Fediverse @lemmy.world Witty Computer @feddit.org 12h ago

Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content

Lemmy's design is focused on quality content by ditching the Karma farmers and addicts. No more chasing upvotes—people here actually focus on real value instead of feeding the ego.

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Really? I have like 15 meme communities blocked, and there are comparably very few niche communities.
- Yeah, lemmy suffers a lot of from this. Too many posts that try to just make the front page, too many popular communities that dominate c/all. I've even had a friend quit over this.
  
  I genuinely miss communities about games, linguistics and niche hobbies - they just aren't as popular as news/politics/general memes and that. I do try to post them as much as i can, but since they're niche there's only so much content you can find.
  
  I'd love for the frontpage to have some [optional, ofc] changes that encourage more of this type of content.
  
  Why would anyone be on all? Even with reddit I I quit going to all probably 10 years ago....
  
  And don't let my Lemmy age fool you, I drop my account every 6 to 8 months. It took my a lot longer to figure that out on reddit.
  
  For me it's to find new content (i block most news/politics communities since they're most of c/all) but there's a lot of attention and eyes to be gained from all.
  
  But most of this, as i said; is buried by the generic popular content.
  
  Well yeah, that's what ALL is right? The most generic stuff. You can browse communities and subscribe as needed.
  
  If you are going to use all It might help to enable scaled sorting.
  
  It boosts small communities in the sort.
  
  I'll try, thank you 🙂
  
  urwelcom
  
  Ok...then what do you recommend for a varied random feed of news and posts from various communities?
  
  For games, make sure you are subscribed to:
  
  !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
  
  !games@lemmy.world
  
  !games@sh.itjust.works
  
  !gaming@beehaw.org
  
  All are healthy and active, and I'm sure there are more. I suggest cross-posting stuff from a niche community you contribute to, to one of these, to bring traction to the smaller community.
  
  maybe my definitions of healthy and active are extremely biased, but these communities have several days-old posts with low numbers of comments and limited reply threads. not only that, but there's lots of news articles about the industry but not much stuff about GAMES, be that random reviews, discussions, or memes.
  
  Well it's partly my bias too, because when I joined Lemmy about 3 years ago, lemmy.world didn't exist yet and there were around a couple dozen new posts on All of Lemmy per day at the time.
  
  I'm just really grateful for how much we've grown as a site, even if we're still hardly anywhere close to the scale of modern corporate social media. But imo it doesn't have to be, I like this.
  
  Last one seems not to exist.
  
  Lemmy.world is not federating with beehaw.org
  
  Beehaw is quite toxic and for that reason, lemmy.world is not federated. I expect an angry swarm of people from Beehaw to send me death threats now to prove how untoxic they are.
  
  Pretty much any game or random hobby I'm on at the moment, I could count on finding a decently populated and active Subreddit. This is what's missing from Lemmy.
  
  Yeah, but in this day and age we’re going to grow with easy-to-consume content e.g. memes. Once growth hits a critical mass then the niche communities will come.
- With time we’ll get there! The more we slowly contribute to the niche topics, the more we’ll see these communities grow. I’m sure there are a sizable amount of people from Reddit looking for their niches on here to start growing more for them to fully hop over. I’ve got a good chunk of mine on Lemmy now, but still a handful of ones I haven’t found a comparable server for yet. If I understood running a server more I probably would have started a couple of my own for these topics.
  
  Is there anywhere on Lemmy people can request for servers to get started? I think that would be helpful to have since missing topics are some of the barriers of entry for some people.
- Blocked? Why? If you don't want to see them why are you subscribed to them?
  
  I mean if you want niche communities you create them and subscribe to them right?
  
  Browsing the global/all feed is one way to find new communities, and some people just like using it in general rather than defaulting to a subs-only view.
  
  Seems like a not so good way to me, and thats why people are complaining.
  
  You can just look through the communities and sub to good ones.
  
  Maybe it would be helpful to use ALL with scaled sorting. It boosts smaller communities.
  
  I gave up using all on reddit a very long time ago, and Lemmy is basically the same.... But at least on Lemmy you have scaled sorting to try and help.
  
  Or just…browse all and then block communities you don’t want to see. Most stuff I block is furry shit. Nothing against it, I just don’t want to see it.
  
  For what it's worth I generally agree with you, and especially think the people who treat /all as their own personal feed are nuts, but nonetheless it's something that some people do 🫠
  
  Everyone has their own preferences about how to use things!
  
  I usually doomscroll all. on reddit, i used to sub to subs, but on lemmy, because it's quite small, I just use all.
  
  I just see them in the Everything feed, and if I don't block them, they seem to dominate. I'm not actually against them, but I don't want my feed to be all memes.

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