I guess movies would be a specific enough topic for me, but what I mean is people with a passion for, say, film noir shouldn’t wait for film noir fans to show up on a thread, they should just create the content and hope the others find it.
I want to be clear that I’m not judging any “time waster” type of communities. It’s fun to discuss random questions during downtime at work, it’s just not where a strong community is formed. Reddit lives on through everything precisely because of the niche communities, not because of r/pics or something

I don’t know, this kind of reasoning seems to create too much empty “content” and not enough real communities. Yeah, creating a bunch of generalist coms will get traffic and engagement, but the people there don’t actually share anything in common, it’s just a time waster.
I don’t want Lemmy to be a time wasting app, I want it to have genuine communities with valuable content instead of endless AskReddit, AITA, AIO, etc etc etc. Therefore, I’m of the opinion that people should create communities about their hobbies and create high quality content there, which will drive demand. If the community ends up too specific, they can always just cross post to a more generic one as well.

Yeah, seeing the kid die was awesome after he bragged about killing the dog hahahaha
Such a cool movie with great shots and coreography

Just watched John Wick last night. Pretty cool but honestly his motivation is kind of dumb. Yeah, the dog has great sentimental value but then you go and kill like 40 people and throw your life away? Maybe the point of the movie is that he never really got out of the life, indeed

It’s trending backwards tbh. Last year I got most of my friends to use Signal, but they for some reason uninstalled en masse this month

Free speech shouldn’t be a thing and the countries that go furthest with this “right” are dying because of it (looking at you, USA). Before anyone says “what about when it’s your opponents controlling the speech?”: they already do where I live and with my beliefs, and I still think it’s within the rights of the government to control speech

We also need people sharing their niche interests and creating discussion… Reddit thrives on these small communities that only find an accessible entrypoint on their platform.

It’s based off the best selling game ever with one of, if not the most dedicated and obsessed fanbase, and appeal to children. The Minecraft IP made so many people millionaires with content creation, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the same consumers would go see the official movie

I’m just waiting to be able to post pictures so I can create my snuff tobacco community. But I’m already posting some reviews elsewhere on the fediverse, on writeas. Unfortunately not federated with Lemmy

If you say it like that you are pretty much trying to aggravate them, though

Lemmy is missing so much stuff, it’s pretty tough to be only here if you want any content except (left wing) politics and tech stuff

I don’t know about stopping entirely. I built a pretty cool RAG system for internal use in my company, it very much facilitates navigating very large amounts of text data.

The really expensive ones are that price because of consoomers collecting the stuff. Same as action figures, funko pops, etc.

The PE firms buying the entire downtown are raising prices, not muh immigrants

Are they fitting the curve on like 3 points for 24 and 25? I don’t think it’s untrue but why publish this with such a low-hanging fruit to delegitimize the argument

Damn Windrunners

So refreshing seeing those words actually used in a public setting. Suicide instead of “self unaliving”, rape instead of “grape”, etc. Maybe I really am chronically online

They are more akin to Gestapo while MAGA as a whole is KKK, but we shouldn’t nitpick

Yup, and the arguments are so weirdly self centered, too. “I went through so much when I started college, what would I talk about with someone in HIGH SCHOOL?” (19-17 gap) Dude, you started smoking pot and went to a few frat parties, it’s not that deep. Also are these people just always discussing life experiences for some reason? No shared interests, hobby groups, common acquaintances?

Reddit would be outraged about an 18 yo dating a 16 yo, though. Some people have really weird and unrealistic views on this