There seems to be a neverending supply of complaints about the size and reach of the Fediverse and I’m just sitting here thinking this is about all the attention I’d like it to ever get. This is fucking nice. Doesn’t monopolize your whole day, always has at least some fresh content, users are free with the upvotes and discourse is downright civil most of the time. Does anybody really want this place to be like Reddit or Instagram?
It should not get like Reddit, but I still wish for more users so that some more specific “subreddits” (what’s the term used here on Lemmy?) are getting more users and more posts.
I just call them categories, cause with out exception. The terminology in use is basically stupid as fuck
Lemmy and the entire system is basically just a over grown overly complicated for no reason forum.
Each host is just a board, with a bunch of categories in it.
Its fancy they can talk to each other. But frankly it’s almost too much and kinda dumb. Really the whole concept federation feels like a shitty long term idea that’s gonna fucking implode at some point.
Instead of just a reliable known and useful format we took it, beat it half to fucking death and then shoved an unholy abomination into said corpse.
Basically every open source social media platform is the same damn thing. Its just taking a corpo centralized system, attempting to decentralize it only to realize it’s just a clone of a older thing we had before the corpo centralization showed up. But everyone WANTS the corpo centralized system just with out the corpo. So we ignore the fact that the older system exists and it would be better to make a modernized version of that instead of a hack job of the centralized system.
But logical is never been and never will be the thing that happens in reality I find.
Have you considered more fediverse to make up for that shortfall?
If I run out of things on Lemmy that interest me, I switch gears to mastadon… If I’m getting tired of that shit, there’s pixelfed
With a lot of these new, non-algo driven sites you only see what you sign up for, so whatever kind of mood I was feeling the day I signed up, will influence how the site works for the first few months until it normalizes, and you find all your communities. i.e. my mastadon feed is chock a block FULL of self hosting Linux nerds, AND ITS AWESOME!
the biggest gap still seems to be sports though, especially niche sports (I live breath and sleep MotoGP, and there ain’t shit about MotoGP on Lemmy lol)
I’d been using Instagram as my scrapbook of neat things I’ve done/made for several years. Mainly it’s for my own personal enjoyment but I left it public because artist types like showing off I guess. Anyway, I accidentally made a post that went mildly viral, 300k views and 8k likes, and it pretty much took the fun out of it for me. I guess I didn’t really want an audience, I just wanted to look in the river like Narcissus. Now everytime I glance I get a notification that ripples my reflection.
I don’t know Hal…ima banned Redfugee and I really do miss some specific subs. I’d like to see us grow just big enough to be what Reddit was (as far as niche communities) during its first 5-10 years.
There seems to be a neverending supply of complaints about the size and reach of the Fediverse and I’m just sitting here thinking this is about all the attention I’d like it to ever get. This is fucking nice. Doesn’t monopolize your whole day, always has at least some fresh content, users are free with the upvotes and discourse is downright civil most of the time. Does anybody really want this place to be like Reddit or Instagram?
It should not get like Reddit, but I still wish for more users so that some more specific “subreddits” (what’s the term used here on Lemmy?) are getting more users and more posts.
They’re called “communities” here
I just call them categories, cause with out exception. The terminology in use is basically stupid as fuck
Lemmy and the entire system is basically just a over grown overly complicated for no reason forum.
Each host is just a board, with a bunch of categories in it.
Its fancy they can talk to each other. But frankly it’s almost too much and kinda dumb. Really the whole concept federation feels like a shitty long term idea that’s gonna fucking implode at some point.
Instead of just a reliable known and useful format we took it, beat it half to fucking death and then shoved an unholy abomination into said corpse.
Basically every open source social media platform is the same damn thing. Its just taking a corpo centralized system, attempting to decentralize it only to realize it’s just a clone of a older thing we had before the corpo centralization showed up. But everyone WANTS the corpo centralized system just with out the corpo. So we ignore the fact that the older system exists and it would be better to make a modernized version of that instead of a hack job of the centralized system.
But logical is never been and never will be the thing that happens in reality I find.
Have you considered more fediverse to make up for that shortfall?
If I run out of things on Lemmy that interest me, I switch gears to mastadon… If I’m getting tired of that shit, there’s pixelfed
With a lot of these new, non-algo driven sites you only see what you sign up for, so whatever kind of mood I was feeling the day I signed up, will influence how the site works for the first few months until it normalizes, and you find all your communities. i.e. my mastadon feed is chock a block FULL of self hosting Linux nerds, AND ITS AWESOME!
the biggest gap still seems to be sports though, especially niche sports (I live breath and sleep MotoGP, and there ain’t shit about MotoGP on Lemmy lol)
Anyone who was on ultra early reddit like I was knows the fediverse is like Reddit, very early Reddit, it was great, this is great.
It’s unironically the meme of Donald Glover showing up with pizza and everything is on fire, every time I go on instagram.
I’d been using Instagram as my scrapbook of neat things I’ve done/made for several years. Mainly it’s for my own personal enjoyment but I left it public because artist types like showing off I guess. Anyway, I accidentally made a post that went mildly viral, 300k views and 8k likes, and it pretty much took the fun out of it for me. I guess I didn’t really want an audience, I just wanted to look in the river like Narcissus. Now everytime I glance I get a notification that ripples my reflection.
I caught the tiger by the tail. What a world.
I don’t know Hal…ima banned Redfugee and I really do miss some specific subs. I’d like to see us grow just big enough to be what Reddit was (as far as niche communities) during its first 5-10 years.
Make the site like Aaron dreamed reddit be like.
Same exactly. I love this squirrelly little place. Reddit was great before it got huge and gentrified by bots, too. It’s been trash for a decade.
I like your user name, too.