Was originally thinking of posting Lenmy content on Reddit to less directly advertise Lemmy, but in the communities I follow, its almost exclusively content or already posted to, or directly originating from Reddit. This got me wondering if there were any niches that Lemmy serves better than other, larger platforms.
Communism and open source software. Queer spaces are also much nicer
I don’t know about content, but the Linux and self-hosting communities on Lemmy are infinitely more helpful than the ones on Reddit.
In general, advice on tech related things is much better
Reasons may include
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your question is more likely to be seen and answered
- there is less content overall
- your question isn’t competing with as much engagement-bait
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lots of older, experienced, and helpful people on the site who want to help
Some communities have a lot of homegrown posts that you could share over there, especially text heavy posts, though they can be interspersed between links to elsewhere as well.
as an example, @Blair@slrpnk.net made a ton of really well done informative posts in various communities on my instance, such as this one.
Conversation, mostly. By the time I quit reddit around two years ago, every top comment was a repost of a previous joke, or some predictable mutation of one.
Anything that went against the common preconceptions was shutdown immediately. I’m an expert/professional in a few niche subjects, and the final nail in the coffin for me was any comment I made turning into a fruitless debate with armchair experts too dumb to even understand why they were wrong, while correct info was downvoted to invisibilty.
None of this helps you crosspost, I’m aware.
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