I've had to go ham on blocking entire communities on here with Sync's filter feature. Reddit at least has so many niche, active communities that you can actively avoid the /r/Europes and the /r/conservatives. With Lemmy, if I scroll through my subscribed communities, I get the same posts for days on end - if I scroll through everything, I get a bunch of Linux and FOSS circle jerks as well as "Tankies", "Anti-Tankies", commies, fuckcar communities that aren't even realistic with the timescale they want things changes, and even more recently some posts from conservative communities.

Like, don't get me wrong - I refuse to go back to reddit, but I've definitely had the desire to just quit using Lemmy because it feels like there isn't much here for me.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🤔 I've blocked a fair few too and find that contributing to different communities helps. Can't wait for everyone else to do something if you don't do something yourself.

It's still pretty small compared to reddit, and if only 1% of the 40k post, then that's 400 people posting. You can easily have an impact at this point in time.

[–] MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've made posts both on this account and a different account from a different instance in the more niche communities that I'd like to see move here and got zero up votes, downvotes, or replies. I've even messaged the mods of those communities to discuss ways to get more traffic and got no response.

I'm willing to keep trying, but the majority of users aren't and that's something that Lemmy is going to have to overcome

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

To increase visibility of your community, feel free to post to !newcommunities@lemmy.world and communities that are adjacent to yours.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

It was what reddit was at the beginning too. Reddit would have to pull another reddit or two to get more traffic and increase the number of content creators / sharers.

IMO, the cat is out of the bag now and we will reach an inflection point some day.

[–] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

There's a mechanic advice community now on lemmy.world (I think?) And we're not.. idk, not bad yet I haven't seen any ugliness myself as of yet. Hopefully it will stay that way!

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I guess it will vary from instance to instance, but from my personal experience, viewing "All" on Lmemy isn't noticeably more political than /r/all. There's maybe less diversity in the stories, and more memes, but still. It's not bad.

Reddit has absolutely been way worse at times, by the way. When T_D was allowed to run roughshod over the front page, and spez bent over backwards to not ban them despite clearly being a nuisance and breaking the rules.