@IcedRaktajino@startrek.website
Post #1903722
2026-01-14 18:48 UTC
Replies (14)
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@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 19:03
I agree with everything that you’ve said. I would also add: Find your nearest non-political non-tech hobby community and start posting things people actually want to see Because if we’re going to cast the same net reddit does, people with a more varied set of interests need to come here. Can’t be all linux, politics, and news. We’re going to need people who like baking. We’re going to need sports fans. We’re going to need music. I could type new communities we need to be active all day. Humans are surprisingly a diverse set of creatures. You have one set of interests, I have another. Different set of interests. And both are totally valid. The thing people here don’t seem to grasp is that OTHER interests and OTHER people using the fediverse isn’t a bad thing. If a bunch of boomers come here, and make their own communities to talk about Taylor Swift, and whatever else they talk about on facebook. That’s good that it would be here! Not bad! They could talk about gardening, and model trains, and whatever else. It wouldn’t appeal to you, and thats ok.
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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-01-14 19:40
we need more posts about what make us happy and less about what we’re angry at (which is pretty much goddamned everything). Unfortunately the “political shit” and “ragebait” is important. The Fediverse is what you make of it. If you subscribe to a bunch of communities posting political shit and ragebait, that’s what you’ll get. That’s not a problem with the threadiverse, that’s a problem with your curation. One that it sounds like you remedied, so I’m not sure why you feel the need to call it out as a problem.
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@mrmaplebar@fedia.io 2026-01-14 20:10
I don’t disagree that we need more positive and high quality hobby content. Sure. But personally I’m so sick of dudes complaining about “political shit and rage bait and virtue signaling”, whatever half of that banal nonsense is even supposed to mean… In fact, I’d go as far to say that people who whine about everything being “political” is a bright fucking red flag to me. My immediate assumption upon reading that is “this person is a Trump supporter who voted for this exact shit to happen because they want it to happen, and they don’t want to be confronted by the fact that other people don’t.” I know exactly what kind of people don’t want to hear about “politics” anymore now that Trump is elected, trampling our institutions, and fucking everything up. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, right?
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@Hanrahan@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 21:06
Just my two cents, but there’s just no reason for people to come here when it’s 80+% political shit a As a contra point, I’m glad that its like this, a lack of politcal debate is toxic to democracy and that way be dragons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace, by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses). Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority. That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be more other stuff as well though.
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@sol@feddit.uk 2026-01-14 21:19
My experience is that Lemmy is decent for tech-related stuff but outside of that, it can be difficult to find active communities depending on the hobby. I just went looking for a good Spanish learning or general language learning community and the few that I found have been inactive for months. Maybe I wasn’t looking in the right place (I searched in Communities > All). I don’t think maximum growth should be a goal for Lemmy, I just think it needs a critical mass of activity to keep it interesting. Currently I think we just about have that for many tech/FOSS related topics but not so much outside it. The problem, I think, is that a lot of people who aren’t into tech/FOSS issues don’t know about Lemmy and don’t see why they wouldn’t just use Reddit or Discord.
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@bufalo1973@piefed.social 2026-01-14 21:25
Thanks for the links🙂
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@maxy@piefed.social 2026-01-14 21:44
Yes. I’m here for the long tail, the niche communities. And what do I see? Not enough photos of houseplants! Come on, you must have some too. And to add to the list, !books@lemmy.world looks nice.
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@Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-15 03:25
It would be a huge improvement if politics were corralled into the political communities. There are accounts that double post in both politics and news as well as other communities, I assume because people who have politics filtered actually secretly want to see politics…
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@Dupelet@piefed.social 2026-01-15 04:29
!Nonpolitical_comics@piefed.social!
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@Ofiuco@piefed.ca 2026-01-15 16:12
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@Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 2026-01-16 11:01
I’m kinda bummed more people from Reddit didn’t come here after the exodus. But I guess it’s a Catch-22 thing cause that could’ve been all kinds of good or all kinds of bad so who knows so he’s starting off fresh and slow. It’s kind of the best way to go maybe
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@melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2026-01-16 12:43
Exactly! Well said.
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@auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-19 11:40
I’m only here for the political posts. I’d visit more often if there were more people/posts.
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@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-16 16:27
Maybe being able to build, share, and import groups of communities to use as your home communities would help with the new user experience? If you're into video games here's a bunch of communities, if you're into gardening here's a different set, etc. It would also help promote some of the smaller niche communities most people don't see without searching or browsing all + scaled.