Cleaning up some low-usage features
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Hey folks, Over the next few weeks, we’ll be removing a few old low-usage features from old.reddit.com. These features may be familiar, so we...

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Found out via this post

Interesting side-note, reddit’s anti-VPN policies and blocking some archivers like ghostarchive.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I wish more people would leave and bring their niches over here. There’s still so many things missing on Lemmy.

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It is near impossible to start a new community. The Lemmy code primarily favors existing large communities, and it needs to change to heavily promote new communities over existing.

        • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I’ve kept at several, no one submits posts even after several weeks of submitting starter posts. It’s just very difficult. People just seem to like the status quo because it’s easier. I had to give up on !cranetrainexcavators@lemmy.world because almost no one was posting but me for an entire month, well that and plus I just ran out of things to post.

          Trying !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world now, I’ll probably keep at that since public policy is a huge personal interest. It’s had some activity but it’s like trying to run up an escalator backwards with a 100lb pack blindfolded and drugged. lol. /c/politics even added it on the sidebar and there is almost no posts except mine. Posted links in several other communities including /c/newcommunities .

          It’s just hard, not sure why my above comment was downvote so much. It’s hard, not impossible, but hard. I feel like it would benefit Lemmy if the devs were to modify the algorithm to promote rising new communities over existing ones to even the playing field. They tried with scaled sort, but I don’t think people use it much.

          • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Trying !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world now, I’ll probably keep at that since public policy is a huge personal interest. It’s had some activity but it’s like trying to run up an escalator backwards with a 100lb pack blindfolded and drugged. lol. /c/politics even added it on the sidebar and there is almost no posts except mine. Posted links in several other communities including /c/newcommunities .

            Curious about this one, politics seems a very popular topic on Lemmy. Did you post to !politics@lemmy.world and others?

            I had to give up on !cranetrainexcavators@lemmy.world because almost no one was posting but me for an entire month, well that and plus I just ran out of things to post.

            That’s a very common experience. We have regular threads on !fedigrow@lemm.ee, this is definitely a recurring issue. On the other hand, if you can find someone to post with you, it feels very good.

            • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Yeah it was posted to /c/politics and actually pinned for a few days. Had a lot of traffic from that while it was up but no regular posters. The problem was though there was a lot of pro Russia trolls and aggressive commenters. If it’s going to grow it needs to be reeeeeal slow, so I can’t really post about it much.

        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Giving your own posts an upvote when you’re at 0 subscribers works wonders. I remember posting in the original version of RoughRomanMemes for literal months without significant interaction until I did that. Something about the ‘active’ feed I guess.

          Once the community is grown you don’t need to do that anymore.

      • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        What do you mean “favors”? Like the algorithm pushes them to the top when viewing “all”?

        I don’t think this is that big of a deal. The niche communities rarely reach the front page anyway. But people know to check them cause they care about the topic.

        Maybe google SEO is a factor too. When I am lttp for a game or a show, google almost always has a link to the reddit sub on the first page.

    • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I feel you. Really miss 40klore and an endless stream of bunny pictures. The only two things I miss on Lemmy. Everything else I care about arrived or is arriving.

        • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Subscribed to both of them. Also to the Grimdank offshoot we have. Very much enjoy all of them.

          Didn’t try posting lore or excerpts tho. Might try it when I come across something cool!

      • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I think the frustrating part is that if those people just moved over to Lemmy, nothing would change about the communities. Lemmy today is robust enough to handle these communities. It’s just a matter of getting a community to switch servers.

    • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      I have so many posts to share, questions to ask, and things to do…but Lemmy is not as robust with users. And I refuse to participate on reddit. I need an /c/ xbox360hacks.

      • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Every tv show I watch I have to go to Reddit to view the conversation. And bite my tongue cause I refuse to log in and give content.

        Same with watching the political debates. That was my preferred method of conversation.

        • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Which shows are you in? We had some episodes discussion on !showsandmovies@lemm.ee, but they never really took off. If you are interested in a show, you can maybe try posting there and see if other people want to discuss it with you?

      • Azzu@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        I got answers and engagement from communities that seemed dead on Lemmy due to lack of users. You should just try to ask your questions… One answer that truly helps is already enough usually, you don’t actually need 100 users upvoting the same answer or 12 different answers where only 1 is good. For many things, low engagement is already sufficient.

        • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Yeah, I browse All on Lemmy which I never would do on Reddit, and engage with whatever posts I connect with. I wonder if there are others who do the same.

          Posting to new or “inactive” communities I think is less of a shout into the abyss on Lemmy compared with Reddit.

    • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      I’m not sure there are enough people who would be interested in my niche hobbies (locomotives and outdoor warning sirens) to warrant communities for either lol. Trains maybe, definitely not the other.