The biggest problem people run into is a lack of thier niche communities here, and that's mostly due to a lack of overall numbers. Reddit, while a festering hellhole, still has that. I'd be thrilled to see that change one day, but it's definitely gonna be a while.

I’m getting tired of Musk, left wing news stories and left wing memes myself

I’ll join these communities simply because lemmy seems so one dimensional looking through my feed.

If there is non-political content here, I’d appreciate it being brought more to the front, at least for my own feed.

I’m hoping for more diverse topics than what seems to hit all day after day. To the point where I’m usually not even logging in as often as I could be.

The topics are boring, one sided and just … lame

If you're interested in gardening or ecology, the entire Solarpunk instance (slrpnk.net) is full of great munis for you:

!farming@slrpnk.net

!diy@slrpnk.net

!zerowaste@slrpnk.net

!composting@slrpnk.net

!reclamation@slrpnk.net

!cdr@slrpnk.net

!animal_husbandry@slrpnk.net

!soilscience@slrpnk.net

!diy@beehaw.org

!greenspace@beehaw.org

!righttorepair@midwest.social

!right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

And I think the following is a comprehensive list of cycling munis:

!utilitycycling@slrpnk.net

!bicycles@lemmy.ca

!bicycling@lemmy.ml

!bikecommuting@lemmy.ml

!bicycle@lemmy.ml

!chibike@midwest.social

!fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

!bikewrench@lemmy.world

!bicycling@lemmy.world

Im waiting for niche instances like those dedicated to specific video games to take off. They exist right now but have approximately zero traffic

Nice little PSA, good stuff!

This doesn't address your question directly OP, but something I've been doing here (as a sad former redditor of over a decade) is to relentlessly upvote anything I like or that contributes to communities I'm subscribed to. I was more of a lurker on reddit but I think if we can push more niche communities and posts into the "everything" feed this problem will hopefully resolve itself eventually through organic growth.

Great list!

I’ve been in tech for thirty years and my answer is, no, I don’t. I saved your message along with some others that I hope to read in depth one day because it seems helpful. I just have less and less of a desire to fuck with shit anymore. I remember how excited I was about tech at various points in my career. I used to be so into tech. Anymore, I get off work supervising over twenty other folks on implementing, managing, and maintaining disparate technical solutions and products on and off prem along with a slew of cross functional organizations and my desire to do anything tech dies just after the surface. So I dumped Reddit because I agree with the reasons and jumped on lemmy. I use wefef. That’s as far as I’ve gone. I won’t use reddit anymore out of principle but I miss it.

As another example, I used to pirate the shit out of stuff. Into the scene big time. Became ‘successful’ and subscribed (and invested) in all the services. Just recently canceled all my subscriptions and moved to real debrid with torrentio or w/e. I was able to get it going in an hour and it makes sense. Hell I’d pay $100 a month for what I have now but whatever. It’s not about the money as much as the ease of experience. I keep Netflix because it makes it easier to find stuff I want to watch but that’s all.

I know I could sit down and spend an afternoon getting my shit setup to better deliver content to me across instances and everything if I’d just do it. Instead I just see what’s in the standard feed this evening and start doing some crosswords before bed instead. I think I’m just burnt out on technology. Kudos to what everyone is building and all the investment being put into educating folks though. I don’t think I have any critique other than it’s just too much more difficult for me than Reddit was to find everything and I’m getting old and tech disinterested.

I really appreciate and understand the value of federating services but to claim theirs no value, big picture community wise, in having a central access point to content is willfully ignorant of a broad user base in my opinion. None is this stuff is new, it’s just a new wave of human nature with updated technology.

Most folks barely know how to utilize a web browser, that doesn’t mean that they have less value or less interesting or compelling information to provide the world; it just means it won’t be shared on the platform, or even if it is they likely won’t be heard.

For broad user adoption systems need to be designed for our grandparents not our peers because most folks are a lot closer to the former than the latter, even our peers in tech.

!cocktails@midwest.social is one I'm hoping will grow with time. As is, we get probably a couple posts a week, and honestly, roughly the same amount of comments as on r/cocktails, despite it's much higher user and post count, so it seems like people are enjoying the engagement. If you're into fun drinks, stop by!

I really wanted to be a part of CasualConversation on here, but my posts and comments aren't submitting. Not sure if it's a glitch or if it's an intended effect of the federation thing.

Simple: lurk until I see something I like, then follow that community if I want them in my filtered feeds

Efficient? No. But I also never looked up communities for Reddit so 🤷🏻‍♂️

Thankya! I subbed to over half of those just now.

Lebowski memes and more at

!achievers@lebowski.social

If you're a fan of XCOM, I made and have been slowly trying to grow a comm for it here:

!xcom@lemmy.world

It would be cool to have posts like this regularly so that people can find niche subscriptions, because I think that's what people are craving.