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I really want to like Lemmy
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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
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It's so weird to me that people are so spoiled today that they feel inconvenienced when there isn't limitless content in their niche fields of interest being served to them on a platter every single day.
Those of us who remember the before times can tell you that the absolute best of a platform comes before that point. I'm sure it's lovely getting your full every single second, but the best conversation, the best education, the best introspection comes when you're allowed a few minutes between stimuli to think.
I feel like "Old woman yells at cloud" but I really feel like our younger folks who crave endless, mindless interaction, don't know what they miss out on.
I can't blame them, because they've been conditioned to be consumers of content. While they idealize creators, they also put up barriers in their minds as the the level of quality a given comment, piece of content, whatever, needs to achieve before getting involved.
I try and think of Lemmy as the equivalent of the Linux. We're just going to have lower adoption because there isn't a corporate juggernaut behind us promoting this thing.
But if people really want to know why reddit was able to become reddit, it happened here yesterday with cats. It's bean memes. Its Stör. Its us developing culture of our own as a community.
So its fine. I'm not too worried. We're doing great.
I didn’t get a wall of voids and honestly, I feel a little left out lol.
Pardon me for wanting to have a place where I can discuss my hobbies, I guess.
You can still do that.
Start the conversation. That's what we all did, and where these communities got their start.
I've tried, believe me I've tried. Posting a bunch of threads out into the void doesn't suddenly manifest a like-minded community to reply to and engage with those threads. It won't truly be viable until there's a much larger userbase to begin with.
And honestly, it just comes across as patronizing to say the only reason my hobbies don't have traction here must be because I didn't try hard enough.
And how do you think that larger userbase is going to come into existence?
Not overnight, that's for sure. It's going to take a long time to ever get that kind of critical mass.
What I'm trying to get at is that people need to stay for a critical mass to be reached instead of going "there's nobody here" and leaving.
I'm here, not planning on leaving any time soon. But I'm also acknowledging that Lemmy can't fully be everything Reddit was, not without a Reddit-size userbase.