I’m a long time reddit user… I should say I’m quite hooked. But lemmy feels a lot quiet. My primary interests are electronics, embedded programming, piracy 😏 and selfhosting. Apart from the last community the others are quite deserted.

I’v been on and off since past 1 1/2 years. No change…

On the other hand Mastodon is going well. And I nurture the interactions there. Lemmy could be the same. I too feel Reddit is kinda on-to-your face and aggressive.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Check multiple instances. .ml may be the flagship instance, but a lot of communities are more busy on topic specific instances. Nice thing about lemmy and federation is that you don’t need to hop sites to get their communities.

    Programming.dev has most of the programming related comms. lemmy.dbzer0.com for piracy (and self-hosted AI). There’s a furry run instance, blahaj for LGBTQIA+ stuff, an anime focused instance, a literature focused one, a nsfw one, and lemmy.world for most else.