While I miss some hobby subreddits like blender. I lowkey get more inspo off ig, didn't realize how many artists never post or get posted to Reddit. It's a bubble that feels like it has everything. Also seeing other people's work is oddly demotivating and I end up just scrolling/commenting more than I end up doing anything. Applies to any hobby really. I get all the dopamine of discussing stuff and imagining myself doing it, end up not doing it.

League of Comic Geeks replaced the comics sub for me, I wish it had a feed that wasn't just time based tho. (only shows recent posts) Reddit was better for getting reccomendations.

maybe try surf.social

I think most of the lemmy apps will work right away without logging in.

If I may add, I'd also suggest picking a more generalist instance to have access to a broader range of posts, like lemmy.zip, lemmy.world (yours), or using other softwares, kbin.earth and piefed.social.

Media outlets usually have RSS feeds, so you could send these feeds to @birb@rss-parrot.net so it generates a bot for tracking each feed.

I thought kbin closed?

we need a larger userbase, and more niche communities. I try and sub to every new one I see that I'm interested in

what kind of promotion could you put on a sticker or poster? you could put those up around town

I had my first reddit account for 10 years, then went through them every few months to dumb bans. it provides users a natural quitting point and makes gathering data on someone harder, which seem to go against their interests but I saw that's a good thing. let them run it into the ground.

I've thought of making a reddit account specifically to find stuff to repost here, but I haven't gotten around to it. what's a good way to go about doing that?

defederating with spam instances and hand approving new accounts is how I'd do it. we have years of lessons from email spam we can apply. I suspect that we should start working on this now while there isn't much of a problem

No, no pushing. If they come here, read it and like it, they'll stay.

We're open, you don't need accounts. (unlike all of those google searches that are worth shit now.)

If they don't, let them move on to bsky or threads or whereever they want.

Dunno its history, but Kbin.earth is Kbin in name only, at least nowadays. The instance is powered by the engine's currently maintened fork, Mbin.

one look at modern capitalism makes people want an alternative system

I've long suspected these companies were doing this, but now it's overt

their AI moderation is terrible now, and it's ruining the website.

spreading the word is good, but those platforms censor us explicitly so it's of limited value. we need alternative ways

I would like lemmy if it were more active

You are the activity.

Most frictionless places to push for I think would be in sites like linktr.ee and in the bio of services that aren't direct competitors. Though also of minimal benefit if you're not a public figure (journalist, artist, developer, someone actively posting whatever, etc.)

I'm leaving any platform that tries this without a second thought. Already left discord. Left reddit and joined here with the account requirement (even though I have an account, just hate the principle).

Oh I agree, late stage capitalism sucks. Hard.

AFAIK the key to discovery of content you want in Mastodon is to follow specific hashtags, then follow any accounts that you find interesting from there. There are definitely major network effects on Mastodon. Maybe check #news to see if it might be a good starting point for you.

What is this 'reddit' you're talking about? /j

Maybe to dye something red? Like "you red it"? 🤭

Thank you for taking the time to salt the earth before leaving. It is important to cause as much headache as possible for the moderators over there while sunsetting an account. I never really contributed anything on reddit so the bridge I burned was via the report button. It felt like hurling turds into a cesspit for someone else to deal with until I got banned. A turd too far.

It's not even about moderation, I couldn't care less about the mods. It was reddit that wanted me to manually click 'delete' button on every single one of my 10k comments from last 13 years, each individually - which is just massively disrespectful. So I used a bot. Free version of the bot was editing into gibberish, paid version offered full deletion. I couldn't care less, just used free version and watched the mayhem. They're free to ban me, report me to admins for breaking ToS, whatever. It would be actually funny if they banned a deleted acocunt.

One of the last straws of disrespect was reddit demanding age verification for me to look at my own post history. It's enshitification all the way.

I’m not really a question poster though, I’m a question answerer. I think most people are like me, which is why tiny communities (but non-zero) don’t have any discussions: there aren’t enough question posters, just a lot of question answerers waiting around like kids at the school dance.

I would much rather more people enjoy it than us just keeping it to ourselves. I believe, if done properly, it has a decent amount to offer for the average user. The fediverse has the major advantage of being decentralized and open source, and I believe that should be accessible to everyone, not just the fanatics (like me, admittedly) who are ready to wade knee deep through technical details and differences in communities, some of them quite toxic.

But OK "we'll just keep it as is", we keep the fediverse for us. Yay?

Here's the problem with that: it then remains a niche. What happens to niches in technology? Well, there are a number of examples that I specifically would like the Fediverse not to follow.

Carrying around a replacement battery was never something most people did. They didn't generally replace their batteries, either. That was a niche thing. At some point, manufacturers started sealing their phones shut. After all, it was only a niche that needed replaceable batteries, so it didn't affect many people. So we lost a part of our right to repair.

Rooting your phone was never something a majority of people did. Look what is happening to people who root their phones (read: want admin rights on devices they bought and fucking paid for): they lose their warranties, they lose their ability to use banking apps without complex workarounds that don't always work, in some cases their hardware doesn't work properly. Because rooting is seen as a niche thing, "it doesn't affect that many people, so no need to worry". So we lost those rights. And we're about to lose the right to install whatever apps we fucking chose.

What's on the horizon? Age restrictions. Something major platforms may whine about a bit, but can implement just fine - they already don't really care about your privacy anyway, and if there are fines, generally they're small enough to just be a line item. The smaller platforms? The operators of lemmy.world? The operator of kbin.earth, my home instance? I highly doubt that they have anywhere near what's needed for that. But the fediverse is only a niche thing, so it doesn't affect that many people. Oh, shit, that's us now.

Maybe a good middle ground would be to make posts answering questions others might have but that weren't asked yet?

Yeah, as you suspected, I wasn't familiar with that term and wrongly assumed it was about Threads. My bad.

Thanks for the clarification.

It’s wild Reddit doesn’t have a hard deletion of UGC under GDPR rights. If they have a OneTrust portal etc I would love to use it

Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.

It appears this has become the tried & tested means of choice to minimize pushback. Users frogs in slowly boiling water.

I want a simple and easy to use interface, like rif.

I also used to use RIF. Have you tried Boost for Lemmy? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy&hl=en_US

PieFed definitely has better onboarding

maybe https://lemmit.online/

when you search for a community, make sure you're searching "All" communities instead of just "Local" communities

this one already exists !pottery@lemmy.world

yay for public Mod Log, underrated feature

THANK YOU! I did look but I don't understand the fediverse at all. The instances are confusing. Like I joined discuss.online but is that the same as lemmy? Idk I think Reddit has so many users because it's easy and clear to use

I joined discuss.online but is that the same as lemmy?

yes that's a part of Lemmy, that's all you need

I don’t understand the fediverse at all. The instances are confusing.

It's kinda like email. Think of it like you're on Gmail, I'm on Yahoo Mail, and the pottery community is on MSN. We can all talk to each other because we do like @mangobanana@gmail.com (in reality you're at discuss.online) and @die4ever@yahoo.com (I'm at retrolemmy.com). Usernames start with an @ like Twitter, community names start with an !

So when you do a "Local" search you only see stuff from "Gmail" like yourself, but usually you want to search "All" not "Local".

For viewing posts on my feed I prefer "Subscribed", this can be set as your default in your settings page.

have you tried an app on your phone? they can be a bit simpler to use than the website https://join-lemmy.org/apps

here's another community that might help !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

Reddit is turning into orange Facebook at this point.

God I hope the fediverse gets bigger than it is now

I don't want to be mean but Reddit has a fuckload of really niche and weird interests and hobbies that I happen to be in that lemmy just doesn't have.

God I hope the fediverse gets bigger than it is now

Haven't checked your post history so saying that generically, but hope must be accompanied by action. So to those that have the same feeling, I invite to look for ways they can help.

I'm using the brave app, and thank you so much! So far I've been able to create a question on one of the groups! Yay!

If they are still on Reddit, then they fucking deserve the enshittification.

I don't see your post. I think in Brave you would have to click to expand the Sidebar in order to make a post

for a phone I would better suggest Boost, Connect, or Summit

https://join-lemmy.org/apps

Start posting then buddy

I'm convinced that at least some of the Aussie subreddits have a lot of "contributions" from lobbyists. As, I quite often see things that don't seem Australian.. Like a lot of weird pro-gun stuff that in Australia we don't have in our culture.

I'd rather not have them here.

I don't understand how anyone can be an unpaid mod on that site now. Don't they see articles and headlines about stock prices and shit and wonder why aren't they getting a cut?

Doesn't even need to be niche. There are no active major sports communities, much less local teams, which is about the only pleasure I get from browsing that place anymore through Redlib instances. Among others, BSky built cachet from sports journalists adopting the platform. Attracting a core of these otherwise apolitical mainstream interests may be necessary to kick start the network effect.

Aside, I would say it's ironically the more peculiar cultures I've hung around that never had Reddit or Discord supplant their surviving forums and chat servers that are doing the best these days in consistent quality engagement. While I think the post and threaded comment format inherited from Digg is adequate for news and current events, I hope slower-paced subs seeking to migrate seriously consider if they'd be better served by a different kind of service too.