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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 97 points 15 hours ago (14 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 57 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

For real we need more uplifting subs, my feed is just Musk and Trump diarrhea.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I think this is an artifact of what's oddly the biggest weakness of the fediverse: decentralization.

When I used reddit back pre-api stuff, my front page was 100% niche subs I'd subscribed to, but those niches have trouble le growing here because there's so many instances.

I was super active in the scuba subreddit. Here on Lemmy, there's several scuba groups that tried to form, but none of them stuck because they were all on different instances instead of one central location where everyone could work together to make the community.

As a result, most of us haven't been filtering out 99% of Lemmy because the 1% where we'd be active doesn't exist. It's like joining reddit and having your frontpage be /r/all. It's a shitty experience that g9ves a lot of weight to political posts.

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 12 hours ago

It doesn't matter almost at all which instance a community is on. People could just unite the different scuba groups into one. Basically any they see fit. I'm not sure the decentralization really causes this effect. Or does it make it too difficult to find communities? I've been plenty able to find communities from various instances, at least.

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