have any niche lemmings taken off in the 6 months since the API scandal?

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    I honestly never know what people mean by “niche”, everyone seems to have a different cutoff. But also the word you’re looking for is “communities”, we users are the lemmings 😄

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      Feel the same. Leftist culture probably also frowns at knives and such stuff, and sopuli is a Finnish instance which means its a lot of Europeans that love their EDC gear and knives, and feels like either too much aggressive or a luxury in leftists’ minds. If it were communicated that guns are not the kind of gear that EDC lovers congregate over, it could become more appealing to Lemmy.

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    Basically most of the niche communities are extremely slow or dead. It’s understandable since the daily lemming user rate is 33,000 where seeing a post with 33,000 likes is not uncommon Reddit.

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    I’m not sure what you’re asking. Do you mean Lemmy communities, Lemmy instances, or something else?

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      This confused me, too. I generally see"Lemming" used as the equivalent of “Redditor”: someone who uses Lemmy.

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          You took a good teaching opportunity and made yourself look 1,000 times dumber.

          How about getting off your high horse and try helping people learn instead of insulting people to sooth your superiority complex.

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            I am helping people learn. Using the term Lemmings makes you look stupid. Using the term Lemming incorrectly makes you look REALLY fucking stupid.

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              Then explain what OP did wrong, in a non-derogatory way, give them alternatives to what they could say instead of just demeaning them.

              Know what makes people look REALLY REALLY dumb? Talking down to people that don’t know better. Besides if you’re so smart, why don’t you educate the ignorant without insulting them?

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                It’s more fun this way. Plus it looks like it pisses dweebs like you off, so win/win.

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                  Lol @ using that mental gymnastic to pretend you won an argument. People say don’t feed the trolls but if nobody gave the monkeys peanuts they wouldn’t dance like fools for our amusement.

                  You’re welcome, monkey.

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    One has to appreciate that Reddit he organically and got segmented in subs over time, who knows how many empty subs died on the wayside before the many niches we hold dear took off.

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    The big stuff has transferred quite nicely, as have tech communities, but other niche communities seem to have floundered. Even ones that explicitly and openly made the switch died off, like r/streetphotography. It seems raw user count is pretty critical to supporting them.

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    The cordcutters subreddit was really nice, users constantly engaging in talks about better alternatives to cable/internet/streaming options.

    The lemmy version is like an aquarium full of dead fish that nobody cares to clean out. The only ‘poster’ is a ‘news’ bot that just spams every article from cordcutters.com (most of which are just advertisements for deals/discounts).

    At this point even ghost towns have more presence and/or engagement. If you block the ‘news’ bot, there’s next-to-nothing there.

    !cordcutters@sh.itjust.works

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    I like !edc@sopuli.xyz, it has the potential and needs to migrate from Reddit. Glad to get r/piracy and r/datahoarder migrated over to here, although datahoarder still mostly is a second home at Lemmy.

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    Curlyhair was (is?) so busy on Reddit that it needed heavy moderating, the mods had a discord chat, so many rules, a heavy hand. Here it’s dead.