Asklemmy

43881 readers

1841 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

262

Is Lemmy your "main social media app"? If not, which one is it? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

160 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I have fully transitioned to using Lemmy and Mastodon right when third party apps weren't allowed on Spez's place anymore, so I don't know how it is over there anymore.

What do you use? Are you still switching between the two, essentially dualbooting?

What other social media do you use? How do you feel about Fediverse social media platforms in general?

(I'm sorry if I'm the 100th person to ask this on here...)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Very interesting. I do still see many posts originating from Reddit around here, presumably exactly because of that reason.

But I must tell you, making your own funis and ideas and putting them onto Lemmy feels really great.
It feels like an invitation to discuss the topic with others and come up with new ideas, instead of feeding other peoples algorithms and keep them hooked on the site.

It feels much more like interacting with real actual people, even if there are less on here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I hear you. The thing is, the communities I mod are quite niche (in relation to Lemmy's population, that is) and apart from the corresponding subreddits I used to lurk on for years, I'm not really exposed to anything new that would prompt me to make new discussion posts and memes. I've watched all video essays there are about the games, I played through all of them repeatedly, new content is not on the horizon for any one of them. The best thing about them is the discussion in the community which has been missing ever since I created the communities in the first place.

Believe me: I've tried. But keeping three separate communities alive all on your own without community members ever feeling the need to contribute gets exhausting and doesn't feel worthwhile. So making my own content, which I do when I have a cool idea, feels like more of a loss when the engagement is just as high, sometimes lower, as with content off reddit.

Lurkers will be lurking, I guess