I never was a big social media guy. Never had a Facebook or anything, except what google forced on me like Google+ and on reddit, I just used it for very specific tasks, when I couldn’t find answers anywhere else.

With the current shitstorm on reddit I decided that enough is enough and wanted to give this Fediverse I keep hearing about a try. With a little bit of searching around, I made an account, got the mobile app and things seemed settled. Until I tried finding stuff more targeted than a wall of posts on jerbil.

Granted, I haven’t read, let alone tried everything yet, but it seems limited, or most likely, I have no idea what I’m doing. Take for example emulation. One of the subreddits I was in, was about emulation since that’s a topic I’m passionate about. Good, went to the link provided to search for communities and got 11 results. As expected for the most part.

What was not expected was most of them being in the double digits of users with the biggest ones showing 3 posts and like…6 comments total.

I know that while the fediverse is not new by any means, there’s a large growth now with the shit happening over at reddit and is in by no means as populated or interacted with as the latter. But those numbers seem so small to me that I’m sure I’m doing something wrong.

Please help out an illiterate idiot?

PS. Emulation was just an example I was interested with. It’s not the point of my post.

  • Buglefingers
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    12 years ago

    All the content is generated by Users, just like all the Bugles are consumed by them. Users have only just started to migrate but the content they created doesn’t migrate with them (yet?). So newly migrated users will add content over time and eventually will become a resource akin to reddit. Remember, Reddit has many years of a massive number of people adding content, Fediverse has only existed for a while. now they have users but those people have only migrated, what, less than a week ago? It’ll take time for content, thoughts, issues, and troubleshooting/resolutions to be posted here.