Unpopular Opinion

I'm missing some of the subreddits I used to frequent.

The only thing I thought Reddit was for the last 5 or so years was shitposts and memes. Which is pretty much the same here atm. Maybe in time, it will be like the reddit I joined 10-11 years ago, and have genuinely good, unique content that isn't a shitpost or low-effort meme.

I know the niches are the key, but here's my problem: The things I am into aren't niche anymore. They used to be... But they are ever increasing into the mainstream, so the conversation (or lack thereof really) is the same in every space. 😩

What you're experiencing I think is completely normal. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Reddit is mainstream, and Lemmy is not. Hypothetically, you might find, say, your plumber on Reddit, who casually browses in down time. The most normal user probably just uses a browser or the normal app; they may have very little or no knowledge about the reddit blackouts, what's happening, and why.

Maybe some users were using third party apps and know what happened, but if they don't care much about the reasons they might just stop using Reddit or settle with the native app. This category of users and the last are all probably making up a large part of the user base in general, and of the non-tech (normal?) Subreddits in particular.

The users who migrated to Lemmy by this point will be pretty much a reversal of Reddit's dynamic. The majority will be privacy/tech minded and have moved specifically in protest to Reddit's corporate/capitalist practices. They are here hoping to disrupt the norm and prove that we don't require a centralized power system to run social media.

Then there are probably a minority of users who are simply curious because they heard about an alternative and wanted to see what this is all about. A lot of these users probably don't stick around if they don't see the kind of stuff they want to see.

Out of any groups, only a small portion will provide content, and a slightly larger portion will take part in discussion. Memes are the easiest content to produce and to consume, so that's probably why they're so prevalent.

Personally I enjoy the conversation around privacy, FOSS, etc, but I do truly hope we'll start to see more of the normal communities develop here. Particularly I miss some of the creative writing communities which I know for sure haven't really transferred off of Reddit by this point.

It is understandable but also lemmy is so new you can't expect the number of community and user as reddit

I circumvent the endless discussion about the platform by just sorting by Hot under "All". I'm totally with you though, there are some seriously insufferable people who meta-post about Lemmy crowding the front page. I just want to ignore that and see how it goes. If I don't like Threads or whatever, I can just move instances to one that blocks them. No big deal. I'm just trying to get my fix of conetct and connect with people.

yeah me too, \ I hope this place grow big enough so we can have the lemmy communites for the niche subreddit for example I'm was /r/stocks on reddit and thier is stocks community here, but for somethign like /r/daytrading or /r/pennystocks or /r/AMD_Stock are not avalible here, but hopefully by time thier will be simillar communities here

I think your assessment is spot on. I find a lot of such individuals, if not worse, in various posts. While I encourage redditors to migrate here, when they get here and see shit like what you describe, it's no surprise if they go back.

Im thinking there will be another wave of users when the major 3rd party apps are ready. In the meantime, I am frustrated in the fact like my 4 favorite niche apps have like ghost towns for communities. That includes one that has like 2.4 million followers on Reddit.

I mean if there are so many tech people here why isn't there more discussion for instance in an Android Apps community on Lemmy?

I deleted my Account as soon as I learnt that Apollo would no longer work. I did continue to lurk on some subs until they wall went NSFW and I couldn't access them in a browser any more, but I was getting more into Lemmy and Mastodon, so I didn't really mind.

There is still one subreddit that I do miss; I had noticed some Astroturfing from commercial interests in the months leading upto the API price change, but I had just blocked those users and moved onto real user content.

I try to access it every few days to lurk, but it is always inaccessible without logging in.

I did manage to get into it this morning for a few minutes (Mods must have been doing some spring cleaning) and noticed that the content that I previously enjoyed was no longer being published. It was full of Astroturf, Ads and an occasional uninteresting post.

Yeah, I missed Digg when I switched to Reddit back in 2011. It took a few years before I got comfortable there. I assume the same will happen here on Lemmy.

Just go ahead and block them if you want. I block a lot of the accounts that repost news articles that talk about Reddit’s latest shenanigans. I don’t care, I deleted my reddit account, our relationship is over.

Reddit (overall and subreddit) culture and discourse always had an ebb and flow to it. Any off feelings about however you're accessing the Fediverse are both fair and not unlike the Reddit experience to begin with.

Unpopular opinion: if you miss reddit then get the fuck off lemmy and go back to reddit. Nobody is holding a gun to your head to stay here. I have been on reddit aince 2009 and lemmy is as old reddit as it can get. Fuck this new reddit crowd who grew up doom scrolling as a 2 year old

find the communities you like.