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- 25 days
Be careful what you wish for. Increasing its popularity would also increase its bot attraction.
- 25 days
I don’t understand why there’s so many people who don’t want Lemmy to grow. I came here because I wanted a freeer more decentralised web for everyone, not just me.
- 25 days
Nah, I do want it to grow. I’d really love to get more life into some niche communities. But I also recognise that it will make the place even more attractive to all the bad actors out there.
- AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish24 days
because growth sucks. growth always comes with negative externalities, like mostly attracting douchebags
also, i thought lemmy was anti-capitalist? things must always grow no matter what is the toxic trait of capitalism
they don’t. things dont’ have to grow. they can be stable.
- turdburglar@piefed.socialEnglish24 days
it’s not that i (we) don’t want it to grow, i just want to grow slowly and with the right sort of people.
when you have mindful people sharing humor, information, and personal stories, it’s great. when you have people chasing internet clout or trolling for hate of the game, it’s not so great.
- AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish24 days
and lower the average IQ of the userbase, and increase the amount of hostile echo chamber sycophants.
- 25 days
You say that you like it vastly more than Reddit, even though it’s “smaller”. I don’t see a problem here. Quality over quantity.
It doesnt need to be more popular.
IMO, thinking like that is one of the problems of the internet that led to google, amazon and the other tech giants that functionally own access to the internet now outside of small places like this.
If you want to see more content, set up some RSS feeds to news sites and join discords for memes and repost them here.
- 24 days
the problem of instagram is the addictive behavior, the gating of content behind you-need-an-account-to-view-this-content stuff, the neverending adware/spyware, etc.
- Cricket@lemmy.zipEnglish25 days
The front page is just VetOfTheSeas and everybody else lol.
Huh? I’ve been using Lemmy natively (i.e., no 3rd-party front-end or app) since the Reddit API fiasco (what’s that, a couple of years?) and have never heard of this user. My instance is one of the most widely federated too. I just searched for them and noticed that they’ve posted a lot in the last 3 days, but it’s not that many posts so it shouldn’t be dominating your feed. What are your feed settings? I suggest trying hot, active, or top [whichever time frame you prefer] and all, unless you subscribe to a lot of communities, in which case you can select subscribed instead of all. Once you find a combination of scope and sort type that you like, you can set that as the default in your account settings.
In order to block stuff you don’t want to see when you browse all, block any communities that focus on that stuff. For example, I block the vast majority of meme communities. It seems that Lemmy having too many memes is a common complaint, but I barely ever see any, even browsing all.
- 25 days
First rule of fediverse club is you don’t talk about fediverse club.
Don’t need more chuds finding the real internet again.
- 25 days
Don’t need more chuds finding the real internet again.
Ironically, Truth Social is just a custom instance of Mastodon, and by definition everyone on there are chuds
- 25 days
I sort of just enjoy it as a real place on the internet, instead of worrying about growth.
- 25 days
You can get downvoted for saying stupid shit but you don’t get silenced or punished for it.
New here eh? /s
The front page is just VetOfTheSeas
Never heard to them. Not sure if block’d or Tessaract’d. (Look up Tessaract in the search FYI)
Jokes aside, search for communities to get more content. Like I’m from lemmy.ca but I sub to a lot of the main .world communities and some from sh.itjust.works
25 daysI’m made of fourth dimensional hyperstrings, so I don’t have another choice.
- fizzle@quokk.auEnglish25 days
“More popular” is the wrong objective.
Focus on creative the best possible experience.
Better moderation, better content, better participation.
- 25 days
Invite people. But part of the whole lemmy appeal thing at least right now is that the userbase is small enough so your individual input is far more significant than on instagram or reddit.
The one downside with less people is less posts which means you can’t doomscroll on it forever. Wait did I say downside?
- 25 days
All the thing you say you like are because this is a much smaller place.
- 24 days
all the things you say you like are because there’s no commercial incentive to get people hooked through addictive behavior. which automatically increases the platform’s quality.
- 25 days
The front page is just VetOfTheSeas and everybody else lol.
The default Lemmy UI “front page” is posts that are “Active”. First, try setting it to “Scaled” and you’ll get much more variety of posts instead of just the ones with the most replies. You can set this as a setting each time you visit Lemmy, or edit your Lemmy profile so it defaults to “Scaled” all the time you visit.
Second, start cultivating Lemmy communities you like. “Subscribe” to communities and block the ones you don’t like. Your “front page” will have lots more content you like and far fewer of things you don’t care about.
Third, some poster are consistently too far away from from what I want to consume on the internet. You’ll know them when you see them where everything they post something you wish you didn’t have to see. Block these users and you won’t see their posts or their comments on other posts. None of these change affect what other people see so there’s not risk of harming others or censoring them for others. They are free to continue to be seen by whomever else doesn’t want to block them.
With these three changes I have found Lemmy to be a much more engaging place.
- shittydwarf@piefed.caEnglish25 days
It’s hard to say, it may not ever reach critical mass. A few power users have left over the last few years. It’ll just take more folks stepping up and being the shitposters that they want to see…
@vetoftheseas@discuss.online presumably (I hope you don’t mind I @'d you vet – I’d want to be were I being discussed)
okay, thanks. So posting general things. I guess I haven’t noticed… I mainly browse by New for variety.
I’ve heard this lack of content anxiety since 2023, have yet to see any evidence of it, while more and more content shows up by the second, and I have nearly all of the power users blocked.
