Help retain users by discussing more than just politics
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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For real we need more uplifting subs, my feed is just Musk and Trump diarrhea.
be the change you want to see. Post and upvote.
I think this is an artifact of what's oddly the biggest weakness of the fediverse: decentralization.
When I used reddit back pre-api stuff, my front page was 100% niche subs I'd subscribed to, but those niches have trouble le growing here because there's so many instances.
I was super active in the scuba subreddit. Here on Lemmy, there's several scuba groups that tried to form, but none of them stuck because they were all on different instances instead of one central location where everyone could work together to make the community.
As a result, most of us haven't been filtering out 99% of Lemmy because the 1% where we'd be active doesn't exist. It's like joining reddit and having your frontpage be /r/all. It's a shitty experience that g9ves a lot of weight to political posts.
But you don't need to be on the same instance to contribute?
Sort by "hot"
I have a gimmick sublemmy, !horseblindness@lemmy.world. Post images that may or may not contain horses!
Let's go! I hope to see these numbers continue to go up as the days go on.
To the moon 🚀
Lemmy is more polished and populated now than before. Hope influx stays and we got all the real people from reddit and bots stay there.
Downloading an app instead of using the web gui helped me a lot, almost gave up on Lemmy couple days ago. But some of these apps are so well made. Really shows commitment
Reddit refugee here. Can I say Luigi?
It's more frowned upon to not do so.
Can you say Luigi lol. Son, you're required to pledge allegiance to Luigi before every post you make here.
This is exactly what I was wondering.
It's more of a requirement than a punishable offense on Lemmy.
And we love you for it❤️
Yeah in a few days I'm going to delete my Reddit account, liking this place so far, you get news and genuine discussion.
Don't close it. Get permabanned instead. Make those fuckers miserable.
Please keep it, it can be useful to promote Lemmy a bit, like we do on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Glad that you like it here!
Yay!!! Let’s go :)
Zoidberg voice: hooray im helping
I'll just say, the more I hang around Lemmy, the more I enjoy the genuine conversations. It feels like less snark, less joke replies, and just a generally more community-type feeling. Reminds me of when I first tried Reddit after leaving Digg way back when.
Hopefully, us exiles can leave the Reddit back at Reddit.
I like a lot of things here better than Reddit. For one thing, I don't see the stupid buzzwords like literally or cringe in 98% of all posts. There's no hivemind here...yet. And hopefully there won't be.
Also not the same 5 memes repeated for 15 years.
I feel the exact same, and I’ve been hanging around here for almost two years (the great 3rd party app exodus of ‘23).
This place feels more like a community filled with people versus a firehose of internet wrapped in layers of corporate and right wing BS.
Reddit was almost exclusively read-only for me. Here, I am commenting all the time.
This is one of the reasons I stayed. It was still small enough back then that you actually started to recognize people you had conversations with, and not just the troll farms.
I find a bunch of snark here, but it absolutely feels more genuine. With reddit it felt like half the comments I saw were from bots. More than half, maybe.
I hate everyone on lemmy but at least I'm hating people
Aw. We hate you too.
You know it's bad for Reddit when people were even talking about going back to Digg
Digg still exists?
They just announced they were coming back the other day 😂
Yup
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