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It's time to take advantage of Reddit's decline
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Much the popular posts in lemmy are memes, shitpostings, or politics/technology news which we can easily obtain from other media. The way I see it, lemmy lacks experts, scientists, doctors etc that that can bring interest and credibility to the posts or threads. They can help generate quality contents, what lemmy lacks till now.
fr, the best part of reddit were the ultra talented people, storywriters, artists etc. Also don't forget the most popular post on reddit is "The senate" and a picture of palpatine
You're right that lemmy primarily needs content, and it doesn't have to be just credentialed experts. It will grow in appeal the more there are real communities discussing whatever their subject of interest is.
I moved to my own forum because the alternatives are:
For #2, Lemmy isn't polished enough, so I went with a traditional forum option that's been around for a while.
This is something lemdro.id focuses on as an instance but to technical content. Particularly the !android@lemdro.id community is ran by the same mod team as the r/android subreddit and what comes with that are the AMAs with industry experts, various authors of android content on XDA and more, and other various things. !android@lemdro.id is the premier source for Android news and technical content with the subreddit redirecting to there where reasonable