have any niche lemmings taken off in the 6 months since the API scandal?
meteorswarm ( @meteorswarm@beehaw.org ) 22•7 months agoA lemming that has taken off is https://startrek.website/c/risa !
I love my stream of Star Trek shitpost.
Besides rise which was doing fine months ago have anything else taken off?(I’ve noticed a buzz of activity by city lemmings and such)
Deebster ( @Deebster@beehaw.org ) 21•7 months agoI’m not sure what you’re asking. Do you mean Lemmy communities, Lemmy instances, or something else?
boatswain ( @boatswain@infosec.pub ) 17•7 months agoThis confused me, too. I generally see"Lemming" used as the equivalent of “Redditor”: someone who uses Lemmy.
Lemmy communities
Ilikecheese ( @Ilikecheese@lemm.ee ) 7•7 months agoWhile I absolutely abhor the use of ‘Lemmings’ in regards to anything related to Lemmy, I have only seen it used to describe the people that use it, and not the communities.
You took a dumb thing and made it 1,000 times dumber.
OneMansTrash ( @OneMansTrash@lemmy.ml ) 8•7 months agoYou took a good teaching opportunity and made yourself look 1,000 times dumber.
How about getting off your high horse and try helping people learn instead of insulting people to sooth your superiority complex.
Ilikecheese ( @Ilikecheese@lemm.ee ) 2•7 months agoI am helping people learn. Using the term Lemmings makes you look stupid. Using the term Lemming incorrectly makes you look REALLY fucking stupid.
OneMansTrash ( @OneMansTrash@lemmy.ml ) 3•7 months agoThen explain what OP did wrong, in a non-derogatory way, give them alternatives to what they could say instead of just demeaning them.
Know what makes people look REALLY REALLY dumb? Talking down to people that don’t know better. Besides if you’re so smart, why don’t you educate the ignorant without insulting them?
Ilikecheese ( @Ilikecheese@lemm.ee ) 1•7 months agoIt’s more fun this way. Plus it looks like it pisses dweebs like you off, so win/win.
OneMansTrash ( @OneMansTrash@lemmy.ml ) 3•7 months agoLol @ using that mental gymnastic to pretend you won an argument. People say don’t feed the trolls but if nobody gave the monkeys peanuts they wouldn’t dance like fools for our amusement.
You’re welcome, monkey.
PrivateNoob ( @PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ) 12•7 months agoBasically most of the niche communities are extremely slow or dead. It’s understandable since the daily lemming user rate is 33,000 where seeing a post with 33,000 likes is not uncommon Reddit.
Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) 11•7 months agoOne has to appreciate that Reddit he organically and got segmented in subs over time, who knows how many empty subs died on the wayside before the many niches we hold dear took off.
CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@futurology.today ) English8•7 months agoThe big stuff has transferred quite nicely, as have tech communities, but other niche communities seem to have floundered. Even ones that explicitly and openly made the switch died off, like r/streetphotography. It seems raw user count is pretty critical to supporting them.
OneMansTrash ( @OneMansTrash@lemmy.ml ) 8•7 months agoThe cordcutters subreddit was really nice, users constantly engaging in talks about better alternatives to cable/internet/streaming options.
The lemmy version is like an aquarium full of dead fish that nobody cares to clean out. The only ‘poster’ is a ‘news’ bot that just spams every article from cordcutters.com (most of which are just advertisements for deals/discounts).
At this point even ghost towns have more presence and/or engagement. If you block the ‘news’ bot, there’s next-to-nothing there.
Blaze ( @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•7 months ago!casualconversation@lemmy.world is getting more and more active, with a spontaneous AMA ongoing.
!moviesandtv@lemm.ee is quite active.
PlexSheep ( @PlexSheep@feddit.de ) 2•7 months agoNice community, thanks for the recommendation of casual conversation :)
any calyx c/