Dude, you’re here, basically in on the ground floor. You want a specific type of content, start posting it. Build the community.
Or don’t.
Either way, bitching about it not being precisely what you want it to be isn’t helping anything.
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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I’ve gotten way more response to this than anything I’ve posted in the communities I’m actually interested in.
I don't know if this will help you but, instances with a general theme tend to have more chatty people. Examples are programming.dev, beehaw, ttrpg and slrpnk. Try instance shopping and see what fits your style
Thanks but not yet. General trends toward young and/or low effort. Want to chat about underground deep house, burning man, or mechanical watches?
Yeah, neither do my friends. That’s what I’m missing (as examples). Doing my part to get us there, but it’s pretty lonely so far.
I don't really know how to link to communities but I found this one for watches: watches@lemmy.ml
This one has just been created for Burning Man https://kbin.social/m/BurningMan
Underground deep house I've got nothing.
I find it a lot easier to find communities on Kbin because you can search and then see how active they are
Lemmy is young. There is a lot to be desired about it but I generally like to avoid negative words when it comes to open source because open source is a net positive for the computing world. Given time, Lemmy will get better. The Lemmy devs are doing this work uncompensated and gratis. They're passionate about principles of open software, freedom of speech and expression, and a generally anti-corporate world view. I can and do get behind this and can thus put up with imperfections in an implementation. What I don't understand is actually why people will tolerate bugs in a software that they've paid for. To use an analogy, I wouldn't tolerate my car just randomly stalling. I would be knocking down the doors of the manufacturer yet we shrug our shoulders at the utter rubbish that corporations like Adobe and Microsoft churn out all of the time.
I’m not into Lemmy because it’s got all the niche communities I need in my life. I’m into it because the fediverse in general is a FOSS, decentralized, “by the people for the people” alternative to enshittified ads&engagement social media.
We’re in the early stages of this thing. We’re all still playing with the building blocks of what this will hopefully become one day.
I came for the cause as well. Im just having a hard time finding my people.
Memes don’t cut it.
I guess I am at a point where I can find enough interesting stuff that I can accept “If you build it, they will come” for now.
Basically, I’m not expecting the finished product yet, but things look promising. Hopefully the necessary momentum is there.
I was going to make a comment then I noticed the community. I agree you found a really unpopular opinion. I expect the downvoters are ones who didn't realize the community you posted to.
That being said, it's still early on, I'm hoping it stays alive. I miss some of the nitche communities as well but, a good portion did somewhat migrate, you just need to reach out and sub to them cause it doesn't show them very well.
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