But browsing active >95% of posts are by a user with literally “bot” in their name.
Might as well be reading the Google feed if I’m going to be reading a specific agenda by something, at least that’s based on my interests and I can trust Google to put profit over everything, making their motives clearer than whatever the fuck is going on on Lemmy. (Cough tankies cough cough)
You can filter out the bot accounts in your Lemmy settings
But then it’s just one post a week or something. Then I might as well be reading the local newspaper.
It’s not so bad, I’d much rather see a few posts people want to talk about then see many posts nobody wants to talk about. Then Lemmy just becomes a RSS reader
Idk man, I had some niche interests that just don’t exist on Lemmy although Reddit had a sizable community. Drug gardening for one.
You can find a little bit of basic weed growing on Lemmy, but it’s about the same scale and activity that some small forums I was on in 2005 had. As Opposed to Reddit where there’s people trying different cacti grafting styles, trying projects to grow even the hardest to grow shrooms, esoteric plants which don’t really get you high but are culturally valued/legal, etc.
And that’s just one interest.
Here there’s like three interests, Star Trek, Linux, and a third equally generic one you can enter here yourself