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There's nothing wrong with using Reddit, Twitter, and other mainstream site still while being active on fediverse. (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by Roundcat@kbin.social to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I see a lot of posts on fediverse trashing reddit, Twitter, spez, musk and so on, and rightfully so. But like it or not, the mass majority of users on the internet still use these sites, and some of us still want to interact with the friends and communities we are a part of on those sites. And there's nothing wrong with that either.

Personally, I want fediverse to grow, and I post on kbin and mastodon constantly, and try to grow the communities on them. But I still pop over to reddit for r/splatoon, r/casualconveration, and my hometown sub, because either the communities haven't grown enough here yet for constant fresh content, or the content is different enough between both to justify me checking in.

I get many are here as a protest against reddit, Twitter, or where ever else you came from, and that's valid. But there are many of us who are simply casual users who want to include fediverse into their drives of other social media, and that's totally fine too.

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[–] Sev 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

I have crawled back to Reddit, but only out of a need to keep up with my wrestling news, and insert random game i'm playing, and I want to be part of the ongoing whatevers, 7daystodie for example.

I'm only using it on PC and with RES, so hey no adverts. Not installing it on my phone tho, screw that blasted app.

There's just not enough scatterd and active game communities here yet, hell we don't really have an R/Gaming equivalent which is staggering to me considering the base-of-nerds we have here.

[–] loobkoob@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Excuse the shameless self-promotion, and it's not quite /r/gaming where it's nothing but memes, nostalgia-bait and cosplay, but myself and the rest of the /r/truegaming mod team are here: @truegaming / !truegaming

If you weren't familiar with the subreddit: it's a discussion-focused community for having more high-level, in-depth conversations about games and their design. Think essays and random deep-dives rather than memes, questions, gameplay footage.

I agree that the lack of more specific, focused communities - like game-specific ones - here is the biggest drawback compared to Reddit right now. With time, I'm sure that'll change, and right now, jumpstarting communities you want to see here is a good idea if you have the ability to.

[–] Sev 2 points 2 years ago

Oooh awesome, thanks mate

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