• @fernfrost
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    3631 year ago

    To be fair Lemmy feels like a brand new mall of stores with empty shelves.

    • @[email protected]
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      1181 year ago

      A lot of empty stores, and then the big anchor stores are full of depressing doomer news articles

        • @InverseParallax
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          121 year ago

          Don’t forget the hexbears:

          “You’re all warmongering fascists except Putin!!!”

          • @[email protected]
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            91 year ago

            I try not to label an entire instance, that’s like labeling an entire race, it’s not a healthy way to think about life.

                • ferret
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                  31 year ago

                  Parent comment was pointing out that you pick what instance you use and there are a lot to choose from, so they tend to be fairly homogenous in views (exception being the largest few)

          • The dogspaw
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            21 year ago

            I think there band I haven’t seen any thing from them this weekend

            • @InverseParallax
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              11 year ago

              So, they’re out in absolute force on lemm.ee, had 3 guys jump up to explain to me how the holodomor wasn’t a genocide and calling it one makes me a nazi because I don’t respect the jews.

              So maybe they are only defeded on lemmy.world, only went to lemm.ee because of the downtime, might switch back.

    • Archmage Azor
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      641 year ago

      It’s always sad when you go to a community for something you like, something that’s widely popular, and see the newest post is 2 days old.

      • @T156
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        Especially when you’re the only one posting. At some point, it feels a little like you’re spamming the sub, even if you are the only one keeping it active.

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      • @silentknyght
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        331 year ago

        Hard truth? Reddit conditioned me to NOT participate.

        Nearly time I wanted to discuss something or ask something important to me, my posts were deleted by mods. The few times posts would stay was because they were meme shitposts of easily digestible image content: scroll and move along. Any actual discussion was verboten.

        /r/mk mods were particularly awful. Fuck those guys.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 year ago

          The thing you must understand about /r/mk is that it was largely sheperded by a man who was driven from the other major mechanical keyboard forums for being too much of a self-promoter. It’s possible the entire organization still has residual brittle-ego.

          If you want proper keyboard discussion, do check Deskthority; the content is a lot richer than “here’s a photo of my board which is just a Taco Bell permutation of the current popular PCB/case/caps/switches”

          • @silentknyght
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            21 year ago

            I never knew that! Thanks for sharing!

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      • @Maalus
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        141 year ago

        Lemmy doesn’t have the inventory. The userbase is tiny.

        • @[email protected]
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          101 year ago

          The userbase is significantly bigger than some fairly decent forums that I use or used to visit. The problem is rather the behaviour of the users (reddit started to favour more Instagram-like behaviour of scrolling and “liking” rather than normal forum-like dialogue, especially when you look at r/all, and I think we’re yet to grow out of it fully), and their relatively narrow range of interests (tech + political news) that leaves the other areas empty.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            The user base of Lemmy may be bigger, but we don’t all share the same interest(s) the way people grouped on a specific forum would which does hinder it a bit.

          • @Maalus
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            91 year ago

            Not when there is no content to read through.

    • @bulwark
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      181 year ago

      True, I just wish there was more content on some of the smaller niche communities but I guess that it takes time for it to grow and that doesn’t happen overnight.

      • Rentlar
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        241 year ago

        It relies on people like you to spark discussion and content. Ask questions and interact with your favourite topics! Crosspost and shamelessly plug your favourite community (Shoutout to [email protected])

        So get out there and make Lemmy the lively place you want it to be.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          Well said. At this point there’s so much pre-existing content on Reddit that I rarely feel the desire to post or comment anymore. These days an upvote or downvote is usually the extent of my interactions over there.

          Being part of this early, and relatively small, userbase on Lemmy means the content has to (gets to?) come from us. Instead of just scrolling through content we get to share interesting things and help build communities, and I find that rather exciting!

          Oh and thanks for the link to the boardgame community!

    • @Widowmaker_Best_Girl
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      61 year ago

      And all the customers do nothing but scream about politics in every section.

      • @glimse
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        121 year ago

        Scream about the old mall*

    • JustinHanaganOP
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      31 year ago

      The “mall” analogy works for Reddit because the point of it existing is to buy things there. Lemmy instances and communities only exist because people want to make space for conversation. If spaces are empty, I see that as a sign that someone, somewhere cares so much that they will happy build the space and wait for others to arrive.

    • @nutsack
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      11 year ago

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