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It's a bit of a mixed bag, and the real thing is that there are other people who want to talk about it here. Trust me, I run a Taylor Swift community here, and it is an uphill battle - but it's worth it because there are people who care and enjoy the community.

If you're up for it, choose one or two communities and then nurture them. When reddit imploded 2 years ago we came over and we had a ton of people open hundreds of communities and then abandon them, people just opened them left and right and then expected a large audience the next day. Instead expect it to follow the 90-9-1 rule. Out of a hundred people, 90 of them will lurk and never participate. 9 will comment, and one will post. You will need to be the one to post for a while - but it will grow over time.

Take care of the communities, let them know you're here to stay, and that it's a place where you can chat about it. We're a lot of nerds here, but nerds can also like football, there's [email protected] that is usually pretty quiet but obviously people subscribed to it.

And if you're a swiftie make sure to stop by [email protected]

I'm of multiple minds on it, but the short of it is, I don't feel out of the pop culture loop, I know I'm out of it being around here.

On one hand I don't mind that, as I'm frustrated by pop culture essentially being mass market culture. It's not typically something that arises from people interacting and creating together from shared passions, it's produced and pushed by big businesses. Nothing novel about this observation or frustration, but it's a vibe I resonate with.

On the other I know if ever you want people to shift into a popular culture produced in the alternative manner mentioned, you gotta accept the transitional situation of entertaining the mass market culture alongside what you're trying to cultivate. It's too jarring for many to switch over entirely, and frankly there's not enough contemporary non-commercial culture to keep people's interest to justify any attempts at a complete switch.

So in a way, yeah, but also I'm more bummed that it's so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.

Gonna be honest, pop culture is the thing about Reddit I miss the least. I couldn't care less what drama some rich people are getting into, unless that drama is their yachts being sunk by killer whales.

I hear you. I could go on about how pop culture is lame etc and not really answer your question but I think, the more the merrier. If I'm not interested in the Lakers, I can ignore it and scroll past it. Easy. It would be nice for people who want to discuss the Lakers to have a place to discuss the Lakers, though.

Honestly this place is starting to piss me off a little bit sometimes. Because it's like the users here actually want 'All' to just be politics all the time and for there to be no variety to anything. You can talk about missing features from Reddit and think of ideas to make this place a little better and you'll get responses like "No. Why would anyone want more features? I know that I don't have to personally use them if I don't like them but I prefer pretending it's 1998, so no one can have them. And why would we want more users? I like empty communities with no activity. And then complaining about empty communities with no activity."

So I dunno. It's gonna be interesting to see if this place actually grows or if it just stagnates. I'm right there with you though. I'd be more than happy to see pop and sports and things I'm not really interested in because then there's a bigger chance of things that I am actually interested in taking off here.

I’ve been way out of pop culture loop even before I started using Lemmy.

Yes and I love it

Personally I'm longing for more discussion about ideas and less about events and definitely less about people.

Even when I was still on Reddit, I needed a friend to explain to me that Funko Pops don't do anything - you just have them.

So really I think it's just me.

I mean, post the content and people will come? I think a lot of people would have commented on these things if they saw the thread

DAE is what? I know, but i need reminding.

I think this is a problem with the Fediverse in general.

Search Kendrick Lamar on BlueSky and it's filled with people celebrating it, breaking down different aspects of the show, and making memes. Search the same on Mastodon and you get news articles about the show and the occasional personal post. A majority of the posts have 0 engagement on most of the posts.

I feel it, but to me it's kind of positive.

Like, I can belong to a social group without being bombarded with nonsense that is just noise meant to distract.

It's the same kind of liberation and control I felt when switching to Linux (since you mentioned it) - one decision, and the entirety of Windows drama is no longer relevant to me. I'm part of a much smaller, much more concentrated group of real people, in a sort of blissful silence to which I only admit the information and people I find worth my attention.

No. I make my own pop culture.

Yes and I love it.

I made a community for survival horror games because I like them and like talking about it. Build it and they will come. Make a community to talk about things you like and those with similar interests will join.

Ooooh, we do need a Eurovision community if we don't have one already.

Edit: there's one at [email protected]. I'll see you there!

Nah I'm with you on this. I have this weird set of interests that align me well with Lemmy, but also as a dirtbag couch goblin who binges reality TV like my life depends on it. I feel like Lemmy can get a little uh... holier than thou about it and I don't feel like I have any trashy echo chambers anymore. I miss Instagram reality and all the snark subs tbh.

'there is no posts related to my interests' 'go to domains specific to your interests!' domain specific to your interests: last post is a reddit screenshot from 3 months ago, 0 comments

Anything black/“urban” generally gets heavily downvoted on Lemmy. Haven’t figured out why. With all the other heavy virtue signaling you’d think it would also be pushed.

It’s one of the many things that aggravates me about my experience here. I went back to Reddit after over a year of only spending it here.

It has gotten better though.

Go on asklemmy and ask what people think of the situation. Go on casualconversation and talk about your opinions.

Not really. I find that most "pop culture" still gets talked about, it just doesn't get pushed into everyone's face by an algorithm.

If I drift away from my subscribed feed and look at the all feed, it doesn't take long for something or another about pop culture to pop up. And then if I'm interested, I go to the particular community that's talking about it and subscribe. The more I do that, the more interests start to show up in my subscribed feed.

For the most part, these communities all exist, there's just no algorithm saying "hey...you'll probably like this". And so you have to find them yourself.

Only when it comes to hearing about new games. For all the people I see in random non-game threads that mention games or get game references, there's next to no activity in the game-related communities.

That's one of the reasons I use Lemmy. I see links to major news stories, those I'm likely to care about and nothing else news related. I think there are celebrity news and sports communities. I'd also be surprised if there isn't a Eurovision community out there. But if the things you've described are "pop culture" then seemingly I have no interest in it.

I just bought an hd antenna for free over the air channels. It's apparent the elderly are whom those channels cater to. There is layers of pop culture and you connect to the layer you want to connect with.

Yes, although a lot of current pop culture stuff is so vapid, commercialized, and unstimulating that I could not care less about it.

I’d like a good place to keep up with and search for local events, follow local businesses, and discuss hobbies and lesser known series but without being beholden to a corrupt billionaire who owns the social medium and without rewarding bigotry and mis/dis/malinformation with advertising revenue. I’ve found a couple of Discord servers that only partially fill some of these niches. Some of these problems can be resolved by growing Lemmy communities around certain topics, but I don’t think most social media/marketing managers would publicize on media with relatively few eyeballs.

Does anybody have a plug-in or a web function that can, for example, transfer a company’s Facebook page’s post history offsite? Also looking for a good live feed of events in an area? (I tried Eventbrite once but I got scammed with the refund denied)

I’ve been thinking today about how the mainstream means of mass communication and organization have been taken by corporations and grifters who manipulate them to algorithmically reward ignorance and bigotry, and how these social functions need to be seized back for effective and lasting progress to be made. Education is next on the chopping block.

We did have a Luka to the Lakers over on [email protected]

Just saying.

I’m exclusively on the fediverse, I don’t feel disconnected from pop culture at all. There is a lot of politics and meta discussion, I’ll give you that

You can always create posts in appropriate communities to start conversations on topics you're interested in. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

I don't care much for most pop culture stuff and get enough by happenstance from other sources/people.