• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    304 months ago

    Lemmy at first was Abit barren but I’m super happy with it now. Let’s hope we don’t see reddit collapse and the masses turn their attention here like the digg event

    • @Chill_Dan
      link
      English
      254 months ago

      My biggest complaint is it’s dominated by memes, and in a distant second is news, and that’s kinda it. We need so much more diverse content still.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        144 months ago

        Be the change you want to see!

        Anyway those are probably the lowest effort content which is why you see it most. Over time though the other forms will come. Most of Reddits front-page is memes and news for the same reason.

      • @Rolando
        link
        English
        64 months ago

        What I do to get around that is: subscribe to communities that are not memes, news, or tech, then read new posts by “subscribed” and “scaled”. When I run out of those, read “all” to find new communities to subscribe to.

      • @PriorityMotif
        link
        English
        34 months ago

        Sort by “active” that’s where the most discussion is happening

      • SSTF
        link
        English
        14 months ago

        I’m only but one person.

    • @barsquid
      link
      English
      174 months ago

      I hope Lemmy doesn’t become overrun with reddit’s far-right psychos after reddit collapses.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        204 months ago

        We can’t stop them from using Lemmy either. They’ll come.

        But this time we can defederate from servers that tolerate intolerance.

        • Draconic NEO
          link
          English
          24 months ago

          Also encouraging our local instance admins who are or seem receptive to not tolerate the intolerant.

      • Fish [Indiana]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        84 months ago

        Like Facebook, Reddit will probably just become a cesspool of conservative morons. I’m fine with them staying on Reddit. I don’t think it’s gonna “collapse” anytime soon.

      • Communist
        link
        fedilink
        English
        84 months ago

        i’m not completely confident that those far-right psychos are even real people for the most part. Reddit is probably the most botted place on the internet.

      • Draconic NEO
        link
        English
        64 months ago

        I imagine that many will flock to right-wing friendly instances that end up widely defederated. Most of them though will go back to 4chan and other similar sites.

        • Cowbee [he/they]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          34 months ago

          Exploding Heads is a Nazi instance that many people don’t even know about because of how defederated it is.

          • Draconic NEO
            link
            English
            44 months ago

            Was, it’s no longer in existence currently. Many of them moved to Nostr, though some of their members came back to Lemmy and set up the hilariouschaos Lemmy instance.

      • @BMTea
        link
        English
        -34 months ago

        So long as the Israeli bot networks stay off of here. I don’t like how China is discussed here but it’s a function of the type of people this place attracts, i.e not fans of authority.

    • sweetpotato
      link
      fedilink
      English
      34 months ago

      On one hand I think it’s very positive that everyone starts using decentralised platforms that don’t run on profit, that work for their users and not their shareholders, but on the other hand having a space mostly without conservatives is great.