this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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Lemmy is not dead at all. It's just doesn't have hundreds of millions. There are many vibrant communities, like this one
Outside of Communism, Linux, and Star Trek, there isn't that much.
Most people aren't here because of what this place is, but what other places aren't.
You shouldn’t be getting downvoted. This is a pretty accurate though missing a couple things (American politics?).
I follow a couple of game communities here and they get a post every week or so. Why aren’t game subs more active on Lemmy? Simply put it’s not the gaming demographic. And that same logic applies to a lot of communities on Lemmy.
There’s also something that always comes up when talking about communities that fall outside of Lemmy’s focus; start the community yourself. But frankly there were a lot of niche communities started with the Reddit exodus that are dead now purely because many of Lemmy’s users are almost hostile towards communities outside of those original ones mentioned.
I’ll stop there. There are a lot of nuances that I’m not touching on but I don’t want this to be an essay.
agreed. a tad snarky, but it was an honest opinion. lemmy will grow and communities will fill out.
dumb idea here..
one thing that may help are clients that allow community aggregation into meta communities. this would allow users to be presented with a themed superfeed of similar communities across many instances. easiest done at the client level (no protocol changes needed), but could be extended to communities using meta tags or moderator inclusion into meta communities with protocol help. protocol support would also allow meta communities to be presented via the web interface.
perhaps this has already been done in some clients. if implemented thoughtfully it could be interesting and perhaps even useful.
Not a dumb idea at all imo. One of the reasons I switched apps from Voyager to Mlem is that Mlem has a small feature that shows posts in other communities that are the same as one selected. It would be even better if it aggregated them but it’s better than sorting through a bunch of duplicate posts on the feed.
Don't forget the lesbian hornyposting ... or maybe that's just me feed ...
I mentioned Linux.
Touché
HAHA HaHa haha... * cry *
Some examples:
https://discuss.online/c/peanuts
https://lemmy.world/c/marvelstudios
https://lemmy.world/c/windows11
Exactly. There is a community set up, but posts are daily at best with only a few comments.
Honestly, that's enough for me. I don't want to spend hours here. A few minutes are enough.
Owls
i see a whole lot of stuff here and not a single communism/startrek post. there are many foss/linux stuff tho
Communism posting is usually on Lemmy.ml, Hexbear.net, and Lemmygrad.ml.
yep so you don't see them unless you actively subscribe to those communities.
Depends on how you sort, locally or by all, new comments or active.