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Does anybody here still wish the Fediverse just had more people? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 1 day ago by Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I know and can accept the response that say I should register to X site if I want more activity. I do plan to, least with Reddit, just biding some time before I make yet the 20th disposable e-mail and probably the 100th account before it gets banned again if I cross a glass person. Glass person being someone who's so fragile on opinions and things that they'll scream 'BAN THEM BAN THEM!'.

I've been on KBin Social, Lemmy World (least 2 dedicated accounts), KBin Run, Mastodon, Blue Sky .etc

And I'd stay for a good while but I also found myself bored immediately. I check for questions to answer, it's the same questions I've seen days and weeks prior. I check around for things that are reported and they'll be hours old and some of them can be years old.

I love the idea of the Fediverse, I like some of the features that are implemented. Especially when you do ask questions on here and you're allowed to expand on it. Unlike AskReddit for example, they don't really like that and will remove your post because explaining what your question is about and backing it with an example is just unacceptable to them.

I don't know. 43,000+ people sounds a lot on paper, but in practice, it feels like you're dealing with 50 people at any given day.

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[-] communism@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Yes, I still moderate a subreddit which is a support group for a particular surgery. There isn't such a community on the fediverse and the group of people who need this surgery seem to be few in number here too. (Won't be any more specific about the nature of the subreddit or surgery for privacy reasons, before anyone asks)

[-] Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 23 hours ago

I think the Fediverse is the perfect platform for things like what you run. I also think at times how great the fediverse could be for those who're mentally struggling. Just imagine, a decentralized platform where not only is it separated from the general network, but it's an instance/server where people can feel safe and private. Also secure too.

You don't get that feeling on Reddit. People are telling sensitive stories out there for all to see on Reddit and anywhere else. They're unfortunately setting themselves up for the chance of anybody stumbling upon those tellings and could give them hell for it. Making them worse off than they already were.

[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago

Personally I don't find a huge difference with reddit and threadiverse, at least for larger subs. Sure, on paper there are hundreds of comments, but most are the same tired decade old memes. You can predict what the comment sections are gonna be like from the title alone. At worst you get similar comments here, but you don't have to dig through hundreds of comments before finding something worthwhile.

[-] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

So You Thought You Were Lying Low in a Space Forged by an Exodus from Society to Bury your Shoebox of Fake IDs but Nuance Defied Expectation, a Stone's Tale

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

No.

People are the worst.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

I literally do not care about getting more members. It is not on my radar at all as a goal or desirable thing or objective.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

register on X site

No, not that one.

[-] Jomega@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Absolutely. There's just fuck all to do here. I used reddit for fan communities a lot, and most of them stayed behind. (Unless you're a trekkie I guess. Then you're set.)

[-] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nearly every niche community I've joined has essentially died due to not having the critical mass of users to support that community. Hell, even look at the large states like California or Texas: they're communities with only a few hundred active users and maybe a couple thousand joined. Feels like the lemmy is mostly us politics, star trek, Germans, and memes.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Which niches were they?

Some like !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz and !homeimprovement@lemmy.world are quite active

!newcommunities@lemmy.world has several threads with different active communities on different topics

[-] Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 day ago

You know a platform is big when like nearly all states of a country have their own subreddit and their own userbase. It's like, that's impact there.

It's the same here, I check the front page and what do I see? Politics, politics, politics, a couple memes and maybe a news report that isn't politics.

[-] mayo@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

The forum I used to spend a lot of time on in my youth was incredibly active - comments all night every couple minutes. The regional areas where practically dead. What we need are thriving core communities not critical mass. I like not being bombarded by thoughtless and judgmental comments

I'd guess that 50-100 active users could make any community feel vibrant. I've noticed when I post in a smaller community it can get solid responses (fast replies from a dozen or so users), but they die out after a day or two and people need to be posting all the time to keep it up.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

!newcommunities@lemmy.world has several threads with different active communities on different topics

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, you are on a site built and maintained by Communists along Communist principles, there are going to be Communists.

Reddit already exists for liberals.

[-] Jomega@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I didn't say anything about communists. I said I missed being able to interact with people who shared my hobbies. I just want to ~~grill~~ talk about cartoons and video games.

Also, I was sold on Lemmy because they told me it was an user owned alternative to reddit, which was going tits up at the time. "It's a communist website." Is not what they told me to get me over here.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I didn't say anything about communists

What did you mean by the word "tankie?" Liberals?

Either way, it's about finding a good instance and sticking with it, not just going with the largest and most boring instance.

Edit: misread "trekkie" as "tankie!" My bad lol

[-] Edie@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Trekkie, star trek. Not tankie.

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[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

The "threadiverse" (i.e. lemmy-compatible communities), yeah. There are still many topics that I would find interesting to discuss, but that nobody talks about here; to the extent that there are communities for them, they get very little activity.

The microblogging fediverse (mastodon-compatible), I think, is popular enough by now, I have no real desire to see even more activity there, can hardly keep up with what I'm currently following there and currently tend to unfollow more accounts than I start following.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

There are still many topics that I would find interesting to discuss, but that nobody talks about here;

Which ones are those?

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

For example on Reddit there is an active subreddit for learning my first language (German), where learners post questions about it and I frequently answer them.

There is such a community here too, and I am subscribed to it, but hardly anyone ever posts to it, so I have nothing to respond to.

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[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

i looked through mastodon and it seemed like everyone was just talking at each other instead if discussions. its worse than linkedin.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

Mastodon is mainly a way to get updates from news sites, blogs, etc.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

I wish there were more people in the fediverse, but not necessarily heaps more on Lemmy. I don't want Reddit numbers on Lemmy. But I wish there were more platforms and more people engaging with them, and no, if the answer is shit like Threads then I don't want any of it.

[-] dwindling7373@feddit.it 3 points 1 day ago

Yes.

[-] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yes. Same old faces every time gets old

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Find a good instance, it's nice that way. Hexbear is really nice to browse locally, I'm sure there are other instances with active communities like that with good local feeds. The issue isn't with magnitude of people, but the activity levels of people, otherwise you get instances dominated by a few people similar to Reddit.

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