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I’ve been struggling to find a movie thread replacement. Seems like all the movie communities are dead. Any recommendations?
What do u mean? Just search for movies and television communities - piefed has largest
https://piefed.social/c/television
https://piefed.social/c/movies
Thank you! People keep saying “just search”, but honestly I've done various iterations of that (including subscribing the most popular lists) and its hard to find any non ghost towns.
"Has the largest" meaning a 3 comment average per thread. That's what the OC is talking about. The communities in Lemmy World are really small in a way that makes it hard to hold together a sub. A new movie comes out and maybe one or two people talk about it on Lemmy while Reddit has hundreds.
Then you might say, be the change you want to see, but Lemmy has a pretty small install base. Even if you participate, there isn't anyone to follow, because the users here are usually white collar tech folk. Hence the interest groups being tech and politics.
My main (and it's only minor) problem with Lemmy, and I guess Reddit is the same, is when people post the same story or link to like 4 separate communities, splitting the discussion. People interested in one of the communities are likely to be subscribed to the others anyway, so it clutters up the feed as well.
It's quality comments though. I just went to old.red to see if it worked for me. It did, but the comments were very shallow. I'm guessing bots? It's hard to say. After being here for years, it was a shock.
It's two things. Bots, yes, but also the communities have gotten really lazy. Shit was fire during peak culture war because people were actively trying to learn. Now it's like everyone gave up.
I loved reddit for the first year or so, we had some quiet communities for reddit that were everyone just messing around. It was fun and then it really wasn't.
God, post-digg era was peak. When subs like r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu were still active. It was just folks talking about their lives and relating to eachother. Then we all grew up, life got serious, and the culture wars started.