Give it time. People who are joining lemmy/kbin for the first time are incredibly interested in disussing this particular topic. I think by the end of July, we'll truly start to see this community take shape.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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This; keep in mind that Rexxit is still ongoing and there are a lot of new arrivals here. So it makes sense that the pain of departing Reddit as well as adjustment pains settling into the Fediverse will be a theme for a while. As people get used to the new way of things, I have no doubt these “meta” issues will naturally become stale.
All your posts are about Reddit. Be the change you want to see. I’ll be there to upvote it.
It's a fresh subject so people are still hyped around it. Plus it's drama, it's fun! I often joke that we're watching it burn and eating popcorn.
But even if you ignore it, there's a fair bit of activity in other communities. For example I've been posting somewhat often about food, linguistics, anime, manga, and stuff like this. (And even explaining what an "axion" was supposed to be, while seeing illegally smol cats in another comm.)
Stop using "All" "Hot/Active/Top" feeds and go search for actual content communities you want, by browsing the community lists, searching for your interests, or looking at new. Then just go to "Subscribed".
Mate we're all a bunch of overly excited kids with a cool new toy, once we're all here for a few weeks and the magic wears off these threads will die down, just give it time and let people have about their new toy
For me that is not necessarily the case. Over the last week or so, I have been using sites like Lemmy Explorer and Lemmy Community-Browser to find communities that have my interest. I have also been browsing 'all' using the 'new' sort option and have been finding many new interesting communities that way.
It's about subbing to anything in your wheel house and sorting by new. That's the only way it made since before the migration and still does. At some point it wont make much sense, but not quite yet.
You can always block the reddit-specific communities to remove them from your feed. At least temporarily, if nothing else.
Personally, I wanna hear about reddit, so I subbed to them, but I'm subbed to A LOT of other stuff too, so my feed is more than diverse enough for me.
Yup. I don't block anything, I just stick to my subscriptions, and there's plenty of content and discussion.
Okay, I'll call your bluff. I recently started a magazine called Old Games 4 Old Gamers. It's got everything to do with video games and nothing to do with the Reddit implosion. If you want original content on Kbin, it's a good place to start. (Also, I could use the hits.)
Just subbed/posted
Checking it out now!
You’re doing hero’s work!
So unsubscribe from these places that you don't find interesting, and sub to things you're interested in instead. Literally that simple.
- Search on lemmyverse.net etc
- If you're into any kind of crafting, check out my latest posts because I've made a megalist of creative communities to help people navigate
- If you're into anything gamedev related, check out the pinned post at [email protected] (Lemmy / Kbin) for another megalist of interesting stuff
Impossible. 50% of OP's posts are about Reddit, so it doesn't matter where they go.
Give it time, and be one of the people who contribute thoughtful posts on the topics you're interested in.
Try joining more niche communities: This stuff will be all over the general/meme comms for a while as reddit continues to melt down.
People seem to want a lot of things from the fediverse right now but the key to most of them is patience. The platform and userbase are both unstable. Lemmy and kbin are both unfinished software that need more time and effort, and/or more devs. There isn't any getting around that.
As for the users, there are a huge amount of new ones every day, most coming from reddit, and they want to talk about what is fresh and relevant to them. We won't be able to get off the topic of reddit until it stops sending migrators. Additionally, people aren't quite certain how to use this space yet, and haven't finished finding/setting up the communities they want. It is going to take time, possibly more so than the development of lemmy and kbin.
Honestly, just give it time. I'll stabilise eventually.
Yes, that's what happened with Mastodon too
You need to subscribe to some communities/magazines and contribute on them. Reddit news is getting upvoted the most because it matters to everyone on here, whereas content related to some niche community only matters to that niche community. There are already lots of great conversations happening in the fediverse of Lemmy and Kbin, they just can't compete with Reddit news for the front page.
the irony in this post
It's like rain on your wedding day
A free ride, when you're already late.
Or some good advice, that you just can't take.
I've been trying my best to make Non Reddit Related content here and commenting on Non Reddit Related, do your part. Post a Non Reddit Related Meme, Comment on Non Reddit Related Posts. Do your part
Also trying to do my part by posting / commenting when I normally would've written something then deleted my comments.. this is good motivation to participate :)
I relate to what you wrote. And I will refrain from deleting this comment.
I mean... if you just escaped from an authoritarian regime in a mass exodus, you're probably gonna be exchanging stories about that for a while.
Although I agree with the general sentiment of other comments that are okay with the meta commentary, I do think that it is important for the federalized platforms to build up as much useful and search engine friendly content as possible during this influx of users. Although it doesn't hurt the efforts to do so, necessarily, the meta commentary probably doesn't help.
If the fediverse is to become a replacement for reddit, truly, then rather than simply sharing image macros and commenting about the expatriation, you should find a genuine community and contribute to it in real ways.
In a way this is the opposite of what you're asking, but this is kind of the reason I set up https://lemmit.online - To allow people to get quality content like [email protected] automatically onto Lemmy.
Anyone can request subs to be synced, and admittedly, not all of those requests make sense, since it doesn't sync comments. But the goal is to bootstrap content creation / combat people returning to reddit because they miss content there.
I agree with most others discussing here - give it time and people will talk about something else. It's just fresh on everybody's mind. I already see content in my feeds shifting to be primarily about other stuff. Yes a lot of meta discussion, but less so than yesterday or the day before. There's that one guy who needed to stop pooping for 3 days straight for instance (and that was fucking hilarious).
Yeah I mean, it's all still going to be relevant (the Reddit stuff) at least until after the end of the month.
I guess it really depends on what communities you're looking for and whether they already have a decent presence on Lemmy. I am subbed to some gaming and FOSS-centric communities and they've generally felt pretty solid in terms of content so overall I am content, but there's definitely some subreddits like /r/criticalrole that I wish had decent alternatives on Lemmy. There is one, but it's small at the moment.
The dust just needs to settle. Imagine an actual physical migration had just occurred. Chances are people will be talking a lot about that before a new and unique culture emerges, but give it time and we'll find our way.
goto Magazines and subscribe to some high population zines that focus on something else, then goto your settings and make your home page show subs by default.
Hop on over to my magazine, Characterforge and get the discussions + postings going with me :)
I'm super eager for others to respond to some initial posts I've kicked on [email protected]. Come on by! 👋
I can't. It looks like my instance isn't federated with kbin.social or something.
There are a lot of instances with a lot of content. Maybe you just haven't found what you're looking for.
Mastodon was like that for a while. Most of my feed was non-stop rants about "the birdsite" for months. While there's still plenty of that, it's mostly moved on to other things. I suspect the same will eventually happen with kbin/lemmy. Might be a while though, since there's still plenty of people still migrating over, and it makes sense they would want to talk about it.
I'm sure there were countless posts just like this days after the digg migration to Reddit. Most people here right now are still interested in what's happening at Reddit. As that fades, so too will these posts.
Think of it as kindling for a fire. It's not going to fuel the platform long term but it's probably appealing to a lot of folks right now. Hopefully it will spur engagement which will then spread to other more interesting and sustainable topics.
Great analogy. It ain't much but it's all we've got right now.
Communities take time to form. Right now we are pretty much one big community of reddit migrants. As we gain numbers and spend more time together, the content will emerge.
I agree. I think I'm just gonna leave Lemmy and come back in a few months. This is almost entirely just a platform where people went to shit on reddit.
Keep looking around. I see lots of non Lemmy or Reddit content.
You gotta follow good magazines (subreddits on kbin) and upvote/boost the posts you like, i have a lot of memes and news on my front page, you gotta train the algorythm
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