Gaming, news, tech, general literature. All of these are somewhat thriving, with a steady influx of posts and comments. At the same time, the userbase is sorely lacking for more niche communities. In my case it’d be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion, linguistics, meditation. Or many other communities I’d doubt they’d form a larger userbase here, at least to the degree that it’d foster good discussions. Communities where there are a larger amount of “normal people”, that are not tech-aware, and who have no interest in migrating off centralized corporate solutions. That just want a large space to discuss what they’re interested in.

This for me at least, makes it hard to completely leave reddit (or even Facebook and their groups!). Do you think the fediverse will ever reach the point where this would become a non-issue?

  • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year ago

    I was part of the Linguistics subreddit, but I don’t feel qualified to open a kbin magazine or lemmy community for it. While I did have linguistics as my major in university, I had to quit after getting my bachelor’s credits but before finishing my thesis (due to depression).

    I edited loads of my old comments to suggest people join kbin, but it seems the mods of /r/linguistics hate that. They were all removed with no exceptions.

    • abff08f4813c@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      You could always start a community here now, and hand it over when the right person comes along. In the mean time the one you make now might be the perfect place for your comments.

      I figure there must be an admin among the mods of that sub.

      • aidan@kbin.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        That’s exactly what I’m trying to do for all the communities I want. I’m starting them, making some placeholder rules, letting them attract a community, then I’m going to have the community vote on permanent rules, and then, once all of that is in place to keep the community stable, recruit mods to take over. At that point, it’ll be clear which users would make good mods (I hope)

    • Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Hi there. I wasn’t in the linguistic community in Reddit, but I am a linguist and I would be willing to create one here and moderate it. Linguistics is very broad. What were the topics discussed in the reddit community? I am a psycholingusit, so the focus of my contributions would be mostly in that field, and I imagine mostly scholarly content being shared and discussed, but I would like to know what someone like you, who used to be a member, would expect from such a community.

      EDIT: There’s already one! : https://kbin.social/m/linguistics

      • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        The posts I saw fell into these rough categories:

        • Sharing articles that are interesting or important to know
        • People asking questions about linguistics (a frequent one was people asking about what some kind of feature is called in the field, kind of “what do I have to search for to learn more about this?”)
        • Linguistic studies that were featured in general media (as long as neither the study nor the media coverage is garbage)
        • Stickied FAQ post and a regular general questions post
        • People sharing their own work that they think others might find interesting
        • Podcast episodes and YouTube videos about linguistics that are worth promoting

        I think the only things related to linguistics that weren’t welcome were posts where people come up with folk etymologies, spreading disproven theories or claiming one language being superior than another.

        Conlanging: You’d sometimes see questions about linguistics in general (usually typology) by a conlanger, but I don’t think I ever saw anything other than that. I would guess that links relating to conlangs/conlanging were deleted, with a suggestion to post them to /r/conlangs instead.

    • Gull@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      This post is helpful for highlighting some of the reasons the migration is slow. People who want to chart the future of the Fediverse need to listen to this kind of feedback and think about how to fix the pipeline.