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[-] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 12 points 1 month ago

Not enough people for even slightly niche communities. Wanna talk about smash brothers ? 732 people, only 2 posts in the last month.

This is why people still use reddit on the side.

[-] bampop@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

This is exactly why I don't use Reddit on the side. When I run out of content on Lemmy, there's no choice but to do something productive instead. Had to go 100% cold turkey on Reddit to make that work though.

[-] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago

Summer was not meant for being productive.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Exactly. I have a 1.5 hour daily time limit on Voyager, my Lemmy client, and I hit it every day, no problem. I do miss some of the niche subs but, every time I go back to ask a quick question, so many people are just so goddamned mean that I'm still very happy I left.

[-] bampop@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah the community is 1000% better and healthier, I don't miss Reddit at all. Plus I'm a child of the 70s, I grew up with limited content. It's good for you.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Every time my kids say they’re bored I tell them that being bored is a useful skill.

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

slightly niche

Sports is like the most mainstream of interests, and lemmy still doesn't have a critical mass of sports discussion in general, much less specific sports/leagues, specific teams, specific games/matches, or specific players.

So I keep my reddit sports account.

I also keep an account for my local city subreddit, and one for my career field, because Lemmy doesn't have those either.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

I'm the main poster on !football@sopuli.xyz. Most popular post on the planet.

I guess people on Lemmy just don't like sports.

[-] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago

I'll subscribe, since it's about the real kind of football (the one that's played with your feet, and a ball. Not an egg, and your hands)

I've been trying to get into sports. Always enjoyed parricipating sports, never tried watching.

[-] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Hell even !music@lemmy.world (as far as I can tell, the biggest one on the platform) only has like 10k subs, like a dozen posts today, and basically all of the posts were people just advertising music. Zero discussion.

Even for things i would think are big, the communities here are still vanishingly small. I joined reddit in like 2014 and even back then it was more popular than Lemmy is now

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