Controversial opinion: I see more recycled content on Lemmy than Reddit. Comments are usually far better here, but it's an unavoidable reality that there are less people generating new content here. Especially for niche communities.

Hop on over to the niche communities about movies or particular subgenres and they're either dead or recycling stuff. Go to those same niche communities on Reddit and you'll see lots of fresh content all the time. Maybe the main feeds are comparable but if you're into anything niche that isn't computing, privacy, politics or gaming, Lemmy can get a bit stale.

[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

The silver lining, for me, is that I'm doom scrolling less due to the smaller amount of content here. But yeah, we need more creators here (I am not good at coming up with memes)

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm both posting as high output as I feasibly can of OC, and aggregating links from blogs and creators I follow to !tabletopminis@lemmy.world, as a way to minimize reddit content.

!wargaming@lemmy.world is also full of links to articles and blog content relevant to the hobby that isn't ripped from reddit.

!warhammer40k@lemmy.world has a small but regular community.

So many people complain about dead niche communities or niche communities only recycling reddit content. If that same energy was put in service to making new content, the communities would be improved. There is a bystander problem where loads of people complain, but if you check the profiler of the complainer, you often find few to no posts.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

You've just described humans in general.