Also allows to identify bad faith users

Doesn’t seem that obvious, some people in the comments here point out that they prefer to have a dedicated community for their niche topic rather than posting on a generic community

Reddit is still crap, so hopefully people are still looking for alternatives

You seem overtly negative over the whole platform.

People are trying to keep communities active, as shown on !fedigrow@lemm.ee and !newcommunities@lemmy.world

The point is, Lemmy, Reddit, and other related platform are overwhelmingly American.

Ironic as no large instance is managed by US citizens

https://feddit.org/post/4529920?scrollToComments=true

For instance, if there’s a niche game I want to talk about, it’s currently a roll of the dice whether or not there’s a Lemmy community for it, and then if it does exist already then it’s pretty much guaranteed to see 2, maybe 3 posts per week, tops.

Why not create a thread on a genre community like !jrpg@lemmy.zip or !fgc@lemmy.world ?

Let me introduce you the Piefed topics: https://piefed.social/topic/gaming That’s an improvement from the reader perspective

Cross-posts themselves are only displayed once on the Web UI as long as they use the same URLs.

Definitely

You can’t just go to lemmy.com, create a name and password, and start doing stuff.

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1fmuk7o/post_to_address_the_usual_criticism_about_lemmy/ ?

Go to https://lemm.ee/

Have a look around, see if the content and the formatting is appealing to you, register an account if you want to be able to curate your feed further

Go to https://lemm.ee/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world to see communities (equivalent of subs) that might be interesting to you.

Use Voyager as a mobile app: https://www.lemmyapps.com/Voyager. When they ask for your “instance”, use “lemm.ee”

If you want more choices for apps, have a look at https://www.lemmyapps.com/

I think the Lemmy devs political stance and instances such as hexbear are more detrimental to the success of the platform than the entry bar.

Edit: Discuit is a centralized site, and now has 209 weekly active users: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/OiU8YjZ_

Joining an existing community is usually easier than starting a new one.

!newcommunities@lemmy.world can be a place to find an existing community?

https://voyager.slrpnk.net/

Posting just takes time. Usually you can just take content from Reddit or elsewhere and post it to Lemmy.

Not everyone is cutout to pioneer any kind of community, let’s just assume that OP takes this advice to heart, if their interest/hobby is niche enough, what’s even the likelihood of someone else tumbling upon it?

The general advice is to go to more and more generic communities until you meet enough people to discuss the topics.

Originally, Reddit had no subreddits, there was only one single space where everybody would post.

Reducing the number of communities and merge some of them would definitely be useful. For people interested on that topic, there is !fedigrow@lemm.ee

I honestly don’t understand it. People complain that they don’t use the fediverse because it’s small but somehow they don’t realize if they just migrate over then it won’t be.

Network effect in full blast

For the record, I just added hexbear to the sjw blocklist.

Good to know, that whole thing was always a bit confusing

I see, makes sense to ask for defederation in this context.

Also, from OP’s bio

Account on lemm.ee because the pedophile admins in lemmy.world think they can keep me banned

OP, could you please provide evidence for those claims?

Thank you for jumping in

I can’t just block the entire instance (yet).

FYI, this feature is available on Lemmy since December 2023: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-12-15_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.0_-_Instance_blocking,_Scaled_sort,_and_Federation_Queue

Or just assess whether your niche is sustainable at all, if not then just use the broader category