I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.
The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.
Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?
Thanks for hearing me out.
TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.
Make the posts you want to see. I’ve posted some questions in some niche communities here and I get well thought out responses and discourse.
Best answer, Lemmy, like all social media follows the 90-9-1 rule of social media. Of 100 people, 90 will lurk, 9 will comment, and only 1 will actually post anything.
There are people in the communities that want to talk, but you gotta be the one to post.
Hey take it as your opportunity to become a name in a community!
I don’t know how someone can lurk without the urge to post something or comment, that must take willpower
Was on Reddit 15 years, left in June. It was definitely a build up, but I eventually posted every day.
Not healthy, so I scaled back. I post when I have something worthwhile. Otherwise I just contribute comments. And even then I erase half of them because they aren’t helpful or contributive.
A lot of people (like myself) need to step out of their comfort zones if we want Lemmy to get more conversations going. Yesterday I made a game thread in the community for my favourite NFL team; I was the only one who commented. But I’m going to try and make one for the game next week.
Well done, what is the community? !nfl@lemmy.world ?
Thanks. It’s a smaller instance for the Steelers, !Steelers@lemmy.world
I see. If I may, you may want to comment on a larger community, as a way to get more people reacting.
I used to post to !fantasy@sffa.community , but now I do it in !fiction@literature.cafe because it will have a larger audience.
Lemmy is still a small population, so you might to go to the larger common denominator
I ended up subscribing to the Athletic since they have a discuss section. Any sports threads on lemmy are small af rn unfortunately
Not at all. The only thing taking time to build here are the art communities, but they’re growing. So I’m patient and am trying to contribute
I’m trying my best to start up lemmyloves.art and it seems to be going pretty good so far
Doesn’t matter how good the content is if I have to fight the interface to get to it.
Lack of search really makes it hard to find a discussion on anything, which is what I used reddit for. I hope its a thing that gets implemented eventually.
It took Reddit years to become what it is today. And the native search function was ass. Google made the damn thing easier.
Memmy has a search function, and it works for now since the content is much smaller. But if it grows it won’t be that great. But so far I’ve been able to find specifics of what I’m looking for.
https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
several lemmy instances host this port of the old reddit interface at old.example.com
EXACTLY
there’s just not enough in depth stuff on here. i love shitposts, i love memes, i love a chill tone. but we need people posting interesting posts, you know. i’m not even sure how to put my finger on what’s different or why, but there’s just less…stuff here. it needs to be seasoned, or something.
It’s a matter of numbers. Like sports. You get the best by having a large pool of possible posts to rise to your attention. Reddit gets a bunch of posts that never get read. Lemmy we read pretty much all of them. There are some good posts here and there in Lemmy but not to the level of reddit. And until Lemmy gets reddit numbers it will suffer from “athletes” from small towns vs athletes from big cities. No contest.
I think a lot of the hobby and project posts on Reddit aren’t necessarily created by people who (also) have the internet / computers / net culture as an interest. Say, a hobby carpenter who only uses Facebook and Reddit casually, why and how would this person end up on Lemmy? The seasoning missing is all the people we left behind.
