yeah, but why give a fuck about redditors like that and their opinion? why would we even want them on the fediverse? we already have enough idiots here of our own(including me). let him stay on his beloved rotten, dead internet ass plattform with overinflated user activity statistics.

sure, a bit more critical mass would be nice to have for more obscure, small but active communities. but that wont happen with users who argue on their 11 year old account against reddit alternatives on r/redditalternatives.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

yeah, but why give a fuck about redditors like that and their opinion? why would we even want them on the fediverse? we already have enough idiots here of our own(including me). let him stay on his beloved rotten, dead internet ass plattform with overinflated user activity statistics.

I'm one of the few active posters on !movies@piefed.social, and !football@sopuli.xyz

Two of the probably most popular topics on the planet. Yet it's less than 5 of us keeping those communities active.

Having more people would at least make sure some of those very generalist topic can stay active on their own.

[–] Brett@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm not arguing against more users. But that should have been apparant from the part of my post you didnt quote. Just saying we shouldnt focus so much on users who activily try to find reasons to stay on the corperate hell hole that is reddit.

Yeah, the current userbase is pretty skewed towards the techliterate who in large have a tendency to be not that much into sports. Having more "normies" as the general userbase would be pretty healthy for the fediverse. But tbh there still is just too much friction to use it. It improved a lot over the years. But i believe it has similar issues to linux where you have a lot of needed knowledge and choice frontloaded. I really think there is some analysis paralysis going on between lemmy, mbin, piefed and all the instances on top. I also think(!) the federated nature has a lot of upsides but it also fragments the smallish userbase even further. Like i'm subscribed to 7 linux communities and only 2 really uniquely distiguish themselves. But thats a topic which is pretty important to me right now.

I like watching movies. But i dont like movies so much that i seek out yet another sub on the topic. I mean movies@piefed is the smallest community on that topic when i search for it. I know why thats the case and how new the community is in comparison to the rest because of the lemm.ee shutdown. But thats kinda an important detail you left out.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

mean movies@piefed is the smallest community on that topic when i search for it.

!movies@piefed.social: 1.4k Weekly Users 2.7k Monthly Users
!movies@lemmy.world : 899 users / week 2.09K users / month

Most of the subscribers on LW are dead account, active users is a more relevant metric

[–] Brett@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

fair enough!

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't help you on the sport front but I'll see if I can make a nuisance of myself on the movie front!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Feel free to help!

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are their other /c/ ? I gone this one of the issues, not being able to "combine" multiple into one feed

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

You're on Piefed, so the comments from crosspost from different communities would show up on the same page

There are also feeds that you can create that combine multiple communities https://piefed.social/feeds

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

we already have enough idiots here of our own

I feel attacked