That my country’s subreddit is actually active, and the amount of casual conversation going on in there. I wouldn’t be surprised if that sub has about as many monthly active users as the entire Threadiverse, while the country sub here has like one post per day.
r/ Comics, Blender mostly
I got into having ai agents make me sht, I now wish I had a semi positive about ai atmosphere to be around since I see how it’s useful and want to see how other people use it and discuss it but I just don’t see that happening here. More people should be using ai agents while it’s cheap to make paid sht free.
Having it make the piracy app I always wanted for music and comics (crossplatform supports all other opensource apps extensions/repos and backups plus internetarchive), an rss app customized for what I like, etc. Nice that it is taking days instead of months to be usable, shit my slow ass would prob take years. I can’t help but like ai while using these apps daily because they would never exist without them.
I just had it make a blender extension for me yesterday that just solved an issue I’ve had for 2 years and have been lowkey beggging them to implement. I even got decent traction on blender ideas but no one picked it up. I don’t want to code, I want to play around in blender, now I have the feature I want and it works perfectly. (Presets for geometry node setting values)
I made myself the start page I always in a week using a free chatGPT trial. Replaced several other sites I used to do different tasks each day.
When I say I made it, my role was typing prompts and making brews but, yeah, it’s a super cool technology and i think most people dislike how it’s happened rather than the tech itself. It’s a shame its gotten so toxic.
I graduated into the job market destroyed by ai (I really dont know if thats the actual case tho, ai could always be the excuse rather than the only cause for all the layoffs and lack of jobs) So I forsure still hate it even while using it. It’s a weird feeling.
Things really clicked after that blender extension, theres no going back, just knowing every problem I’ve had with any software, any missing feature, can just be solved now. No more waiting around. Makes it so easy to monitor a bunch of different self hosted apps and set appropriate limits too. I used to just get annoyed and uninstall some or restart with backups because I couldn’t figure out the causes.
yeah. mainly stuff related to proprietary/old software stuff like ios jailbreaking and hackintosh, windows modding.
No, I’ve been on Lemmy and PieFed for so long that I forgot how it was on the shitty corporate site.
I appreciate our own niche content we have here. I don’t need everything and everyone to be here.
You can get it anywhere, but still.
I miss Sprog. That’s about it.
yes, the niche ones. most of them became meme, or slop, and policed by the “holier than thou” type of people. i had fun with whatisthisplant subs, occasionally i had fun identifying some unusual ,rare wildplants. there a couple of bad ones, like pokemon trading card game dedicated to scalping, like pokeinvesting or collecting.
The endless, unhinged thirst posts of Queens of League. Gay sigh.
A lot of the communities I frequent simply never made it. They were too niche, or it simply didn’t fit Lemmy.
Though I’d argue that what I miss more is the usability. Old Reddit and RES is a wonderful experience. Lemmy and Alexandrite are closer to new Reddit than old, including the poorer performance.
I know there are some interfaces that emulate the old Reddit experience, but they lack the RES integration that makes old Reddit particularly nice to use.
Yes, a photography community with such a broad audience that the “no sunsets” rule was actually making sense.
I miss the college football subreddit most of all
The content, engagement, and quality of conversations are much better here on Lemmy, and the platform feels considerably less saturated.
Unfortunately, what Reddit used to be, and what made it great, is long gone. That being said, the API changes were the nail in the coffin, not the sole reason for its decline. Reddit had already been on a downward trajectory for years before that.
The one thing I still appreciate about Reddit is that content gets refreshed much more frequently than it does on Lemmy. However, even that isn’t enough to keep me there for more than a few visits a week, usually out of sheer boredom.
The thing I miss most from reddit is the ability to find decently sized communities for extremely niche topics. Lemmy just isn’t big enough to support that. However, I certainly don’t miss it enough to actually go back to using Reddit. There’s other places to go for that (like Discord servers / Matrix spaces).
Exactly. You can find an active subreddit for fucking anything. Find a new anime and want to discuss it? There’s an active sub for that. Find a cool bug and want to identify it? There’s an active sub for that. Want to ask a doctor for casual (off-the-record) medical advice? There’s an active sub for that.
But with Lemmy, the first would probably land in a more generic c/Anime, while the latter ones might struggle to find an appropriate community at all. Because even if the specific communities exist, the chances of them being active enough to get a response are low.
Exactly. I haven’t seen either a woodworking or sewing project over here since I joined, as one example.
No terrible first attempt at dovetails, no probable not first attempt at macarons, no woman wearing the sweater she just knit from alpaca wool.
And books. If I wanted a new scifi book here, I’d likely get 0-1 responses. There’s no book community here.
People post stuff there from time to time
I stay on the main feed (app) and just block stuff I’m not interested. I haven’t seen that one break through yet. Thanks!
It seems trendy lately to brag about how little one reads.
You’re kidding. How is that even possible? Conservative AI bots pushing for those uneducated masses? Probably, with 51% bot/AI post populations on social media.
In real life, I see the younger generation carrying physical, paper books around at work. We have them in my house, and the people in my house keep one in their cars for wait times.
My new thing is im trying to gradually reduce my topic specific questions in catchall Ask comms like this and instead submitting to the actual community that concerns it
Itll be slow but hopefully that can meaningfully shift my own stuff to help beef up the existing topical comms, if everyone does something similar we may actually get somewhere.
Sometimes im just gonna post here cuz its easier and people sort of know my deal already but i do intend to try to put things where they belong in hopes of making Lemmy more like that in terms of stronger non-centralized topical comms that are more likely to have domain-experts or at least more knowledgeable than is likely to be found in general purpose Asks
ASK, is almost all filled Propaganda bots posting, or AI posted. it always involves some kind of ragebaiting.
Local community content, and content for less popular games like Quake
Smaller, niche subs. The state/city subs. The specific career subs. The hobby subs.
