One thing I find satisfying is noticing how much more intelligent people are here than on reddit. It speaks volumes regarding the types of people who get permabanned from [insert any scathing adjectives of your choice] Reddit.

There are serious discusions, you just have to find them. Mostly news and technology articles, but there could be more.

You can't be the change when the change is "we need more people"

This is why people are saying you're implying.

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And I stand corrected on my earlier

According to google /r/jailbait was, by definitin, porn

I do think most people thin of porn d overt sexual content though.

It was definitely easily misread though, I agree with that. Even though you didn't have to go to /r/all.

This is why people as misreading you.

"It wan't" is not super clear. If you said "it wasn't popular" people would understand you better.

I'm confused by what you're even getting at here.

Pretty sure I replied to the wrong comment ahhaha

Yes, we are the baddies, from Reddit 's pov anyway. We will burn down their corporate greed and glass towers! And we shall so it from points that nice desk chair!

The thing is it's super hard to start a niche community due to a fundamental issue with federation. Which instance do you start the community in, and how do people find it?

With reddit you just needed /r/[obscurehobby]. In lemmy you need to check all the instances, and you may find a different versions of the community, but all of them are dead with like 2 posts from 8 months ago because they never got the critical mass needed to catch on because the community was split.

One problem with tankies though is that they basically are right-wingers, just on the left, i.e. they are in form if not content.

And then both sides of that extremist divide drives away the 80% or so in the middle somewhere, leaving the platform empty due to the "Nazi bar effect" (you may choose to ignore the actual Nazis as you sit in your own little corner in a bar, but how can you invite your friends, especially Jewish ones, to come to such?)

Purity testing will continue until morale improves (i.e. short sighted thinking does not realize that certain modes of treating especially newcomers to a place will effectively kill it off, eventually leaving solely the "pure" remaining - except nobody is truly pure so realistically it will leave almost nobody).

There are many true leftist places here on the Threadiverse btw including slrpnk.net and dbzero. And there, I just did purity testing myself:-), although due to the Intolerance Paradox this must be done in order for any type of community to be made.

https://piefed.social/communities

Piefed search is your answer. You can filter by activity. It also has feeds too that are topic themed.

I'd actually argue its way easier now to start new communities on the Fediverse than Reddit, for a variety of reasons.

I do enjoy that Lemmy has been going so strong, it's been a very long while since I've heard this.

Just wish MelbourneTrains was active over here

I've looked over the fence. Very sad people aren't posting here! And there's many posts a day there!

Be the change you want.

I am, the 2 most recent posts in the last 7 months are me!

Genuinely curious, theoretically how valuable would a once and done service install of a private open source machine learning model on your local network that can do that skimming functionality be for you? A private box thats setup and just works? Is that even something people would want?

There are great discussions here.

The problem is that we have too few users, so most topics you'd want to discuss aren't going to have existing thriving communities to chat with you. All of Lemmy put together is dwarfed by single reddit communities. for niche topics.

I'm not complaining, because the barriers to entry and lack of popular awareness keeps the user base here smarter and more interesting to talk to. But for the good of humanity I do think we need open tech like this to get widespread adoption, and it's going to take a long time. Reddit had almost two decades' head start.

And looking at a timeline, at this point in Reddit's history a few years in, the most popular subs with the early adopters were politics, programming, abe science. Sounds familiar, lol.

There is always safe reddit or one of its instances that Libredirect can automatically, well, redirect you to

I think they might be talking about the “atheist culture” that used to exist on reddit back during the New Atheist Movement. This might seem unnecessary but maybe we should distinguish between atheism and Atheism, since that’s usually what people are objecting to.

I agree with the criticism of the content, especially since we solved a lot of these problems on reddit years ago, but as I’ve said on here before, we need a critical mass in order to achieve the kind of platform we’re looking to replicate. If lemmy keeps growing, it might come. Acculturation might not be possible though.

I saw bluesky take off and get millions of users right away. Appearently they have 38 million users now.

I guess advertising works...