Do you think Lemmy is going to cover niche topics like this someday?

LEDZeppelin, 10 months ago

Think of Lemmy in 2023 as Reddit in 2005-2007. Reddit didn’t become the Reddit we loved (until a couple of months ago) in a flash.

randon31415, 10 months ago

But Flash was depreciated a couple of years ago…
There is even a movie this summer about someone trying to go back in time to before the Flash was depreciated. </s>

Skray, 10 months ago

Even with the wariness of Meta's entrance into the fediverse, Threads gives it legitimacy and spreads awareness. So many people on reddit were saying the fediverse was confusing and that it wouldn't catch on or appeal to the average user. Threads can change that perception, even if the various lemmy instances don't federate with Threads, people will be aware of the existence of other servers, of the technology, and be more willing to branch out.

McBinary, 10 months ago

My dude, be the change you want to see. Start the community, curate what you want to see there, set some ground rules, and people will join you. I guarantee your interests are shared with others.

Pregnenolone, 10 months ago

Lemmy is going to start with the “major” subs e.g. your meme communities, news subs, major hobbies etc.

Then as time goes on we’ll have points where people start to branch out to niche communities because the mainstream communities are too generalised. That’s when we’ll start to see explosive growth.

Lemmy won’t “win” overnight. It will be a gradual and years-long process, but it can be worth it in the end.

kratoz29, 10 months ago

Yes this likely the best growing scenario, I’m so excited to be here to witness it now.

mrmanager, 10 months ago

Meta’s Threads could just be like a nuke over all of this niceness we have now. Will be very interesting to see.

All those normies that hardly even know what a server is… I don’t expect them to care about being nice.

jscummy, 10 months ago

Then they get defederated. A lot of instances decided to not federate with Meta before they even launched

AsimovsRobot, 10 months ago

Even Reddit was not niche enough for some things. Like a proper street photography subreddit.

bandario, 10 months ago

…blob.core.windows.net/…/asphalt.jpg

Unnngh

AsimovsRobot, 10 months ago

Hahahha, I had to go back and look at my comment to appreciate your response. 😂

inspxtr, 10 months ago

omg this is like me with hotsauce. I found that subreddit a long time ago, and it was just so filled with awesome recommendations and reviews. There’s one on lemmy (just created I think) and people are slowly creating content on there. So I guess there’s hope!

Immersive_Matthew, 10 months ago

This is so very true. How do we get that knowledge out of Reddit as it is at risk there? Maybe all that AI data lifting/scraping will help.

Venomnik0, 10 months ago

It took 7 years for that post to get to that guy. It’s gonna take some time but patience and asking alot questions is needed. (and also alot of subcommunities)

STUPIDVIPGUY, 10 months ago

It’s not just reddit, and it’s not just lemmy. It’s just important that we have a space to share information with eachother free of commercial interests.

But yeah beautiful vid. Almost cried at the ending.

James, 10 months ago

If Lemmy continues on the path it’s on it will get there, but this is a long path.

Think 10 years minimum before we start to see maple syrup level niche.

Rome wasn’t built in a day.

dismalnow, 10 months ago

Just saying that you can still use that other site without them seeing a dime

Google your problem. Get the url.

teddit.net/r/(insert after /r/ in reddit link)

There are also scripts and Firefox extensions you can install that automatically do it for you.

intensely_human, 10 months ago

We just need a robot to read reddit and then generate what threads could have existed

dismalnow, 10 months ago

Eh... There's several bots that are ripping content from that site with seemingly good intent in the interest of "populating the fediverse."

It's more spammy than anything else, and I don't really want this place to become a bot infested hellscape like the place I left.

Gullible, 10 months ago

If bots don’t end up an overwhelming issue, maybe. The internet has overwhelmingly changed between the formation of Reddit and the formation of Lemmy. Novel issues and solutions will form something new.

Mereo, 10 months ago

It will take time. It took Reddit 16 years to get 500 million active users. But Reddit is crap compared to how I remember it back then (2007-2009). I have the utmost confidence that Lemmy will cover niche topics.

turddle, 10 months ago

Yeah it’ll take time and trying to force it won’t work. What people tend to forget is that Reddit started out small with no user-made communities.

The first few subs were kinda generic but concentrated users in one place and bolstered discussion.

What I see a lot of here is people trying to recreate modern Reddit but without allowing for the growth that got them there. Resulting in lots of empty communities and overall a lack of interaction since users are spread apart.

It’s like when DC tried to copy what Marvel was doing without building up their cinematic universe. They jumped straight to that Justice league movie and we all saw how that went.

Ktheone, 10 months ago

Reddit pre-digg invasion was the best. After Digg a lot of bad actors got involved and gave reddit the bad reputation it has today.

youthinkyouknowme, 10 months ago

Bit off topic, but I love this video lmao

kratoz29, 10 months ago

Not off topic at all, I liked it too, despite I think is a bit cringey 😅

Chozo, 10 months ago

This was the best commercial Reddit never made.

lackadaisy, 10 months ago

A lot is probably just because of the sheer volume of people over there, whatever the interest was, there'd be plenty of people who were really into that thing. I miss subs like r/whatisthisthing and r/tipofmytongue that worked because just by exposing it to so many people, there was a good chance of coming across someone who was actually familiar with it already.

sbv, 10 months ago

Part of the problem is that we need to draw people here. Creating communities is great, but the user base won’t grow if we’re just talking to ourselves.