Newbie here. My keyboard just completely crapped out (it’s been a long time coming). I have a wishlist of features that I was hoping to run by one of the techy communities to see if anyone could recommend a model, but none of the communities I’m seeing are geared toward those kinds of questions.
I can search communities, but if I don’t guess the correct title then I’m SOL… Is there a directory that doesn’t just list the communities, but actually categorizes them so I can more effectively find a hit?
Also is it worth posting in a ‘dead’ community? Unsure if a new post will have any visibility in places like /all if the post itself is in a community that no one frequents.
Learning the ropes here.
Thanks all!
That’s true, and I totally agree. However, many people don’t see it that way. When someone leaves Reddit, they tend to look for a drop-in replacement.
What they find here is a smaller place with early Reddit vibes, which is good and bad at the same time. They would like to hang out in a niche community with thousands of like-minded users, but they’ll only find a community with a hundred users and two posts a month. Market share isn’t really an indicator of quality, but it does tell you something about the amount of activity.
Kind of. When people leave Reddit, it’s for a reason. They obviously aren’t looking for a Reddit clone, since it would include the reason they left in the first place. People that leave Reddit for Lemmy either stay and rebuild their communities here, or they suck it up and go back to Reddit. There is no magic solution to add millions of users to Lemmy overnight, and honestly the existing community (and probably software) couldn’t handle that. This is people-powered (volunteer and federated) social networking as opposed to venture capital, IPOs and data centers at scale. Participate and enjoy growing a better future :)