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Blackout is still on IGNORE THE FUD
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I really want to exclusively switch to Lemmy, but as it stands I'll probably end up starting to use Reddit again as soon as the the vast majority of the blackout ends (I'm not gonna give in easily, but once it's mostly over, there's no point in me continuing).
The problem for me is that on Reddit even extremely niche communities had a substantial amount of members and activity, whereas Lemmy is smaller than Reddit, so everything scales down proportionally, meaning that suddenly communities that were niche on Reddit are infinitesimally tiny or even just absent on Lemmy. Like, there's no malazan community, elitedangerous and wheeloftime are dead, amiga is dead, and so on.
I actually got a ton of extremely high quality, positive interaction on the subreddits I was on, because I almost entirely stayed away from the really popular subreddits, and I'm losing all that moving to here, where the popular communities have higher quality interaction but the smaller communities have way worse interaction. Also, Reddit is a massive treasure-trove of useful niche information for me.
Yeah I might hop onto reddit on desktop only with an ad blocker JUST for the smaller interest based communities that took years to build up. But the big stuff like gaming or news? I'll be using this plus Mastodon.
I'm taking the same mindset - curating social media vs big gulping it. Thank you spez and elon for me reboot.
ya i think that build up is important
really if you can just get enough people over here, that shit starts to really ball up
tho im also kinda into the small community thing, i would love to start recognizing UN like i did in older forum days