I’ve been on Beehaw and Lemmy.world for the past two weeks now and while people seem to be posting content that isn’t about Reddit or Twitter or how great federated platforms are, such content does not receive as many comments/discussion as topics about the Reddit API controversy, or the current Twitter controversy, etc.
I prefer to sort by “new” when on the main page of either Beehaw or Lemmy.world. Most posts scarcely get a few upvotes and almost no comments. Without comments, I feel far less inclined to leave a comment unless there’s a discussion already going on.
It feels like the gravity of discussion is still mostly centered on complaints and discussion about Reddit (or Big Tech in general), despite this platform being billed as a Reddit replacement. Hopefully that changes with time but there’s a reason I haven’t left Reddit yet.
Yes.
reddit has what, 100M users? lemmy only has 1% of that for now. so things will be quieter at the start, but i’ve found that people are more engaged here!
I personally don’t. I like the occasional updates about reddit.
It is to be expected. Once more communities get established, conversation will shift to other topics. I mostly just skip past all the reddit posts. I’m sure they will go down over time.
It might seem that way (especially if you subscribe to the Reddit-discussing communities here; I did that at first, but got tired of seeing the same five convos happening a gazillion times, so I unsubscribed them, and that mainly solved the problem).
I went out into the community search, found a bunch of stuff I’m interested in, joined those places, and have been having some good interactions so far. So that’s what I’d recommend.
Obviously it’s also the hot topic right now, with a bunch of confused redditors coming over. Should die down more and more
You have to skip the bigger communities and just sort ‘new’ on your subscribed view. That way you’ll only see content about other topics. It helps me to stay away from the reddit and twitter storm. But people are happy and proud of themselves that they left, so they need to vent.
Click the menu in the top left and filter out exploding heads and lemmygrad.
- Install the wefwef app (optional)
- Click the Posts icon at the bottom
- Choose ‘All’
That way, you’ll see all posts on the fediverse and not just the posts in your subscribed communities or the local communities (registered at your instance).
(All posts from the fediverse that at least one person on your instance has subscribed to at one point(
Yup. I discovered a lot of new communities like that.
There’s also !newcommunities@lemmy.world
I saw android and selfhost/selfhosted has many content unrelated to reddit there. You can check it.
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You are welcome. I only know these subs because I frequent them but I think if you search deep enough and ignoring any community that has reddit in its name, you will find good content. 😁
Exactly, this is just the “current thing” people are talking about, like the submarine fiasco and the Twitter drama
The reason why there’s a large influx of users is because the reddit thing finally kicked over so it makes sense that a large amount of comments about it. But I don’t mind those as much as these meta posts complaining about people talking about reddit because it just puts a magnifying glass on everything that is worse here than on Reddit. Of course there’s less interaction, the userbase on Reddit dwarfs Lemmy. Reddit was like this 15 years ago or however long it was. Either you understand why people have migrated here and accept that there’s less of a community or here you stick with reddit. Stop complaining it’s not a 1:1 copy.
Why wouldn’t people talk about the thing that is going on? What do you want them to talk about, how terrible the name beehaw is? The world isn’t ready for that discussion.
As early adopters, it’s important for us to be active on the platform. You see posts without comments, and then don’t leave a comment yourself because of it.
Be the change you want to see! Leave that first comment to spark a discussion.
I have taken this attitude very much to heart. Only slightly embarrassing to look at my comment count lol
Nope, because I subscribe to lots of different communities and for the most part none spend much time talking about Reddit.
You have to subscribe to more subs, right now my page is showing scenery, sports talk, and Mac vs Windows talk. Feels like old reddit.
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Here’s a good place to start https://browse.feddit.de
If you want discussion about something else, you gotta post. The Reddit thing is maybe the number one common interest among basically all Lemmy users right now, so of course it’s going to be the most upvoted thing. But making a post complaining about that fact just exacerbates the problem. If you post about literally anything else then you will be helping the ratio of reddit-related to non-reddit-related posts.
