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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
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Content diversity seems like it slowed down. Back when the Reddit exodus happened about of niche communities were created. A lot of them have been abandoned now.
Lemony is still good as it’s tech and privacy centric (which I love). But the excess of US related news, furry stuff, commie/cappie arguments are everywhere. You can always block communities and instances but it gets tiring after some time.
I think this sort of unfulfilled promise has been the biggest obstacle of my full scale adoption of a reddit alternatives.
As a non-typical Lemmy user (No interest in privacy, piracy, Linux, FOSS, Web Dev, SW Dev, Veganism, or discussing political theory with strangers online) finding active communities in topics i am interested in (basketball, football, hip hop and rap, martial arts, boxing, mma, PC building, relationships, kink, and the specific humor and nuance that comes with being a Black person on the internet) has been a struggle.
Many of those communities have two people or less posting in them or don't exist at all.
People are talking here but not about things i wanna discuss and that's disappointing so i have a hard time "sticking" if that makes sense
I became the typical Lemmy user with interests in the topics you dislike because of the nature of the reddit migration, but I have to agree with the lack of skinfolk humor. It's kind of a bummer.
Actually, I'm kind of curious:
What do you mean "because of the nature of the reddit migration?"
I mean that I became more interested in FOSS, privacy, and cybersecurity because I was (and remain) angry at reddit and all walled garden ass social media platforms.
That's what i thought you meant. Thanks!
in my case, the diaspora didn't change me so much as it displaced me.
Now I'm here and there. Much like Twitter and Masto where i do more content viewing on the legacy site where there's more content, but more posting on the FOSS alternative because of ideological imperative to see it grow even if its content doesn't serve me (yet?)
I kinda do the same thing. I'll go through spurts of posting in music communities here (as well as commenting, for better or worse) and I use Beeper to check my discord and twitter group chats, but I mostly bounce between Lemmy and Bluesky, if only to avoid "the algorithm" and the non stop scrolling that comes with it.