I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on opportunities to improve!

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      9 months ago

      That’s not exactly what I meant. Aside from a decent Trekkie presence, I don’t think we’ve seen smaller Reddit communities leave for Lemmy.

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        9 months ago

        Oh sorry, I knew what you meant. I was just being tongue in cheek haha. But you’re right, we don’t have any niche presence and that’s what made reddit what it was.

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          I recently showed up here from Reddit and it’s pretty disappointing. I found a few interesting-to-me niche communities, but most of them seem to have a dozen or so posts from 8 months ago and then nothing. That timing coincides with Reddit’s API changes, so I’m left to assume there was a burst of activity driven here at that point but that it fizzled out quickly.

          The infrastructure and UX here seem ready, but the network effect is very slow for a long time. Without a lot more real users (and diverse niches), it will be difficult to attract and retain a lot more real users. The initial confusion about federation and technical concepts also needs help to get them started, but the niches are needed for retention.

          Tldr, I don’t want to read about technology and Star Trek, I need cast iron and Costco, 3D printing and landscaping, cycling and idiots in cars.