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[–] 59 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Not enough people for even slightly niche communities. Wanna talk about smash brothers ? 732 people, only 2 posts in the last month.

This is why people still use reddit on the side.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This is exactly why I don't use Reddit on the side. When I run out of content on Lemmy, there's no choice but to do something productive instead. Had to go 100% cold turkey on Reddit to make that work though.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Exactly. I have a 1.5 hour daily time limit on Voyager, my Lemmy client, and I hit it every day, no problem. I do miss some of the niche subs but, every time I go back to ask a quick question, so many people are just so goddamned mean that I'm still very happy I left.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    slightly niche

    Sports is like the most mainstream of interests, and lemmy still doesn't have a critical mass of sports discussion in general, much less specific sports/leagues, specific teams, specific games/matches, or specific players.

    So I keep my reddit sports account.

    I also keep an account for my local city subreddit, and one for my career field, because Lemmy doesn't have those either.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'm the main poster on !football@sopuli.xyz. Most popular post on the planet.

    I guess people on Lemmy just don't like sports.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hell even !music@lemmy.world (as far as I can tell, the biggest one on the platform) only has like 10k subs, like a dozen posts today, and basically all of the posts were people just advertising music. Zero discussion.

    Even for things i would think are big, the communities here are still vanishingly small. I joined reddit in like 2014 and even back then it was more popular than Lemmy is now

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I see good discussions on

    Not really into music myself, I guess the issue might be that it's too generic? Even on Reddit I don't think /r/music was that busy, too many different genres

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