I loved the original idea. You’d join with a college email and you got to find other people at your school. Once they opened the flood gates it was never the same.

Is it the mantis? I had to use kagi and set it to fediverse for it to pop up for me. On firefox and google it it nowhere to be seen for me.

That’s assuming we’re able to draw the people with answers here into the fediverse, in the long run.

Niche communities happened naturally over time on reddit as well. You need to grow the larger base communities first, since you’ll be gathering the numbers there. Then you branch off. The only other option is for you yourself to build up the niche communities by posting more often, it’s a lot of work.

And a lot of those people arrived when those communities were already built up on reddit.

This seems to be a type of post that keeps popping up more and more. Some people are venting and mourning their loss of reddit, which I get… but others have a sense of entitlement, of wanting to have things without needing to work for it. They want someone else to put in the blood, sweat and tears and be the ones to reap the benefits.

Imagine pilgrims coming to early North America and no one wanting to participate once they arrived, because no pre-built cities exited? We wouldn’t have a country in the US (though I’m sure that must have been the attitude of some)

This is usually how it goes. The larger communities keep growing until they can branch off into the more niche ones.

I see this a lot too and to me it mimics the 7 stages of grief. It sounds like he just passed anger and is at bargaining.

I think if most of the reddit transplants (myself a transplant) can’t arrive at acceptance, they end up going back.

Didn’t even think to try scaled. It most definitely is showing more diverse posts. Downside is that it brings back a lot of non english speaking communities. Still a good option for exploring though!

I knew about most of these, but had not stumbled upon casual conversation yet, thank you!

Anyway to make the all page more diverse? I feel like it’s just 10 communities that appear there and it’s basically broken down to tech, memes and politics. I’m on lemmy.world and ysint voyager. Every once in a while I see stuff from sh.itjust.works.

I know when I used to use kbin, you first had to let your device sync with other instances before they started populating onto your feed.