totally agree.

oh in my feed I’m seeing this discussed a ton now. I didn’t think you were baiting.

yeah I’ve been using the lemmy explorer and most places are just one person posting into the void with no additional interaction.

I was just hoping for something more than a meme/news site.

You can get that anywhere. So Lemmy isn’t exactly standing out.

We have comms that we don’t consider political, but you would still consider them political because you would rather they cater to your politics rather than ours. We have !games@hexbear.net for example, but because it’s not a liberal comm you would consider it political

This sounds like treating politics like religion. No thanks.

I still can’t wrap my head around being so pro-trans rights (a fabulous thing), yet in the same breath simping for China. Not the most stellar LGBTQIA+ record there.

Yeah, it reminds me of the behavior found on 4chan. A lot of the things I’ve heard about hexbear - someone made a mega post about their userbase and how it’s filled with trolls, just lines right up with 4chan type mentality and pushing contrarian ideologies that are meant to put people in an uproar - like ragebaiting.

And then all hear from hexbear users is this creepy rhetoric about how they’re free thinker with ideas or some shit. Sounds like what Jehovah Witnesses say to get people to join their cult.

how come everything I hear about hexbear sounds like 4chan though? Like there even seems to be mimic of the 4chan lgbt board mentality coming from hexbear users.

No one will ever believe you anyways.

oh I see we’re ripping off Bill Murray now.

No, they’re the mod of an android comm on here so obviously not her. I think the roleplayers from back in the LiveJournal days are showing up here cause you can still grab newish usernames to impersonate someone.

Exactly. More people need to understand that this isn’t a black and white issue. We need that happy medium.

I commented saying that this should probably be a signal for people to start focusing on a few core communities instead of spreading like crazy.

I mean this place only really seems to have activity in meme pages, porn, and news.

Feels more like a well behaved 4chan instead of a well behaved reddit.

You’re not the only one who saw that. I saw it too. In fact, that’s why I clicked the link.

Okay but how do we fix it? Are we allowed to solicit on reddit just to get people here? Are Lemmy users even getting the word out about Lemmy?

This isn’t exactly the easiest platform to use. The term “instances” is probably intimidating to the average reddit user who has to do nothing more than type “reddit.com” to get to where they need to be.

Same and I hate that I would have to go back to reddit. I like that I can have decent conversations here but I also miss being able to talk about niche shows I like and quote things with people. The niche interests that Reddit offers isn’t really on Lemmy.

Like I’m also no longer keeping up with my favorite radio show cause they have a sub Reddit and the people who listen to that show, aren’t the kind of people who can just switch over to Lemmy. They don’t know the first thing about changing platforms.

I already talked to someone else on here on providing my own content and being the change I want to see. But I’ve found so many communities where its just one person posting into the void and there’s lots of posts from like a month ago and zero comments on every single one. Some communities seem to be just people posting news links to other sites. Which makes Lemmy seem like a directory- not a community.