Not that it is not interesting but I would like just a tad more variety on the front page.
Edit btw for those who are wondering the two communities I started are https://lemmy.world/c/newmusic and https://kbin.social/m/musicfeedback/microblog (not sure if I have the links correct for people)
Be the change you wish to see in the world
I have , amazingly I decided to start two communities, something I have never done before despite the fact I had a 12 year badge and thousands of karma at the other place.
We don’t talk about that other place
We don’t talk about steve-o!
Huff-mo?
Spezzo?
Idk. I’ll try again after more coffee.
I tried to create a community twice now, but it just sat there spinning after I hit “Create.” I’m trying to contribute, dammit.
Yep, sometimes this is happening to me I just open another tab and often the circle spin is irrelevant and the post or whatever has already been created , seems to be a issue with the system.
It looks like there is already a community with the same name, but when I go there to subscribe, it says “removed by mod.” maybe that’s my issue. Because even when I try to open new tabs and navigate to the community I’m trying to create, it’s not working.
Check your profile to see if you mod anything
Nope, no luck. But I’ll figure it out, I’m determined. I really appreciate your help!
If you do some googleing there are some pretty good faqs out , although it did take me a while, good luck
Also having the same problems here. Looks lile I’m not alone
What was happening for me is that there was already a community with the same name I was trying to create. But the creator was temporarily banned, so the community didn’t show up when I searched for it. Maybe if you change the name, you might be able to create it.
I never posted on reddit…but luked for a very long time but I want this place to be better the reddit so bad and so…
Then post some interesting content. Posts like this aren’t helpful
I just posted a cat hunting it’s own tail here. I’m doing my part!
Does stealing memes from discord servers and posting them here count? Asking for a friend…
Only if they’re good
Everything I see on Discord that I think is funny or interesting goes to lemmy. I’m a discord repost bot.
The content must flow
Good bot
LOL
Go for it my guy
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They say the next GallowBoob has already been born…
Well they are encouraging to a degree but please next one of “these” maybe next week? Meta complaints are really drag if they’re repeated over and over again.
completely unrelated to your comment but fez pfp! nice game
Thanks :D my favorite game
I wanna post a meme but my instance has issues with image uploads :(
Good call
What a neat little website! Thanks for this!! If I had money I’d gol-wait a second
They are, though. They’re encouraging and reflect a sentiment other can relate to.
They’re strange to me as well. Some of the communities I’ve subscribed to have already started being active. It’s very encouraging.
I feel like we all just went through a breakup and all we can do is talk about our ex. We know it’s stupid, and we found someone else. But for right now, we are rebounding hard on Lemmy.
Seriously, couldn’t have said if better myself.
Voat was great at the beginning until it became a right wing cesspool. But 90% of the posts were about Reddit and circle jerking about how Reddit was so bad. I’m blocking posts/communities that talk about Reddit here to help clean it up.
I remember the first time I visited voat and the top post of the entire site was memorializing Hitler. I wonder why that website doesn’t exist anymore…
Eh, let people get it out of their system. It’s gonna be that way for the next month or so anyway since there will be a new influx of users in July when the 3PAs stop working.
This is why I posted, I really think we need to concentrate on unique content now so when the next influx comes we not all naval gazing
Reddits success was due to the genuineness of conversations. You’d have celebs hop on and not their pr person and engage in meaningful conversation, you’d have amas from unexpected professions and give unknown details about it.
You’d have full rage comics that fit a certain mold and lolcat memes.
hey its me ur celebrity.
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Phil. Phil Connors!?!? Is that you?
https://giphy.com/gifs/bill-murray-groundhog-day-punch-DViGV8rfVjw6Q
LOL
But I’m a boring lurker
Just type out whatever thoughts you have, nobody’s judging!
Everyone’s judging! I’m pretty sure that’s how the platform is designed.
But I get what you’re saying. I’m just adding my little joke to grow the content library.
Hahaha fair point. And no worries, internet discussion boards are the perfect place to disagree with someone.
That got me banned pretty fast(1 hour) in lemmygrad.
@paciencia @dystop sounds like a net positive
Also it’s not like I was some alt right biggot trolling. I just wanted to talk to other marxists and see how they understand the world. But apparently, all it takes is one tiny disagreement with a mod to get perma banned. I’m not gonna play yesman to some power tripping mod. Hope they enjoy their empty instance, their loss.
Here’s the thing, for this to work out we need the long game. Doesn’t matter if you’re boring, you know about at least one topic you care about. Make an effort to post once a day about it. You may even have to create the community for you to do that. Pace yourself, this is a marathon, not a sprint. Just remember this can’t be taken away from us. Not anymore.
Theoretically it still could be taken away. The bar for that is substantially raised of course, but now each instance is like different countries doing international trade and we could go to war with each other.
Do we get cool uniforms if we do though?
+1
+1
Shameless self promotion:
I’ve made Lemmy Scare You! https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyscareyou as an alternative to Nosleep, and Now Lemmy Explain https://lemmy.world/c/nowlemmyexplain as an alternative to ELI5. Hopefully I can make them better than the old places, and I would love if you could start contributing contents there.
Other shameless self promotion: Go watch my movies.
Great names!
Thank you! Now here’s hope that I can make them great places for everyone.
I appreciate those puns
And I appreciate you too!
Hope lemmy scare you blows up. I used to read no sleep every night before sleeping.
Edit: I’d suggest changing the name of the community to just “Lemmy Scare You”. Right now it’s also showing spooky stories to scare you in the title name. Also a cover art for the community would make it look more active and might result in more subs
I’ll AI some art for the community banner, really want to get the feeling of people telling scary stories to each other around a campfire vibe down.
I’m worried that changing the name to just “Lemmy Scare You!” could make it less clear about the purpose of the community as a place for creative writing, since it’s not ideal for people to post whatever a la r/creepy.
Yeah, totally agree with this post, grew tired of Reddit Circle Jerk. Its like when someone cant move on with their past, so they bring it to every conversation, how their ex (Reddit) used to be, and found a new lover (Lemmy/Kbin) and how things work great with this new relationship
Let’s just forget about Reddit. Reddit can do whatever it want’s, the user that still on Reddit can also do whatever they want. Lets just focus on growing this new communities, this Fediverse, and do what we can do to make it thrive, and how to make it better for new user, and the less tech savy one
Sure, but “the past” as you refer to it was not even a week ago, and the situation is still actively unfolding.
Communities are growing, OC is being posted, and the lemmyverse is starting to get its legs underneath it. If you look past the reddit related posts you will see this happening all around you.
However most of us haven’t even been here a week, communities aren’t built overnight. Reddit has 15 years of people creating content and building out subreddits.
However most of us haven’t even been here a week, communities aren’t built overnight. Reddit has 15 years of people creating content and building out subreddits.
I couldn’t agree more with your reply. What I’m saying is, lets focus on this new journey. Reddit do have their hiccups when first generally used by its user 15 years ago, and i believe Reddit start just like how Lemmy/Kbin, or any Fediverse app start. Its a bumpy road, but its a good progress
The fact that we interact in this post means that we have the same goal, we enjoy interacting on this platform, and its a good thing. because new users can see that there’s activity, there’s interaction within Lemmy.
Sorry for bad English :D
Part of the problem may be the bugs on the Lemmy instances which have not been showing “hot” content correctly. This may be giving a false impression of an obsession over reddit as posts are stuck on the front page?
I’ve been browsing a few different communities and am finding things are active, they’re just not reaching the default Lemmy front pages. Sorting by new or diving deeper into communities shows a lot of new content.
For example I’m currently browsing from Feddit.uk and this seems to have exploded into an active community in just a week; it’s really heartening to seen. I’ve also seen different content when viewing from Kbin based instances like Kbin.Social or Fedia.io (including from Lemmy.world).
This bug has been identified and is resolved in the next version release.
The servers that have been keeping hot updated are manually restarting the backend every so often to unstick the bug
We are making content…we’re just also talking about reddit sometimes. Sort by All.
I’ve sorted by all (and local), but posts are the same as yesterday. I’m not sure if it’s Jerboa or I’m doing something wrong, I’m still trying to get my head around the multiple instances thing.
As opposed to Reddit, Relay still works and I still see content despite unsubbing from many groups that are rioting (one can only see that many John Oliver photos).
Just feels like Lemmy isn’t as vibrant as Reddit yet. Here’s hoping.
I’m tired of the Reddit and fed drama. Ready to move on.
I posted some boobs. I contributed.
I too want to see Tom cruise’s boobs.
If the community gets 1000 followers I’ll post my bewbs. -TC
Of cause you did Tom.
I’m gonna post mine. Hope you all flat mantits
I have no idea what that means but I love how it sounds
In the jailbait community you moderate? Bad Tom cruise bad
That’s “operating thetan” to you.
Pamela’s?
I think in terms of link aggregation, there is going to be a fair amount of duplication necessary to get a critical mass of links/content here, that people can interact with. After all, 1% post, 9% comment, 90% lurk.
I’m not suggesting we automate it, but in order to kickstart some communities I’m certainly going to be copying links from some good subs on reddit (if they’re open) over here. After all they’re just links to other articles/media/etc, they’re not exclusive to reddit.
It would be good if everyone who comes over here and subscribes to some communities sees that there are posts going on there. It only takes a couple or a few active people to make a buzz.
This is a sound plan, even if it is only temporary till we hit that critical mass
Yes who is gonna post the first AskMen about;
“What is the sexiest sex you ever sexed?”
Edit;
For people interested in Fragrances, I did my part and gonna start to post more often;https://kbin.social/m/Fragrance/t/44344/What-is-your-favorite-summer-fragrance-Or-do-you-have
Suggestions are welcome!
Posts like this are just adding to the reddit circle jerk, you know. Don’t post shit like this, just post the content you’re talking about.
“Can you guys just start posting the content I like, please?”
I don’t like all the reddit posts either but sheesh
I mean, I feel him to a degree. Since Lemmy isn’t quite as big new posts are harder to come by
A much better method is to make a post explaining and encouraging how to contributing to the fediverse. That was what got me posting, someone said something to the effect of “if you really want to see the fediverse thrive, then start adding content to the fediverse!”
Good point, although I don’t feel qualified
You are a human being. You have wishes, dreams, joys, anxieties, hopes, opinions, knowledge, and wisdom. You possess an inner child as well as a rich heart, an amazing mind, and everything in between that makes you, you.
You’re qualified.
You are too kind, I am so happy here now, feels just like the old days again
It’s a very fresh topic and still ongoing so of course it’s being talked about. Eventually it will die down then go away. The stuff we don’t need is posts like this.
Maybe we need a post complaining about posts complaining about Reddit so we can complete the cycle until we need to add another link into the chain.
all for those sweet sweet kbin points
Yep, having a bunch of front page posts complaining (not trying to put it harshly) about the content just makes it look like the problem is worse to outsiders and doesn’t help perceptions. Let people talk about what they want, but vote accordingly and people will get tired of talking about reddit as less and less people engage with those posts. This post being here is causing more reddit-related engagement. Upvote the kind of content you want to see and it’ll rise up higher, becoming more visible and creating a virtuous cycle of positive engagement.
Likewise, my only time spent on reddit is to upvote reddit drama discussion. Doing so will help push people who are “just tired of the drama and want to post” to find the fediverse a more enticing place to participate in.
Great comment
Also, it’s relevant to a lot of the userbase. Like, this is relevant to something that just personally impacted the majority of the userbase here – it’s gonna probably be of interest.
I do agree with the idea that it’s good to get more content up, though. Go find a couple interesting things a day and submit them. I have!
There are also some people at the BotIt magazine on kbin.social working on setting up a bot to mirror Reddit subreddit submissions to kbin magazines, which might help ease disruption for some subreddits.
first iteration of botit actually is able to do what you mentioned now: https://kbin.social/m/BotIt/t/48548/BotIt-GitHub-project-can-now-cross-post-highly-upvoted-links-from
I’m in support of this. I was explaining to my wife just a bit ago that most of the “content” on lemmy and kbin is all about lemmy and kbin, and very little about anything else. For those of us coming from reddit, most of the content on reddit isn’t about reddit. I’d like it if lemmy and kbin was mostly original content.
c/piracy and c/sysadmin are already posting actual content
Tbh, all the subs are posting content. It’s just lemmy.world is for the discussion of the server not the c/subscriptions
OP: complains about reddit circle jerk posts by creating a reddit circle jerk post
I know but my little brain could not work out a way to highlight the issue any other way
I’ve been thinking the same thing but couldn’t figure out how to talk about it without talking about that other place. Pretty tired of hearing about the other place, tbh
Yep, that’s why I just went ahead and posted , actually really happy the way the thread has gone, on the most part people saying what they want and what they are doing . Clearly there is a learning curve here for many of us and that too gets addressed , way to go us:-)
You know the rule, gotta go meta before you can be betta.
Classic reddit circle jerk complaint … a user complaining about circle jerking, by creating a circle jerk and a third party pointing out the circle jerk
