There are definitely high-IQ car guys and they are soul of car forums/reddits. But based on my observation of the diagnostic and critical thinking skills of the other 90%, they are probably never going to figure out how to use Lemmy.
And somehow we need both types (maybe for sample size?) in order to have a thriving niche community about anything.
niche communities that don’t exist on lemmy.
There are some pretty basic communities that are non existent or dead on Lemmy and I hate it
A good example is the Usenet community, in Lemmy there is barely any activity, on reddit people post at least once a week.
Use RSS to read them.
You can’t participate through RSS.
Correct. Less engagement for them, still can get your fix of reading specific things. A read only option to lurk is better than missing everything.
I suppose, but anything I’d consider a niche community probably has worthwhile discussions, questions, answers, etc. They aren’t read-only.
This is the reason. I can get all the Linux discussion I want on Lemmy, but discussions about an Acura RSX? That community does not exist here.
Yeah… I also miss doom-scrolling unixporn and ergomechkeyboards in here.
TF2, a very popular game, is barely present here! Let alone niche indies!
There is zero car talk on Lemmy and it fucking sucks ass.
There are definitely high-IQ car guys and they are soul of car forums/reddits. But based on my observation of the diagnostic and critical thinking skills of the other 90%, they are probably never going to figure out how to use Lemmy.
And somehow we need both types (maybe for sample size?) in order to have a thriving niche community about anything.
Well that’s just not true…
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We talk about how much better the world would be without cars. That qualifies as car talk, right?
Tbf, for me, that’s more of a forum territory. I wasn’t even using the subreddit for Aprilia motorcycles, but been on Apriliaforum for years