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where did you find over moderation? I have been over here for a while now and never found over moderation. Admittedly I am not active in any communities other than asklemmy and linux.
Yeah it’s hard to replace reddit and lemmy is by far the best. Just needs time to mature.
Honestly, that’s fine - Lemmy is now a known alternative and best of all, has time to grow more naturally and be better situated for the next eventual migration (I’m a Reddit migrant myself).
But who, exactly, is supposed to create this “niche content” for them? I think this is something we underestimate—large swaths of people see themselves as consumers of quality content. It is not for them to bring in comments or interesting finds to the communities. This I think is what makes the internet ripe for centralization. You can’t be a non-paying consumer and choose your menu. You can pay with your behavior datapoints and get fads packaged to you, or you can help create an ecosystem where you don’t have to be spied on every click and tap of the day. Choose your path and make peace with it. The worst would be to help create content for a community and be spied while at it.
That niche content is built up over years of the right person finding the right thing, which all in all is pretty rare, because only a percentage of thoses people will actually post and make their knowledge known. It’s institutional knowledge, and institutions arent built in a day.
It will happen. It will be slow. It’s how it works everywhere. The community needs to prove itself after all!
Hopefully the next exodus, Lemmy will have a better way to boost visibility of niche communities in active/hot timelines. Reddit was good at doing this, not sure how they did it. Right now it’s really hard to grow small communties unless you explicitly keep checking on them. So it is a problem, but there is a solution that hopefully we’ll figure out soon. Also we have pretty mature phone apps now, but the desktop site is pretty lacking unless you use one of those alternative front ends.
Hear me out, a good portion of Reddit posts are reposts anyways so what if we did a one time import of Reddit community top posts of all time to seed communities so there’s a place people feel more encouraged to post to? I don’t like bot posts generally, but if it’s a one time thing I think I’d like it if the communities here had some extra seed content to browse so you wouldn’t reach the end so quickly like you do now.
There is at least one bot that does this, there are comments on the posts explaining how to request more subreddits to be added to the seed list
It’s a bit disappointing that most of the communities for specific content are so inactive on here, but I still prefer it to the types of banal, waste-of-time, repetitive content and comments that plague reddit and have caused my eyes to roll in a tailspin.
Do I really have to choose one or the other, though?
I think there’s a sweet spot in terms of population lemmy hasn’t reached yet. Reddit has surpassed it long ago and is now shit due to too many people.
Me: I am the niche content now. Starts up 10 communities and actually posts to them.
Like, I need help, I can’t keep this pace of posting up forever… Please contribute!
We need a full-on reddit REMAKE.
Someone just steal the code for old reddit and host it (maybe on a .to lol) calling it Readit or something, then just have bots scrape and autopost everything from reddit /all until there are enough organic Readit users.
Run it on donations like wikipedia and throw moderation to the wind except for a skeleton crew to remove CP and Yall-Qaeda
Lemmy reminds so much of the beginnings of Reddit when I started there over 17 years ago.
Totally. I can only see it improving from here. It’s clear there are tons of committed users, one’s that will continue posting for years to come.
I am one of them.
Honestly kinda cool that I recognize a few recurring people
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Ehhh if you have a serious question or a problem about some niche thing, and no one here can answer it, you’re just wasting your time. I had an issue with a tool I have, but I couldn’t find a community that it made sense to ask about it in. I’m not going to start a community for every sub I had subbed on reddit.
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Same. I like having alternatives. And now that Sync for Lemmy is up and running I only hit reddit very occasionally for various niche things I like.
I’d love to see more niche communities, but honestly I mostly just accepted it as is. I needed less time on social media anyways so it works for me.
There is a singular community I’ve been returning to Reddit for. Thankfully a (very) small subset has mograted here, but the day to day conversation just isn’t there. I definitely need to interact, comment, and post more on the community here though. Gotta help it grow and all that.
You’ll be back, soon you’ll see, you’ll remember that you belong to me 🎶
I like motorcycles and assholes, I have a hard time not going back to reddit.
You’re gonna love motorassholes.
I can’t go back. I was ina ban purge and I wasn’t even a mod.
