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Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world

flipthetube @lemmy.world

1y ago

Lemmy sucks but a return to Reddit isn’t the solution

I don’t give a shit about a platform. I come from the phbb days when you sought out your communities and eventually landed with a bunch of likeminded people.

I ditched Reddit because I will not support their greedy race to the bottom. I won’t “just check the sub I’m in to occasionally” I’m done with it.

The only content I’m remotely interested in here in the fediverse is news related. And it’s boring as fuck. I didn’t go to Reddit for Reddit or news. I went there for the specific things I’m in to. Real shit, not memes.

I’m not going back there. And I can only yell at a wall here for so long.

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Dude, you’re here, basically in on the ground floor. You want a specific type of content, start posting it. Build the community.
Or don’t.
Either way, removed about it not being precisely what you want it to be isn’t helping anything.
- I’ve gotten way more response to this than anything I’ve posted in the communities I’m actually interested in.
  
  I don't know if this will help you but, instances with a general theme tend to have more chatty people. Examples are programming.dev, beehaw, ttrpg and slrpnk. Try instance shopping and see what fits your style

Lemmy is young. There is a lot to be desired about it but I generally like to avoid negative words when it comes to open source because open source is a net positive for the computing world. Given time, Lemmy will get better. The Lemmy devs are doing this work uncompensated and gratis. They're passionate about principles of open software, freedom of speech and expression, and a generally anti-corporate world view. I can and do get behind this and can thus put up with imperfections in an implementation. What I don't understand is actually why people will tolerate bugs in a software that they've paid for. To use an analogy, I wouldn't tolerate my car just randomly stalling. I would be knocking down the doors of the manufacturer yet we shrug our shoulders at the utter rubbish that corporations like Adobe and Microsoft churn out all of the time.

I’m not into Lemmy because it’s got all the niche communities I need in my life. I’m into it because the fediverse in general is a FOSS, decentralized, “by the people for the people” alternative to enshittified ads&engagement social media.
We’re in the early stages of this thing. We’re all still playing with the building blocks of what this will hopefully become one day.
- I came for the cause as well. Im just having a hard time finding my people.
  Memes don’t cut it.
  
  Have you looked through https://browse.feddit.de/ ?
  
  I guess I am at a point where I can find enough interesting stuff that I can accept “If you build it, they will come” for now.
  Basically, I’m not expecting the finished product yet, but things look promising. Hopefully the necessary momentum is there.

I was going to make a comment then I noticed the community. I agree you found a really unpopular opinion. I expect the downvoters are ones who didn't realize the community you posted to.
That being said, it's still early on, I'm hoping it stays alive. I miss some of the nitche communities as well but, a good portion did somewhat migrate, you just need to reach out and sub to them cause it doesn't show them very well.

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