And yes I understand the irony in this post
Give it time. People who are joining lemmy/kbin for the first time are incredibly interested in disussing this particular topic. I think by the end of July, we’ll truly start to see this community take shape.
This; keep in mind that Rexxit is still ongoing and there are a lot of new arrivals here. So it makes sense that the pain of departing Reddit as well as adjustment pains settling into the Fediverse will be a theme for a while. As people get used to the new way of things, I have no doubt these “meta” issues will naturally become stale.
It’s a fresh subject so people are still hyped around it. Plus it’s drama, it’s fun! I often joke that we’re watching it burn and eating popcorn.
But even if you ignore it, there’s a fair bit of activity in other communities. For example I’ve been posting somewhat often about food, linguistics, anime, manga, and stuff like this. (And even explaining what an “axion” was supposed to be, while seeing illegally smol cats in another comm.)
Stop using “All” “Hot/Active/Top” feeds and go search for actual content communities you want, by browsing the community lists, searching for your interests, or looking at new. Then just go to “Subscribed”.
For me that is not necessarily the case. Over the last week or so, I have been using sites like Lemmy Explorer and Lemmy Community-Browser to find communities that have my interest. I have also been browsing ‘all’ using the ‘new’ sort option and have been finding many new interesting communities that way.
People seem to want a lot of things from the fediverse right now but the key to most of them is patience. The platform and userbase are both unstable. Lemmy and kbin are both unfinished software that need more time and effort, and/or more devs. There isn’t any getting around that.
As for the users, there are a huge amount of new ones every day, most coming from reddit, and they want to talk about what is fresh and relevant to them. We won’t be able to get off the topic of reddit until it stops sending migrators. Additionally, people aren’t quite certain how to use this space yet, and haven’t finished finding/setting up the communities they want. It is going to take time, possibly more so than the development of lemmy and kbin.
It’s about subbing to anything in your wheel house and sorting by new. That’s the only way it made since before the migration and still does. At some point it wont make much sense, but not quite yet.
Give it time, and be one of the people who contribute thoughtful posts on the topics you’re interested in.
Okay, I’ll call your bluff. I recently started a magazine called Old Games 4 Old Gamers. It’s got everything to do with video games and nothing to do with the Reddit implosion. If you want original content on Kbin, it’s a good place to start. (Also, I could use the hits.)
Checking it out now!
You’re doing hero’s work!
You can always block the reddit-specific communities to remove them from your feed. At least temporarily, if nothing else.
Personally, I wanna hear about reddit, so I subbed to them, but I’m subbed to A LOT of other stuff too, so my feed is more than diverse enough for me.
You need to subscribe to some communities/magazines and contribute on them. Reddit news is getting upvoted the most because it matters to everyone on here, whereas content related to some niche community only matters to that niche community. There are already lots of great conversations happening in the fediverse of Lemmy and Kbin, they just can’t compete with Reddit news for the front page.
the irony in this post
It’s like rain on your wedding day
I’ve been trying my best to make Non Reddit Related content here and commenting on Non Reddit Related, do your part. Post a Non Reddit Related Meme, Comment on Non Reddit Related Posts. Do your part
Also trying to do my part by posting / commenting when I normally would’ve written something then deleted my comments… this is good motivation to participate :)
I relate to what you wrote. And I will refrain from deleting this comment.
Honestly, just give it time. I’ll stabilise eventually.
Yes, that’s what happened with Mastodon too
So unsubscribe from these places that you don’t find interesting, and sub to things you’re interested in instead. Literally that simple.
- Search on lemmyverse.net etc
- If you’re into any kind of crafting, check out my latest posts because I’ve made a megalist of creative communities to help people navigate
- If you’re into anything gamedev related, check out the pinned post at !gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone (Lemmy / Kbin) for another megalist of interesting stuff
Impossible. 50% of OP’s posts are about Reddit, so it doesn’t matter where they go.
In a way this is the opposite of what you’re asking, but this is kind of the reason I set up https://lemmit.online - To allow people to get quality content like !itookapicture@lemmit.online automatically onto Lemmy.
Anyone can request subs to be synced, and admittedly, not all of those requests make sense, since it doesn’t sync comments. But the goal is to bootstrap content creation / combat people returning to reddit because they miss content there.