Ask Lemmy

I would like particular communities to grow but the Facebook/Instagram/tiktok people can stay where they're at.

Why are you so fixated on people who are fixated on Lemmy's growth? 🤔

Subs which are huge in other places don't exist here. So growth is needed.

I just joined. What’s some good sub communities with good engagement?

I see lemmy as a sort of test-balloon: Can we overcome network effects? And in a larger (and maybe slightly hyperbolic) sense, can we become a rational civilization or are we doomed to fail as a species?

On a civilization level we are currently seeing a massive downward trend due to news and social media become completely... well wrong. And it's getting worse. The main media aspects of the internet have done the exact opposite of what we wanted it to become. And most of it is because it's run only for profit.

So lemmy and the fediverse is a pretty good attempt at trying to break that and replace it with something more democratic and sane. But I think it's likely that lemmy is going to fail to achieve that. The synergy through network effects is just too strong. Reddit, youtube, facebook, google, twitter will never be replaced. At least not without a massively funded alternative (e.g. tiktok that funded creators for a while) and that just ends in the same way again. Seeking profit instead of serving the users is a kind of insanity for our "means of communication".

Of course that is a bit hyperbolic and lemmy is fine and fun to use as it is, but I wish it would fully replace reddit as a sane alternative.

I mean, Lemmy is pretty much news and... That's it. I loved the smaller communities of Reddit. And Reddit was really nice, you just had to get off the subs with millions of subscribers.

I saw a bunch of new people join recently because of Reddit saying something about potentially pay walling subs. Perhaps that has something to do with it.

I dunno but I'm not. I'm just having fun

I've been having a nice time with Lemmy having ditched Reddit last year, and considering the changes that happened or have been conceptually floated over that time I'm happy with my choice.

One thing I would like is for the Lemmy framework to make it easier for the network to be "wider" than "taller" as it grows. By this I mean a wider array of separate domains with operators each with thriving niche communities, rather than a few tall generalist servers and a handful of outliers, and a fragmented myriad of inactive communities that are hard to find.

Too many people are just competitive. I didn't get it either, just ignore it and post memes.

You can insult and annoy more people with your comments when there's more users, so..

(People on lemmy are way too nice. I love that, but I miss old fashioned trolling here. It's just part of the internet for me.)

People just want what they gave up and what they know, it is that simple.

One day, this too will turn to shit. But when that day comes, people will just drift to different instances. Not including federation and niche communities, this is functionally equivalent to reddit for me