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Lol Reddit
I actually forgot about Reddit in the same way I forgot about Friendster... Which I want to point out is also still around and being used by real people, somehow.
I wish Lemmy was more popular. I still use Reddit for niche things; for example, I'm getting a new Pebble watch and I want to see posts about that. Here, the whole community has a small handful of posts. On Reddit there are new posts every day. Sigh!
I'm finding that Lemmy and the Fediverse in general isn't good enough for normie stuff, like TV and movies. Frankly, i think videogames too now that i think about it. I've seen news about videogames, but never people talking about a videogame. Even anime and manga is very limited.
I don't think that's inherently a platform limitation though. Maybe an initial hurdle for people to join, but once you're on here, you're free to talk about whatever you want.
The real issue is that AI fucking scans everything you ever post, so most people don't want to give out anything real anymore because - surprise - people like privacy.
That huge chunk of people who are aware of what's going on in the world (weird conservative global takeover) and are tech literature is basically a circle, so you don't get a ton of people on here divulging their hearts out.
Tldr basically, conservatives ruin everything.
tv and movies used to be a larger community, until the last big instance shut down. people decided to scatter to different platforms or instances, thus diluting how much topic we get on entertainment.
And the types of anime/manga you're allowed to like on Lemmy is also very narrow.
A lot of the subreddits i used to frequent have virtually dead (less than one post a month on average) mirrors here, or none at all.
It'll get there just in time for the IPO
Lemmy won't ever become bigger than what it currently is. I've been waiting for years but the reality is that Lemmy will forever be a niche platform for left wing politics that's banned on Reddit and tech bros.
There's right wing politics too. Don't be weird bro.
On here? Where?
There are a few communities. One example: !conservative2@lemmy.today
Bruh, it's dead. The last post was made over a year ago
I'm sure there are others. That's just the one I thought of off the top of my head.
But your claim isn't that self proclaimed conservative communities technically exist, but that right wing politics are prominent to some degree on Lemmy as a platform... which they are very much not.