How can we make it more popular?

  • Jargus@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    155
    arrow-down
    35
    ·
    1 year ago

    No wonder since most topics on all are:

    • Capitalism is bad
    • Landlords are evil
    • US Politics
    • Linux

    It’s a huge circlejerk here and there isn’t that much engagement in other smaller communities. And I highly doubt that it will change for the better since I already see that a lot of the remaining people love this little circlejerk and don’t even want more people that could diversify the content. More power to them, I have already given up on Lemmy as a Reddit replacement.

    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I just made a new community yesterday about objects that looks sort of like private parts, if that helps? !mildlyprivates@lemmy.world

      I’ve also got cute bugs and sea critters here: !awwnverts@lemmy.world

      And cute bees here: !beebutts@lemmy.world

      But for the life of me I can’t get any engagement on my r/legalcatadvice dupe at !cattorneys_at_paw@lemmy.world Maybe I should have used the original name. I really miss that one.

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Don’t forget…

      • Boomers are responsible for all of my problems
      • The US is the worst country on earth

      Pretty much the same shit you find on reddit. I have no problem with Linux though.

    • wokehobbit@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      arrow-down
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy and 90% of the people here honestly suck and are circlejerky bastards with shit content but it’s also the only good option right now.

    • A Mouse@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      There are also some of us that are/were trying and experimenting with different types of the fediverse, such as Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, Firefish, Pixelfed, etc. I have found myself gravitating toward Firefish, and Mastodon for the feed style, where as Lemmy, and Kbin are better as a forum or Pixelfed for image feeds.

    • _number8_@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      i’d rather see a circlejerk over capitalism being bad than people accepting the shittiness

    • explodicle@local106.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

      To be fair, part of the reason to use a decentralized platform is because these topics are de facto censored on most of the internet.

      FWIW early Bitcoin was the same; they were much more anarchist than they are today. Long after merging with the mainstream, the most anarchist thing most users do today is running the software itself. It’ll be the same way with Lemmy - eventually most users won’t care about anything leftist, they’ll just happen to be using p2p free software because it works better for reasons they refuse to acknowledge.

      Here’s a classic must-read essay that explores other facets of this evolution: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

      • AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        19
        arrow-down
        6
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        because these topics are de facto censored on most of the internet

        Complaining about capitalism, landlords and US Politics are censored on most of the internet? Have you been to Reddit or Twitter?

        Also aren’t a bunch of other websites specifically dedicated for discussing specific topics? I.e. modding video games, agriculture/horticulture, etc?

        Are there like a bunch of bloggers complaining about living in the West that are being censored, or are they just not popular because they’re terrible writers and have 0 reach?

        Also no one talks about Linux besides weird and niche communities. It’s not censored either. I say this as a Linux user.

        • explodicle@local106.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          8
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Sorry if this was unclear, I only meant the points about capitalism, landlords, and politics are censored. Not Linux.

          What do you think we should actually do about those problems? Ask nicer? Vote harder? Since you used Reddit a lot, you must be familiar with “[REDACTED]” - it’s one thing to just complain, but quite another thing to coordinate a defense.

          • AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            What do you think we should actually do about those problems? Ask nicer? Vote harder?

            I think your rent should be due a week early this month.