So this Lemmy place is pretty awesome, and I see it growing by the hour! Just like others link external sites for content here, we should really also share Lemmy content to external (e.g. Reddit, Twitter, etc.) to show others where the users are going now.
Redditors will talk about Lemmy and moving communities here, but it is really best shown that the communities are rebuilding here. Thoughts? I’ve started with a few memes and am starting a new community here as well!
I’m happy with the amount of users and activity Lemmy currently has. It doesn’t really need go grow though any means other than organically imo.
Eh, it’s still missing a ton of smaller and even medium sized communities. Pick video games and TV shows for example. A bunch don’t have a community or only have a dead one with zero or one posts.
It’s debatable whether a lot of these smaller communities really provided much value outside the tiny userbase they have.
Besides, if someone wants to pick up the mantle on Lenny they are more than welcome to as well.
I don’t follow what you’re saying. I love the shit out of many of my smaller communities. Reading TV subs after a new episode dropped was my favourite (and required a lot of active people). I wanted to discuss the Horizon DLC when I beat it the other day, but the Horizon sub here is super tiny. I tried to post on a generic gaming sub instead and did not get the discussion I wanted.
Similarly, Pokemon Go subs on Reddit were super detailed places to discuss the game, including with detailed analysis of any change, data mining for upcoming stuff, etc. Here, there’s two subs that have just the sub creator trying to populate the sub. No actual discussion.
It sucks and I miss those kinda communities.
What I’m saying is that while tiny communities are great, the fact that they haven’t moved to a federated platform yet doesn’t really matter for those communities as long as they have someplace they can go, even if it’s Reddit. Also, that if there is a desire for the community to start up elsewhere there’s nothing stopping people like yourself from starting and curating them too.
It’s really hard to get them started though. Especially when I want a discussion on the topic now. I actually did try and start my local city sub and it was me shouting into the void as the only poster. It’s not very fun posting stuff without ever getting replies.
Yeah indeed, discoverability is lacking in Lemmy at the moment.
I dunno if “organic” is enough, but I don’t think the fediverse could handle the entire Reddit use base today. I’m also not certain it will ever be as normy-friendly as Reddit has been. For better or worse.