I feel there are a lot of philosophical and practical similarities between the FediVerse and the open source operating system world. That’s why a lot of people tend to be on both.
The thing about the FediVerse is that you are the only responsible for your feed. Try looking for different content, different people, or different instances, to find more content that resonates more with you and follow those accounts and communities.
when I was on Mastodon, I only saw toots about porn, a few poems, and the scheduled “TOOT!” every minute from that bot that toots every minute.
Perfectly balanced, as everything should be
You can always use a keyword filter depending on what client you use to browse Lemmy- it makes browsing a lot more enjoyable.
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There’s a lot of other stuff here too, granted Star Trek is 60% of my feed - but it reminds me of the old internet so I’m content.
What else do you like?
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I believe Technology is the top active community.
I feel you on gaming though. I try to be active in niche subs for games I’ve played recently, like Armored Core and Baldur’s Gate. The demographic on Lemmy is no doubt perfect for building up gaming communities - I bet a venn diagram of Lemmings and people who you would find at a con is practically a circle. I think we just need to get some more started.
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I bet a venn diagram of Lemmings and people who you would find at a con is practically a circle
None taken
There’s a few specific gaming communities. They’re small, but I can say growing daily. I’m actually a mod of !satisfactory@lemmy.world for example. If one doesn’t exist and you feel up to it, make a community too. I’m sure there are people who are interested. The communities are small, but through nurturing we can grow them up to a nice size.
Check out https://lemmyverse.net/communities, I don’t know how many are active but it only takes one person to make it active!
You need to follow more tags, like game-specific tags and specific tech tags. Sometimes I think federation fails to show all content in the tags, so following more people might help too
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Just gonna go out on a limb and say most cheap tech projects are probably running on some open source code.
You are limiting yourself a little bit by not being at least slightly interested in it.
Classic Linux propagandist move
To point out reality?
“I like tech, but I don’t actually give a shit about how any of it works” is a really weak take.
Star Trek, Linux, and a smattering of other memes… that’s all I need!
I can help with 2 out of 3.
Although Lemmy is making me want to get into Linux too…
Although Lemmy is making me want to get into Linux too…
Do it! Is there a newbie Linux community on Lemmy yet? I’d love to help out folks like yourself get through sticky stuff.
I definitely read all your memes. Thank you for your service!
What kind of content are you looking for? Probably we can guide you.
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Oh, that explains the kinds of things you see. Most content on lemmy has no relation to Linux at all. But on those two topics, yes, it’s almost universal.
Maybe you should start a Windows gamming community?
not Linux tho
https://kbin.social/m/gaming and https://lemmy.world/c/games are here. They’re both relatively active. And don’t have a lot of Linux talk lol.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !games@lemmy.world
!gaming@beehaw.org !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
The genre/publisher/series/individual game-oriented niche communities are generally still small but are growing. !baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world has been active though.
What I’m seeing right now in the smaller communities is sufficient voter and comment engagement but not enough people making new posts to drive discussion.
Just block the Linux communities whenever they pop up, and then you’ll just see everything else
I do not understand.
If you block the Linux communities, you’ll miss out on the Linux content??
Geeks are usually the first ones that populate any kind of a social network.
But, I would have to agree that I don’t think that the fediverse will become anything more than what it is now - a place for geeks to exchange info and their Linux desktop setups.
This is mostly generalized, but I seriously doubt other communities will get popular on Lemmy, like let’s say DIY audio or something similar. They have a good thing going on reddit, free hosting, no one cares who actually pays the electricity bills, the platform is free (as in beer)… not everyone cares about freedom as much as people on the fediverse do 🤷. I’m sorry, but that’s just how things are.
On the other hand, Lemmy is a perfect place to share info and data that might be illegal in some countries (piracy and sharing pr0n vids that are sold on other sites), so i can see niche things like these thriving here… set up your server at home or in China/Russia, set up a reverse proxy… pratically, you’re off the grid regarding copyright claims.
The nerds get chased out. They build a new platform free of shittyness. The nornies notice and migrate milking as much profit as possible. The platform becomes shit. The holy cycle continues.
Yeah, to be honest, this is alredy happening with Lemmy, so I wasn’t surprised at all.
Not a fan of the reddit migration, I assume?
No, I was, I really was looking forward to this place and it was pretty OK at the beginning, the first few months, but I did like a pause (some real world obligations) for a few months and I just started coming back, but things are… somewhat different from what I remember them. A lot of abuse of power by mods…
I found some things going in the right direction, like the no stupid questions comm, but other than that… seems like people have gotten more uptight and posh… if that makes any sense.
The nice thing about federtation is that if you don’t want normies you can just defed from instances that allow them, or anything with open sign up.
I would say just subscribe to stuff you like and don’t doom scroll for hours. A 15 min session is all you need to catch up for a day in your interests. Also make some posts in stuff you like and care about.
Totally. While I do want the Fediverse to grow, I have to admit enjoying that the scroll is not quite endless. It really highlights how much garbage we encounter on a daily basis that exists purely to distract and entertain us since I don’t really feel like I’m having FOMO or anything but I’m scrolling way less.
Twitter was designed to be addictive, whereas Mastodon was specifically designed to not be addictive. That’s why scrolling Mastodon feels so boring after a while.
And Star Trek.
What kind of diverse subjects are you searching for? Maybe you can help bring that diversity. If you build it they will come.
The world feels very lonely when you care about linux.
You could become an anarchist.
The implication here is that anarchists are relatively common on the fediverse, and if so, it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen this idea expressed.
But the thing is that I am an anarchist, and I’ve been keeping my eyes open, and I haven’t seen any other anarchists here. LOTS of authoritarian leftists, ranging from naive social democrats to full-blown “submit or die” tankies, but not one single other anarchist.
So are you actually trying to say that anarchists are common here? And if so, where are they?
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Make sure you’re following hashtags on Mastodon. I see plenty of people posting stuff like art, food and gaming opinions because I’m following a bunch of topics that interest me.
When it comes to Linux, it’s only natural that FOSS people are more interested in the fediverse than the average normie, because that’s where all of this stuff came from. I know FOSS people who have been using Mastodon for years and years.
You should try it. It’s awesome, it’ll change your outlook on things. This is totally peer pressure, but hey, it could be drugs or smoking.
I’ve been a BSD and linux user for 25 years now, and I can quit whenever I want to. I just don’t want to.
Admittedly, my health has suffered from distro abuse; it landed me a well paying job, and I can now afford to eat bacon whenever I want to.
Have you tried appreciating Star Trek memes?
Fear not, there are also extreme political discussions.
Political extremity, Linux, and LGBT… I can’t think of any other major category of the fediverse. Memes don’t count, because they’re usually conveying one of the 3
Fibre crafts is popping off on Mastodon tbh
