I really like it here. However, almost 90% of my feed is either posts about Reddit, or Lemmy/kbin meta analysis. We need actual content and communities over here!
I'm sure there were countless posts just like this days after the digg migration to Reddit. Most people here right now are still interested in what's happening at Reddit. As that fades, so too will these posts.
I've been trying my best to make Non Reddit Related content here and commenting on Non Reddit Related, do your part. Post a Non Reddit Related Meme, Comment on Non Reddit Related Posts. Do your part
Also trying to do my part by posting / commenting when I normally would've written something then deleted my comments.. this is good motivation to participate :)
goto Magazines and subscribe to some high population zines that focus on something else, then goto your settings and make your home page show subs by default.
Stop using "All" "Hot/Active/Top" feeds and go search for actual content communities you want, by browsing the community lists, searching for your interests, or looking at new. Then just go to "Subscribed".
You need to subscribe to some communities/magazines and contribute on them. Reddit news is getting upvoted the most because it matters to everyone on here, whereas content related to some niche community only matters to that niche community. There are already lots of great conversations happening in the fediverse of Lemmy and Kbin, they just can't compete with Reddit news for the front page.
People seem to want a lot of things from the fediverse right now but the key to most of them is patience. The platform and userbase are both unstable. Lemmy and kbin are both unfinished software that need more time and effort, and/or more devs. There isn't any getting around that.
As for the users, there are a huge amount of new ones every day, most coming from reddit, and they want to talk about what is fresh and relevant to them. We won't be able to get off the topic of reddit until it stops sending migrators. Additionally, people aren't quite certain how to use this space yet, and haven't finished finding/setting up the communities they want. It is going to take time, possibly more so than the development of lemmy and kbin.
Mate we're all a bunch of overly excited kids with a cool new toy, once we're all here for a few weeks and the magic wears off these threads will die down, just give it time and let people have about their new toy
I agree. I think I'm just gonna leave Lemmy and come back in a few months. This is almost entirely just a platform where people went to shit on reddit.
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