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    I went and looked at tildes as a result of this, and it seems aggressively dead. Like, the fediverse is pretty dead and tildes makes it look positively thriving in comparison. Yeesh.

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      It’s been invite-only for a long while, so they can manage the userbase easier. I imagine that, plus the lack of support for visual content makes it challenging for engagement.

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      What are you talking about, Lemmy is great and Matrix is absolutely thriving for things I care about.

      Sure, Lemmy doesn’t have 300M users or whatever Reddit has, but that doesn’t mean it’s dead, it just means it’s small. Valuable discussion happens here, and it seems to be improving.

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        No shit you think it’s fine, you’re a techy linux weirdo. Good luck discussing like, musicals or tabletop roleplaying games or homemade moonshine or anything in that general vicinity of “niche” on here.

        It’s small enough to literally have zero posts of a variety of topics, and that number isn’t improving. Get outside of your own circle every once in a while.

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          Well yeah, you are probably going though Reddit withdrawal. Comparing anything to Reddit and it’ll seem dead.

          techy linux weirdo

          Get outside of your own circle every once in a while

          Not a fan of your incendiary language and provacatory flaming attempts, but pretty on-brand for refugees who misses Reddit like an ex. I mean, Reddit is still around and I’m sure they’ll take you back, just apologize and use the Official App™!

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            You’re an idiot. Also a techy linux weirdo, so I’m not surprised. Did you know other people have hobbies that do not involve Linux, and would like to be able to discuss them without someone like you bending themselves into a pretzel over how the Fediverse has no room for filthy casuals who don’t know what FOSS stands for. Gatekeep harder! This will surely save the fediverse from normies.

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              Relax man lol. It sounds like you’ve been through some shit on the Fediverse, but it has nothing to do with me. Project your anger elsewhere.

              And I wish I’m a Linux techie so I can wipe my lonely tears away every night with cold hard cash.

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          Yes, the variety is certainly an issue. I do miss certain communities on Reddit.

          It’s not to the point where I’d recommend it to my wife (she’s the opposite of a techy Linux weirdo), but it works for what I wanted Reddit for, which was tech news aggregation and a place to discuss games.

          Maybe I’ll get around to trying to start some of the other niche communities I miss.

          That said, you would probably have luck discussing tabletop gaming on one of the gaming communities here. I personally don’t play any (I’ve played one DND campaign and decided it wasn’t for me, open to trying again though), but I have coworkers who do, so maybe that’ll change.

          That said, here are two that I really like here that I was surprised to find here that aren’t Linux or tech related:

          But relatively niche things like musicals aren’t really a thing here, though I never felt much of a need to look for stuff like that. When I want to watch a play or musical, I generally look for expert reviews.

          I do miss some subreddits for recommendations (especially “Buy it for Life” and related purchasing communities), but that’s usually a read-only thing for me so I just check back on Reddit as needed.

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            40-something sysadmins love both bicycles and video games, so I’m really not surprised. All of those “read-only” bits aren’t here and they aren’t moving, and nobody’s making them because the moderation tools are awful. Kbin doesn’t even have an API.

            When I want to watch a play or musical, I generally look for expert reviews.

            I generally look for the opinions of like, actual human beings with no skin in the game. Reviewers gotta say what they need to say to pay their bills. Reddit was great for stuff like that, or the semi-official subreddits of specific obscure headphone companies, vinyl record swapping, local-town-community type subreddits… Stuff this place seems like it will literally never have. It’s a shame.

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              Yup, I definitely used Reddit for the things you mentioned, except media like plays and movies (but strangely not games) where I still find value from professional critics.

              And I’m not a 40-something sysadmin, I’m a 30-something software engineer (quite different), and I’m very much not interested in high end cycling gear (it’s transportation and exercise for me, not status and social connection). That community has a good mixture of both. Basically, it’s a mix of /r/bicycles, /r/cycling, and /r/bikecommuting, and is precisely what I wanted.

              I do hope that mod tools get better. If I knew my way around the Reddit tools, I’d help build it, but I have very little idea if what’s wanted or needed.