let's cut the "Reddit" circle jerk and start actually making content
let's cut the "Reddit" circle jerk and start actually making content
Not that it is not interesting but I would like just a tad more variety on the front page.
Edit btw for those who are wondering the two communities I started are https://lemmy.world/c/newmusic and https://kbin.social/m/musicfeedback/microblog (not sure if I have the links correct for people)
Be the change you wish to see in the world
I have , amazingly I decided to start two communities, something I have never done before despite the fact I had a 12 year badge and thousands of karma at the other place.
Can you create communities outside your own server? My account is hosted on feddit.nl, but that doesn't seem like the right fit for an international community
Then post some interesting content. Posts like this aren't helpful
I just posted a cat hunting it's own tail here. I'm doing my part!
Well they are encouraging to a degree but please next one of "these" maybe next week? Meta complaints are really drag if they're repeated over and over again.
completely unrelated to your comment but fez pfp! nice game
Thanks :D my favorite game
I wanna post a meme but my instance has issues with image uploads :(
I'd consider switching instances... but you can also just upload images elsewhere to a filehost with direct linking! I like Catbox.
They are, though. They’re encouraging and reflect a sentiment other can relate to.
They’re strange to me as well. Some of the communities I’ve subscribed to have already started being active. It’s very encouraging.
I feel like we all just went through a breakup and all we can do is talk about our ex. We know it's stupid, and we found someone else. But for right now, we are rebounding hard on Lemmy.
Seriously, couldn't have said if better myself.
Voat was great at the beginning until it became a right wing cesspool. But 90% of the posts were about Reddit and circle jerking about how Reddit was so bad. I'm blocking posts/communities that talk about Reddit here to help clean it up.
I remember the first time I visited voat and the top post of the entire site was memorializing Hitler. I wonder why that website doesn't exist anymore...
Eh, let people get it out of their system. It's gonna be that way for the next month or so anyway since there will be a new influx of users in July when the 3PAs stop working.
This is why I posted, I really think we need to concentrate on unique content now so when the next influx comes we not all naval gazing
But I'm a boring lurker
Here's the thing, for this to work out we need the long game. Doesn't matter if you're boring, you know about at least one topic you care about. Make an effort to post once a day about it. You may even have to create the community for you to do that. Pace yourself, this is a marathon, not a sprint. Just remember this can't be taken away from us. Not anymore.
+1
+1
Shameless self promotion:
I've made Lemmy Scare You! https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyscareyou as an alternative to Nosleep, and Now Lemmy Explain https://lemmy.world/c/nowlemmyexplain as an alternative to ELI5. Hopefully I can make them better than the old places, and I would love if you could start contributing contents there.
Other shameless self promotion: Go watch my movies.
Great names!
Thank you! Now here's hope that I can make them great places for everyone.
I appreciate those puns
And I appreciate you too!
Hope lemmy scare you blows up. I used to read no sleep every night before sleeping.
Edit: I'd suggest changing the name of the community to just "Lemmy Scare You". Right now it's also showing spooky stories to scare you in the title name. Also a cover art for the community would make it look more active and might result in more subs
I'll AI some art for the community banner, really want to get the feeling of people telling scary stories to each other around a campfire vibe down.
I'm worried that changing the name to just "Lemmy Scare You!" could make it less clear about the purpose of the community as a place for creative writing, since it's not ideal for people to post whatever a la r/creepy.
Yeah, totally agree with this post, grew tired of Reddit Circle Jerk. Its like when someone cant move on with their past, so they bring it to every conversation, how their ex (Reddit) used to be, and found a new lover (Lemmy/Kbin) and how things work great with this new relationship
Let's just forget about Reddit. Reddit can do whatever it want's, the user that still on Reddit can also do whatever they want. Lets just focus on growing this new communities, this Fediverse, and do what we can do to make it thrive, and how to make it better for new user, and the less tech savy one
Sure, but "the past" as you refer to it was not even a week ago, and the situation is still actively unfolding.
Communities are growing, OC is being posted, and the lemmyverse is starting to get its legs underneath it. If you look past the reddit related posts you will see this happening all around you.
However most of us haven't even been here a week, communities aren't built overnight. Reddit has 15 years of people creating content and building out subreddits.
However most of us haven’t even been here a week, communities aren’t built overnight. Reddit has 15 years of people creating content and building out subreddits.
I couldn't agree more with your reply. What I'm saying is, lets focus on this new journey. Reddit do have their hiccups when first generally used by its user 15 years ago, and i believe Reddit start just like how Lemmy/Kbin, or any Fediverse app start. Its a bumpy road, but its a good progress
The fact that we interact in this post means that we have the same goal, we enjoy interacting on this platform, and its a good thing. because new users can see that there's activity, there's interaction within Lemmy.
Sorry for bad English :D
Part of the problem may be the bugs on the Lemmy instances which have not been showing "hot" content correctly. This may be giving a false impression of an obsession over reddit as posts are stuck on the front page?
I've been browsing a few different communities and am finding things are active, they're just not reaching the default Lemmy front pages. Sorting by new or diving deeper into communities shows a lot of new content.
For example I'm currently browsing from Feddit.uk and this seems to have exploded into an active community in just a week; it's really heartening to seen. I've also seen different content when viewing from Kbin based instances like Kbin.Social or Fedia.io (including from Lemmy.world).
This bug has been identified and is resolved in the next version release.
The servers that have been keeping hot updated are manually restarting the backend every so often to unstick the bug
We are making content.....we're just also talking about reddit sometimes. Sort by All.
I've sorted by all (and local), but posts are the same as yesterday. I'm not sure if it's Jerboa or I'm doing something wrong, I'm still trying to get my head around the multiple instances thing.
As opposed to Reddit, Relay still works and I still see content despite unsubbing from many groups that are rioting (one can only see that many John Oliver photos).
Just feels like Lemmy isn't as vibrant as Reddit yet. Here's hoping.
I’m tired of the Reddit and fed drama. Ready to move on.
I posted some boobs. I contributed.
I too want to see Tom cruise's boobs.
If the community gets 1000 followers I'll post my bewbs. -TC
Of cause you did Tom.
I'm gonna post mine. Hope you all flat mantits
I have no idea what that means but I love how it sounds
In the jailbait community you moderate? Bad Tom cruise bad
That's "operating thetan" to you.
Pamela's?
I think in terms of link aggregation, there is going to be a fair amount of duplication necessary to get a critical mass of links/content here, that people can interact with. After all, 1% post, 9% comment, 90% lurk.
I'm not suggesting we automate it, but in order to kickstart some communities I'm certainly going to be copying links from some good subs on reddit (if they're open) over here. After all they're just links to other articles/media/etc, they're not exclusive to reddit.
It would be good if everyone who comes over here and subscribes to some communities sees that there are posts going on there. It only takes a couple or a few active people to make a buzz.
This is a sound plan, even if it is only temporary till we hit that critical mass
Posts like this are just adding to the reddit circle jerk, you know. Don't post shit like this, just post the content you're talking about.
"Can you guys just start posting the content I like, please?"
I don't like all the reddit posts either but sheesh
I mean, I feel him to a degree. Since Lemmy isn't quite as big new posts are harder to come by
A much better method is to make a post explaining and encouraging how to contributing to the fediverse. That was what got me posting, someone said something to the effect of "if you really want to see the fediverse thrive, then start adding content to the fediverse!"
It’s a very fresh topic and still ongoing so of course it’s being talked about. Eventually it will die down then go away. The stuff we don’t need is posts like this.
Yep, having a bunch of front page posts complaining (not trying to put it harshly) about the content just makes it look like the problem is worse to outsiders and doesn't help perceptions. Let people talk about what they want, but vote accordingly and people will get tired of talking about reddit as less and less people engage with those posts. This post being here is causing more reddit-related engagement. Upvote the kind of content you want to see and it'll rise up higher, becoming more visible and creating a virtuous cycle of positive engagement.
Likewise, my only time spent on reddit is to upvote reddit drama discussion. Doing so will help push people who are "just tired of the drama and want to post" to find the fediverse a more enticing place to participate in.
Also, it's relevant to a lot of the userbase. Like, this is relevant to something that just personally impacted the majority of the userbase here -- it's gonna probably be of interest.
I do agree with the idea that it's good to get more content up, though. Go find a couple interesting things a day and submit them. I have!
There are also some people at the BotIt magazine on kbin.social working on setting up a bot to mirror Reddit subreddit submissions to kbin magazines, which might help ease disruption for some subreddits.
Yes who is gonna post the first AskMen about;
"What is the sexiest sex you ever sexed?"
Edit;
For people interested in Fragrances, I did my part and gonna start to post more often;https://kbin.social/m/Fragrance/t/44344/What-is-your-favorite-summer-fragrance-Or-do-you-have
Suggestions are welcome!
I'm in support of this. I was explaining to my wife just a bit ago that most of the "content" on lemmy and kbin is all about lemmy and kbin, and very little about anything else. For those of us coming from reddit, most of the content on reddit isn't about reddit. I'd like it if lemmy and kbin was mostly original content.
c/piracy and c/sysadmin are already posting actual content
Tbh, all the subs are posting content. It's just lemmy.world is for the discussion of the server not the c/subscriptions
OP: complains about reddit circle jerk posts by creating a reddit circle jerk post
You know the rule, gotta go meta before you can be betta.
Classic reddit circle jerk complaint ... a user complaining about circle jerking, by creating a circle jerk and a third party pointing out the circle jerk
If you want to post about your poor performance in a 3 year old Switch game you are welcome to join my community crappyanimalcrossing.
You son of a bitch, I'm in
Fuck Steve Huffman
Happy to get away from collapsing the first 10 comment threads to get to good reading.
I've been trying to post content on all niche subreddits I used to lurk in. I basically get the non-reddit links and useful resources and start sharing them here.
Joe Biden is here.
Wakeeeee uuupp
How's the weather in Washington?
Rainy, probably.
Joe Byron, take me out to dinner.
BING BONG
SODAAAA
Can't rush the jerk, gotta let it play out naturally.
right? sometimes you just need a slow jerk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLldxRi_FUc&themeRefresh=1
Risky click
The jerk would be a lot easier if we had some lube
As long as I can jerk I don't care about the shape. Circle, square, rhombus, you name it, I'm in.
LoL
"I have no code of ethics, I will jerk anyone, anywhere. Children, animals, old people, doesn't matter. I just love jerkin'."
I'm with you. I've been posting Q/A thread in /c/chat and a few memes as I come across them. I've also been participating in some pretty interesting threads around here
What is this chat you’re talking about?
I was always a commenter and a voter, not a poster. But I’ve decided I’m gonna to make an effort to post in communities that I have interests in. Gardening, food interests, photography, hiking, current events, travel, video games, finance/investing, etc. It’s not something I’m used to doing. And it’s gonna take some effort at first, but I’d rather start a new habit here than go back to that other place.
This is what I am talking about let's get making content, I have a feeling that the best minds have been removed from Reddit, or at least I would like to think that 🤔
I just posted a hot take about solar power on my sublemmy, how about you comment?
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/127188
Sorry if that link doesn’t let you comment but I haven’t figured out how to generate a universal link without creating a crosspost
Just checked, it doesn't look like that sublemmy is federated with this one. I need to create yet another account to comment there.
That's not how any of this works...
Communities (as you put, sublemmy) can't be individually federated, only instances can be. And needing another account is a sign that you are looking at a post on the wrong instance, not a sign that an instance is not federated. In fact, finding out an instance is not federated can be pretty difficult unless you check the list of instances that are defederated on another instance.
That's not a universal link, so you ended up on a different instance. A much simpler and easy explanation than what you came up with.
How are you drawing that conclusion? According to the page listing federated instances they are federated. If you can't find the post on your local instance, then you can just take the link to the post and put it in the search function on your instance.
Edit: Here's the post on your instance: https://lemmy.world/post/238576
This might be a good opportunity for You to join new promising communities
I'd like to complain about reddit for at least another month, thank you.
All my yes! We have loved, we have lost, we have mourned, it's time to move on. Trying to rebuild a broken window in the way it was before is pointless, but we can pick up the pieces, dust them off, and build something new together!
Oh have we mourned, let's build build build 😀
Lemmy = Minecraft 2??????🤔🤔🤔
I'm definitely in support of "mega-threading" anything related to the Reddit blackout unless it's big breaking news (but mega-thread those events too).
I've also started to look for communities for some of my interests, but I suspect it's going to take a while before a lot of them spread to here. There are also a bunch that I can't really start since I am primarily a consumer and not a producer (specialized topics like astrophysics that I am not a subject matter expert for).
I've been toying with the idea of starting a physics (astrophysics welcome) community over at https://normalcity.life/(my home lemmy instance) for physics academics. I'd love a community like that because it's my everyday life. Does that sound interesting? Not sure if others would be interested.
Edit: home instance clarification
Sure, I love physics
try [email protected]; [email protected] [email protected] (disclaimer -- I mod that one, but will happily accept Astrophysics content -- I did planetary science in grad school, and the American Geophysical Union has a lot of overlap, so might as well eh)
You should create it anyways! Unless there's a community that already exists on an instance you are okay with accessing, I say make the community and people will decide for themselves if they'd like to join.
@phil299 You realize that the only way through this is to talk about it right? It’s like breaking up with someone you are with for years then they just f up and try to forgive them but it’s too late
LOL
Yeah. It's like when people tell me I just gotta move on after my ex called out of the blue and said stuff so mean, I had to block her number.
I try not to obsess about it. But (in our analogy) it was only a week ago. I'm still going through the stages of grief.
It's a bit different when the person you broke up with got addicted to crack, went on a bender, is living on the streets, whoring themselves out to whoever to get their next hit and doesn't want to change even after you tell them that they really, really need help ... yet you still look at them and think, it's ok, she'll change? right? she used to be very hot, super sexy, great sex ... all the time! ... and she still likes you and she still looks kind of good ... maybe if I just talk to her or help with getting crack, she'll change and be ok again. right?
I think it's a combination of it being a fresh breakup, and also being something you would normally see on the front page anyways, because it's a huge event worthy of being there.
We can do both :) .
Been uploading pics of my cats, a few old memes I have that made me laugh again, and even one of my old car. Believe me, some of us are trying!
Reddit blackout was all I saw until I clicked “Communities” at the top and subscribed to my interests. Now there’s lots of other stuff too.
the same thing happened with Mastodon for a while after Elon took over Twitter, lots of people posting Twitter news and talking about what has happening on Twitter. might be best to just wait it out 🤷♀️
Yeah the internet is abuzz with Spez's antics, don't expect that to die down for a while. If they follow through with the deadline it will be even worse.
Still we can add other stuff, maybe drown out the roar a bit. Can always use more communities, I have some good ones now, but I still need a couple I'm lacking.
Things are more like they are now, than they have ever been before.
wow
- Steven Wright
i agree. when people come here well have a better chance of getting them to stay if theres good content. but a little would still be good since theyre coming here angry at reddit most likely.
Even in new everything is reddit this, reddit that, lets stop.
But don't stop on reddit. That's where the annoying megaphones ought to be.
this is a good point imo
Fuck yes
The biggest issue with most Reddit-like websites is that the general user-base tends to talk a lot about Reddit and why they hate it.
The issue with lack of content is the 90-9-1 rule. I’m planning to actually start posting to this website soon just to start more discussions and topics. Post anything and everything; it’s how a site like this grows.
Your right IMO
hell yeah, but how does one make a sub-lemmy? I've been wanting to make one but not too sure how! also, I don't know how to mod or anything lol. can I appoint people to do it?
Are you on an app or the website? Just click on "create a community" and do it - I started Maliciouscompliance.
The issue is with getting content. If you start a new one you should be prepared to post stuff for a few days, even if nobody responds.
Note that not every instance allows non-admin users to make new communities. If yours doesn’t can find one that does, or I think many will make them by request.
you first
So that Spez guy I tell ya...
I‘m doing my part! (trying to build a bass related community). Come join a place to talk about the best instrument in the world.
There is also SNOOcalypse dedicated for people who want to vent about Reddit.
Trying to browse Lemmy and 1 of 3 posts is about Reddit, and none of them are on [email protected] or [email protected]
Lemmy for now is just a circlejerk about Reddit.Made some posts about reddit on those communities and other news on others, but I see Reddit posts everywhere from c/tech to c/lennyworld, mods should review their rules and start redirecting posts
I think it's just the natural progression of things. It will die down probably by mid July after the changes have been made. I'm sure this also happened on reddit after the migration from Digg.
You know, I'd always read that as snoopocalyspe and now that I see it's snoocalypse I think they really should have done it the other way, snoocalypse just sounds like some kind botanical species name.
"Ba da-da da-da da, it's the mothalurkin' S-P E-Z! Snoo-snoo, motha fucka" to "I'll see myself out" in 3-2-1...
I run a nice London community at the feddit.uk instance, while it's not front page material I highly suggest just finding communities that fill your niche and subscribing to those. The Reddit stuff will die down when this place starts to establish it's own identity but for now lets now start from bottom and work our way up to a unique community then just being Reddit for those who don't like Reddit.
I am not in London (US actually) but maybe you would know if there's a Premier League or Football community to subscribe too. The two things I miss from Reddit are Premier League news and a subreddit for a particular game I play.
It'll get better over time as things settle in. Right now reddit is just the hottest topic on the block
Nice meta commentary
I've been doing my part and posting content I'm interested in. I hope more people do and that this site picks up.
I have always been just a lurker on reddit, here I'm trying to learn as fast as I can and upvoting more than I normally do. I guess I can start also by posting my favorite content from reddit to lemmy in respective communities as a start
well i am making a point to not go to reddit anymore so i'm glad people post here about what's happening during the blackout etc here so i can see it.
the "perfectlycutmeows" community is working here and a couple other instances, as well as a magazine on kbin.social and a channel on dalek.zone, so you can count me in and you can search for it yourself
I think the drama will continue and we'll see an uptick after July 1st when the third party apps dies. But this too shall pass. Just give it some time.
I'm interested in the new music community! I'm terrible at branching out. Thanks for making something I didn't know I wanted.
Come on, the Reddit drama is juicy AF to talk about. It's why I'm here. Don't gatekeep bro.
Not mine but I really like [email protected].
I post media reviews on my sublemmy :D [email protected]
Preach!
Well said. Thank you.
Already have more posts and comments than my 12 year reddit history. I'm trying my best to adapt and survive.
I’ve been content creating like crazy. I’d really like some of these hobby and interest communities to take off. I’m actually trying to hold back in some places so the community isn’t just saturated by posts from me.
Both is good
I am actually trying to find more of it! I love burn corposhit style drama. Its a bit all over the place though so i can see why its annoying. Maybe i should start my own community..
Yeah I agree, Lemmy needs to be it’s own thing and not just a Reddit hate platform. But so far the experience has been great.
I am! We are!
(Just- make sure to subscribe to more places. There are a ton of communities spread around on various instances)
That's good to know👍
Go subscribe to some communities you like, show subscribed, profit.
This is the way!
If you’ve got any puzzling items around, post them to What is this thing? for us to work on. New content is very welcome!
Sub-ed thanks
Im having the opposite problem - when I sort by top of day I get a really fast scroll I cant keep up with.
After you!
Do we already have a list of subreddit replacements on lemmy, kbin etc. somewhere?
Yes, give me a moment and I'll link it
Edit: Here it is, this is an explorer for Lemmy: https://lemmyverse.net/
No, I think it kind of goes against what we're trying to do here - if a list like that became popular, it would supercharge the growth of certain communities
There's a lot of people pushing for that because it would make the site a straight Reddit replacement, but the promise here is a lot like the original promise of Reddit - give users a single place they can go to access a bunch of small forums
If someone makes a community for that purpose or a community wants to draw in all the Reddit refugees, I have no problem with that, but I think the growth would be healthier if people find them organically rather than putting a centralized list somewhere
Sites will start to pull in a community if any of the members on that instance sub to it and there's talk of adding the ability for communities to band together in multis
This doesn't really help but I think yes. I think I saw it scrolling Lemmy a few days ago but I can't remember anything else.
I personally am using Lemmy to discover a new community
i copy pasted musicfeedback into .world but couldn't find it. I'm subscribed to it on kbin though. both c/ look good bro, thanks!
Yep, not sure what's up with music feedback, it was created on kbin and I think I have accessed kbin from lemmy without needing two different accounts but ATM I need to be logged into kbin to access it any help appreciated
Lemmy know if this works for ya: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
I'm doing my best to post in small communities of interest to me. Growth will take time though.
Does anyone know how long it takes to create sign up to the lemmy.ml instance? It seems impossible right now.
lemmy.ml is constantly overloaded. They are asking that people sign up on other instances. If you want to see content from lemmy.ml, just subscribe using your lemmy.world account. However note that even the federation of content from that server is spotty, as the server is regularly getting hammered.
The lemmy.ml instance is run by the developers of Lemmy, who are currently heads down laser-focused on the upcoming 0.18 release which makes a number of large changes to improve performance for all instances.
Luckily there are a large number of instances , and I hope that will also grow now the "place that shall not be named" exodus has begun, I think the greater numbers and variety will improve the gene pool so to speak I sort of hope that really large reddit subs might start there own instances.
Afaik they have currently suspended new signups
Thanks for the feedback. Seems impossible to sign for the instance.
Shameless community promotion: https://lemmy.world/c/general
If you're not sure if your post will fit in another community's niche, and it's not really a shitpost (see: https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyshitpost for that!), General Discussion's got ya covered.
I'm here trying to learn how this service operates, and am finding a few bugs that make it more challenging than it probably should be. Some things, like trying to post musings or my own miscilaneous content "to myself" (that is, it would be part of my own page that can be viewed, but not part of a particular community) just gives me a spinning wheel indefinitely. If nothing else, better feedback from the UI would greatly help.
We need to be POSTING!!!!
Yes please! The biggest downside to these places are that they won't shut up about reddit. There is almost no interesting content just post after post of people talking about reddit.
It's quite possible that a lot of these posts aren't the same ones, but new faces just coming from Reddit and venting. If you're over the discussion then move on the next topic in the feed. Most of the Reddit posts usually are in Reddit-specific communities like m/RedditMigration. Block them and you'll see less stuff.
THIS Good point although I am seeing reddit posts in almost all communities (except the two I mod )
You probably just need to subscribe to more interesting stuff tbh, your feed is what you make it.
meh, I don't mind it. Add the content you want to add. Scroll on past the content you don't want to read. It's not a big deal.
i actually find the whole thing fascinating, which is why i post about it. if it wasnt reddit, i probably would have posted on reddit about it.
irony noun iro·ny ˈī-rə-nē plural ironies
1 a: The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
I started a new community for my open source project: https://lemmy.ml/c/osintbuddy
I know everyone’s contribution will be worth while and extra enjoyable
Want more interesting content? Post it!
Who said he isn't posting? What can a single person or a minority of users can do to make a lively web application?
Thanks
yea thats why i was hesitant of using this thing yet lmfao you just now a lot of the discourse will be about how reddit sucks for a while
I like the music feedback idea! How do I add this to our Instance? Thought [email protected] would work but it didn’t
For searching Kbin magazines from Lemmy I've seen some people say they had success with the format @[email protected]. However I've only ever got it to work by searching for the full actual URL of the magazine. YMMV.
Yep bit of a problem ATM, I made two accounts one kbin one lemmy world and made communities in both , I was able to see kbin from a lemmy instance but not now for some reason any help appreciated 🙏
why all these upvotes? This post is on top of my posts since yesterday.
Read the thread if you have not , some really good ideas and recommendations here IMO
Not sure if it will get any front page traction, but I've already gone out of my way to write some (hopefully good) posts about my favourite NAS technology, unRAID ( https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] ). I have a number of other information and problem solving posts I'll migate over from reddit before I delete my content there.
No experience with unraid so I can't really contribute on that front, but I applaud you for contributing on the topic!
Sub=ed and and will check out soon, thanks
