I swear I’m not trying to promote Reddit, I’m a refugee as many of us here, I just saw this video linked on r/Save3rdPartyApps and it amaze me that many people used Reddit for niche stuff.
So far Lemmy has been great for me, it really scratches the Reddit itch, using Thunder, Voyager, Jerboa and Connect for Lemmy has been a godsend for this site to me (yeah I cycle them all lol) but it is hard for me finding “less popular content”.
I know we are not supposed to lurk to keep improving this site it is hard to stop lurking ngl, I am trying to be more active as many of us do.
Some weeks ago Lemmy wasn’t even a shadow of what it is today, but I wonder if it is gonna get as big to cover those niches that people like.
Lemmy is going to start with the “major” subs e.g. your meme communities, news subs, major hobbies etc.
Then as time goes on we’ll have points where people start to branch out to niche communities because the mainstream communities are too generalised. That’s when we’ll start to see explosive growth.
Lemmy won’t “win” overnight. It will be a gradual and years-long process, but it can be worth it in the end.
Yes this likely the best growing scenario, I’m so excited to be here to witness it now.
Meta’s Threads could just be like a nuke over all of this niceness we have now. Will be very interesting to see.
All those normies that hardly even know what a server is… I don’t expect them to care about being nice.
Then they get defederated. A lot of instances decided to not federate with Meta before they even launched