Now it’s a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)

It’ll take a while for some of the smaller communities to get critical mass. And that’s okay, probably. Critical mass is here for the larger topics already. I’ll do my best to help :)

    • Any_novel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      2 years ago

      Not the person you asked, but so far it feels like I see more memes here than I did on Reddit. I don’t see a lot of news, and the communities I was subbed to on Reddit are not active here at all. That includes communities based around running, hiking, nature, and female fashion advice for example.

      • Wowbagger@lemm.eeEnglish
        18·
        2 years ago

        I have blocked most of the meme communities and all seems just fine to me now.

          • yads@lemmy.caEnglish
            9·
            2 years ago

            I think they are working on tweaking the hot sort a bit more to make it more representative so the huge communities don’t drown out the smaller ones especially in subscribed

          • Troy@lemmy.caOPEnglish
            7·
            2 years ago

            Or some equivalent of a multireddit where you can look at some quiet communities as a block.

        • Grimpen@lemmy.caEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          I find Top - Day to be my favourite sort, even though Hot is much better. I’ve also subscribed to enough communities that my default is Subscribed + Top - Day or Subscribed + Hot. I’ll often dip over to Local, but rarely All. Only downside of the Top sorts is that the shorter the time span, the higher the ratio of cute animal pics. Scratch that, it’s not a downside.

          Point being, that once you have enough active communities subscribed, that seems to be the best. Local is good if you are on an instance that meshes well with your interests.

          BTW, I’m on Lemmy.ca, so Local will show me news from across Canada usually.

      • Carnelian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        I hear that, yeah the interest-specific communities haven’t caught up yet for sure. A lot of them have only a handful of posts if they do exist.

        Definitely a lot of memes, but I feel like I am seeing a good amount of news though? Actually I feel like reddit was getting to be pretty spotty about news, there were a couple weeks I used both and lemmy consistently showed me the headlines much sooner.

        I browse in compact mode on memmy and scroll past the memes usually fwiw, so it may just be a matter of my perception

        • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          the interest-specific communities haven’t caught up yet for sure

          Nor most of the local/regional communities.

    • Knightfall@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I was on Reddit a lot to see chatter about games I enjoy. The presence of Destiny 2 or Diablo 4 players seems pretty quiet on Lemmy. A lot of game devs are on Reddit and I don’t know how many of them have or will move to another platform.

      • Carnelian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Lol, reddit used to be the same way actually, it was only relatively recently they removed porn from the front page.

        There’s a toggle in your profile for it, and apps like Memmy have an additional setting to hide those posts just while you’re browsing the app