I still go on reddit often since that’s where most of the game communities I want to hear from are.

Booo

I mostly stick to Lemmy but there are times when I have a question to ask and the larger number of eyes on it does feel better even if it’s just a placebo

i had to ask very specific questions, that Reddit has the niche subs for, that lemmy doesnt have recently.

I go on Reddit read-only fairly often, but these days it’s quite rare that I’ll post or comment. And when I do I always take the opportunity to promote the fediverse.

Same, Lenny isn’t mature enough to have some of the very niche communities yet

Yeah, if I want yoyo stuff, I have to go visit r\throwers.

Pretty much the same if I need mechanic info.

I think what there users who mostly post and users that mostly comment (I belong to the later). Lemmy could try to bootstrap some of those communities (note: to not make it to specific) by just reposting the same posts that are posted in Reddit and see if that could increase activity.

there are plenty of empty communities where the only posters are bots that mirror reddit. it’s clear that doesnt do anything except earn a block

Lemmy never will be big enough without a change in thinking from the feudal nature to a more liberal democracy, alas.

Can you expand a bit? What do you mean “feudal nature” and “liberal democracy”? Do you mean society as a whole or Lemmy in general?

Yes I would be pleased to expand thank you for asking.

Lemmy is a mini reddit, moderators own the space, like a feudal lord. To take off, as an alternative to the feudal spaces of big social media, we need to offer a better alternative.

To that effect, a clear set of moderation rules would help, and for that set of rules to end in a jury trial of members.

Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining

But Lemmy is just software. Anyone can throw up an instance with whatever rules they want lol. So why not spin up your own instance with these rules and jury members?

What I don’t get with this federated software, Lemmy and Mastodon. It’s ripe for essentially, server level verification of identity. And I don’t mean check every ID of every user.

But like, this threat talks about game communities. Some larger company, Microsoft, maybe even Valve with Steam, could easily run an instance, and have “official” forums this way. Any anyone on any instance can subscribe and visit. But that way you know that like, I dunno, lame.microsoft/halo is the proper community for Halo. Sure, there may be others, but it can become the place of record with announcements etc.

Same for Mastodon stuff. But that would be more for individuals. But also stuff. Like you could have movie.studio/tom.cruise and it’s verification that it’s the proper Tom Cruise posting. That sort of thing.

Plus, smaller communities have less potential burden from a few large accounts loading the system down.

Etc.

It’s not even mature enough to support some mainstream interests, like sports.

no laundry community on Llemmy either…

Lol what is this, I’m out of the loop here lol

Lemmy doesnt have a laundry dedicated community anywhere that Ive looked… reddit does however…

So I guess the Lemmings let mama and dada do their laundry for them still 😅

so its nothing more than a community that talks about Laundry? sorry if this sounds dumb but man I had been on reddit since the 2010’s and I am just now learning about this lol

there’s so many things that go into laundry care that mostt people need to know about but will never choose to learn about

Like iif your detergent uses certain enzymes then you cant use that detergent to clean wool clothing…but the thing is that like 95 % or more of all detergents have enzymes in them…so…

Also if you live in apartment building what rights do you have to clean out your washing machines’ filters? What ability do you have to clean those filters?

Also which detergents are asstastically bad scams and should never be considered as detergents? Which detergents are actually good? Which companies have bribed those in the media to make it look.like their laundry based products work bbetter than theey actually do? Which detergents shoupd you consider for different msterials? How mucj will they cost over time? SHould you just make asnd use your own homemade detergents?

also Do homemade eco friendly fabric softeners exist and should you even use fabric softeners at all?

How good are copper and lamolin coated clothing at clesning themselves as both of these substances have been found to have anti microbial properties?

How do other regions that dont have easy access to washing machines and dryers do their laundry? Can we take any advice from theiir methods?

How eco friendly are certain types oof clothingsa and even certain types of washing methods? It has been. shown that some of the biggest polluters of microplastics into our world today are microscopic specks from cleaning aritficial fabrics like polyester

Ar ethere any scam washing machines or dryers in the msrket today? How can we tell that they are garbage at cleaning and drying clothing?

When you hhang dry clothing what types of methods could you use to ensure that you dont promote the growth of certain hydrophobic microbes?

The topics go on and on…

Lemmy has no community dedicated to talking about any of these topics…

hahaha, well consider me one of today’s lucky 10,000 then. Well if you ever decide to start a dedicated laundry community, I’ll subscribe. Sounds like you already have the perfect sidebar material written out already lol. Cheers!

Honestly I dontbhave the time in my average day to moderate the community so who would moderate it? I dont have the time T-T . Others probably do. They can start it if they want and moderate it if they want .

Yah I hear yah, me neither. I don’t have that much interest in Laundry to be honest otherwise I’d consider hosting the community on my instance. Oh well.

That’s the problem with Lemmy. It’s not large enough to have active niche communities like gaming handhelds like Retroid ones, Anbernic ones, Steam Deck, etc.

True. And it sucks.

The way I see it is that as long as Lemmy doesnt become as amazingly terrible as reddit or faceboook or twitter there will be such communities created eventually…may take a decade or two for people to birth them and moderate them but they are almost inevitable to come into existence if the demand for such communities gets big enough.

I think it would require reddit to die off even more than it already has, which just may happen.

🫩 There isnt even an intactivism community here bruh!!! 🫩

🫪Heck there isnt even LAUNDRY community on Lemmy!?! How yall existed for this long with no laundry community yall?!?🫪

That’s the problem with changing social networks.

People goes where people are. So it takes some major scew up from the current networks. Or a newcomer that have some killer feature everybody will want / need.

And lemmy lacks that “killer feature”

Lemmy/Piefed/Etc has a killer feature (or maybe characteristic), but one that only a fraction of users find appealing. Being decentralized makes the network more resistant to many of the problems we see on Reddit and other networks, or at least, reduces their impact.

Yeah, it’s not something lots of people will care about. And some eventually stops at “choosing in instance”.

That killer feature is also very unappealing/confusing to the average user. Very similar to Linux in that regard

They will get it eventually it just takes time for people to realize they need to try again. That’s the main issue is people are just lazy.

But I’ve been through multiple conversions like from slashdot to digg then to reddit and now federated. There will always be slow people that take awhile to figure out there is something better to be had.

I still go on Reddit in some cases because google seo or niche communities that are already pretty small. I mean I don’t login anymore and I’ve replaced all of my 10,000 comments. You can definitely tell there has been a massive brain drain. I still get a chuckle when occasionally people reply to my altered comments saying “aww darn that was actually the correct answer”. All my comments now point to federated communities and call out Reddits awful behavior.

Sites come on and enshitify and then people move on (I’m used to it) bit its just nice to know I might not have to do that here. It’s a little annoying to manage multiple accounts with Lemmy/piefed but it also gives me a layer of redundancy. Reddit blocking mobile anonymous users has actually helped me a lot because I was hardcore addicted to reddit.

It’s not even mature enough to have an active Minecraft community, imagine how’s the situation with smaller or indie games…

What, they’re not on neoseeker?

I joke, but really why not try going back to bulletin boards again? Neoseeker was made for games and it always had plenty of users. It’s at least better than reddit.

You should start a community for those games. Or contribute to an existing one. Be the change

Assuming they have the energy and time to dedicate to it, alternatively they could just go to Reddit with minimal effort.

ew

Unfortunately a good chunk of linux distro resources and troubleshooting, and also many hobby stuff is over there.

Back to stackoverflow!

This one is surprising to me. If there’s one thing that Lemmy has a lot of, its Linux enthusiasts

Yeah, and it’s worse the more niche. I have no idea if Lemmy has a Fortnite community or if it’s active, but I seriously doubt it has a /r/StarWarsDroidTycoon community (a Fortnite mode), which is what I care about. Or /r/FortniteLeaks

Or a specific gamepad brand sub that might have some info for a problem i face, or 3ds hacking resource. Reddit win in this because they have years of discussion on the specific subject.

I think the issue is also related to how Reddit makes money. Reddit makes money from selling advertisement. I would guess they are charging a certain fee based off subreddit activity the ads are shown in. When most of that Reddit activity is bots and fake clicks on advertisement then the company won’t see the return on their investment because they thought a million people would see their ad but only 100k real people actually saw it.

You guys see ads on reddit? I laugh in ublock

the problem with uBlock there is thst sometimes on reddit they post like ‘Advertisement Posts’ …Like actual posts that are not about that niche community in anyway but are nothing more than an advertisement for a comoany and uBlack obviously cant block that.

Ive seen it a few times in the past but its been like 4 years since Ive been on reddit so I dont know if theyve stopped doing that.

They’re concerned about AI scraping. They want to sell access to users’ content for training, not let the AI in for free.

Exactly. They definitely care. They want the AI companies coughing up dough for all that data.

Thankfully redlib still works

Thankfully redlib still works

For now

Yeah definitely not optimistic it’ll keep working

It could also be to make things difficult for redlib, which uses the reddit API.

they never ever did anything to propaganda bots at least not recently, and since trumps 2nd win in the WH it was clear they were banning.

ublockorigin prevents those fake posts from my screen.

I’m banned

Permanently

You are banned for this comment which you can’t see

Bastards!

I use Red Reader to look at reddit for a few specific subs but I prefer hanging out here.

Reddit at one point filtered millions of bots monthly and transparently filed public reports on the actions they had taken, even citing the source of these bot networks if a notable number of them came from places like Russia, China, Myanmar, etc.

That was a long ass time ago, though. Before they killed off the free API access in 2022, and the 3rd party apps and accessibility layers with it.