got a ton of extremely high quality, positive interaction on the subreddits I was on, because I almost entirely stayed away from the really popular subreddits, and I’m losing all that moving to here, where the popular communities have higher quality interaction but the smaller communities have way worse interaction. Also, Reddit is a massive treasure-trove of useful niche information for me.
Yeah I might hop onto reddit on desktop only with an ad blocker JUST for the smaller interest based communities that took years to build up. But the big stuff like gaming or news? I’ll be using this plus Mastodon.
I can appreciate that. I would suggest do both - go back to the niche reddits while they work for you, and hopefully things don’t get even worse to affect that. Meanwhile, check back to these newer alternatives often to see what’s going on. Perhaps at some point you can either have both worlds or even finally transition away. You have to do what works for you in the end.
A digression, but it is the same high quality niche information that LLM’s are after I believe. I’d be curious about what you think the trove’s longevity in terms of relevance is? I ask as the more timeless it is the less chance it will be replaced, and the more valuable it is a s a learning resource.
I woulad also agree that it makes sense to split your time, personally. I hope some of those communities begin to shift, but it is a idol dream.
When you go back you can gently encourage those folks to come here. If you aren’t interested in modding a community here, you can ask the mods of those subreddits to start them.
There’s a lot of chatter about joining the fediverse in subs like /r/RedditAlternatives, but you don’t see people talking about the selling points in those small subs. You can start those conversations. Maybe there’s no takers, and that’s fine. But if you like it here theres a good chance others will too.
“You’re the worst social media I’ve ever heard of”
“But you have heard of me” - Capt. Jack Lemming
Same, I had a lot of hobby communities on reddit that I really enjoyed. I will probably use it when I want that experience while Lemmy grows. Hopefully one day, and with people like us’ encouragement to migrate, Lemmy instances will have enough traffic to host these more niche groups.
I hope so! I’m definitely going to do my best to promote Lemmy on Reddit in those niche communities. I wish I had the time and personality to actually start the communities I want to see on Lemmy, but sadly I don’t.
Funny you should mention that, one of the first things I noticed on Lemmy is the culture on emojis, people like them. I for one am totally onboard 😁
The emoji hating folks on reddit were a weird subculture. Acting like you’re too mature for emojis is… Really immature imo
i wish the blackout was june 28-30 or something
I think we should stick to our guns until Reddit capitulates. The blackout is very effective at disrupting the site’s normal functions and getting the word out about 3rd party apps.
I mean, I agree. But… I hate to say it, but my husband is probably a perfect ‘case in point’. And he hasn’t really noticed the blackout at all.
What we need to grow our community is to advertise Lemmy/KBin to the world and the federation concept as a whole
