How can we make it more popular?

  • rr7@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    45
    arrow-down
    12
    ·
    2 years ago

    All this endless nagging of politics, ideology, capitalism, billionaries, tankies, right-wing, left-wing, Desantis and Trump are slowly making me lose interest in Lemmy. You are ruining Lemmy honestly

    • Hazdaz@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      19
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 years ago

      There is the old cliche that during holiday dinner there is always that one right-wing uncle who never shuts the fuck about politics (these days being during Thanksgiving and how great Trump is). Everyone finds what this uncle is saying is cringe as hell.

      Well, that’s kind of what Lemmy is becoming, but for the far-left.

      If it is in a political community, it is one thing. And to a large degree, I might even agree with most left-of-center views.

      But there is an endless stream of edgy pro-commie and similar posts and a dearth of other light-hearted posts to counter balance it. Almost all communities outside the ones listed above get no traffic, so there’s no point in trying to start a conversation about cars or DIY projects or electronics. Hell, even the NSFW communities on Lemmy are rather lame.

    • StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 years ago

      I still have no idea what a tankie is, and I have no idea why the top active posts are always tankie this and tankie that. I’ve tried to filter as many of those communities and users as I can, but now all I’m left with is software developer memes (yes, you have the hardest job ever, we get it) and requests for FOSS alternatives to FTP my Linux repo PowerShell GitHub thingy in privacy.