I don’t give a shit about a platform. I come from the phbb days when you sought out your communities and eventually landed with a bunch of likeminded people.
I ditched Reddit because I will not support their greedy race to the bottom. I won’t “just check the sub I’m in to occasionally” I’m done with it.
The only content I’m remotely interested in here in the fediverse is news related. And it’s boring as fuck. I didn’t go to Reddit for Reddit or news. I went there for the specific things I’m in to. Real shit, not memes.
I’m not going back there. And I can only yell at a wall here for so long.
Dude, you’re here, basically in on the ground floor. You want a specific type of content, start posting it. Build the community.
Or don’t.
Either way, bitching about it not being precisely what you want it to be isn’t helping anything.
I’ve gotten way more response to this than anything I’ve posted in the communities I’m actually interested in.
I was going to make a comment then I noticed the community. I agree you found a really unpopular opinion. I expect the downvoters are ones who didn’t realize the community you posted to.
That being said, it’s still early on, I’m hoping it stays alive. I miss some of the nitche communities as well but, a good portion did somewhat migrate, you just need to reach out and sub to them cause it doesn’t show them very well.
Lemmy is young. There is a lot to be desired about it but I generally like to avoid negative words when it comes to open source because open source is a net positive for the computing world. Given time, Lemmy will get better. The Lemmy devs are doing this work uncompensated and gratis. They’re passionate about principles of open software, freedom of speech and expression, and a generally anti-corporate world view. I can and do get behind this and can thus put up with imperfections in an implementation. What I don’t understand is actually why people will tolerate bugs in a software that they’ve paid for. To use an analogy, I wouldn’t tolerate my car just randomly stalling. I would be knocking down the doors of the manufacturer yet we shrug our shoulders at the utter rubbish that corporations like Adobe and Microsoft churn out all of the time.
