I wouldn't say "shit" but rather niche. Most people who would love a Reddit-like place have Reddit and don't hate it enough to switch, especially since we don't have extensive hobby communities with long history.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah "shit" is somewhat of an exaggeration.

My problems with Lemmy are mainly:

Few users
Few communities
Few posts
Few comments
Extremely focused on just a couple of topics like Linux, Communism, Star Trek, LGBTQ (nothing against Linux or LGBTQ though) variation is desperately needed
Extremely filter bubbly.

[–] Servais@dormi.zone 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

variation is desperately needed

I blocked most of those topics, then other stuff starts to appear

[–] businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i am curious: since those topics make up such a large portion of the content i see on lemmy, do you find that you get a good number of posts to look through without them? i mostly browse all and find i can get through just about everything i'm interested in clicking on in like 30 minutes per day.

maybe it is just a symptom of how i browse the internet and my semi-niche interests, but i find the non-linux hobby communities here to be rather lacking. i know the solution is to post to them myself and i try to, but frankly i don't have that much to post about. it also takes some willpower to keep posting to a 10 person community and get maybe a couple comments every few posts if i'm lucky, but that also could be that my posts aren't very interesting lol

[–] Servais@dormi.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There is for instance

Those are a few ones that are nice and active

[–] MudSkipperKisser@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’m so glad to know about the gardening community, I don’t garden but something about it is so peaceful and calming to me

[–] Servais@dormi.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Yes, I enjoy it a lot too!