How can we make it more popular?

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This. I feel the drop in users are the people who came here thinking it was a place for “free speech” and are upset for being downvoted for shit comments.

    In reality it’s probably people who checked out the site, saw its mostly software/tech and political communities, a handfull of communities for trans people and reposted memes, and a dash of “the West will fall and China will prevail” communist communities, and decided to leave.

    Also the porn is hidden too well, and even when you figure out how to find it, the porn that exists is 90% furry and hentai. Reddit has a huge amateur porn community that I’m certain keeps much of their users coming back.

      • NightOwl@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        I recommend Connect for lemmy if you have Android. Can put in filters to block communities that contain any keywords and posts that contain key words. And block entire instances.

        When it comes to social media filtering is important to curate out the filler you don’t want.

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          1 year ago

          It’s not about filters. It’s the community it self.

          News in Lemmy is biased at best.

          • NightOwl@lemmy.one
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            1 year ago

            What place isn’t. If you want unbiased aggregate of news the only option is a rss. There isn’t a place for an unbiased social media for news if it is user submitted and driven by voting or algorithm based.

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              1 year ago

              I said biased at best because it’s cancer at worse. To me, it’s pure democats media and everything should be reported as such.

              I live in the other side of the world so I don’t care much about US politics btw.

        • Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          A great feature, but with a small userbase making a small amount of content, filtering those things out leaves you with not much left.

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        1 year ago

        Makes sense as yes, Elon and republicans fucking suck. Not sure what else one would say about them.

      • TeaHands@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Definitely recommend subscribing to stuff you’re more interested in and browsing that way. All is always going to be a bit lowest common denominator, same as on every similar site.

      • DudePluto@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Damn dude, that was such a spot-on summary I feel like I don’t need to log in to lemmy for a month lol