Give it time. People who are joining lemmy/kbin for the first time are incredibly interested in disussing this particular topic. I think by the end of July, we’ll truly start to see this community take shape.

All your posts are about Reddit. Be the change you want to see. I’ll be there to upvote it.

It’s a fresh subject so people are still hyped around it. Plus it’s drama, it’s fun! I often joke that we’re watching it burn and eating popcorn.

But even if you ignore it, there’s a fair bit of activity in other communities. For example I’ve been posting somewhat often about food, linguistics, anime, manga, and stuff like this. (And even explaining what an “axion” was supposed to be, while seeing illegally smol cats in another comm.)

For me that is not necessarily the case. Over the last week or so, I have been using sites like Lemmy Explorer and Lemmy Community-Browser to find communities that have my interest. I have also been browsing ‘all’ using the ‘new’ sort option and have been finding many new interesting communities that way.

Stop using “All” “Hot/Active/Top” feeds and go search for actual content communities you want, by browsing the community lists, searching for your interests, or looking at new. Then just go to “Subscribed”.

Okay, I’ll call your bluff. I recently started a magazine called Old Games 4 Old Gamers. It’s got everything to do with video games and nothing to do with the Reddit implosion. If you want original content on Kbin, it’s a good place to start. (Also, I could use the hits.)

https://kbin.social/m/OldGames4OldGamers

Mate we’re all a bunch of overly excited kids with a cool new toy, once we’re all here for a few weeks and the magic wears off these threads will die down, just give it time and let people have about their new toy

It’s about subbing to anything in your wheel house and sorting by new. That’s the only way it made since before the migration and still does. At some point it wont make much sense, but not quite yet.

Try joining more niche communities: This stuff will be all over the general/meme comms for a while as reddit continues to melt down.

Give it time, and be one of the people who contribute thoughtful posts on the topics you’re interested in.

You can always block the reddit-specific communities to remove them from your feed. At least temporarily, if nothing else.

Personally, I wanna hear about reddit, so I subbed to them, but I’m subbed to A LOT of other stuff too, so my feed is more than diverse enough for me.

So unsubscribe from these places that you don’t find interesting, and sub to things you’re interested in instead. Literally that simple.

• Search on lemmyverse.net etc
• If you’re into any kind of crafting, check out my latest posts because I’ve made a megalist of creative communities to help people navigate
• If you’re into anything gamedev related, check out the pinned post at [email protected] (Lemmy / Kbin) for another megalist of interesting stuff

People seem to want a lot of things from the fediverse right now but the key to most of them is patience. The platform and userbase are both unstable. Lemmy and kbin are both unfinished software that need more time and effort, and/or more devs. There isn’t any getting around that.

As for the users, there are a huge amount of new ones every day, most coming from reddit, and they want to talk about what is fresh and relevant to them. We won’t be able to get off the topic of reddit until it stops sending migrators. Additionally, people aren’t quite certain how to use this space yet, and haven’t finished finding/setting up the communities they want. It is going to take time, possibly more so than the development of lemmy and kbin.

Honestly, just give it time. I’ll stabilise eventually.

the irony in this post

It’s like rain on your wedding day