I swear I’m not trying to promote Reddit, I’m a refugee as many of us here, I just saw this video linked on r/Save3rdPartyApps and it amaze me that many people used Reddit for niche stuff.
So far Lemmy has been great for me, it really scratches the Reddit itch, using Thunder, Voyager, Jerboa and Connect for Lemmy has been a godsend for this site to me (yeah I cycle them all lol) but it is hard for me finding “less popular content”.
I know we are not supposed to lurk to keep improving this site it is hard to stop lurking ngl, I am trying to be more active as many of us do.
Some weeks ago Lemmy wasn’t even a shadow of what it is today, but I wonder if it is gonna get as big to cover those niches that people like.
Lemmy is going to start with the “major” subs e.g. your meme communities, news subs, major hobbies etc.
Then as time goes on we’ll have points where people start to branch out to niche communities because the mainstream communities are too generalised. That’s when we’ll start to see explosive growth.
Lemmy won’t “win” overnight. It will be a gradual and years-long process, but it can be worth it in the end.
Yes this likely the best growing scenario, I’m so excited to be here to witness it now.
Meta’s Threads could just be like a nuke over all of this niceness we have now. Will be very interesting to see.
All those normies that hardly even know what a server is… I don’t expect them to care about being nice.
Then they get defederated. A lot of instances decided to not federate with Meta before they even launched
My dude, be the change you want to see. Start the community, curate what you want to see there, set some ground rules, and people will join you. I guarantee your interests are shared with others.
Think of Lemmy in 2023 as Reddit in 2005-2007. Reddit didn’t become the Reddit we loved (until a couple of months ago) in a flash.
Even with the wariness of Meta’s entrance into the fediverse, Threads gives it legitimacy and spreads awareness. So many people on reddit were saying the fediverse was confusing and that it wouldn’t catch on or appeal to the average user. Threads can change that perception, even if the various lemmy instances don’t federate with Threads, people will be aware of the existence of other servers, of the technology, and be more willing to branch out.
Definitely. It’s going to take time though, since we’re directly competing with all those pre-existing specialty subs over there, which complicates things a little.
I hope the Fediverse can make a way to see reachable from search engines, I think that’d help.
The beauty of it is that “Lemmy” doesn’t have to get big all by itself.
I’m commenting this from kbin.social.
As more people join the fediverse we are going to see more niche instances of lemmy, kbin, all kinds of things. And those niche communities are going to create niche content.
I had never modded before in my life but when I joined the fediverse I made a community for what I want to see, because the fediverse is exciting and I want to be part of what we are doing here. I bet lots of people feel like this!
I’m starting to see it already. Even just a month ago, most niche subs were nonexistent. Some are popping up now, albeit with very little engagement
It will take time. It took Reddit 16 years to get 500 million active users. But Reddit is crap compared to how I remember it back then (2007-2009). I have the utmost confidence that Lemmy will cover niche topics.
Even Reddit was not niche enough for some things. Like a proper street photography subreddit.
omg this is like me with hotsauce. I found that subreddit a long time ago, and it was just so filled with awesome recommendations and reviews. There’s one on lemmy (just created I think) and people are slowly creating content on there. So I guess there’s hope!
Yeah it’s tricky. I don’t want to start a niche community cause i don’t want to be a mod, but i guess maybe the best thing to do is start the community i want, pin a post saying “mods wanted”, and post it to !newcommunities@lemmy.world
Do it! It’s honestly not as scary as we think, especially if you start small.
I didn’t want to be a mod, but I realised the community I was posting to had a moderation policy that would turn it into not-what-I-hoped-for so I started my own.
It only has 10 subscribers and I’m miles away from the 90-9-1 rule kicking in but it’s not stressful at all so far.
A lot is probably just because of the sheer volume of people over there, whatever the interest was, there’d be plenty of people who were really into that thing. I miss subs like r/whatisthisthing and r/tipofmytongue that worked because just by exposing it to so many people, there was a good chance of coming across someone who was actually familiar with it already.
It’s not just reddit, and it’s not just lemmy. It’s just important that we have a space to share information with eachother free of commercial interests.
But yeah beautiful vid. Almost cried at the ending.
