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.
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.
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.
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”).
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.
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
You forgot the constant Linux fellating
And the Star Trek memes.
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.
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.
This.
Redditors using “This” is another thing I hated. It adds nothing to the conversation and came off as someone fishing for upvotes
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.