Was originally thinking of posting Lenmy content on Reddit to less directly advertise Lemmy, but in the communities I follow, its almost exclusively content or already posted to, or directly originating from Reddit. This got me wondering if there were any niches that Lemmy serves better than other, larger platforms.
My OC shitposts
and mine
And my ax?
Communism and open source software. Queer spaces are also much nicer
wait do we have a FALGSC community yet
In addition to what people have said here, try local content. I’ve seen some of that crossposted back
Also content tagged with “OC”
Conversation, mostly. By the time I quit reddit around two years ago, every top comment was a repost of a previous joke, or some predictable mutation of one.
Anything that went against the common preconceptions was shutdown immediately. I’m an expert/professional in a few niche subjects, and the final nail in the coffin for me was any comment I made turning into a fruitless debate with armchair experts too dumb to even understand why they were wrong, while correct info was downvoted to invisibilty.
None of this helps you crosspost, I’m aware.
I’ve noticed this with news communities on here.
The discussion is often more nuanced and level-headed. Something that used to be the case on Reddit years ago, but now if I find the same news article linked there the comment section isn’t as helpful
inserts joke about the office
Followed by a a multi-page string of puns…
I think one of the few things Lemmy is better at is that I can go into 8hr old thread with 120 replies and write a comment and then have people actually read that comment too and react to it.
With 99% of AskReddit threads for example, posting a reply was complete waste of time unless you were among the first ones in. Almost all of the top comments were always also among the first comments.
Most people still on Reddit are bad people. Idk if it would be helpful to lure them over.
For me, it’s not about having good content that is not on reddit, but avoiding all kinds of bad content that is on reddit. I can scroll through the “top of the day” list of my subscriptions in a relatively short time and find many posts that I enjoy or that interest me. When I used reddit, there was always so much noise, ragebait, clickbait, sometimes interesting questions with only bland answers, etc.
There’s a much higher ratio of real humans to bots in most Lemmy communities.
For technology, sexuality, and socio-politico-economic discussion it’s as if Lemmy “stole” the users most the most developed perspectives.
However, all the problems are still present. Users still perpetually struggle to discern their right from left. And, there’s certainly at least a few mainstream mods that’ve their self-worth entirely contingent upon others agreeing with them.
Smaller community but still decent throughput
And if you’re into it, everyone is a leftist.
I also think that if you want to build your own community it’s easier in Lemmy than Reddit
Cue the obama giving himself a medal meme but the comments are much more intelligent and there’s a much better conversation to be had
I’m a big believer in the Pareto Principle where 20% of the users are responsible for 80% of the content.
Lemmy is Reddit’s Top 20%.
I like that on Lemmy there are more human-like posts and no advertisements. Hated scrolling through Reddit ads then getting sneaky ad-like posts from ‘people.’
Beep Boop, Am Human.
Hello, fellow human!
I hope your day has been full of the various human things, such as eating, and sleeping. Certainly I have been enjoying those things; as a human, I get plenty of sleep and food and other human things.
One thing it doesn’t is fucking ads that are the majority of the content on bullshit like instagram
Piracy, Linux, Self-Hosting, Anarchism
For me, more real users.
I mean, I don’t think lemmy has 0% bots, but its probably much harder with manual application approvals.
Also, Federation makes censorship harder, but also allows defederation to stop bigotry.
