These are good things, for sure, but for me they are separate from why I'm here. The niche discussions that I crave are just not here. We're simply not large enough to have anything but the most popular subjects get any traction. So we have memes, politics, and programming/linux discussions. Worse off, you have to dodge the hexbear and lemmigrad dipshits. So the overall experience is still suffering due to the size.

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I want more normies 😭

Don't mind the memes, but there's too much tech and politics IMO

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah, i get tired of the us centric politics and although I have an interest in tech, its too much here

[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Specially politics. Even meme communities are becoming a politics cesspool, at least that meme community of lemmy.ml, or 196 of lemmy.blahaj.zone (in a lesser way, but still), or gaming communities. Damn, do I have to block every single community of every single instance to really enjoy lemmy/kbin without being bombarded 24 hours with politics? And the funny/sad thing is that moderators and administrators don't even care.

[–] wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve noticed less discussion over the past month and more groupthink like Reddit. Just Elon bad. America bad. It’s quickly becoming an echo chamber that will cause people to stop using it. People can only hear one liners so often before they get bored.

[–] Kelsenellenelvial@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

True, but a slow, steady growth is going to result in a better platform than having a flood of old redditors that take over. And that’s coming from a Reddit refugee, which I’d guess is a pretty significant portion of the user base these days. I saw a thread about Beehive considering leaving the fediverse altogether because they can’t keep up with all the fedderated content coming in that doesn’t meet their standards. I also think there needs to be further development of the software, things like users being able to block while instances(I’m fine with porn instances existing, but I don’t want them showing in my main feed and I don’t necessarily want to block everything labeled NSFW), as well as something comparable to the multi-Reddit system that lets me make groups of communities to browse together rather than just subscribed/home/all. The second would go a long way to getting that niche content communities up and running. The few niche communities that I have found seem to get buried under the more popular ones(which was an issue on Reddit for a long time too), so some method to bring that niche content to the surface on par with the bigger communities would go a long way too.