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Hey fam, I’m another Reddit refugee. I heard Lemmy is what Reddit was back in the day. Sad to see Reddit go to hell.
The Voyager iOS App makes it feel like I never left.
Reddit refuge here.
I do miss all the niche subreddits. As the saying goes, “there’s a subreddit for everything.”
But I think with time, Lemmy can grow to fill that gap.
You gotta Field of Dreams it. I’m doing it for LV426/the Aliens universe. Just treat it like you’re starting a forum or a newsletter and, hopefully in time, others will contribute and it’ll grow organically.
You're right
it's time for me to post the weird porn
Thank you for your service.
I'm unzipped and waiting, bud
Username checks out?
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Where is the LV426 community?
I mostly contribute here, mostly.
(edit: changed it to a relative link instead of a permalink so you can subscribe from other instances)
Thanks. I’m in!
!lv426@lemmy.world
I'm trying to figure that out but I I have to make my own server? Or is it a sub on lemmy.world? There definitely a learning curve
You don’t have to make your own server (unless you really want to!). Just start a community on a server you like.
The one catch is that others can start a community of the same name and/or interest on another server and that gets a little confusing because then there are two, of course.
I wish that communities could “federate” with each other from different instances but then that raises a bunch of logistics issues about how this is moderated, how is this presented to the users, etc.
In my case I'm just posting a lot to already-created communities found in the Lemmy directory that've got a chunk of subscribers.
If you're going to start your own community for your own interest, I'd advise at least setting up on an already-populated Lemmy server (which you would have to be registered on) so it gets listed in the local directory.
If you're going to host the Lemmy server and your community, I have no experience on that front/I would imagine there's a lot of SEO and self-promotion you'd have to do to get it off the ground.
Yeah I've been on Lemmy maybe 2 years or so now? I find myself going back for the subreddits of my interest. But I will try to start posting here more.
Ultimately I believe in the fediverse despite all of its growing pains.
It'll take awhile to grow those niche communities.
I have no doubt we will!
While we still doesn't have all kinds of active niche communities over here, it is incredible how much the community has grown since I first came here. And that's not really all that long ago.
Thanks for joining us! :)
These days I go 50/50 on Reddit and Lemmy. I know it’s a chicken and egg problem for content, but hopefully 50% usage is enough to change things over time.
Same. Is your name related to the youtube channel?
Nope
I ported !engineeringmemes@lemmy.world. Because of its limited volume, it's barely an effort to moderate.
Just start the communities you want to see :)
I mod lemmy.ml/c/antitrust and we need more people contributing!
Be the change you want to see! Start up your own niche community!