I just wanted to tell you how great you all are.
I moved to Lemmy shortly before the mass exodus from Reddit in 2023. I eventually created an instance of my own and to begin with, leaving Reddit felt like a mistake.
I could browse Lemmy’s equivalent of /r/all top-last-24-hours in about 15 minutes, so my doom-scroll time plummeted. I was better for it. However, I still yearned for the meme laughs and thought provoking comment threads of Reddit. Lemmy had them, but they were much fewer.
Fast forward to today. My instance is hosting a popular up and coming community, of which I’m honoured, even if I’m not welcome. The top-24-hour of all posts is now more than enough to satisfy my needs. I laugh at memes, I get to share posts I found on Lemmy with friends and family, I’m exposed to more cultures than just American which is a real refreshing change.
It isn’t mainstream, and I think its better for it. It has its own culture, and we are beginning to get all meta with Lemmy in-jokes which I think is both annoying and awesome at the same time (ie. Hussain memes).
Overall, I am just really happy for Lemmy and am glad to be sharing it with all of you. May the good times continue.
Yes, Lemmy is capable of satisfying one’s need for memes and most important news. But that’s it. More narrow-interest themes are not represented here at all. Just memes and news.
Depends on your hobby, but yeah. Mostly true. There’s a decent little tabletop rpg community, and the guitar communities occasionally have discussions. That’s it as far as my hobbies go. Well that and patientgamers has some decent discussions.
Yeah this is also true. Lemmy not being mainstream means any official space is reserved for the likes of Discord or Reddit. But being the under-dog also has its own benefits. It’s a much tighter community. I recognise peoples names on Lemmy, like the internet of old. I think the two things are mutually exclusive, and eventually it’ll change from one to the other.
Lemmy isn’t big enough for much that’s niche yet. At ~50k MAUs (not all of whom post) there just aren’t enough posters to fuel many narrow interest communities.