Something I would wish for more in real life too.

Can’t say I’m a sports guy. I do see some sports articles specific to Canada on !Canada@lemmy.ca, related to hockey, soccer/football like the Copa America, baseball and basketball. You’re right, I also haven’t seen much sports discussion outside of that in dedicated hubs.

I was going to mention more pictures, which is similar to what you were saying about creators.

Good insight. Shoutout to @silence7@slrpnk.net, @jeffw@lemmy.world, and people like you that post article links and join the discussion, even if there are things I don’t agree with you on.

Excellent points. I did intentionally word the question as “more” instead of less, in hopes of mitigating the number of unproductive arguments.

We are doing very well on the amount of memes, politics and political memes but it is quite a lot, can feel a bit gloomy at times and you know there are some of the “regulars” that post and comment mostly along specific narratives.

I’ve been throwing some of those onto /c/technology and have received some mixed results.

On one hand, they are usually upvoted and some people are really cool about maker projects.

On the other hand…people can be downright mean and will downvote anything they can’t personally buy right now or think perfect. The level of snark and straight anger is interesting. If you say anything positive about such a project, there is often a huge amount of downvotes as if people are trying hard to drown out any positivity. Dunno maybe it’s just me.

I’m all about testing new and prototype technology and I was hoping it could have its place there. You can’t get more diy than hackaday I feel.

There are a lot of communities, certainly a wide swath could use more signs of life than they have at present.

So far the only things coming close to Reddit live threads are political events and silly Fediverse drama.

We have some areas that see good discussion, you’re right that we are missing long, meaningful discussion chains, as long Lemmy chains are usually either two users arguing getting nowhere, or a classic Reddit-style meme chain (the “and my axe!” type of reply), otherwise you’re on !askouija@lemmy.world. Those don’t need to be any longer than they already are.

You aren’t the first to bring up sports, we have hockey and baseball “live threads”, but sports fans haven’t shown up in these parts en masse just yet.

I understand the appeal, and I like these types of video posts too sometimes. It’s hard for me to say what is the correct amount because I wouldn’t like Lemmy to turn into the Tiktok form that Youtube, Instagram, Reddit have adopted from the mass of brainless short-form video content.

Attaching video media to posts is harder in Lemmy than it is in Mastodon, that is something that could be improved.

I look forward to it! Some of the best moments in post-exodus history are the chains of memes spontaneously created from funny posts/comments (poop, beans, jeans, etc.)

Definitely some ideas for more network wide events like canvas, Lemmyvision would be fun!

There have been a few comments on helping niche communities thrive.

While tagging and inbuilt community grouping on the software side would be helpful, I suggest posting to small community, then crosspost to the overarching category that is more active with a mention of the original thread.

I’d like posts and replies with videos or galleries attached in Mastodon to be visible on Lemmy.

I get a sense that people (including me) hesitate to be the very first to post in a community after a few weeks or more without activity.

I think there’s no real need for that, even if that post doesn’t get traction, chances are there will be a post inspired by that post which starts a cycle.

I suggest people who are worried about visibility try posting in a small community, and then crosspost it to a popular community (e.g. posting an Age of Empires discussion in both !games@sh.itjust.works and !ageofempires@sopuli.xyz), until things get off the ground.