this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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There are quite a few fair points in there, it’s not as if this is some dumb nonsense.
Another impression I have is that on Reddit, idiots are mainly in large communities. But on Lemmy there is far less content, so they also troll through the all feed, which has all kinds of small communities where those people then have an outsized effect. I think that is part of the reason why the general level of discussion on Lemmy feels closer to big reddit communities than to small ones.
Additionally, if they got to experience the fascists from hexbear (not quite sure what lemmy.world does, www.hexbear.net is federated, hexbear.net is blocked…), that also doesn’t exactly make for intelligent discussions.
And finally, smaller reddit subs have far saner voting. Here on Lemmy there’s a lot more "I don’t understand this, so I’m downvoting because replying would require using my brain".
Lemmy has a lot of issues and the only reason I persevere, is because I’m a glutton for punishment and simply hate Spez even more.
All browsing is what really sucks for some niche communities. Until we have the ability to exclude our communities from all, these niche communities don't have a chance to survive.
The devs said that they’re working on a new sorting method that pushes small communities up in the feed. I’m excited to see how it will work.
That'll be great for most communities. That's the exact opposite of what I want for a few specific ones though
OTOH, discoverability sucks and requires using external tools, so I’m not sure exclusion really helps.
While I’m at it, in case any folk metal fans read this: Please join [email protected], I’m feeling very lonely 99% posting by myself ;)
Throwing it in my All feed at least so other people in my instance will see it eventually next posts =)
There's a surprising amount of subscribed users even. They are all just very quiet :/
I am already subscribed!