Would you like it to grow so all of your other, non-technical interests could have active communities? Do you want more people for moral and philosophical reasons? Or are you enjoying being in a niche? Are you happy to have a platform full of techie individuals, even in communities not explicitly tied to anything techie (much like this one)?
My answer to all of these is “yes,” so I’m not quite sure what I want. What are your thoughts?
It wont
Fine, I’ll bite: why do you say that?
Way Too political, too much about tech, anime, video games, pc, gaming, no general topics (that are actually active that ppl participate in) And most lemmy ppl are no fun
Way Too political, too much about tech, anime, video games, pc, gaming,
I was on Reddit extremely early, when most of the material being posted was being posted by members of the company.
Early Reddit was mostly about tech and startups, and Reddit grew.
I think the big thing is that Lemmy isn’t nearly as monetizable as other social media. What that means to me is that if we do grow, it’ll be largely organic. It’ll be at a pace where the culture won’t change overnight. If we get big enough to have real issues, we can meaningfully splinter to more manageable sizes, or moderate shit stains into instances with no reach beyond themselves.
In short, so long as we maintain interoperability standards, I think we will have all the tools needed to keep things from enshittification. We might just grow out of pure longevity as other social media enterprises slowly but surely kill themselves.
But that could be wishful thinking. Who knows!
More people more better. Would also like to see a more balanced political bias here.
It will be interesting seeing libertarian instances spring up.
Yeah would really set a gold standard of free communication on the fediverse i recon.
I don’t think more people will help with that. If like to see it at just the size that’s not really interesting for astroturfing
Absolutely. I think the setup of the Fediverse in general as well as the outlook on it by the majority of admins would allow Lemmy to keep its charm even when it grows to a much bigger size.
I’d also like to see specialist instances. There could absolutely be a separate instance that has major sports, for example. Or even just the NFL. Kind of like the benefits of old forums, but with the benefits of federation and Reddit.
More geographic based instances would also be great.
Otherwise I’m not into more instances just for defederation’s sake. Email works just fine having most users in a few major hosts. Lemmy can be similar. It’s the option to leave that is important.
There are instances like https://soccer.forum
https://nba.space
https://nfl.communityThe communities aren’t super-active because the idea is that they’re remote-only, but that means they don’t get the benefit that comes from local users browsing their local feed.
The geographical instances already exist for the most part. .world is an American instance in all but name, there’s lemmy.ca for Canada and some European ones.
A sports instance would be pretty funny if im being honest. Can you imagine the drama between the different communities for a specific team?
separate instance that has major sports
yes. i like the idea of federated communities. even obscure interests have its place as long as there’s a community or enough interest to set up an instance.
Yes, but slowly. Every time I go to the Reddit front page and just see astroturfing and vapid pop culture stuff, then go to the comments and see 75% repetitive bot comments, I realize how much that place sucks now. I want more niche discussion spaces, but I don’t want reddit again anytime soon.
I think theres a healthy middle, where its not fully mainstream but there are enough people to be able to have active communities for all your interests
More niche communities outside of the closed platforms would be great, but doesn’t have to be lemmy per se. Anything federated would be great.
Yes, I do want Lemmy to grow … but to grow organically and naturally over a very long period of time instead of artificially in a short period of time just to make some idiot or a small group of idiots a bunch of money.
Growing over a long period of time will also allow developers, maintainers and managers to grow with increased size over time. Instead of panicking over sudden exponential growth, they can slowly build stronger more robust systems over time. Also, if something is grown over a long period of time … it will also take a long period of time for it be destroyed, dissolved or disregarded. If you grow something way too fast, chances are the risks increase for it to disappear just as quickly.
I like this place without Trumpists who never fail to give me headaches
Agree, but the Russia bootlickers are otoh equally obnoxious.
It’s always the guys from Lemmygrad, Lemmy.ml, Hexbear and Vegantheoryclub who have the bad takes.
Oh f off “Beaver.” you pretended to be my friend then instead of discussing anything with me decided to use your alt accounts to manipulate my community. You pretend that you are looking out for the global south but as soon as you meet a Persian person who doesn’t agree with your white supremacist world view you need to silence and smear me. It takes a massive leap to smear someone who was concerned about supporting the use of chemical weapons as a “tankie.” This is what my thread was about, do you support this? If so YOU are the tankie.
Do you support the usage of chemical weapons? Am I really unreasonable because I don’t want people to violate the Geneva conventions and wanted feedback about it?
Leave me and my community alone and stop talking about us. If you want to spam the fuck out of lemmy with low effort bullshit then fine but leave us out of it. But you are not going to do that, you’re going to use your alts for false consensus and target people for drama when you don’t get your way, this seems to be your MO. How long until you delete all your accounts and start again when people don’t agree with you like they didn’t agree with you about vegan cat food?
I think it’s already very hard to change our own habits. I would not hope to change other people’s own habits.
I would like Lemmy to grow if only for one reason: I don’t care being part of any niche (no more than I care being part of not highly popular communities, mind you). I enjoy exchanging ideas and chatting with interesting people much more than I need to feel ‘smart’ myself because of the tools I’m using and for any chat to happen one first have to meet people. So, the bigger Lemmy, the better for me ;)
I joined Lemmy/I left reddit only because I realised I was not OK with the way reddit changed policy (the way they control our content) and because I was not happy in the way they made their website evolve. That said, I do miss the few subs I was following and participating in on Reddit. I miss them a lot, as they were/are often very interesting and rich… of their participants.
Can Lemmy become comparable? I don’t know, I have some doubts but I also have very little intention to come back to Reddit, at least not until they change a few things.
After I announced I would not be posting on those subs anymore, a few months ago, two people contacted me to tell me that would be some kind of a loss and they were sad to see me go, asking me to reconsider. As far as I know, none have created an account here on Lemmy so we could keep on discussing stuff. Of course, I can’t be sure of that but to be 100% honest the opposite would have surprised me a lot more. I had the same lack of reaction a few years ago when I quit Twitter and the likes. That’s fine.
Changing habits is hard. Even more so online, I reckon.
Yeah. This is such a better experience than past community tools I have used.
In particular, I hope we can attract the Do-It-Yourself repair community, before the current platforms lock all of that content away.
Yes
Yes, absolutely.
The nice thing about Reddit was that if I saw a new TV show, read a new novel, or picked up a new hobby, there would be an existing community of people already talking about it. Lemmy is great, but it doesn’t have the critical mass of people needed for that to be possible.
I don’t really care either way. Like Digg and Reddit before it, Lemmy will eventually kill itself in confusion and another will take its place. I don’t really care if it grows or shrinks in the meantime 🤷♂️ it is what it is
Lemmy should be the replacent for reddit IMHO.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m enjoying the recent influx since the recent reddit migrations, while still staying niche. And I’m appreciating being amongst like minded, generally leftist communities here.
But if it requires opening up the floodgates to idiots, fascists, and trolls in order to kill reddit, so be it. As long as there are no algorithms, advertisers, and spez’s, I’m all for more lemmings.
