Yes and no.
Yes, I wish the fediverse would become more adopted by the general public because it will continues to improve.
No, because people are stupid assholes
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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Same here
Personally I don't find a huge difference with reddit and threadiverse, at least for larger subs. Sure, on paper there are hundreds of comments, but most are the same tired decade old memes. You can predict what the comment sections are gonna be like from the title alone. At worst you get similar comments here, but you don't have to dig through hundreds of comments before finding something worthwhile.
Speaking personally, while I am here, my participation in Lemmy is lacklustre at best; same with Mastodon. I got burnt out from social media and the years from 2016 - 2024 have really ruined my enthusiasm. I think maybe a lot are in the same boat. Maybe we'll see more people come out of the "shields up, dark times overload" in a year or so... and maybe it will take longer.
Yes, I still moderate a subreddit which is a support group for a particular surgery. There isn't such a community on the fediverse and the group of people who need this surgery seem to be few in number here too. (Won't be any more specific about the nature of the subreddit or surgery for privacy reasons, before anyone asks)
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No, not that one.
I literally do not care about getting more members. It is not on my radar at all as a goal or desirable thing or objective.
No.
People are the worst.
Absolutely. There's just fuck all to do here. I used reddit for fan communities a lot, and most of them stayed behind. (Unless you're a trekkie I guess. Then you're set.)
Nearly every niche community I've joined has essentially died due to not having the critical mass of users to support that community. Hell, even look at the large states like California or Texas: they're communities with only a few hundred active users and maybe a couple thousand joined. Feels like the lemmy is mostly us politics, star trek, Germans, and memes.
Which niches were they?
Some like !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz and !homeimprovement@lemmy.world are quite active
!newcommunities@lemmy.world has several threads with different active communities on different topics
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!newcommunities@lemmy.world has several threads with different active communities on different topics
I mean, you are on a site built and maintained by Communists along Communist principles, there are going to be Communists.
Reddit already exists for liberals.
I didn't say anything about communists. I said I missed being able to interact with people who shared my hobbies. I just want to ~~grill~~ talk about cartoons and video games.
Also, I was sold on Lemmy because they told me it was an user owned alternative to reddit, which was going tits up at the time. "It's a communist website." Is not what they told me to get me over here.
I didn't say anything about communists
What did you mean by the word "tankie?" Liberals?
Either way, it's about finding a good instance and sticking with it, not just going with the largest and most boring instance.
Edit: misread "trekkie" as "tankie!" My bad lol
Trekkie, star trek. Not tankie.
Oof, misread that, thanks
The "threadiverse" (i.e. lemmy-compatible communities), yeah. There are still many topics that I would find interesting to discuss, but that nobody talks about here; to the extent that there are communities for them, they get very little activity.
The microblogging fediverse (mastodon-compatible), I think, is popular enough by now, I have no real desire to see even more activity there, can hardly keep up with what I'm currently following there and currently tend to unfollow more accounts than I start following.
There are still many topics that I would find interesting to discuss, but that nobody talks about here;
Which ones are those?
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i looked through mastodon and it seemed like everyone was just talking at each other instead if discussions. its worse than linkedin.
Mastodon is mainly a way to get updates from news sites, blogs, etc.