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    7 months ago

    There are just certain communities that haven’t picked up over on Lemmy. D&D, Pathfinder, LFG, and I’m sure many others. I hate reddit with a passion but there is still stuff there.

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        7 months ago

        I can’t wait for it. Couldn’t happen to a better corporation.

        Something new will rise from the ashes. We might already be on it.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah of course you can find everything on Reddit and clearly not that much on Lemmy.

      But Lemmy is the perfect alternative for me. I only go on Reddit through web search results on Ecosia. It’s really only useful for when I’m looking for a specific answer to a specific subject.

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        About that, how do we get good search results from Lemmy? I feel like the most important thing to me is finding info through google searches

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          Lemmy topics are now found in search engines but I’m almost never specifically looking for something in Lemmy as I’m just browsing through my feed.

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        7 months ago

        running your own instance is not a trivial matter. There’s plenty of well run and underutilized instances that could be used instead.

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      I’m kind of surprised that factorio community here is so inactive. I thought there would be significant overlap between lemmy’s technical audience and factorio players.

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      7 months ago

      Yea, I pray this gets better. The only really active non-tehnical communities I have seen here are political and… woke ones. I really hope at least some gaming ones would switch.

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        7 months ago

        As a woke person I just wanted to let you know I upvoted you. I too wish there were more communities than just woke ones, Star Trek, and Linux. 🤣 I enjoy those but we need more.