Was originally thinking of posting Lenmy content on Reddit to less directly advertise Lemmy, but in the communities I follow, its almost exclusively content or already posted to, or directly originating from Reddit. This got me wondering if there were any niches that Lemmy serves better than other, larger platforms.
If you really like socialism this is the place to be
Communism and open source software. Queer spaces are also much nicer
wait do we have a FALGSC community yet
Star trek memes
More peace of mind.
When I log into Lemmy and see a bunch of messages in my inbox I don’t have a moment of panic wondering if the replies are gonna be because the hive mind found my comment/post to be the best or the worst.
Replies here are reasonable if not too earnest…
Agreed. While there are a few ranty, hostile, irrational replies here, they are much fewer and farther between than on reddit. Not to mention the raiding and mod witch-hunts here are much milder. That shit got insane on reddit back in the day (I don’t know what it’s like now, since I abandoned reddit about 18 months ago).
Marxists?
Linux content
That is more of a con than a pro
I feel you, man. Like, I appreciate what Linux is for, but the Linux content here is extremely blind to the average user’s use-case. It makes it hard to take suggestions and input seriously.
I like that on Lemmy there are more human-like posts and no advertisements. Hated scrolling through Reddit ads then getting sneaky ad-like posts from ‘people.’
Beep Boop, Am Human.
Hello, fellow human!
I hope your day has been full of the various human things, such as eating, and sleeping. Certainly I have been enjoying those things; as a human, I get plenty of sleep and food and other human things.
Trash political takes, communism, anarchism. That’s it mostly
Trek memes
Definitely the Internet’s superior source ofl Star Trek memes.
The flashlight community is lit
Unpopular opinions get super-duper downvoted here but don’t “disappear” as often as on Reddit (not including rule-breaking submissions).
I enjoy talking with the local and Lemmyverse regulars and also with most users. Reddit is so big you get lost in the 10000 comments, however many bots are copying top comments from a past repost you wouldn’t know. Lemmy is a good size now, if anything it should grow out instead of up (revitalizing more niche communities).
Topic niches served well by Lemmy: Linux, being upset at capitalism, Startrek, LBGTQ-friendly crowds on blahaj and beehaw, pcgaming, buying local and quality products (there are fewer suggestions but your average reply is better in quality than Reddit), Woodworking, DIY offgrid living (solarpunk), and a bunch more.
I think one of the few things Lemmy is better at is that I can go into 8hr old thread with 120 replies and write a comment and then have people actually read that comment too and react to it.
With 99% of AskReddit threads for example, posting a reply was complete waste of time unless you were among the first ones in. Almost all of the top comments were always also among the first comments.
My OC shitposts
and mine
And my ax?
Cue the obama giving himself a medal meme but the comments are much more intelligent and there’s a much better conversation to be had
In addition to what people have said here, try local content. I’ve seen some of that crossposted back
Also content tagged with “OC”