• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Yeah, we need more users. The fediverse/lemmy is stagnating in content because we don’t have enough people with niche interests. It’s mostly US-centered politics; we need more stuff from around the world. Fediverse/lemmy needs more users.

        • madjo@feddit.nlEnglish
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          12 days ago

          Do we? Why do we need the niche communities?

          Reddit didn’t start with them either. Neither did Digg.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            11 days ago

            Also, it was a joke about keenflame asking us to fuck them and that being a niche community.

            Seriously though, the algorithm is a powerful mistress. Every time somebody leaves here to go visit a niche community that we’re lacking. They get a taste of that sweet algorithm again.

            I managed to pretty much carve out all the algorithms in my social graph. Most of the stuff I’m seeing is from communities that I’ve curated. There is no doom scrolling on my feed. I really dearly love being able to consume, get the most important news and a couple of lols and then go about my day.

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Yeah. And we don’t need to attract the MOST people, just the BEST people

  • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
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    14 days ago

    • Clicks “All”, “Top Six Hours”

      • Sees impersonal biased news sources reporting how bad the world is
      • Every post repetition of the one above it

    • Clicks “Comments”

      • Scrolls for a while
      • Finds one person talking about how good their day is or one topic they’re passionate about
    • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
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      14 days ago

      I blocked all the news channels, location channels (since they’re 90% news anyways), and a few extra that kept getting bad news related comments or trollish crap, and the top feeds are usually pretty good. They don’t change too much over a day, but at least it no longer feels like doomscrolling.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        13 days ago

        i dont block news channels, just the POLITICS on worlds. it was problematic enough in my lemmy.ee account they misinterpeted my comments as being anti-semitic/not being pro-israel, when i was calling out seinfeld and his wife as as a israeli shill that was agitating protests in the campuses. plus i detect alot of tankies, tankies adjacent on that communities too. news i dont have problem with discuss similar issues. of course any stray users that are tankies i will block too, and then people that try to disguise thier comments as helpful but is actually be super condescending.

        • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
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          12 days ago

          Yeaaahhh, tankies are a pretty big issue on Lemmy, sadly… They don’t seem to understand they’re the equivalent of a dumbass redneck screeching about what ever false ‘fact’ they heard on Fox News, but from a supposed left framing…

          Part of the reason I blocked news, too. Not only do I not want to doomscroll, but I don’t want to get in an argument over how the news isn’t so bad actually and Russia/China/Mao totally already have a solution we just need to implement or some such shit. (ok bad generic, but it’s hard to generalize their flavor of fake enlightenment. lol)

          Almost as bad as the libertarians that think deregulating capitalism is the perfect solution to every problem.