This is a lot more about posting the news than engaging in discussions with substance. I miss personal stories and lots of crazy hobby projects.
The subreddit drama threads, some of the funniest shit I’ve seen has been petty mods being petty and inter subreddit wars.
/r/askhistorians mostly.
same here i think I miss them the most.
I can’t believe I forgot about the quality of those posts.
I miss a lot of the smaller dedicated communities. There were a lot there were essentially mirrored from Reddit but a lot of the userbase disappeared. They are widely federated and posts get votes and comments but there’s not a lot of people putting out content.
What I don’t miss is the power mods and all the auto mods. They just get tiring.
This.
Redditors using “This” is another thing I hated. It adds nothing to the conversation and came off as someone fishing for upvotes
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While I generally agree: in this case - you hit most of the points I cared to have mentioned. But considering that lack of participation that comes with small(er) communities, I’d rather have provided some input (visual or otherwise) to encourage further participation, or to at least have furthered the perception.
Otherwise, I don’t have much to add. We just need more bodies doing more things here at the Fediverse in more niche communities that we care about. The issue with the larger audience is it tends to transform into the “Hive Mind” that we all know and love. Because lurkers (such as myself) don’t typically add to conversations when we feel our thoughts have been well enough captured (eg - “this”).
A double-edged sword, for sure.
All of my local sports teams had very active communities. We had rivalries with other subs, some friendly, others not so much. You got to know regulars and could commiserate over the sports in your city.
Those communities exist in Lemmy, but they aren’t nearly as active.
Baltimore Oriols has an active community on Lemmy, and I’m jealous.
Cleveland doesn’t have an active equivilent to /r/Cleveland.
The Guardians have a community here…but nobody posts, and nobody replies to my posts. My posts get upvotes, so I know eyeballs are seeing the posts…but it’s like they’re afraid to post or comment.
Nobody on Lemmy has even heard of the AHL, and therefore haven’t heard of the Cleveland Monsters.
C’mon Cleveland! Where you at???
Same here. All thats left is US election stuff and trans shitposts. I miss talking about niche stuff like my favorite video games
Shattered Pixel Dungeon’s creator came over, is at !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world, and there’s actually traffic there. Which is cool, since it is, IMHO, one of an extremely small number of good open source games with an Android release.
And I think that video games are actually one of the areas that there are enough people to have reasonable discussions on.
But yeah, the lack of scale is real.
What I’d do is just have discussions on specific video games in the generic video games forums (e.g. !games@sh.itjust.works).
Then if the traffic there becomes unworkably high, shift to genre communities, for RPGs or MOBAs or whatnot.
And if things there get too busy, then make the jump to individual games.
Otherwise, hard to have enough traffic for regular discussion.
That kind of slow-to-create-new-forums structure was especially common on Usenet, where the bar to creating a group was higher than it is on Reddit or on the Threadiverse, so creation only happened when there was a lot of pent-up demand for it.
+1 for Shattered Pxel Dungeon! The game play is devious in its simplicity but still incredibly rich and nuanced. The Dev takes great care to keep the content fresh & balanced. Plus the community is great.
You put up a lot of US election stuff yourself?!
True, but I miss the other communities
I don’t think there’s much escaping that besides finding a small niche instance or blocking communities that aren’t relevant to you.
Each social media site has a stereotype demographic and I don’t see Lemmy’s changing in the foreseeable future.
You forgot the constant Linux fellating
And the Star Trek memes.
IMO: Anytime you had a question that you wanted to learn about, whether it be shows or science, you could go into your preferred search engine and type reddit and [your question].
A good amount of discussions on the topic would show up and still do.
One day people will use Lemmy as the search engine to look for those discussions, hopefully!
Funny, literally just found out today reddit is now only indexable by google. They have paid partnerships. So that specific feature (which I also make heavy use of) will continue to work but not on duck duck go or other engines. I’m gonna start appending lemmy instead of reddit and maybe just ditch google altogether. Search results have been pretty bad all round for quite a while.
Oh what?! Oh my gosh, these are terrible news. For all not in the loop, here is an Article.
I am really disappointed by this. This is just such a bad monopolistic practice that I’m wondering how in their right mind anyone from Reddit decided this was a good deal to make. On the other hand, it is Reddit, so what did I expect :/
You can actually search Lemmy by adding your instance (or a big instance)
For example:
site:lemmy.ca framework 13Awesome, thanks for informing me and others!
The problem with Lemmy is that deleted posts will nuke all of the comments as well.
At least with Reddit, even if the post was deleted you could still get the answer by going through the comments.
I agree.
That is a feature from Reddit that I miss as well. There were also 3rd party backups of Reddit, so even if communities, posts, or comments were deleted, you would be able to see what was removed.
I miss nothing. I do not miss the complete shitshow Reddit became because of Spez and all the trolls.
I just got some sort of contact poison after reading this title, so I’ll go with: I don’t miss titles like this.
What I miss about Reddit hasn’t been on Reddit for a long time. It’s just a porn aggregator now.
I miss unhinged communities like AnarchyChess and Okbuddychicanery.
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I miss meaningful discussion of RVs and sailboats
I miss constantly discovering new cat subs. Someone posted a picture of their cat and people would put related subs in the comments. And even the smallest and most specific subs would get regular posts.
Also, a lot of mods seem to be inactive by now.
The amount of people/content. At the same time half the people were bots and 90% of the content is reposts. I guess really it was the activity. I like to do All and when I do with Lemmy, it’s the same posts as of 1.5 days ago. I enjoy the OC posts of Lemmy cause they’re not buried.
I don’t miss sponsored posts and ads every other card. I don’t miss all the bot copypasta of comments and posts. You use it for 12 years and start to notice the same exact comments, up voted to top on every repost.
Amount of content. Virtually unending streams of whatever you want in any major sub. Here it’s much slower. That results in more personal interaction in the comments though, which I greatly appreciate.
I see that kolanak yiffit guy all of the time
I miss the niche communities that I followed on reddit. There was a lot of sharing and discussion of knowledge there and I learned a lot about my hobbies. I feel more alone in my hobbies and interests now, I have no one to talk about them here.
On the general content side, I’m fine with Lemmy, there’s a lot less to scroll through and I spend a lot less time without feeling like I’m missing out, which is not a bad thing for me. I still can get my jokes, cats and memes in a smaller dose with a lot less reposting than reddit had. Another thing I like about lemmy is that I can interact with the more general content (like right now) without being the billionth comment that no one is going to read anyway
