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  • More explanation without toxicity. I think I have gotten shit on on lemmy more than I did on reddit by this point.

    Don’t get me wrong. I‘m incorrect sometimes but if I see someone being confidently incorrect, I tell them and explain. And if I tell them that I find their attitude lacking and would like to learn, they get even worse.

    A lot of people here are just dicks and the moderators don’t react to reports. They can tell you you‘re a fucking moron for not knowing everything and get away with it. Worse, they dogpile on you with their schoolyard bully attitude.

    This is kind of a reason for me to leave if this goes on and it will keep other people from joining, hampering the growth.

    I really hope this changes.

    • More explanation without toxicity. I think I have gotten shit on on lemmy more than I did on reddit by this point.

      This doesn’t surprise me. I’m more of a lemmy person than I was ever a Reddit person, but I’m in the same boat.

      Along with some of the cultural issues that have happened over on masto, I’ve come to suspect, somewhat controversially, that there is a major difficulty in founding a new and niche social media platform off the back of discontent with a major platform. And that’s because unless the discontent and migration is widespread, but instead marginal, those inclined to reject the mainstream in favour of something niche for some reason will often enough include people who aren’t the most naturally social people and can create and establish somewhat unpalatable cultures.

      I hope I’m wrong, and hopefully it’s clear that I’m speaking statistically. But it makes some sense and could be real, both here and other Fedi places.

  • Active communities for the creative. Like the Affinity Apps DaVinci video editor and other apps besides Adobe Creative Suite.

    • Video/film production
    • Audio production
    • More activity on https://kbin.social/m/truegaming (we got a little community but would love more posts! We’re fun I swear lol)
    • home brewing
    • coffee
    • creative writing

    • Yes me too. I've subscribed to Lemmy.film Meta@ lemmy.film and Lemmy.graphics@lemmy.graphics and although both communities sure look promising, they are inactive.

      Same goes with other communities such as the Blender one.

      I'm a commenter mostly, I tried creating posts for some of those but didn't get a lot of attention.

      • The fact is they probably should have made communities on an already existing instance instead of trying to spin up their own instances. But that’s neither here nor there. I just want to get into more discussions about these topics! Perhaps I should go join those instances and start posting haha

  • More of the masto crowd getting involved here. We'd enjoy each other's company, and many of us probably enjoy both formats (microblog/reddit). That much conversation is basically split and mostly cut off along platform lines feels like an unnecessary failure of the fediverse.

    In a way this is a bad answer as it's essentially a technological issue. Yes there are things that are possible now, including kbin, I know about them, but they don't really provide truly usable bridges between spaces. But it still irks me a great deal.

  • I'd like to see people talk in a wide variety of communities. I've been trying to post to !malefashionadvice, and there are a handful of people upvoting there, but the only other posts are super basic questions once in a blue moon. Most posts don't get commented on, and most comments are empty one liners about how nobody should enjoy X type of clothing, rather than anything positive or engaging. I haven't found another fashion community half as active as that.

    There doesn't seem to be a Jewish community here... the television community I've found is kind of active, but not really... The NYC community sees maybe one post per week...

    It seems like there are plenty of niches going entirely untouched. I feel like people are less likely to discuss hobbies here unless those hobbies are focused on "nerd culture," software, etc. Most communities are just memes or something. !asklemmy seems to be 30% askreddit-type questions, 30% questions about fediverse, and 40% are like, "hey, how do you fix a broken air conditioner" or, you know... non-discussion questions, non-opinion questions, non-story questions, just "help me with this shit" or stuff you could look up in an encyclopedia.

    !foodporn seems to be pretty good...

    • !malefashionadvice@lemmy.world , and indeed thank you for posting there

      • Help me out, I forgot how to format it again because it doesn't make any sense. I'm on kbin, if that makes a difference. I know there's one rule for linking to internal communities, and a totally different rule for linking to external ones, but I can't remember what either of those rules is...

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