Unpopular Opinion

Im thinking there will be another wave of users when the major 3rd party apps are ready. In the meantime, I am frustrated in the fact like my 4 favorite niche apps have like ghost towns for communities. That includes one that has like 2.4 million followers on Reddit.

I mean if there are so many tech people here why isn't there more discussion for instance in an Android Apps community on Lemmy?

It is understandable but also lemmy is so new you can't expect the number of community and user as reddit

I'm missing some of the subreddits I used to frequent.

yeah me too, \ I hope this place grow big enough so we can have the lemmy communites for the niche subreddit for example I'm was /r/stocks on reddit and thier is stocks community here, but for somethign like /r/daytrading or /r/pennystocks or /r/AMD_Stock are not avalible here, but hopefully by time thier will be simillar communities here

I think your assessment is spot on. I find a lot of such individuals, if not worse, in various posts. While I encourage redditors to migrate here, when they get here and see shit like what you describe, it's no surprise if they go back.

What you're experiencing I think is completely normal. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Reddit is mainstream, and Lemmy is not. Hypothetically, you might find, say, your plumber on Reddit, who casually browses in down time. The most normal user probably just uses a browser or the normal app; they may have very little or no knowledge about the reddit blackouts, what's happening, and why.

Maybe some users were using third party apps and know what happened, but if they don't care much about the reasons they might just stop using Reddit or settle with the native app. This category of users and the last are all probably making up a large part of the user base in general, and of the non-tech (normal?) Subreddits in particular.

The users who migrated to Lemmy by this point will be pretty much a reversal of Reddit's dynamic. The majority will be privacy/tech minded and have moved specifically in protest to Reddit's corporate/capitalist practices. They are here hoping to disrupt the norm and prove that we don't require a centralized power system to run social media.

Then there are probably a minority of users who are simply curious because they heard about an alternative and wanted to see what this is all about. A lot of these users probably don't stick around if they don't see the kind of stuff they want to see.

Out of any groups, only a small portion will provide content, and a slightly larger portion will take part in discussion. Memes are the easiest content to produce and to consume, so that's probably why they're so prevalent.

Personally I enjoy the conversation around privacy, FOSS, etc, but I do truly hope we'll start to see more of the normal communities develop here. Particularly I miss some of the creative writing communities which I know for sure haven't really transferred off of Reddit by this point.

The only thing I thought Reddit was for the last 5 or so years was shitposts and memes. Which is pretty much the same here atm. Maybe in time, it will be like the reddit I joined 10-11 years ago, and have genuinely good, unique content that isn't a shitpost or low-effort meme.

I know the niches are the key, but here's my problem: The things I am into aren't niche anymore. They used to be... But they are ever increasing into the mainstream, so the conversation (or lack thereof really) is the same in every space. 😩

I circumvent the endless discussion about the platform by just sorting by Hot under "All". I'm totally with you though, there are some seriously insufferable people who meta-post about Lemmy crowding the front page. I just want to ignore that and see how it goes. If I don't like Threads or whatever, I can just move instances to one that blocks them. No big deal. I'm just trying to get my fix of conetct and connect with people.

Just go ahead and block them if you want. I block a lot of the accounts that repost news articles that talk about Reddit’s latest shenanigans. I don’t care, I deleted my reddit account, our relationship is over.

I deleted my Account as soon as I learnt that Apollo would no longer work. I did continue to lurk on some subs until they wall went NSFW and I couldn't access them in a browser any more, but I was getting more into Lemmy and Mastodon, so I didn't really mind.

There is still one subreddit that I do miss; I had noticed some Astroturfing from commercial interests in the months leading upto the API price change, but I had just blocked those users and moved onto real user content.

I try to access it every few days to lurk, but it is always inaccessible without logging in.

I did manage to get into it this morning for a few minutes (Mods must have been doing some spring cleaning) and noticed that the content that I previously enjoyed was no longer being published. It was full of Astroturf, Ads and an occasional uninteresting post.

Yeah, I missed Digg when I switched to Reddit back in 2011. It took a few years before I got comfortable there. I assume the same will happen here on Lemmy.

Reddit (overall and subreddit) culture and discourse always had an ebb and flow to it. Any off feelings about however you're accessing the Fediverse are both fair and not unlike the Reddit experience to begin with.

Completely agree. I really don't care about defederation stuff. If there was a big alternative to reddit with more content and users than here but was federated I would go there.

I'm sorry, but what was even the point of this post? What have you accomplished by coming here and then complaining about the content here?

It seems like the root of the problem is that you're not really clear on why you're here in the first place. A lot of us are here because we're sick of corporate social media. For those of us that this applies to, we have seen what Reddit has done, we have seen what Meta has done, and we have decided we have had enough. Seems like you kinda just came here because of Reddit's API changes, and have not done any thinking about the broader trends this is indicative of with regards to the way tech companies operate and destroy friendly communities on the Internet like these. To me, they have shown that they see this group of users as a business opportunity and money they are missing out on, and they will do everything in their power to take advantage of it.

If you have so much faith in these companies that you are even ambivalent about them following you to the Fediverse, what are you doing here, in an environment that was created to escape them? You've literally heard from former artists whose dreams and livelihoods were destroyed by Meta changing its algorithms, and you want to see what Meta brings to the Fediverse? Can you not see why we, who moved here to escape Meta, Reddit, and tech companies, would be annoyed and frustrated by that? I see you apologizing for that user's loss, but are you really sorry if you're chill with bringing those things back into the one refuge we have left?

Please just figure your shit out. If you don't like memes, you can block meme communities. If it's too much, you can go back to Reddit or Meta. Lick their boots and pretend they have a motive of anything but profit, and will do anything but attempt to poach users from harmless, open source projects like these and destroy them. I don't care. But complaining about a platform to users on that platform accomplishes nothing. And for the love of Lemmy, don't be surprised that people are angry when you maintain the facade of keeping an open mind to something that has destroyed so much for so many. In my opinion, you may as well be a part of them, because the attitude of indifference you display toward these companies is what enables them to destroy good things for the rest of us.

find the communities you like.