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DAE feel a bit out of the pop culture loop using Lemmy as their primary social media? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I hear you. I could go on about how pop culture is lame etc and not really answer your question but I think, the more the merrier. If I'm not interested in the Lakers, I can ignore it and scroll past it. Easy. It would be nice for people who want to discuss the Lakers to have a place to discuss the Lakers, though.

Honestly this place is starting to piss me off a little bit sometimes. Because it's like the users here actually want 'All' to just be politics all the time and for there to be no variety to anything. You can talk about missing features from Reddit and think of ideas to make this place a little better and you'll get responses like "No. Why would anyone want more features? I know that I don't have to personally use them if I don't like them but I prefer pretending it's 1998, so no one can have them. And why would we want more users? I like empty communities with no activity. And then complaining about empty communities with no activity."

So I dunno. It's gonna be interesting to see if this place actually grows or if it just stagnates. I'm right there with you though. I'd be more than happy to see pop and sports and things I'm not really interested in because then there's a bigger chance of things that I am actually interested in taking off here.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Honestly this place is starting to piss me off a little bit sometimes.

    What you describe is a vocal minority. It's pretty obvious that most of the users wouldn't wind getting the place getting at least twice as active.

    Not sure if I mentioned it to you, but you are aware of !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ? I'm going to start daily threads there to promote non-political communities

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You are a shining light in this place when it comes to promoting growth. So just so we're clear, because I've discussed features and stuff with you a couple of times now, I was not picturing you when I made my comment here. You're more or less carrying this place on your back as far as guiding and encouraging new users goes. So also thank you, you rock.

    And yup. I've seen you promoting this community lol and I'm already subscribed!

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Politics flood All because that is what most people post and upvote here.

    Building a new community requires yelling into the void for a few months and heavy cross promoting to get any traction.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    a few months

    Depends on the community. We started !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com a few days ago and reached 1000 users.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I hear you. I could go on about how pop culture is lame etc and not really answer your question but I think, the more the merrier. If I’m not interested in the Lakers, I can ignore it and scroll past it. Easy. It would be nice for people who want to discuss the Lakers to have a place to discuss the Lakers, though.

    Thank you for this! I got a few comments being like "Why would you want to, pop culture is vapid" and like...I know T_T, but that doesn't make ME vapid. Some people go on COD or whatever to blow off steam after work, I just want to go on my non-corporate social media to discuss how the Lakers traded away their future for AD and somehow STILL CAME OUT ON TOP (I have been praying for their downfall my entire life and it continues to not work).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    "Why would you want to, pop culture is vapid"

    A lot of these people think they're better than you for having more s o p h i s t i c a t e d and mature, adult-like interests.

    I won't challenge them directly, I guess, because it's the entire thread and that would be aggressive, but it is rooted in insecurity.

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