I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days.
The tone and people on Lemmy is great. I don’t miss Reddit. But I miss the content types. For me Reddit was a topic related news source, a place for great discourse about those news pieces, a place where community members asked constructive questions or shared ideas/projects - and lastly a place for some very specific community types.
Over the last few days I noticed that the first 2 categories of content came over to Lemmy no problem. But the second 2 types I outlined above don’t seem to have come. I went back to Reddit this morning and it’s all still there. Certain types of posts just don’t happen on Lemmy, and on top of that many communities never came over (street_photography is a great example. They literally shut down a subreddit with thousands of users and created a new location in Lemmy/kbin, and instead of coming over the community just evaporated). Other communities are also non existent and some that do exist are simply just not enjoying the same types of posts. I like it here, I want to stay - but it’s difficult. Is anyone else having this issue?
Thanks for hearing me out.
TLDR: all of my communities seem to link posts only, many types of posts just don’t seem to happen here.
Make the posts you want to see. I’ve posted some questions in some niche communities here and I get well thought out responses and discourse.
Best answer, Lemmy, like all social media follows the 90-9-1 rule of social media. Of 100 people, 90 will lurk, 9 will comment, and only 1 will actually post anything.
There are people in the communities that want to talk, but you gotta be the one to post.
Hey take it as your opportunity to become a name in a community!
I don’t know how someone can lurk without the urge to post something or comment, that must take willpower
I wouldn’t say it’s a problem for me but I see what you see. We have to be patient, building a community is one of those things that you have to do carefully, taking your time.
I don’t know if you tried in other instances. I just subscribed to many more communities than I did in Reddit, no matter the instance.
Yeah, there’s an amount of niche content that’s just not here (yet). I’m not devoting my time to build a community here myself, but I’m also not gonna use Reddit’s sad excuse for a mobile app because it literally makes me angry to use that piece of shit. So when I’m bored at work on the desktop, I’ll go to reddit, but my traffic is probably down like 60-70%.
EXACTLY
there’s just not enough in depth stuff on here. i love shitposts, i love memes, i love a chill tone. but we need people posting interesting posts, you know. i’m not even sure how to put my finger on what’s different or why, but there’s just less…stuff here. it needs to be seasoned, or something.
I think a lot of the hobby and project posts on Reddit aren’t necessarily created by people who (also) have the internet / computers / net culture as an interest. Say, a hobby carpenter who only uses Facebook and Reddit casually, why and how would this person end up on Lemmy? The seasoning missing is all the people we left behind.
A lot of people (like myself) need to step out of their comfort zones if we want Lemmy to get more conversations going. Yesterday I made a game thread in the community for my favourite NFL team; I was the only one who commented. But I’m going to try and make one for the game next week.
