let's cut the "Reddit" circle jerk and start actually making content
3 years ago by Phil to c/lemmyworld
Not that it is not interesting but I would like just a tad more variety on the front page.
Edit btw for those who are wondering the two communities I started are https://lemmy.world/c/newmusic and https://kbin.social/m/musicfeedback/microblog (not sure if I have the links correct for people)
We don't talk about that other place
Yep, sometimes this is happening to me I just open another tab and often the circle spin is irrelevant and the post or whatever has already been created , seems to be a issue with the system.
It looks like there is already a community with the same name, but when I go there to subscribe, it says "removed by mod." maybe that's my issue. Because even when I try to open new tabs and navigate to the community I'm trying to create, it's not working.
What was happening for me is that there was already a community with the same name I was trying to create. But the creator was temporarily banned, so the community didn't show up when I searched for it. Maybe if you change the name, you might be able to create it.
I never posted on reddit...but luked for a very long time but I want this place to be better the reddit so bad and so....
I just posted a cat hunting it's own tail here. I'm doing my part!
Does stealing memes from discord servers and posting them here count? Asking for a friend....
Well they are encouraging to a degree but please next one of "these" maybe next week? Meta complaints are really drag if they're repeated over and over again.
completely unrelated to your comment but fez pfp! nice game
I wanna post a meme but my instance has issues with image uploads :(
Theyβre strange to me as well. Some of the communities Iβve subscribed to have already started being active. Itβs very encouraging.
I feel like we all just went through a breakup and all we can do is talk about our ex. We know it's stupid, and we found someone else. But for right now, we are rebounding hard on Lemmy.
Seriously, couldn't have said if better myself.
Voat was great at the beginning until it became a right wing cesspool. But 90% of the posts were about Reddit and circle jerking about how Reddit was so bad. I'm blocking posts/communities that talk about Reddit here to help clean it up.
Eh, let people get it out of their system. It's gonna be that way for the next month or so anyway since there will be a new influx of users in July when the 3PAs stop working.
Reddits success was due to the genuineness of conversations. You'd have celebs hop on and not their pr person and engage in meaningful conversation, you'd have amas from unexpected professions and give unknown details about it.
You'd have full rage comics that fit a certain mold and lolcat memes.
hey its me ur celebrity.
But I'm a boring lurker
@paciencia @dystop sounds like a net positive
Also it's not like I was some alt right biggot trolling. I just wanted to talk to other marxists and see how they understand the world. But apparently, all it takes is one tiny disagreement with a mod to get perma banned. I'm not gonna play yesman to some power tripping mod. Hope they enjoy their empty instance, their loss.
Here's the thing, for this to work out we need the long game. Doesn't matter if you're boring, you know about at least one topic you care about. Make an effort to post once a day about it. You may even have to create the community for you to do that. Pace yourself, this is a marathon, not a sprint. Just remember this can't be taken away from us. Not anymore.
Theoretically it still could be taken away. The bar for that is substantially raised of course, but now each instance is like different countries doing international trade and we could go to war with each other.
Do we get cool uniforms if we do though?
Shameless self promotion:
I've made Lemmy Scare You! https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyscareyou as an alternative to Nosleep, and Now Lemmy Explain https://lemmy.world/c/nowlemmyexplain as an alternative to ELI5. Hopefully I can make them better than the old places, and I would love if you could start contributing contents there.
Other shameless self promotion: Go watch my movies.
Thank you! Now here's hope that I can make them great places for everyone.
I appreciate those puns
And I appreciate you too!
Hope lemmy scare you blows up. I used to read no sleep every night before sleeping.
Edit: I'd suggest changing the name of the community to just "Lemmy Scare You". Right now it's also showing spooky stories to scare you in the title name. Also a cover art for the community would make it look more active and might result in more subs
I'll AI some art for the community banner, really want to get the feeling of people telling scary stories to each other around a campfire vibe down.
I'm worried that changing the name to just "Lemmy Scare You!" could make it less clear about the purpose of the community as a place for creative writing, since it's not ideal for people to post whatever a la r/creepy.
Yeah, totally agree with this post, grew tired of Reddit Circle Jerk. Its like when someone cant move on with their past, so they bring it to every conversation, how their ex (Reddit) used to be, and found a new lover (Lemmy/Kbin) and how things work great with this new relationship
Let's just forget about Reddit. Reddit can do whatever it want's, the user that still on Reddit can also do whatever they want. Lets just focus on growing this new communities, this Fediverse, and do what we can do to make it thrive, and how to make it better for new user, and the less tech savy one
Sure, but "the past" as you refer to it was not even a week ago, and the situation is still actively unfolding.
Communities are growing, OC is being posted, and the lemmyverse is starting to get its legs underneath it. If you look past the reddit related posts you will see this happening all around you.
However most of us haven't even been here a week, communities aren't built overnight. Reddit has 15 years of people creating content and building out subreddits.
However most of us havenβt even been here a week, communities arenβt built overnight. Reddit has 15 years of people creating content and building out subreddits.
I couldn't agree more with your reply. What I'm saying is, lets focus on this new journey. Reddit do have their hiccups when first generally used by its user 15 years ago, and i believe Reddit start just like how Lemmy/Kbin, or any Fediverse app start. Its a bumpy road, but its a good progress
The fact that we interact in this post means that we have the same goal, we enjoy interacting on this platform, and its a good thing. because new users can see that there's activity, there's interaction within Lemmy.
Sorry for bad English :D
Part of the problem may be the bugs on the Lemmy instances which have not been showing "hot" content correctly. This may be giving a false impression of an obsession over reddit as posts are stuck on the front page?
I've been browsing a few different communities and am finding things are active, they're just not reaching the default Lemmy front pages. Sorting by new or diving deeper into communities shows a lot of new content.
For example I'm currently browsing from Feddit.uk and this seems to have exploded into an active community in just a week; it's really heartening to seen. I've also seen different content when viewing from Kbin based instances like Kbin.Social or Fedia.io (including from Lemmy.world).
We are making content.....we're just also talking about reddit sometimes. Sort by All.
I've sorted by all (and local), but posts are the same as yesterday. I'm not sure if it's Jerboa or I'm doing something wrong, I'm still trying to get my head around the multiple instances thing.
As opposed to Reddit, Relay still works and I still see content despite unsubbing from many groups that are rioting (one can only see that many John Oliver photos).
Just feels like Lemmy isn't as vibrant as Reddit yet. Here's hoping.
Of cause you did Tom.
I'm gonna post mine. Hope you all flat mantits
I think in terms of link aggregation, there is going to be a fair amount of duplication necessary to get a critical mass of links/content here, that people can interact with. After all, 1% post, 9% comment, 90% lurk.
I'm not suggesting we automate it, but in order to kickstart some communities I'm certainly going to be copying links from some good subs on reddit (if they're open) over here. After all they're just links to other articles/media/etc, they're not exclusive to reddit.
It would be good if everyone who comes over here and subscribes to some communities sees that there are posts going on there. It only takes a couple or a few active people to make a buzz.
Iβm tired of the Reddit and fed drama. Ready to move on.
"Can you guys just start posting the content I like, please?"
I don't like all the reddit posts either but sheesh
I mean, I feel him to a degree. Since Lemmy isn't quite as big new posts are harder to come by
A much better method is to make a post explaining and encouraging how to contributing to the fediverse. That was what got me posting, someone said something to the effect of "if you really want to see the fediverse thrive, then start adding content to the fediverse!"
You are a human being. You have wishes, dreams, joys, anxieties, hopes, opinions, knowledge, and wisdom. You possess an inner child as well as a rich heart, an amazing mind, and everything in between that makes you, you.
You're qualified.
Itβs a very fresh topic and still ongoing so of course itβs being talked about. Eventually it will die down then go away. The stuff we donβt need is posts like this.
all for those sweet sweet kbin points
Yep, having a bunch of front page posts complaining (not trying to put it harshly) about the content just makes it look like the problem is worse to outsiders and doesn't help perceptions. Let people talk about what they want, but vote accordingly and people will get tired of talking about reddit as less and less people engage with those posts. This post being here is causing more reddit-related engagement. Upvote the kind of content you want to see and it'll rise up higher, becoming more visible and creating a virtuous cycle of positive engagement.
Likewise, my only time spent on reddit is to upvote reddit drama discussion. Doing so will help push people who are "just tired of the drama and want to post" to find the fediverse a more enticing place to participate in.
Also, it's relevant to a lot of the userbase. Like, this is relevant to something that just personally impacted the majority of the userbase here -- it's gonna probably be of interest.
I do agree with the idea that it's good to get more content up, though. Go find a couple interesting things a day and submit them. I have!
There are also some people at the BotIt magazine on kbin.social working on setting up a bot to mirror Reddit subreddit submissions to kbin magazines, which might help ease disruption for some subreddits.
first iteration of botit actually is able to do what you mentioned now: https://kbin.social/...
Yes who is gonna post the first AskMen about;
"What is the sexiest sex you ever sexed?"
Edit;
For people interested in Fragrances, I did my part and gonna start to post more often;
Suggestions are welcome!
I'm in support of this. I was explaining to my wife just a bit ago that most of the "content" on lemmy and kbin is all about lemmy and kbin, and very little about anything else. For those of us coming from reddit, most of the content on reddit isn't about reddit. I'd like it if lemmy and kbin was mostly original content.
c/piracy and c/sysadmin are already posting actual content
Yep, that's why I just went ahead and posted , actually really happy the way the thread has gone, on the most part people saying what they want and what they are doing . Clearly there is a learning curve here for many of us and that too gets addressed , way to go us:-)
Classic reddit circle jerk complaint ... a user complaining about circle jerking, by creating a circle jerk and a third party pointing out the circle jerk
If you want to post about your poor performance in a 3 year old Switch game you are welcome to join my community crappyanimalcrossing.
Fuck Steve Huffman
Happy to get away from collapsing the first 10 comment threads to get to good reading.
Wakeeeee uuupp
How's the weather in Washington?
Rainy, probably.
BING BONG
SODAAAA
I've been trying to post content on all niche subreddits I used to lurk in. I basically get the non-reddit links and useful resources and start sharing them here.
As long as I can jerk I don't care about the shape. Circle, square, rhombus, you name it, I'm in.
"I have no code of ethics, I will jerk anyone, anywhere. Children, animals, old people, doesn't matter. I just love jerkin'."
Can't rush the jerk, gotta let it play out naturally.
right? sometimes you just need a slow jerk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLldxRi_FUc&themeRefresh=1
Risky click
The jerk would be a lot easier if we had some lube
I'm with you. I've been posting Q/A thread in /c/chat and a few memes as I come across them. I've also been participating in some pretty interesting threads around here
What is this chat youβre talking about?
I was always a commenter and a voter, not a poster. But Iβve decided Iβm gonna to make an effort to post in communities that I have interests in. Gardening, food interests, photography, hiking, current events, travel, video games, finance/investing, etc. Itβs not something Iβm used to doing. And itβs gonna take some effort at first, but Iβd rather start a new habit here than go back to that other place.
I just posted a hot take about solar power on my sublemmy, how about you comment?
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/127188
Sorry if that link doesnβt let you comment but I havenβt figured out how to generate a universal link without creating a crosspost
That's not how any of this works...
Communities (as you put, sublemmy) can't be individually federated, only instances can be. And needing another account is a sign that you are looking at a post on the wrong instance, not a sign that an instance is not federated. In fact, finding out an instance is not federated can be pretty difficult unless you check the list of instances that are defederated on another instance.
That's not a universal link, so you ended up on a different instance. A much simpler and easy explanation than what you came up with.
My bad, I'm still learning how this whole thing works, have only been using Lemmy for the last day or two.
I'm starting to figure it out. It's a little confusing though, as when I subscribe to some communities that aren't on lemmy.world, they all show as "subscribe pending" for me. But it seems like I am subscribed? Or maybe just seeing it here on lemmy.world but not actually the content on that instance? I'm not really sure. Sorry if I'm adding any confusion here.
Just to answer this part, the pending subscriptions (mostly a problem on lemmy.ml communities but sometimes elsewhere too) seem to be mostly a visual bug. I have a ton showing as pending but posts from them turn up in my feed so I'm clearly subscribed.
How are you drawing that conclusion? According to the page listing federated instances they are federated. If you can't find the post on your local instance, then you can just take the link to the post and put it in the search function on your instance.
Edit: Here's the post on your instance: https://lemmy.world/post/238576
There needs to be a βshareβ button next to the crosspost button
I'd like to complain about reddit for at least another month, thank you.
Yep it would be good if the ecosystem could stop shutting off instances and find other ways of coping especially as it seems most often it is just a lack of preparedness for the numbers , lets just drive users to instances with the capacity
Your visibility is reduced because you're on lemmygrad, which is amusingly more defederated by outside instances than explodingheads. Maybe try setting up a multi so you can see more, I think there is an app that can do it.
They are talking about undoing it.
Only affected peeps on the big instances too. I never noticed anything from it.
I thought Beehaw was coming back once they had better mod tools?
They are last time I checked
I'm definitely in support of "mega-threading" anything related to the Reddit blackout unless it's big breaking news (but mega-thread those events too).
I've also started to look for communities for some of my interests, but I suspect it's going to take a while before a lot of them spread to here. There are also a bunch that I can't really start since I am primarily a consumer and not a producer (specialized topics like astrophysics that I am not a subject matter expert for).
I've been toying with the idea of starting a physics (astrophysics welcome) community over at https://normalcity.life/(my home lemmy instance) for physics academics. I'd love a community like that because it's my everyday life. Does that sound interesting? Not sure if others would be interested.
Edit: home instance clarification
try !physics@mander.xyz; !physics@lemmy.ml !geophysics@lemmy.ca (disclaimer -- I mod that one, but will happily accept Astrophysics content -- I did planetary science in grad school, and the American Geophysical Union has a lot of overlap, so might as well eh)
You should create it anyways! Unless there's a community that already exists on an instance you are okay with accessing, I say make the community and people will decide for themselves if they'd like to join.
All my yes! We have loved, we have lost, we have mourned, it's time to move on. Trying to rebuild a broken window in the way it was before is pointless, but we can pick up the pieces, dust them off, and build something new together!
Lemmy = Minecraft 2??????π€π€π€
Yeah. It's like when people tell me I just gotta move on after my ex called out of the blue and said stuff so mean, I had to block her number.
I try not to obsess about it. But (in our analogy) it was only a week ago. I'm still going through the stages of grief.
It's a bit different when the person you broke up with got addicted to crack, went on a bender, is living on the streets, whoring themselves out to whoever to get their next hit and doesn't want to change even after you tell them that they really, really need help ... yet you still look at them and think, it's ok, she'll change? right? she used to be very hot, super sexy, great sex ... all the time! ... and she still likes you and she still looks kind of good ... maybe if I just talk to her or help with getting crack, she'll change and be ok again. right?
In which community?
Been uploading pics of my cats, a few old memes I have that made me laugh again, and even one of my old car. Believe me, some of us are trying!
It's alright, it takes all kinds. Haven't posted anything here yet either, usually just feel like I need a prompt to engage with; then the words start flowing.
the same thing happened with Mastodon for a while after Elon took over Twitter, lots of people posting Twitter news and talking about what has happening on Twitter. might be best to just wait it out π€·ββοΈ
The biggest issue with most Reddit-like websites is that the general user-base tends to talk a lot about Reddit and why they hate it.
The issue with lack of content is the 90-9-1 rule. Iβm planning to actually start posting to this website soon just to start more discussions and topics. Post anything and everything; itβs how a site like this grows.
But don't stop on reddit. That's where the annoying megaphones ought to be.
Are you on an app or the website? Just click on "create a community" and do it - I started Maliciouscompliance.
The issue is with getting content. If you start a new one you should be prepared to post stuff for a few days, even if nobody responds.
Note that not every instance allows non-admin users to make new communities. If yours doesnβt can find one that does, or I think many will make them by request.
Yeah the internet is abuzz with Spez's antics, don't expect that to die down for a while. If they follow through with the deadline it will be even worse.
Still we can add other stuff, maybe drown out the roar a bit. Can always use more communities, I have some good ones now, but I still need a couple I'm lacking.
There is also SNOOcalypse dedicated for people who want to vent about Reddit.
Trying to browse Lemmy and 1 of 3 posts is about Reddit, and none of them are on !reddit@lemmy.ml or !snoocalypse@lemmy.ml
Lemmy for now is just a circlejerk about Reddit.
Made some posts about reddit on those communities and other news on others, but I see Reddit posts everywhere from c/tech to c/lennyworld, mods should review their rules and start redirecting posts
I think it's just the natural progression of things. It will die down probably by mid July after the changes have been made. I'm sure this also happened on reddit after the migration from Digg.
You know, I'd always read that as snoopocalyspe and now that I see it's snoocalypse I think they really should have done it the other way, snoocalypse just sounds like some kind botanical species name.
"Ba da-da da-da da, it's the mothalurkin' S-P E-Z! Snoo-snoo, motha fucka" to "I'll see myself out" in 3-2-1...
So that Spez guy I tell ya...
you first
Iβm doing my part! (trying to build a bass related community). Come join a place to talk about the best instrument in the world.
I run a nice London community at the feddit.uk instance, while it's not front page material I highly suggest just finding communities that fill your niche and subscribing to those. The Reddit stuff will die down when this place starts to establish it's own identity but for now lets now start from bottom and work our way up to a unique community then just being Reddit for those who don't like Reddit.
I am not in London (US actually) but maybe you would know if there's a Premier League or Football community to subscribe too. The two things I miss from Reddit are Premier League news and a subreddit for a particular game I play.
Certainly, there is Premier League community here. Looks like there are communities for teams pooping up in the feddit.uk instance also.
Nice meta commentary
I've been doing my part and posting content I'm interested in. I hope more people do and that this site picks up.
I have always been just a lurker on reddit, here I'm trying to learn as fast as I can and upvoting more than I normally do. I guess I can start also by posting my favorite content from reddit to lemmy in respective communities as a start
I post media reviews on my sublemmy :D !mediareviews@lemmy.world
Not mine but I really like !tabletopminis@lemmy.world.
Yeah I agree, Lemmy needs to be itβs own thing and not just a Reddit hate platform. But so far the experience has been great.
I am actually trying to find more of it! I love burn corposhit style drama. Its a bit all over the place though so i can see why its annoying. Maybe i should start my own community..
Iβve been content creating like crazy. Iβd really like some of these hobby and interest communities to take off. Iβm actually trying to hold back in some places so the community isnβt just saturated by posts from me.
Both is good
Im having the opposite problem - when I sort by top of day I get a really fast scroll I cant keep up with.
After you!
If youβve got any puzzling items around, post them to What is this thing? for us to work on. New content is very welcome!
Go subscribe to some communities you like, show subscribed, profit.
Yes, give me a moment and I'll link it
Edit: Here it is, this is an explorer for Lemmy: https://lemmyverse.net/
No, I think it kind of goes against what we're trying to do here - if a list like that became popular, it would supercharge the growth of certain communities
There's a lot of people pushing for that because it would make the site a straight Reddit replacement, but the promise here is a lot like the original promise of Reddit - give users a single place they can go to access a bunch of small forums
If someone makes a community for that purpose or a community wants to draw in all the Reddit refugees, I have no problem with that, but I think the growth would be healthier if people find them organically rather than putting a centralized list somewhere
Sites will start to pull in a community if any of the members on that instance sub to it and there's talk of adding the ability for communities to band together in multis
I personally am using Lemmy to discover a new community
I am! We are!
(Just- make sure to subscribe to more places. There are a ton of communities spread around on various instances)
Does anyone know how long it takes to create sign up to the lemmy.ml instance? It seems impossible right now.
lemmy.ml is constantly overloaded. They are asking that people sign up on other instances. If you want to see content from lemmy.ml, just subscribe using your lemmy.world account. However note that even the federation of content from that server is spotty, as the server is regularly getting hammered.
The lemmy.ml instance is run by the developers of Lemmy, who are currently heads down laser-focused on the upcoming 0.18 release which makes a number of large changes to improve performance for all instances.
Luckily there are a large number of instances , and I hope that will also grow now the "place that shall not be named" exodus has begun, I think the greater numbers and variety will improve the gene pool so to speak I sort of hope that really large reddit subs might start there own instances.
Thanks for the feedback. Seems impossible to sign for the instance.
Yes please! The biggest downside to these places are that they won't shut up about reddit. There is almost no interesting content just post after post of people talking about reddit.
It's quite possible that a lot of these posts aren't the same ones, but new faces just coming from Reddit and venting. If you're over the discussion then move on the next topic in the feed. Most of the Reddit posts usually are in Reddit-specific communities like m/RedditMigration. Block them and you'll see less stuff.
We need to be POSTING!!!!
Yep, not sure what's up with music feedback, it was created on kbin and I think I have accessed kbin from lemmy without needing two different accounts but ATM I need to be logged into kbin to access it any help appreciated
Lemmy know if this works for ya: https://lemmy.world/c/musicfeedback@kbin.social
It may be taking awhile to sync info between the two. I've noticed this with some other Kbin magazines that nobody was subscribed to on here yet.
i havent fact-checked this but i can all but guarantee it is. the code these sites run on is open source, so even if it isnt right now someone will write the APIs to make it happen
are you okay? your history shows that this is all you do, all of your comments are irrelevant religious ramblings
To be fair, it sounds like poetry that an AI model would spit out after being trained on text scraped from the internet...
It is a tragedy that people don't recognize Timecube when they see it anymore. π
Definitely a bot lol
Probably generating stuff from sites like https://nonsense.x2d.org or https://sebpearce.com/bullshit
what?
Shameless community promotion: https://lemmy.world/c/general
If you're not sure if your post will fit in another community's niche, and it's not really a shitpost (see: https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyshitpost for that!), General Discussion's got ya covered.
I'm here trying to learn how this service operates, and am finding a few bugs that make it more challenging than it probably should be. Some things, like trying to post musings or my own miscilaneous content "to myself" (that is, it would be part of my own page that can be viewed, but not part of a particular community) just gives me a spinning wheel indefinitely. If nothing else, better feedback from the UI would greatly help.
i actually find the whole thing fascinating, which is why i post about it. if it wasnt reddit, i probably would have posted on reddit about it.
I started a new community for my open source project: https://lemmy.ml/c/osintbuddy
yea thats why i was hesitant of using this thing yet lmfao you just now a lot of the discourse will be about how reddit sucks for a while
I know everyoneβs contribution will be worth while and extra enjoyable
why all these upvotes? This post is on top of my posts since yesterday.
I like the music feedback idea! How do I add this to our Instance? Thought !musicfeedback@kbin.social would work but it didnβt
For searching Kbin magazines from Lemmy I've seen some people say they had success with the format @musicfeedback@kbin.social. However I've only ever got it to work by searching for the full actual URL of the magazine. YMMV.
Is that the timecube guy?
Not sure if it will get any front page traction, but I've already gone out of my way to write some (hopefully good) posts about my favourite NAS technology, unRAID ( https://lemmy.world/c/unraid@reddthat.com ). I have a number of other information and problem solving posts I'll migate over from reddit before I delete my content there.
No experience with unraid so I can't really contribute on that front, but I applaud you for contributing on the topic!
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