I love interacting with you all very much, and I know there’s a lot of important political issues in the world going on right now. I love my Linux Mint setup, I support Palestine and trans people, and I’ve blazed through all of OG Star Trek, TNG, Voyager, and am now on DS9.
But I also want to discuss Luka to the Lakers and Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile and getting 5 Grammy’s, a tour, and a Superbowl halftime show out of it, you know? I wanna talk about your country’s Eurovision entries. Am I just not in the right communities?
Thank fucking god. The next person to say Kendrick Lamar will get hands laid on them 'stat
Huh? Why?
Because I’m fucking tired of it, why do you think
You can just scroll away? There is no Kendrick Lamar content on Lemmy, and if you’re talking about seeing it on other corporate social media, you can filter/block it out quite easily.
I just bought an hd antenna for free over the air channels. It’s apparent the elderly are whom those channels cater to. There is layers of pop culture and you connect to the layer you want to connect with.
I’m…not really sure what you mean here…but I think I understand and appreciate the sentiment?
I think they might mean use the tools for the job
I read it as: Get in the game, you are missing out on Days of our lives, and kitchen gadget commercials.
One does not simply “miss out” on Days of Our Lives
It’s a bit of a mixed bag, and the real thing is that there are other people who want to talk about it here. Trust me, I run a Taylor Swift community here, and it is an uphill battle - but it’s worth it because there are people who care and enjoy the community.
If you’re up for it, choose one or two communities and then nurture them. When reddit imploded 2 years ago we came over and we had a ton of people open hundreds of communities and then abandon them, people just opened them left and right and then expected a large audience the next day. Instead expect it to follow the 90-9-1 rule. Out of a hundred people, 90 of them will lurk and never participate. 9 will comment, and one will post. You will need to be the one to post for a while - but it will grow over time.
Take care of the communities, let them know you’re here to stay, and that it’s a place where you can chat about it. We’re a lot of nerds here, but nerds can also like football, there’s [email protected] that is usually pretty quiet but obviously people subscribed to it.
And if you’re a swiftie make sure to stop by [email protected]
Is there a “pop culture” comm somewhere? Something more specific than like, “usa” and more general than e.g. hiphopheads?
I have a pop music one at [email protected] but don’t know of a more generic one
I maintain that we need to be funneling engagement into fewer communities. I mod [email protected] but I probably shouldn’t. It should probably be co-located with a 3D printing community, but the name makes anybody doing subtractive or 2D feel excluded.
In a perfect world, maybe there’d be a “Makers” community that was, sure, 70% 3D printing, but the other 30% wouldn’t feel like they needed to leave and shout into a void, and people into 3D printing would get to see cool shit done with other tools.
The APIpocalypse resulted in a land grab followed immediately by “Wagons East!” back to Reddit by many of the new mods, leaving us with every named neighborhood we might want, yet feeling Balkanized because you feel like you should respect the communities’ boundaries, but there isn’t anyone there in the “perfect” one and likely won’t be for some time.
and unfortunately no good way to say “This community is closed, we are all over at othercommunity!”
Well, there is: https://lemmy.world/post/24312613
Yeah, and it’s certainly not anything wrong that the users and mods did in creating the communities that did gain traction. Just one of the unique challenges of setting up shop here.
Dedicated comms should be popping off of more general ones like so many Mogwai spores, but things happened differently and it is what it is.
I’ve seen a lot of communities shift instances and change names. At least that seems to work here, so I wouldn’t feel too bad about disrespecting the unmoderated ones.
Obviously the active ones I would stick with
Yeah, it’s just an administrative and “marketing” question. You would never want to harm a community that’s doing well. One just sort of wishes that the reddit refugees (myself included) had been a bit more thoughtful in how the Fediverse world work most efficiently at the size it is.
I like the analogy that it’s a small and slightly isolated town, but one where people are pretty friendly. There’s plenty of people to talk to, but the only issue is, say, if you wanna talk sports you may need to find the couple of folks at the coffee shop who actually like sports and hang out with them whether they’re talking about your favorite team or not. There’s the Linux factory in town, though, and most of us have at least a passing interest in the goings-on there. 🤣
In a perfect world, maybe there’d be a “Makers” community that was, sure, 70% 3D printing, but the other 30% wouldn’t feel like they needed to leave and shout into a void, and people into 3D printing would get to see cool shit done with other tools.
Have you tried reaching out to the mods of [email protected] ?
Also, I just created a thread to promote manual hobbies communities on [email protected] , feel free to add yours!
Hiphopheads community hosted on my home instance, and I had no idea it even existed. . Lemmy is never living down the poor community discoverability allegations.
Kudos on trying to keep the TS community alive here. I don’t really follow her outside of whatever hits the radio/wider pop culture news, but I remember when I moved to Lemmy your community would hit my front page and I was insanely jealous of everyone kee-keeing together in the comments. Maybe you’re right and I should start shitposting about my hobbies on Lemmy, but dang it’s hard going from a consumer to an active poster in any social media lol.
Lemmy is never living down the poor community discoverability allegations.
Feel free to join [email protected] for regular recommendation threads
It really is, but I’ve found that a surprisingly large amount of people like what I like. I also mod [email protected] and honestly when I post there it’s mostly just screenshots. People then ask questions and it’s a good time, if news drops or a video drops I’ll just paste a link in there, something to get the discussion going. There’s also some other great members who do similar. That’s really all it takes to get a small community off the ground
I need to redload reddit or some frontend so I can steal interesting links from there to post, one day ill be bored and feel like growing some communities
When you want to, join us on [email protected]
I saw you commented several times on this thread, so just want to take the time here and thank you for all that you do to promote Lemmy communities and fedi in general, Blaze! You’re one of the people who’s efforts is what keeps me using Lemmy as my primary form of online engagement.
Thank you for your nice comment!
Thank you so much for running the Taylor Swift & popheads community here!! It was one of your other comments somewhere that really inspired me start posting and commenting around the fediverse. It does take work to cultivate a community, which I have taken for granted being just a lurker in reddit/in general.
Thanks! Yeah it does take quite a bit, patience is the key. Originally I was excited that 200 people followed, but then learning that it means only a handful of comments will pop each time. It goes constantly though, and that always feels great!
No, because Lemmy isn’t social media. It’s a link aggregate.
Social media requires you to know who the other people are, or at least that the identity and personality of the other people posting matters to what you consume. Apart from one or two attention-seeking exceptions, I almost never notice who posted something.
In fact, Lemmy being a Reddit clone, you may remember Reddit stirring controversy for years as they did try to become social media - adding avatars, followers functions, chat groups, etc.; none of which really suit the platform or its audience. Perhaps as the audience has changed they’ve gotten what they wanted.
If “social media” is just the ability to comment anonymously on Internet content and argue with strangers, then the guest book on my Geocities soccer page was social media.
most of social media is anonymous, ill remember you theoctonaut from mander, that makes this social media, I remember some users and see them pop up all the time, theres a social aspect, its not just sharing links
Yes, although a lot of current pop culture stuff is so vapid, commercialized, and unstimulating that I could not care less about it.
I’d like a good place to keep up with and search for local events, follow local businesses, and discuss hobbies and lesser known series but without being beholden to a corrupt billionaire who owns the social medium and without rewarding bigotry and mis/dis/malinformation with advertising revenue. I’ve found a couple of Discord servers that only partially fill some of these niches. Some of these problems can be resolved by growing Lemmy communities around certain topics, but I don’t think most social media/marketing managers would publicize on media with relatively few eyeballs.
Does anybody have a plug-in or a web function that can, for example, transfer a company’s Facebook page’s post history offsite? Also looking for a good live feed of events in an area? (I tried Eventbrite once but I got scammed with the refund denied)
I’ve been thinking today about how the mainstream means of mass communication and organization have been taken by corporations and grifters who manipulate them to algorithmically reward ignorance and bigotry, and how these social functions need to be seized back for effective and lasting progress to be made. Education is next on the chopping block.
I mean, post the content and people will come? I think a lot of people would have commented on these things if they saw the thread
This is true, but 1) It’s hard going from a passive consumer of a community to a facilitator of discussions (I have anxiety issues lol) but also 2) It’s hard to even know/find if there’s a community TO post in, you know?
Maybe I’m just a Lemmy noob after almost two years here, but I do find community discoverability harder here, and there’s always discussions of fractionating communities even further. I don’t want to risk creating a new community, take up server space that my instance host generously provides, and then find out it was redundant.
DAE is what? I know, but i need reminding.
DAE is short for Does anyone else.
Dysfunctional American English
Dunited Arab Emirates
Done ate Errything
Dongus Anus Ensertus
There it is. You win
“Does anyone else” sorry, I was trying to keep the title snappy
I know that why i asked for clarification. Thank you!
I love that the snark isn’t here yet. Lemmy still seems friendly
Oh snark is here in spades. Im guilty of it a lot myself.
Yes, lemmy is so small sadly.
Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile
OH SHIT! That’s right! I forgot! Kendrick was doing the half time show! 😂
Thank you for posting this! I gotta watch the half time show now!
Watch for the enormous shit eating grin behind the microphone when he says “Hey Drake” on stage.
💥💥💥
I’m of multiple minds on it, but the short of it is, I don’t feel out of the pop culture loop, I know I’m out of it being around here.
On one hand I don’t mind that, as I’m frustrated by pop culture essentially being mass market culture. It’s not typically something that arises from people interacting and creating together from shared passions, it’s produced and pushed by big businesses. Nothing novel about this observation or frustration, but it’s a vibe I resonate with.
On the other I know if ever you want people to shift into a popular culture produced in the alternative manner mentioned, you gotta accept the transitional situation of entertaining the mass market culture alongside what you’re trying to cultivate. It’s too jarring for many to switch over entirely, and frankly there’s not enough contemporary non-commercial culture to keep people’s interest to justify any attempts at a complete switch.
So in a way, yeah, but also I’m more bummed that it’s so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.
obligatory
'cause capitalism trying to monopolize everybody’s time and make everyone feel they gotta make everything make money
This comment resonated with me a lot. I think I am in the same boat as you, and one of the reasons I am happy to use Lemmy as my primary method of social media/online engagement/whatever is that I am SO SICK of having algorithms pushing what I should like or be discussing. But also, people who are engaged enough to think like this are sometimes a bit too serious and (sorry to use a potentially dated term) I miss the normies a little bit, lol.
So in a way, yeah, but also I’m more bummed that it’s so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.
This is so real. Unironically, I miss BBS communities where you had threads/subcategories for whatever niches you had, and then when something big happened it would get pinned to the top and EVERYONE would swarm to it. Discord tries to do that, but it’s remotely not the same.
…should we go back to BBS?
Piefed has Topics, e.g.: https://piefed.social/topic/sports-fitness
They will probably improve that in the future
Be the change. Start discussing those things, and others will eventually discuss it with you.
The problem, I find, is that it’s very discouraging to do here. Much of the Fediverse is completely averse to mainstream media/pop culture. Even if you create your own community on your own instance, others will see it in their feed and will downvote it and tell you why they don’t like it. And whether or not those users outnumber the users who would actually want to engage with that type of content, they are definitely the louder group.
Of course it’s discouraging because any deviation from a norm requires change, and people by their nature hate change.
But I’ve been on the Fediverse for quite a few years, and nothing moves the needle like stubbornness.
I haven’t been in the loop since 2016.
I don’t feel out of it, but I also use tiktok, ig reels (suprisingly amazing algorithim, least controversial, my 3d edm visual profile (amateur af) only sees 3d and edm reels for the most part, doesn’t really favor low follower counts but its great for popular stuff.
I miss old twitter, wondering if any mastodon or pleroma instance is like that. Sharkey seems more tumblr ppls vibe. It was always current and fun to talk in.
Reddits out of it forsure, ppl can identify a redditor and its never a compliment lol. I always hated when ppl called me on, but they were spot on. Lemmy’s not too bad, ppl just dont seem to care about pop culture here, might be due to lack of communities or posters, gotta be the change you want to see in growing communities like this.
I need to start posting more stuff on the edm ones, I feel out of the loop there and want them to be as active as reddit was.
I do think if any of those pop culture communities get abnend because of a controversy they might come here, isnt there a defederated drama community?
Ngl, Mastodon is closer to feeling like Lemmy than Twitter. I know it’s heresy to say here, but Bluesky is probably the closest feeling to old Twitter, including the random 3am hole pics on “What’s Hot” lol. I scroll there, but I don’t post bc I find talking on Lemmy a nicer experience tbh.
I also find it interesting that you find IG Reels a better algo for you than Tiktok, because most people say their Reels algo is a MESS. You must have curated your follows and likes pretty well.
Yes and I love it
I feel it, but to me it’s kind of positive.
Like, I can belong to a social group without being bombarded with nonsense that is just noise meant to distract.
It’s the same kind of liberation and control I felt when switching to Linux (since you mentioned it) - one decision, and the entirety of Windows drama is no longer relevant to me. I’m part of a much smaller, much more concentrated group of real people, in a sort of blissful silence to which I only admit the information and people I find worth my attention.
I dual boot Mint and Win11…maybe that’s my problem…
