User visits and time spent on the social media platform normalize after traffic to Reddit briefly dipped last week during the blackout, according to SimilarWeb.
I definitely agree. The vast majority of people still left on Reddit are those who are corporate bootlickers and those who do not care and just want to doom scroll.
I don’t agree that the vast majority of the people left there are bootlickers.
Most of the people left there seem to be uninterested in technology from the arts and crafts related subs and that’s what’s really missing in Lemmy/kbin.
There is no /c/woodwoking, /c/printmaking or /c/embroidery and the people that usually visit these don’t really care about the underlying tech. Most of the time they just want to share their crafts with their community and things to just work.
I’m almost certain I’ve seen a woodworking community when browsing all.
I also don’t think it’s necessarily a question of subject matter so much as that Lemmy’s user base is simply not large enough yet to sustain active niche communities, and it’s an open question if we can get to that point without degrading the quality of the less focused ones, like /c/crafting or /c/diy.
Will a critical mass be reached where we can create our own communities? At least at beehaw that seems to be handled top down, we had a poll asking what we’d want - does it work that way everywhere? I’d like a local area community, but as you say, who’d participate? I might be it.
I found these using the communities search on the site. I don’t know if you can find them using Jerboa or not as it’s currently crashing on startup for me (it still needs to bake, methinks).
There is definitely still a lack of content, but niche communities are still a thing here in the fediverse, though most are still quite small and you have to search for them. I think that the content will come as long as we keep evangelizing about the fediverse.
I definitely agree. The vast majority of people still left on Reddit are those who are corporate bootlickers and those who do not care and just want to doom scroll.
Neither type adds anything to an online community
I don’t agree that the vast majority of the people left there are bootlickers.
Most of the people left there seem to be uninterested in technology from the arts and crafts related subs and that’s what’s really missing in Lemmy/kbin.
There is no /c/woodwoking, /c/printmaking or /c/embroidery and the people that usually visit these don’t really care about the underlying tech. Most of the time they just want to share their crafts with their community and things to just work.
I’m almost certain I’ve seen a woodworking community when browsing all.
I also don’t think it’s necessarily a question of subject matter so much as that Lemmy’s user base is simply not large enough yet to sustain active niche communities, and it’s an open question if we can get to that point without degrading the quality of the less focused ones, like /c/crafting or /c/diy.
Will a critical mass be reached where we can create our own communities? At least at beehaw that seems to be handled top down, we had a poll asking what we’d want - does it work that way everywhere? I’d like a local area community, but as you say, who’d participate? I might be it.
This just depends on the server admin. I’ve created two communities on lemmy.ml
I found these using the communities search on the site. I don’t know if you can find them using Jerboa or not as it’s currently crashing on startup for me (it still needs to bake, methinks).
Woodworking Quite a few choices. Top one has the most subscribers. https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/woodworking https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Printmaking Only one subscriber at the moment. https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Embroidery A few choices. https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/embroidery https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
There is definitely still a lack of content, but niche communities are still a thing here in the fediverse, though most are still quite small and you have to search for them. I think that the content will come as long as we keep evangelizing about the fediverse.
~Also, this is my first post on Lemmy!~