Ok so not sure about anyone else, but, I look for new communities by browsing all. I’d say, 90 percent of what I see, I am not interested in.

While there are communities I am interested in on lemmy they are not active. So there are some options, but no activity.

While reddit, has a plethora of active communities that I find interesting and discover them often by reddits suggest feature.

Two things to take into account.

I’m assuming reddit has a algorithm and that helps with that ?

While lemmy does not, and it is heavily dependent on the user base if that makes sense.

I feel like, reddit covers EVERYTHING. It doesn’t just cover interest a certain area of interest, it covers all kinds of things. Whereas with lemmy, maybe it’s just me, but there is a heavy focus on only certain topics.

Anime, tech, Linux, politics, games, programming, star wars, star trek, activism, YouTube videos, news links, are predominant. Is center focus. I don’t feel there is much more variety other then that. Which I kind of don’t understand, because I’d think people who are here like other things also? Why are communities that aren’t in those categories inactive or not here?

Anyway.

I use both reddit and lemmy but they’re both very different, and scratch different itches I guess.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    20 days ago

    Room to grow. If you aren’t seeing something you’re interested in, make it! It might catch fire!

    I’m not sure how long Lemmy has been around, but it doesn’t seem fair to compare it to “The front page of the Internet” for 15 years.

    • AliceOPMAEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      I agree. I do have a shit ton of communities I mod though. I know I’m not an expert poster and not everyone likes the same stuff. But not much participation. Gets frustrating bc it seems most focus here is on politics and not many have interest in other things.

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