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That's one of the reasons I use Lemmy. I see links to major news stories, those I'm likely to care about and nothing else news related. I think there are celebrity news and sports communities. I'd also be surprised if there isn't a Eurovision community out there. But if the things you've described are "pop culture" then seemingly I have no interest in it.

Nah I'm with you on this. I have this weird set of interests that align me well with Lemmy, but also as a dirtbag couch goblin who binges reality TV like my life depends on it. I feel like Lemmy can get a little uh... holier than thou about it and I don't feel like I have any trashy echo chambers anymore. I miss Instagram reality and all the snark subs tbh.

'there is no posts related to my interests' 'go to domains specific to your interests!' domain specific to your interests: last post is a reddit screenshot from 3 months ago, 0 comments

DAE died a violent death on reddit years ago. I was there. I remember the backlash.

Let's not revive it here. This place is special.

Gonna be honest, pop culture is the thing about Reddit I miss the least. I couldn't care less what drama some rich people are getting into, unless that drama is their yachts being sunk by killer whales.

You can always create posts in appropriate communities to start conversations on topics you're interested in. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

I don't care much for most pop culture stuff and get enough by happenstance from other sources/people.

Got to be the change brother. Start posting stuff. I'll read it.

Yes and I love it.

No. I make my own pop culture.

Even when I was still on Reddit, I needed a friend to explain to me that Funko Pops don't do anything - you just have them.

So really I think it's just me.

There are bajillion other sites where you can wallow in mainstream pop culture and consume whatever slop that has been deemed as sufficently advertiser friendly. I am here to fly my freak flag high.

Go on asklemmy and ask what people think of the situation. Go on casualconversation and talk about your opinions.

I dunno I barely know what people are talking about anyways even when using reddit or twitter because most of my interests are aren't that mainstream

I think this is a problem with the Fediverse in general.

Search Kendrick Lamar on BlueSky and it's filled with people celebrating it, breaking down different aspects of the show, and making memes. Search the same on Mastodon and you get news articles about the show and the occasional personal post. A majority of the posts have 0 engagement on most of the posts.

I used to interact with people from my country on reddit

Because of that, along with me not watching/reading romanian news, i miss big events like the country being invited to schengen

Personally I'm longing for more discussion about ideas and less about events and definitely less about people.

Yeah, but every time I hear about celebrity shit it's fucking stupid and it pisses me off so I consider missing it a good thing.

I hear you. I could go on about how pop culture is lame etc and not really answer your question but I think, the more the merrier. If I'm not interested in the Lakers, I can ignore it and scroll past it. Easy. It would be nice for people who want to discuss the Lakers to have a place to discuss the Lakers, though.

Honestly this place is starting to piss me off a little bit sometimes. Because it's like the users here actually want 'All' to just be politics all the time and for there to be no variety to anything. You can talk about missing features from Reddit and think of ideas to make this place a little better and you'll get responses like "No. Why would anyone want more features? I know that I don't have to personally use them if I don't like them but I prefer pretending it's 1998, so no one can have them. And why would we want more users? I like empty communities with no activity. And then complaining about empty communities with no activity."

So I dunno. It's gonna be interesting to see if this place actually grows or if it just stagnates. I'm right there with you though. I'd be more than happy to see pop and sports and things I'm not really interested in because then there's a bigger chance of things that I am actually interested in taking off here.

Only when it comes to hearing about new games. For all the people I see in random non-game threads that mention games or get game references, there's next to no activity in the game-related communities.

That's why I'm here. This week, I learned who Kendrick Lamar and Drake are, and I feel stupider for it.

I specifically came here because I was uninterested in the pop culture chat that I was seeing in my socials. I want to talk to more people in less mainstream nerd culture