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)
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)