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I really want to like Lemmy (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hate big tech controlling social media. I desperately want social media to be federated.

I really love community-driven social media like Reddit. Lemmy feels… too small. I really loved that Reddit let me jump into any niche hobby, and instantly I had a community. Lemmy, you’ll be lucky if that community even exists, and if it does, chances are nobody has posted in ages.

On the other hand, Lemmy is full of political content lately. I’ve basically been doom scrolling everything US election-related, and it’s really starting to take a toll on my mental health.

I know I can filter content. I know I can post and be the change I seek. Yet, it feels like an uphill battle.

Not sure what the point of this is, or if it’s even the right community to vent about this. I just really want to replace Reddit, but I find myself going back more and more (e.g. r/homekit is very active compared to Lemmy version).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But without comments, there’s no “why” anything is good or bad.

Strong truth. But then again, the UX for this is relatively as reduced as the standard usecases allow; if the user can't bother to click on "reply", post even a "good." then click send... come on man, we're asking for literally two clicks and five keystrokes... if people can't even do that yet they interact for hours on end on TikTok, then perhaps the problem is not lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Oh for sure. It's going to be what ultimately makes or breaks this as a platform. You can't force a userbase to interact, but as OP states, like many before them, for some people there's not going to be much going on here. For people that want to at least be mildly active participants though, I haven't had this much fun since forums were the big thing. I just imagine since that was a decent while ago now that either those of us old enough to have enjoyed them are rusty at it, and the yoots are too young to have seen how it used to work.