• Active communities. Some of the comms for my interests technically exist, in that they get one post every third month that gets 2 upvotes. Despite everything, these communities are still thriving on Reddit. Yet for whatever reason, any attempt to replicate them here fails. Smh

      • I’m not sure that it is a matter of time. Maybe I’m just being pessimistic, but I think the fediverse wave has crested already. There’s a reverse migration from Mastodon back to places like X/Twitter under way, and lemmy really never even saw the scale of adoption or attention that Mastodon saw.

        I’m not worried that lemmy will go away any time soon, but I’m not sure it’s ever going to be mainstream enough to attract enough users to really support vibrant and diverse communities.

  • 1 month

    more diversity. currently lemmy predominantly has politics, tech, and memes. Anything else is a little rough around the edges or nonexistent

    Particularly, I was a huge fan of the Tales from X-style subreddits. It was entertaining to be able to go into them, read some stories about it and see others responses, even if some of them you could totally tell weren’t actually real. there have been communities made for some of the topics, but they’re dead, and unfortunately, those types of communities aren’t really communities that you can do too much with yourself unless you’re actively in that same field.

    • politics, tech, and memes

      And surprisingly Lemmy has very little programming content. The programming and learn_programming communities are almost dead.

      • As a member of the programming.dev instance, this just isn’t true. Maybe those sublemmies on other instances are, but there’s always posts, questions, and content on programming.dev.

  • 1 month

    On a down note, /r/ukrainewarvideoreport. I liked following the progress of the war.