If at all possible, lol
Bigger isn’t necessarily better
That’s not what she said :'(
It’s a reoccurring statement but I miss the niche subreddits. Yes I know I can start my own but Im not looking to become a moderator.
I personally enjoy that Lemmy isn’t as popular as Reddit. It feels more home-grown and friendly because it’s not as large. That being said, contributing to and engaging with the content you enjoy is a good start. Finding a niche here can be great and there are tons of interesting communities to contribute to!
Network effects are quite difficult to overcome. Lemmy’s largest influxes of users have been when Reddit does something unpopular enough to warrant people looking for other places. Same was true when Reddit became popular because Digg made bad decisions, or Facebook when MySpace did.
The answer is that Lemmy almost assuredly will never be as popular, but at least its future is not dictated by the profits of a company, or censorship imposed by or on that company.
The best we can do is make Lemmy a viable alternative (it is) and ensure it is of a high quality.
But why ?
Why would we want to do that? Please don’t.
Why would we want to do that?
So that we can discuss more niche hobbies with other people who love that hobby.
if you build it they will come
Factually untrue. There just aren’t enough people interested in certain topics who are regular users of Lemmy & Piefed to have those communities be thriving.
well you gotta advertise too of course.
Why are you being so patronising? It does not work. I told you it doesn’t work. Your patronising comments don’t help. I’ve tried it. I’ve seen others try it. To get niche Communities off the ground requires a latent interest in that community’s subject matter. You cannot just make it spring out of nowhere.
ok, sorry
I would rather not. Lemmy is not Reddit.
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Please no
Ooooh, no thank you.
Have you seen that place? Gives me the icks.
As popular as that swamp?
Oh fuck no dude. Let’s fucking notUp/Downvoting is so 2015. Instead, comment on any interesting posts, and especially the ones with zero comments. This platform is meant to be about discussion, and not just mindlessly sharing links or memes.
I, personally, am more inclined to check out a post if it has at least one (non-bot, non OP) comment.I couldn’t agree more.
I appreciate you putting it into words instead of just upvoting
upvoted.
downvoted.
Not everything needs to be put in words though. Simply saying “I agree” with nothing more to the comment is just wasting everyone’s time, except for the single person they replied to getting an ego boost. The thing about comments is they’re public, they’re for more than just the recipient. You’re trying to make comments like DMs, where people can privately circlejerk until they’re both spent.
I understand what you mean, and agree that not everything needs to be put in words. At the same time though, it’s really healthy to expose yourself to others even if you just write “I like the way you formulated this.” or “Makes sense, I hadn’t thought of it like this before”. That way it turns into a real discussion - a bit like in the real 3d world.
Up/ downvoting is basically anonymous and adds nothing to the discussion.
And, sometimes, other users misunderstand our comments, and then we need to respond to them to get our point through. All of this is a healthy way to challenge our thinking.
There’s admittedly some things I miss from Reddit like bigger niche communities, but I would never want this to get as popular as reddit, because then you’ll end up just getting the same problems as reddit down the road and we’ll all have to migrate again. And who wants that?
If we could somehow keep the bigger Communities the same size they are now, while growing niche Communities, that would be ideal. It’s logically impossible though.
I don’t think the community is a reason to migrate away. If you end up disliking the community in lemmy then you are probably on the wrong instance, just chose the instance with the community you prefer.
For me I’m not using lemmy because I dislike the reddit community, Although that might be because I haven’t spent enough time on reddit to hate it. But I am using lemmy because it has better privacy, it is not enshitified and it is not likely to ever become enshitified and it follows the ideals of decentralization and free software.
Porn.
Like any type of media, you win by getting porn on your side. Bring the NSFW content creators over and everyone else will follow.
There’s a whole instance dedicated to porn, isn’t there? At least there used to be, is it still live? My instance is defederared from it so idk.
lemmy is better than reddit, popularity will ruin it.
Why do people always go for Reddit as this comparison? It’s not even the most popular social media. Is it because the question “How can we make Lemmy as popular as Facebook” makes it clear why that isn’t something the users would want?
I imagine it’s because Reddit is closer to the format of Lemmy and it’s something we’re more familiar with. I also wouldn’t have known that Facebook was more popular because it’s not something that anyone in my circle uses, but a lot of them use Reddit.
