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Seeing a lot of cake icons lately (meaning it's been a year you have been here, which makes sense if you got here during the Reddit API changes), so happy Lemmyversary to most of you! (dormi.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by Servais@dormi.zone to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

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[-] lud@lemm.ee -2 points 5 months ago

Hell no. It's embarrassing as fuck to recommend Lemmy to anyone you know. It's still fairly shit imo.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one 3 points 5 months ago

I wouldn't say "shit" but rather niche. Most people who would love a Reddit-like place have Reddit and don't hate it enough to switch, especially since we don't have extensive hobby communities with long history.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah "shit" is somewhat of an exaggeration.

My problems with Lemmy are mainly:

Few users
Few communities
Few posts
Few comments
Extremely focused on just a couple of topics like Linux, Communism, Star Trek, LGBTQ (nothing against Linux or LGBTQ though) variation is desperately needed
Extremely filter bubbly.

[-] Servais@dormi.zone 1 points 5 months ago

variation is desperately needed

I blocked most of those topics, then other stuff starts to appear

[-] businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

i am curious: since those topics make up such a large portion of the content i see on lemmy, do you find that you get a good number of posts to look through without them? i mostly browse all and find i can get through just about everything i'm interested in clicking on in like 30 minutes per day.

maybe it is just a symptom of how i browse the internet and my semi-niche interests, but i find the non-linux hobby communities here to be rather lacking. i know the solution is to post to them myself and i try to, but frankly i don't have that much to post about. it also takes some willpower to keep posting to a 10 person community and get maybe a couple comments every few posts if i'm lucky, but that also could be that my posts aren't very interesting lol