I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

It became the only reliable source of information I had. People posted links with a minimal amount of commentary, picking and choosing the best content from other social media networks. They’re not doing it to “build a brand” because that’s not a thing in the Fediverse. It’s too disjointed to be a place to build a newsletter subscription base.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    331·
    1 day ago

    the only problem is the lack of niche from like in some reddit subs, not main subs, and people there are unlikely to migrate here. plus the bots therer drum all the engagement to get people interested. when an instance vanishes it takes the content with them and i dint see the last one recover from it.

    • dizzle18@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      That’s where I’m at too. I never spent much time on the bigger subs on Reddit. Mostly spent my time in the special interest/hobby subs. There were some pretty awesome communities in there. Unfortunately, I wandered out of my lane, and I decided to tell some MAGA assclown that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them. According to Reddit, this was harassment, even though this prick was going around saying Alex Pretti deserved to die. As a result, I was permabanned. Oh well.

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzEnglish
      151·
      1 day ago

      It takes very little effort to open and run a community here, be the change you want to see. :)

      • zaphod@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        13·
        1 day ago

        I disagree. It’s easy if you want to use a community as your personal blog without any interaction from others. It’s hard to get an actual community running.

        • fossilesque@mander.xyzEnglish
          5·
          24 hours ago

          People are more likely to participate if you are. :) But if the space exists, natural discovery can happen too. You do not have to do much more than open the conversation.

          • IMALlama@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            20 hours ago

            I generally agree with activite communities being a self reinforcing feedback loop. That said, one of the challenges federation creates is fragmentation for “the same” community across multiple instances. As a result, each community appears relatively inactive as they’re all vying for engagement with each other.

            • dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz
              3·
              20 hours ago

              @IMALlama @fediverse Is this bad? Seems like this lets the “best” community rise to the top, for whatever definition of “best” the community chooses. Otherwise you start interfering with freedoms and setting a judge to decide what communities “should” be

    • ponypuncher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      18 hours ago

      I was just talking about this on discord (unironically). Something I genuinely miss about reddit (among other things) is being able to go to a TV show subreddit and engage on topics by strictly quoting lines from the show back at each other. But to have that meant all the other shit, where you can’t quote Wayne’s World 2 without automod thinking you’re advocating violence. The world I want and the world we have cannot seem to co-exist. And I am not sure it should. I’m just not sure it shouldn’t either. And my side is always losing.