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Found out via this post

Interesting side-note, reddit’s anti-VPN policies and blocking some archivers like ghostarchive.

  • danc4498@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I wish more people would leave and bring their niches over here. There’s still so many things missing on Lemmy.

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      7 hours ago

      I feel you. Really miss 40klore and an endless stream of bunny pictures. The only two things I miss on Lemmy. Everything else I care about arrived or is arriving.

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          4 hours ago

          Subscribed to both of them. Also to the Grimdank offshoot we have. Very much enjoy all of them.

          Didn’t try posting lore or excerpts tho. Might try it when I come across something cool!

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        7 hours ago

        I think the frustrating part is that if those people just moved over to Lemmy, nothing would change about the communities. Lemmy today is robust enough to handle these communities. It’s just a matter of getting a community to switch servers.

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      8 hours ago

      I have so many posts to share, questions to ask, and things to do…but Lemmy is not as robust with users. And I refuse to participate on reddit. I need an /c/ xbox360hacks.

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        8 hours ago

        I got answers and engagement from communities that seemed dead on Lemmy due to lack of users. You should just try to ask your questions… One answer that truly helps is already enough usually, you don’t actually need 100 users upvoting the same answer or 12 different answers where only 1 is good. For many things, low engagement is already sufficient.

      • danc4498@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        Every tv show I watch I have to go to Reddit to view the conversation. And bite my tongue cause I refuse to log in and give content.

        Same with watching the political debates. That was my preferred method of conversation.

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          5 hours ago

          Which shows are you in? We had some episodes discussion on [email protected], but they never really took off. If you are interested in a show, you can maybe try posting there and see if other people want to discuss it with you?

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      6 hours ago

      It is near impossible to start a new community. The Lemmy code primarily favors existing large communities, and it needs to change to heavily promote new communities over existing.

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          4 hours ago

          A little bit everyday. :) It was the same on Reddit until enshittification started, probably around the time porn disappeared from the front page. Lemmy is actually way easier to start communities on than Reddit is now.

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          6 hours ago

          Giving your own posts an upvote when you’re at 0 subscribers works wonders. I remember posting in the original version of RoughRomanMemes for literal months without significant interaction until I did that. Something about the ‘active’ feed I guess.

          Once the community is grown you don’t need to do that anymore.

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        5 hours ago

        What do you mean “favors”? Like the algorithm pushes them to the top when viewing “all”?

        I don’t think this is that big of a deal. The niche communities rarely reach the front page anyway. But people know to check them cause they care about the topic.

        Maybe google SEO is a factor too. When I am lttp for a game or a show, google almost always has a link to the reddit sub on the first page.