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this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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EXACTLY
there's just not enough in depth stuff on here. i love shitposts, i love memes, i love a chill tone. but we need people posting interesting posts, you know. i'm not even sure how to put my finger on what's different or why, but there's just less....stuff here. it needs to be seasoned, or something.
It's a matter of numbers. Like sports. You get the best by having a large pool of possible posts to rise to your attention. Reddit gets a bunch of posts that never get read. Lemmy we read pretty much all of them. There are some good posts here and there in Lemmy but not to the level of reddit. And until Lemmy gets reddit numbers it will suffer from "athletes" from small towns vs athletes from big cities. No contest.
I think a lot of the hobby and project posts on Reddit aren't necessarily created by people who (also) have the internet / computers / net culture as an interest. Say, a hobby carpenter who only uses Facebook and Reddit casually, why and how would this person end up on Lemmy? The seasoning missing is all the people we left behind.
For me it’s just too much political stuff. On the other hand, if I block some keywords, I might only be left with memes and shitposts.
Imagine turning to Reddit for deep stuff. Specific hobbies I understand, but depth ...