I honestly never know what people mean by "niche", everyone seems to have a different cutoff. But also the word you're looking for is "communities", we users are the lemmings 😄
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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[email protected] started strong, but has definitely slowed down a little. [email protected] (everyday carry pocket dumps) and [email protected] have slowed down even more. Maybe they're too consumerish for Lemmy's culture.
Basically most of the niche communities are extremely slow or dead. It's understandable since the daily lemming user rate is 33,000 where seeing a post with 33,000 likes is not uncommon Reddit.
I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you mean Lemmy communities, Lemmy instances, or something else?
This confused me, too. I generally see"Lemming" used as the equivalent of "Redditor": someone who uses Lemmy.
Lemmy communities
While I absolutely abhor the use of ‘Lemmings’ in regards to anything related to Lemmy, I have only seen it used to describe the people that use it, and not the communities.
You took a dumb thing and made it 1,000 times dumber.
You took a good teaching opportunity and made yourself look 1,000 times dumber.
How about getting off your high horse and try helping people learn instead of insulting people to sooth your superiority complex.
I am helping people learn. Using the term Lemmings makes you look stupid. Using the term Lemming incorrectly makes you look REALLY fucking stupid.
Then explain what OP did wrong, in a non-derogatory way, give them alternatives to what they could say instead of just demeaning them.
Know what makes people look REALLY REALLY dumb? Talking down to people that don't know better. Besides if you're so smart, why don't you educate the ignorant without insulting them?
It’s more fun this way. Plus it looks like it pisses dweebs like you off, so win/win.
Lol @ using that mental gymnastic to pretend you won an argument. People say don't feed the trolls but if nobody gave the monkeys peanuts they wouldn't dance like fools for our amusement.
You're welcome, monkey.
Mental gymnastics? What are you even talking about? I got to call a stupid thing stupid and pissed an asshole idiot like you off which makes me happy. And now you’re pretending like there’s some sort of win on your end because you allowed me to rile you up? There’s definitely some sort of attempt at mental gymnastics going on here, but it’s from your end and it’s a massive failure.
I dunno, you seem petty riled up to me, plus you already showed your lack of understanding repeatedly, so yeah certainly a win for me.
Enjoy another round of peanuts on me, monkey.
Oh I’m definitely enjoying it. You’re even acknowledging that fact. You’re so close to figuring out what’s going on here, you just have all the roles switched up.
Also, for someone who was whining about me being mean, you sure are (trying to) come in hard with the personal attacks.
But I’m definitely the angry one here. ;)
Lol what personal attacks? I don't know anything about you except that you clap your cymbals and dance to a guy playing a music box, like any well trained monkey on the street does. 🙉🎶🙊🎶🙈
And yet I'm the one getting things backwards? 👀🤔
I like how you asked “what personal attacks?” and then proceeded to repeat said personal attacks. Just because they’re not remotely clever or true doesn’t mean you’re not trying your hardest to make things personal. I’m dealing with an absolute genius here.
Literally nothing about what I just said was in any way a personal attack, unless you really are just a monkey dancing for peanuts.
I like how you're trying to pull excuses from your ass more than anything.
Great dance monkey, here's another peanut.
A lemming that has taken off is https://startrek.website/c/risa !
I love my stream of Star Trek shitpost.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Besides rise which was doing fine months ago have anything else taken off?(I've noticed a buzz of activity by city lemmings and such)
One has to appreciate that Reddit he organically and got segmented in subs over time, who knows how many empty subs died on the wayside before the many niches we hold dear took off.
The big stuff has transferred quite nicely, as have tech communities, but other niche communities seem to have floundered. Even ones that explicitly and openly made the switch died off, like r/streetphotography. It seems raw user count is pretty critical to supporting them.
The cordcutters subreddit was really nice, users constantly engaging in talks about better alternatives to cable/internet/streaming options.
The lemmy version is like an aquarium full of dead fish that nobody cares to clean out. The only 'poster' is a 'news' bot that just spams every article from cordcutters.com (most of which are just advertisements for deals/discounts).
At this point even ghost towns have more presence and/or engagement. If you block the 'news' bot, there's next-to-nothing there.
[email protected] is getting more and more active, with a spontaneous AMA ongoing.
[email protected] is quite active.
Nice community, thanks for the recommendation of casual conversation :)
https://awful.systems/c/sneerclub
It's too bad; monitoring and dunking on capital-R "Rationalist" billionaire worshipers is a good time.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
any calyx c/
Curlyhair was (is?) so busy on Reddit that it needed heavy moderating, the mods had a discord chat, so many rules, a heavy hand. Here it's dead.