I've been trying the subtle 'send friends cool posts from the fediverse', as I wasn't having much luck explaining what the fediverse is/ why we should leave the corporate social media behind.
I honestly do not understand when people complain about Lemmy being too empty. That’s not my experience at all, not even close! My subscribed feed is pretty tame (intentionally), but if I switch to all, I can scroll and scroll until I’m like “maybe I should take a break” and I’m still only seeing posts from like 3h back. There is so much going on here, how are people going around saying it’s dead?
Are there bigger versions of the same communities elsewhere? One of the problems at the moment is duplicates, and finding the one where people have coalesced can be be hard, sometimes just dumb luck.
it’s been done. it is not good and every time i see one of those spam bots i block it. if i didn’t, browsing ‘all’ would be mostly zero conversation reddit links. it makes the lemmy experience much better without them, imho.
convs. here got a little heated, try not adding to the fire. Also, in my case I don’t like it caz the comments are dead, if someone posts a meme, caz they found it funny, I respond, thet respond, we have a nice chat. If it’s posted by a bot, none of this applies, comment section ia dead, imagine this thread, but without you responding at all… Yeah, not so pretty.
And also Lemmy lacks content only if you doomscroll it. Try getting a life, I don’t mean that in a toxic way, some ppl here are much more cultured, ask for a book recommendation or something, and when you ran out of fresh posts, try reading a bit.
Your comments regarding niche commjnites having week old to no posts, well, if you’re part of that community, try posting! Maybe someone is the same way as you, but didn’t voice it, just left the site.
you can’t find communities? Try posting to a wuestion whether it exists or not.
And btw: you’re here for a reason, and it’s not that you’re being forced. Instead of making this plave heated and toxic, try leaving (you’ll soon learn that it’s not worth being the keyboard warrior, I know, I was you/it), not permanently, but for like a day or something.
In addition to what other users said: quality matters. 90% of the content of any subreddit is trash, and bots are unable to sieve the 10% of good stuff from that trash. As such, most [all?] bots automatically bringing content from Reddit are bound to litter Lemmy and make it worse, not better.
The same applies to most users there, too. There are a few rational people there, and we should attract them to Lemmy if/when possible, but most redditors are dead weight and trash, and do a great favour to Lemmy if they stay in Reddit.
I left reddit, and pretty much stay away from it. I don't want to give advertising revenue to reddit. And so I suggest federating with reddit is not a good idea. As you say, "it's over there, if we need/want it", to paraphrase.
But I cannot force emulation communities to make the switch. Until they get tired of posts being removed and replacement subreddits getting banned, I have to be there occasionally to catch up.
Look dude, db0 himself posted in those communities and invited them over. Even made communities for them to drop into and they said they didn’t want to fracture the community and deleted his invite posts. I don’t make their policy, and I’m not going to copy over their posts like I’m a bot. All the experts are there (the emulator devs and modders) for now that’s how it is. They seem to be considering moving more seriously now than before due to pinned mega helpthreads getting nuked, but I don’t call the shots there. I just do my best to mention lemmy in those moments in a way that doesn’t get me banned. That’s it. I have no desire to single handedly jumpstart it here. I don’t care that much.
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