If at all possible, lol
As popular as that swamp?/ Oh fuck no dude. Let’s fucking not
I don’t really care. If it gets more popular, that’s fine with me, but I’m fine with how it is now.
- For one , think lemmy’s default U[XI] could use some improvement
- Needs more diverse userbase that’s not just (tech|news)
- Maybe ATproto support ? Wafrn (activitypub tumblr clone) seems to integrate it , bluesky has more diverse userbase (2nd point above’s common complaint about activitypub side of the 'verse and wy peops tend to go to bsky instead)
BlueSky is partially centralized due to most users utilizing a specific instance. Not to mention that it’s now unusable in the UK due to the Online Safety Act of 2023 now being enforced with age verification.
Pornography & Video games (let’s say Walkthroughs)
porn walkthrough? That’s an untapped market
What do you think JOI is?
I meant those as seperate😂
Why would we want it to be? More people is what ruins websites. A big part of why reddit sucks is the large number of idiots.
Because there are not enough niche communities on Lemmy. For example as a queen fan, lemmy has no queen community but the r/queen community is thriving with many posts going up every day.
Also lemmy is currently very underfunded and the only way to really help that is by having more people.
At one point reddit also had no queen community. Someone created it and built it into what it is now. You can do the same here, that’s kinda the point.
You might be right, but this would only work to an extent. You also need enough people who are interested in in that niche community, you can’t just put a ton of effort into creating a community and sharing it around and expect it to become popular.
There is a difference between “more people” and “as many people as reddit”
This is true.
Why not a fifth or even just an tenth as popular as reddit? I get wanting it to be more active, especially for the niche communities to feel more active, but the last thing I want is to go to the “All” tab here and see anything remotely like /r/all on Reddit.
Please no
I don’t know how ethical it would be, and maybe it already exists, but a tool to replicate a Reddit post directly on a Lemmy instance could be useful
That gives you a ton of dead posts with zero comments and upvotes, some instances do it, but that just leads to dead communities
I don’t mean automatically replicate anything, that would be pointless. But I’m still a reddit user myself, and from time to time I stumble onto something interesting, and I’d like to let it live on Lemmy as well.
Ah I see
I think most of us here don’t use Reddit, so that option went right over my head
That’s what feddit does ig
Up/Downvoting is so 2015. Instead, comment on any interesting posts, and especially the ones with zero comments. This platform is meant to be about discussion, and not just mindlessly sharing links or memes.
I, personally, am more inclined to check out a post if it has at least one (non-bot, non OP) comment.I couldn’t agree more.
I appreciate you putting it into words instead of just upvoting
Not everything needs to be put in words though. Simply saying “I agree” with nothing more to the comment is just wasting everyone’s time, except for the single person they replied to getting an ego boost. The thing about comments is they’re public, they’re for more than just the recipient. You’re trying to make comments like DMs, where people can privately circlejerk until they’re both spent.
I understand what you mean, and agree that not everything needs to be put in words. At the same time though, it’s really healthy to expose yourself to others even if you just write “I like the way you formulated this.” or “Makes sense, I hadn’t thought of it like this before”. That way it turns into a real discussion - a bit like in the real 3d world.
Up/ downvoting is basically anonymous and adds nothing to the discussion.
And, sometimes, other users misunderstand our comments, and then we need to respond to them to get our point through. All of this is a healthy way to challenge our thinking.
upvoted.
downvoted.
Lemmy must become the free pornography capital of the internet
i dont think the lemmy servers would be able to hold for that long
Keep using it? Share links from it? How did you get on Reddit in the first place?
Careful what you wish for.
We should probably gate keep discussion to try keep the standards high in threads where it makes sense. But from what ive seen its already pretty good and conversation feels very human. If we got a influx from reddit id want them to adapt to lemmy culture and not come here and be redditors.
I think the ideal would be not how to make it “like Reddit”, but how to help niche and smaller communities have more members. Unfortunately, I think the easiest way is just to get more users to Lemmy in general.
It is not just niche topics, I find quite a bit of things that are not (in my opinion) niche, yet there is very little participation in Lemmy. Take for for example Postgresql. By now it is one of the most widely used databases yet there is a minuscule number of posts and users in the related communities.
Another example. Just did a search for largest communities in Reddit… One of them is music with an estimated 38 million redditors. In Lemmy the largest two music communities seem to be 9.9K (!music@lemmy.world) and 18.9K (!music@hexbear.net). That is an astronomical difference for something that is as mainstream as it gets given the broad topic.
I think the best each one of us can do is to participate and post as often as possible in the communities we would like to see grow.
