in reddit ALL on old.reddit you can filter all the subs you dont wan to see.

Happy cake day!

Just timeouts, slrpnk isn't alone many lemmy instances have issues with loads. While writing the following list I had to wait about 5 seconds for a page load and often refresh or wait a long time for images to load. Users won't do this.

Let's go through the list:

1. Low effort image screenshot from user track_shovel, 3 comments
2. news from major news outlet nytimes, user silence7, 3 comments
3. Link to a pdf download about "ai" (presumably llms) sucking, user foxymochakitten, 2 comment
4. news from major news outlet, user Haraldvonblauzahn, 64 comments
5. news from niche news site, user schizoidman, 0 comments
6. news from major news outlet, user silence7, 11 comments
7. news from major news outlet, user schizoidman, 0 comments
8. Low effort image screenshot from user track_shovel, 2 comments
9. A video link about finding cheap hardware for hosting, user prodigal frog, 14 comments
10. news specific to a small area of the world, user silence7, 4 comments
11. A contextless photograph of a plant and a lament about the lack thereof, user durian, 2 comments
12. post about some very specific product, user xcel, 1 comment
13. A not topical film on youtube, user cm0002, 0 comments
14. A photo of food not bombs, user prodigalfrog, 0 comments
15. news from major news outlet, user silence7, 0 comments
16. link to a youtube video about a new kind of powerplant, user povoq, 7 comments
17. A photo of a river, user jacobcoffinwrites, 2 comments
18. A video link about no lawns, user greatwhitebuffalo41, 4 comments
19. A post about foraging nettles, user korhaka, 3 comments

Many of these posts are hours or days old, niche, and all the news has probably already been seen by a potential new user.

This doesn't look like a place someone could jump in or post their own stuff, it looks like a place that people post news and nobody reacts to it.

I don't know how to do better but a lot of lemmy looks like this. Just reposts from other more popular social media sites and US news (often sad).

I like slrpnk, after the reddit flood it was one of the most chill places on lemmy with a lot of exposure to niche news/hobbies/resources. The problems aren't unique to slrpnk, but you've gotta understand why when seeing something like that and already worried about technical burden a user is just going to bounce off because it looks like a worse reddit.

To maybe be more constructive something you might want to consider is fostering people sharing stuff communally. Lemmy will never beat reddit at being reddit and a lot of reddit is awful anyway.

Something vegantheoryclub used to do was a chat thread each week with a topic to discuss and to just share what's going on or talk in an unstructured way. You could consider something weekly to support community formation, something that makes someone go "oh! this is why you start using lemmy. This is what you can't get on reddit!"

I keep saying that Lemmy needs normies for longevity,

Because if there's anything the left should learn from the past 60 years, it's to cater more to the normies...

Just timeouts, slrpnk isn’t alone many lemmy instances have issues with loads. While writing the following list I had to wait about 5 seconds for a page load and often refresh or wait a long time for images to load. Users won’t do this.

I'm not experiencing that, personally. When I visit slrpnk it loads pretty much instantly, and I don't have to wait for images to load at all, they appear as I scroll. I haven't experienced any timeouts. You are currently the only person who has reported any sort of issue along those lines, and without more information it will be difficult to diagnose.

Is this occurring from visiting the page on a desktop browser? I have had issues with comments or images not displaying without a refresh when using the Summit app, but regular browsers and every other app I've tried has worked as expected.

There was a bug in older versions of Lemmy that would cause a browser to cache potentially gigabytes of data, causing the site to slow to a crawl. Does performance improve if you delete all data/cookies associated with slrpnk from your browser?

Many of these posts are hours or days old, niche,

The default sort is Active, those old posts are still getting comments, otherwise they wouldn't show up as active. If sorting by New, only the very last post on the front page is over 24h old. However, much of the appeal of reddit was the comments, so I don't think switching to New being the default would be ideal, since newer posts tend to have less comments.

and all the news has probably already been seen by a potential new user.

Can't say I agree with that assessment. Many people are not chronically online or already have good news sources for the topics posted about on slrpnk.

If you feel that the type of content posted on slrpnk isn't appealing, then there's not much I can say against that, as that is your subjective feeling. However, I think your own bias against the content posted there, such as news, may be leading you to conclude that it won't appeal to anyone else.

Even during its best days, Reddit was still ultimately a link aggregator with a forum attached below with most of it being news, and some smaller communities having more of a focus on original content, just as slrpnk does.

We create a pinned community discussion thread each month, and invite our users to participate in the comments with any ideas, happenings in their lives, introductions, etc. We consider it, and call it, the instance's town square.

The moderator of our writing community also creates a monthly discussion inviting people to discuss the projects they've been working on.

I wouldn't be opposed to more of our moderators creating monthly or weekly threads in their communities, it's a good suggestion.

I don't even remember how I started browsing reddit, and later on participate. But I do know that somewhere down the line I subscribe to subreddots that I like and don't ever browse all. So on my third attempt in Lemmy, I did the same thing I'm used to on reddit, and use piefed instead. Can't stress enough piefed is really the concrete of my foundation staying here. The topics really do make it a bit less stale

OOP still has a good point about being the only poster of smaller less active comms though. I do sometimes comment but yeah I am not a really poster.

This is a solution piefed offers. They have curated topics

Just pick any of the piefed based instances. I love their on boarding, at least in piefed.social

Choose topics you want and/or like, choose terms you want blocked, and off to the races to further trim and curate.

Might I offer you an egg trying piefed instances in these trying times?

Sorry for assuming but if you don't know Lemmy is just but one way to wrangle together the fediverse into a link aggregator style website. Piefed is another one.

What I like about piefed, and what made me stick, is the on boarding for new users. At least in the flagship instance, piefed.social, new users, up front, would have the option to choose topics you'd like to see, terms you'd like to block and then you'll have a curated feed ready to go. And at least in piefed.social they keep updating the topics. I'll say that in comparison, topics is llike multireddits. You can use the instance's topics, and can make more yourself. IIRC. It works in lieu of the algorithm reddit has. Practically for me it is the algorithm for me.

Also don't hesitate blocking communities and users. I just started blasting anything I am not interested into my block list.

Edit: another tip. I find using "Hot (Scaled)" sorting will bump up the smaller, lesser active comms' posts more in your feed. Whether that be All, Local or Subscribed.

I mean, he's not too far off. Lemmy is not big enough to support the same amount of communities as reddit does. Right now Lemmy can support tabletop RPG but not world building

The way I've done it is instead of blocks I just heavily curate my subscriptions, have /Subscribed as default and almost never browse /All. The politics and news are all there if I want them, but my main experience is free of them.

It does require some effort to build your subscriptions, though.

It's just a problem of critical mass. Niche communities are, well... niche. They appeal to only a small subset of the population. For them to be populated enough to be active, the overall user count needs to massively grow. But sometimes it feels like that's not what people on here want. I mean, even in this very thread there are people saying they don't want "normies" here.

Fair in many respects but also I think he may be unaware of the ideologies that go unchallenged and invisibly by in his "non political" communities. Sorry we're woke and notice things??

... if you dare suggest that Linux may not be the right choice for your blind grandmother, you get eviscerated in the comments.

Stopped reading here, this is just the view of someone who isn't used to being in a community that treats windows as the few facto choice.

He isn't wrong, but you also need to block/filter out the tankie instances.

Also there is a lot of trans persons content. I didn't see thr OP mention that.

Find a Lemmy instance that heavily moderates political speech, then. That may be hard to find since Lemmy is full of people who expressed their political opinions on reddit and were banned.

The people coming here after the third party API shutdown, I'm sorry, but you made a political protest. You are doing the politics. If you don't like what Reddit is doing as a company, you are engaging in politics. You need to stop expressing your personal opinions and views for Reddit if you want to claim political apathy. Otherwise, you are engaging in political speech, and that's "bad" apparently, so stop it!

Seems right, except I don't think that it's mostly people who were banned from Reddit.

There's too few users here to keep the niche communities alive. That's why only politics gets discussed, because that's something affecting everyone regardless of interest.

We also don't have a lot of original content.
Neither did Reddit originally, but they managed to get a massive userbase through the AMA subreddit giving users the possibility to ask celebrities questions. This often got picked up by the tabloid news which spread the word of it's existence.
It turned out that their AMAs was basically a one person job anyway. I don't think they've done anything remotely useful since that to justify their userbase.

Anyway. I kind of like the slower pace here. I went to Reddit the other day after years of hiatus. I don't know why anyone would want to sign up for that site anymore. Everything there seems to drown in advertising and generic shit. Even if Lemmy should shut down for some reason, I would not go back to the garbage piles on Reddit.

I use a local instance and I think they do a good job of facilitating debate and local insights on local news. I suppose that's the main purpose of this kind of forum. All the other larger and more international instances are just entertainment to me. I could get by just fine without seeing another Trump meme ever again. Unless it's really funny.

I'm pretty sure Lemmy does have potential to use these communities better. It's a lot of clever people.
I think if anyone can and wants to make more original content with Lemmy as a base, just for the sake of it, they should just go ahead do it. The admins and mods are too busy running the sites, so we shouldn't expect them to it.

Understandably, artists probably want a larger market exposure for a start, but other kinds of projects might be suitable. I remember someone have tried making a group for game development on Reddit several times. It always fails, because they're too big and not committed. I also participated in a sub for random users writing on the same book. That was mildly succesful, and a lot easier to do.
Stuff like that might make sense to try.

Lemmy is split into four categories across two criteria:

Whether they're banned or not from Reddit, and of they still want to be on Reddit or not.

Yeah, and it encourages self-censoring too, on top of the punishing effect of downvotes.

It's frustrating because I really like the readable structure of Reddit-style platforms and find stuff that follows the Twitter model chaotic and disorganized. The classic forum style is fair, but it's also hard to keep up with high activity threads unless you spend time to read the whole thing in chronological order. I don't know what the ideal setup would look like.

I've heard the name before, but unfortunately I never really used those forums back in the day. If it's still going, I might have to check it out.

I really want to see federated, non-corporate social media succeed.

Even on reddit, it's known that 90% of users were lurkers, and only 10% ever commented or posted, it just didn't seem like that since there were am order of magnitude more users. But even then, some communities were propped up by just a handful of consistent posters.

The 10% figure is much more noticeable here since we only have 50k monthly users here on Lemmy/piefed.

My dude, I couldn't do any of those things on Windows or MacOS either. It is not a skill I have any faith I could even remotely pull off, even if the software was perfect and fantastic.

Feels like part of the problem is exemplified here though, someone mentions Linux and you replied with a novella about why you can't use it. Yes, there are going to be people recommending Linux here, but it is a generalization to the masses. Not every comment about Linux is an attack against you personally.

My main gripe here is the .ml people. It's not that they believe in that system it's that they refuse to have any conversation where they don't hamfist it into the conversation and paint every other system as unfiltered intentional evil while completely excusing any critism of their chosen systems and government. Also the bot sock and alt brigades that seem to exclusively come from those comms.

The Anne Frank quote. Doesn't it disprove the OPs point? If Anne Frank had spent a lot of time writing about her favorite fictional rock orbiting Pluto whose name was Jeremy the Rock, that would be a political topic like all other things in her diary because after she wrote that diary she was checks notes murdered for her ethnicity. The only children's diaries that necessarily aren't political are the ones we never read and the ones not penned by murder victims. Like you bitch about Lemmy culture all you want but you're the one who brought up a murder victim's last words, which are THE symbol of banal hatred of the innocent that people use to teach the tragedy of the Holocaust, BECAUSE what was written there was so completely innocent.

I guess I forgot how much redditors think, but never think about Anne Frank.

With the most recent influx of Redditors coming here, I’ve found the overall view be of Lemmy is more hostile now. They’re making it a shit place to be.

I do like the keyword blocking on PieFed, just wish that they had a sort of volume knob instead of an all or nothing solution (for the whole of blocking).

E: clarity

I don't think it's just a matter of Redditors coming over. I mean three years ago I and many others were the Reddit users coming over.

I do agree that when I see a new Lemmy user say they just arrived after being banned from Reddit... I do wonder if it was Reddit being stupid, or was the user an actual asshole.

I also don't think this is a new problem. I think some people view Lemmy as an exclusive "cool" club. But it's not exclusive. That's not the idea. It's a series of non-exclusive clubs that also cool.

A few years ago, i was a redditor fleeing that community as well, but it wasn’t because I was banned. I simply didn’t agree with the policies there.

I’ve only noticed the recent influx being so hostile. My theory is the ones who didn’t have the foresight to leave when Reddit started getting shitty (several years ago) are now only here because they’re getting banned or censored. That brings in a whole new level of toxicity.