Niche is like “heatpumps” or “succulents” or just any random topic that you want to learn more about.

For me, Reddit was always invaluable for getting initial information on anything I needed to check out for the first time.

1. Takes a bit to get set up with something passable. The default Lemmy UI is kinda removed and you have to figure out which apps to use to make it work for you. It can feel a little unpolished initially.
2. Niche communities just aren’t there yet. There is a lot of effort in creating them, but low engagement. It also doesn’t help that federation can mean communities on one topic are divided.
3. Content can get a bit stale. I feel I see fresh content for about an hour a day and then have to wait another day before the next batch. When I browse throughout the day I start to notice the same stories popping in my feed over and over. Sometimes this happens for days on ended with one story just kinda coming back.

The name is very unfortunate, not just because it’s weird, but also because they will likely face a lawsuit from the actual company GoTo.

https://app.goto.com/

Yeah the top comment makes no sense.

Haven’t heard much about them lately, which I just learned through this post is because they defederated from everyone else. Anything I’ve read about them is that they want a certain type of community, but beyond that they’re really vague. I avoided signing up for their instance because they seemed kind of uptight and I’d rather be in a place that is welcoming to more people with diverse interests. It’s going to be hard to replace Reddit and being too uptight about who joins just kind of seems like a recipe not to have enough people to have an active community.

What was iddqd? My guess is gore, but not interested to check.

Ooof, Dwindling

Reddit is talking about hiding Reddit from Google. I hope they do that because it will let Lemmy start to replace Reddit as the go to source for non-SEO, real-human answers.

Yeah or just niche subjects… like I did some hvac changes to my house recently and being able to research the subject and see questions and answers from others doing the same is super helpful. Lemmy doesn’t have that yet. We need to grow that.

At least a short time after… we still need to do more to build out more niche communities. It seems we have the big topics covered like news, politics, and memes, but what was great about Reddit was the ability to find a place to discuss and research niche stuff.

This needs to be built into the apps. Discovery is important.