I really like it here. However, almost 90% of my feed is either posts about Reddit, or Lemmy/kbin meta analysis. We need actual content and communities over here!

Give it time. People who are joining lemmy/kbin for the first time are incredibly interested in disussing this particular topic. I think by the end of July, we'll truly start to see this community take shape.

All your posts are about Reddit. Be the change you want to see. I’ll be there to upvote it.

It's a fresh subject so people are still hyped around it. Plus it's drama, it's fun! I often joke that we're watching it burn and eating popcorn.

But even if you ignore it, there's a fair bit of activity in other communities. For example I've been posting somewhat often about food, linguistics, anime, manga, and stuff like this. (And even explaining what an "axion" was supposed to be, while seeing illegally smol cats in another comm.)

Mate we're all a bunch of overly excited kids with a cool new toy, once we're all here for a few weeks and the magic wears off these threads will die down, just give it time and let people have about their new toy

For me that is not necessarily the case. Over the last week or so, I have been using sites like Lemmy Explorer and Lemmy Community-Browser to find communities that have my interest. I have also been browsing 'all' using the 'new' sort option and have been finding many new interesting communities that way.

Stop using "All" "Hot/Active/Top" feeds and go search for actual content communities you want, by browsing the community lists, searching for your interests, or looking at new. Then just go to "Subscribed".

You can always block the reddit-specific communities to remove them from your feed. At least temporarily, if nothing else.

Personally, I wanna hear about reddit, so I subbed to them, but I'm subbed to A LOT of other stuff too, so my feed is more than diverse enough for me.

The dust just needs to settle. Imagine an actual physical migration had just occurred. Chances are people will be talking a lot about that before a new and unique culture emerges, but give it time and we'll find our way.

So unsubscribe from these places that you don't find interesting, and sub to things you're interested in instead. Literally that simple.

• Search on lemmyverse.net etc
• If you're into any kind of crafting, check out my latest posts because I've made a megalist of creative communities to help people navigate
• If you're into anything gamedev related, check out the pinned post at [email protected] (Lemmy / Kbin) for another megalist of interesting stuff

Okay, I'll call your bluff. I recently started a magazine called Old Games 4 Old Gamers. It's got everything to do with video games and nothing to do with the Reddit implosion. If you want original content on Kbin, it's a good place to start. (Also, I could use the hits.)

https://kbin.social/m/OldGames4OldGamers

Give it time, and be one of the people who contribute thoughtful posts on the topics you're interested in.

Honestly, just give it time. I'll stabilise eventually.

Try joining more niche communities: This stuff will be all over the general/meme comms for a while as reddit continues to melt down.

You need to subscribe to some communities/magazines and contribute on them. Reddit news is getting upvoted the most because it matters to everyone on here, whereas content related to some niche community only matters to that niche community. There are already lots of great conversations happening in the fediverse of Lemmy and Kbin, they just can't compete with Reddit news for the front page.

It's about subbing to anything in your wheel house and sorting by new. That's the only way it made since before the migration and still does. At some point it wont make much sense, but not quite yet.

People seem to want a lot of things from the fediverse right now but the key to most of them is patience. The platform and userbase are both unstable. Lemmy and kbin are both unfinished software that need more time and effort, and/or more devs. There isn't any getting around that.

As for the users, there are a huge amount of new ones every day, most coming from reddit, and they want to talk about what is fresh and relevant to them. We won't be able to get off the topic of reddit until it stops sending migrators. Additionally, people aren't quite certain how to use this space yet, and haven't finished finding/setting up the communities they want. It is going to take time, possibly more so than the development of lemmy and kbin.

I've been trying my best to make Non Reddit Related content here and commenting on Non Reddit Related, do your part. Post a Non Reddit Related Meme, Comment on Non Reddit Related Posts. Do your part

In a way this is the opposite of what you're asking, but this is kind of the reason I set up https://lemmit.online - To allow people to get quality content like [email protected] automatically onto Lemmy.

Anyone can request subs to be synced, and admittedly, not all of those requests make sense, since it doesn't sync comments. But the goal is to bootstrap content creation / combat people returning to reddit because they miss content there.

I'm sure there were countless posts just like this days after the digg migration to Reddit. Most people here right now are still interested in what's happening at Reddit. As that fades, so too will these posts.

the irony in this post

It's like rain on your wedding day

Although I agree with the general sentiment of other comments that are okay with the meta commentary, I do think that it is important for the federalized platforms to build up as much useful and search engine friendly content as possible during this influx of users. Although it doesn't hurt the efforts to do so, necessarily, the meta commentary probably doesn't help.

If the fediverse is to become a replacement for reddit, truly, then rather than simply sharing image macros and commenting about the expatriation, you should find a genuine community and contribute to it in real ways.

Keep looking around. I see lots of non Lemmy or Reddit content.

Poop

I'm super eager for others to respond to some initial posts I've kicked on [email protected]. Come on by! 👋

goto Magazines and subscribe to some high population zines that focus on something else, then goto your settings and make your home page show subs by default.

There are a lot of instances with a lot of content. Maybe you just haven't found what you're looking for.

I guess it really depends on what communities you're looking for and whether they already have a decent presence on Lemmy. I am subbed to some gaming and FOSS-centric communities and they've generally felt pretty solid in terms of content so overall I am content, but there's definitely some subreddits like /r/criticalrole that I wish had decent alternatives on Lemmy. There is one, but it's small at the moment.

I agree with most others discussing here - give it time and people will talk about something else. It's just fresh on everybody's mind. I already see content in my feeds shifting to be primarily about other stuff. Yes a lot of meta discussion, but less so than yesterday or the day before. There's that one guy who needed to stop pooping for 3 days straight for instance (and that was fucking hilarious).

Think of it as kindling for a fire. It's not going to fuel the platform long term but it's probably appealing to a lot of folks right now. Hopefully it will spur engagement which will then spread to other more interesting and sustainable topics.

Mastodon was like that for a while. Most of my feed was non-stop rants about "the birdsite" for months. While there's still plenty of that, it's mostly moved on to other things. I suspect the same will eventually happen with kbin/lemmy. Might be a while though, since there's still plenty of people still migrating over, and it makes sense they would want to talk about it.

Hop on over to my magazine, Characterforge and get the discussions + postings going with me :)

You gotta follow good magazines (subreddits on kbin) and upvote/boost the posts you like, i have a lot of memes and news on my front page, you gotta train the algorythm

I agree. I think I'm just gonna leave Lemmy and come back in a few months. This is almost entirely just a platform where people went to shit on reddit.