Fediverse

You are missing the point that while you are free to do as you please, others also enjoy that same freedom. I don't WANT to make posts about fashion, cooking, politics, or non-techie things, but if you do, then by all means, please do that? Be the change that you would like to see in the world, and all that? I hope you find your bliss.

While I am at it though, "nobody talks about anything else" is objectively false - it is a "feels like" statement that falls prey to the hyperbolic fallacy that your POV is the only one that matters. In point of fact though, there are TONS of such discussions happening, right now, all across the Fediverse! Granted, probably not at the frequency that you want, or perhaps not as easily discoverable as you wanted. Have you considered that Reddit or Twitter or Facebook etc. may legit serve your needs better at the moment, and that's okay too?

For fantastic artwork here though, check out magazines such as m/digitalart@lemmy.world, or here's a post sharing a youtube video with nice music. For cooking, I see THOUSANDS of members making THOUSANDS of comments across MANY different places: here's a comprehensive list of those across all of kbin.social - e.g. m/food has 2243 members and 2209 posts, and m/food@behaw.org has >1k comments (looks like concentrated mostly in a few posts such as https://kbin.social/m/food@beehaw.org/t/71429/What-do-you-eat-that-other-people-think-is-odd). Surely people might even talk about politics here, a tiny bit?:-P

And now we both are breaking your rule: discussing things about the fediverse. This place is for those with an early-adopter mindset: we don't have daddy spez over here "taking care of us", so we must build our own things. Thus, we often resort to talking about actions that involve that process - which I for one don't think is a bad thing? It makes us better, to have these civil conversations about how to make things better moving forward! Although I think your post is poorly written, using inflationary emotional language that misses several points. Even so, I am absolutely LOVING how the comment section here isn't full of harassers saying things like "U SUK", but instead people offering constructive feedback, both positive and negative. To me, THAT is the difference between this place vs. Reddit that makes me enjoy being here more than there. Even though, admittedly yes, it does have FAR less content, and it is all of a biased nature (towards the topics that we here enjoy posting about).

Have you ever been on a social network under construction? The first people joining are the geeks who talk about geek stuff and the geek stuff now is the fediverse and microservers. It has always been like this.

We don't need anything. We discuss based on interests. Talking for filling blank space is what led reddit to what it has become.

Don't be in such a hurry to see your network filled with people talking for the sake of talking. We will come to this point and this will be the moment when we leave.

Of the top 10 posts currently on my front page, 2 are about the Fediverse, 1 is about Kbin specifically, and the other 7 are completely different topics including politics, space, video games and art.

Maybe you should look for magazines/communities other than /m/fediverse if you want to talk about things other than the fediverse.

Most of the posts I see are not about the fediverse. This one is though.

Be the change you want to see, start posting about things you want to see here.

We need more Fediverse users posting pictures of pomeranians, please:

https://feddit.uk/c/pomeranians

The irony of this post is palpable.

All of this.
A friend of mine always tells me this is what keeps them from really enjoying it and I agree, the topics have a very "elitist" feeling, almost like if anything mundane just might be ignored or shunned.

I think it's a self-selection. To join the Fediverse, you usually need to be aware enough of social media culture to find out about it. So you get a bunch of people on social media who like talking about social media and what's going on. I mean, Mastodon is full of weird hobbyists in the hashtags, but during migrations we get slammed with talk about social media.

We do need more of the hobby boards to be populated. The gaming boards, /m/gaming, games@lemmy.world, are pretty active but the niche boards like /m/GirlGamer are still quiet. !cat is pure joy and very active.

I think it would be nice to keep the social media talk to relevant boards. We've been flooding the tech and internet and fediverse boards with threads about Threads, maybe we should make a community like /m/Reddit or /m/Twitter specifically FOR those conversations about Threads and let /m/tech and /m/internet talk about the large amount of other stuff going on.

Nobody goes to Instagram to talk about Instagram, nobody goes to Tiktok to talk about Tiktok, nobody goes to Facebook (at all).

That's because the companies take care of the techie stuff, while in the fediverse, we have to do that. So, it's natural, I guess 🤷.

The fediverse will never appeal to the masses if we don't embrace a wide variety of hobbies and interests.

I don't think most of us actually want that. Then, it'll become just like FB or Insta... the crowd I mean. The point is to attract the right audience, not just any audience.

We need people here talking about cooking. We need people here talking about fashion.

See, that is exactly what I want to get away from... you have that on TikTok and FB/Insta. That is exactly what I don't want to see here. Of course, anyone can open a comm like that, I probably wouldn't block it, but short clips of someone roasting hotdogs with cheese and calling that a super easy and healthy meal... nah, that is not for me.

Fashion as well. Those topics are for influencer wannabe types. That's not what we're trying to build here, are we?

Yes, if you go to /m/fashion right now, it's... barely there.

Apparently, people around here are not interested in that topic 🤷. I'm sure a comm like that would be very popular on Insta.

This is the "content" people are craving.

Once again, the kind of people we're not trying to attract anyway.

I think this is a side effect of a lot of us browsing “all” right now combined with the fact that most people are actively transitioning.

I’ve set up magazines for my interests and subscribed to the ones that already exist, but interaction is low or nonexistent except for on Beehaw where there are only a limited number of broad-topic communities and people will see and read what you post. Right now, you’re pages deep minutes after you post. Until people more effectively curate their feeds and spend time trying to interact with subject based content like they did on Reddit I think a lot of us will just be typing into the void waiting for friends (or enemies) to appear

I would like to talk about indie games. Is there a good place for that?

I think, this might be due to the currently ongoing federation issues.

I too see mostly fediverse, nostupidquestions stuff in my feed, but once the dust settles, and a better suggestion algorithm comes into pleace, I'm sure the feed will be much more diverse than now.

I've noticed a few other Max Headroom AVIs on my Kbin browsing journeys, so I want to create a community that actively encourages and promotes using Max as your avatar in some form or another. The broadcast hijacker counts too.

Do you know who created the original fediverse?

(Sits in chair backwards and flips hat backwards)

Jesus Christ.

I don't think you can really stop these types of topics from getting popular, because it's the crowd that the Fediverse attracts unfortunately. I tried to refer friends but the Fediverse system is too unnecessary for their needs and I respect that. Unless there's some way to simplify the entire concept, or ways for newcomers to be easily onboarded, I fear all of this is going to fall into the same niche hole as the Linux community.