Communities where there is an actual community interested in a topic and people are posting mostly OC.

I think !birding@lemmy.world is my favorite community. It is positive, mostly OC, somewhat active and about a topic i am also interested in.

intrusive off-topic political discussion

Yeah that is pretty much what i meant.

I may have made a rude comment that is visible on my first user page but that is generally not my style.

I also did not complain about lemmy being toxic, or more toxic than reddit, i said that compared to reddit, i am seeing a lot more angry people and toxic discussion because i look further than just my niche interests since they have hardly any traffic. That is still my honest take on the topic.

I am reading a lot more toxic discussion and really angry people here on lemmy than i did on reddit, which makes me sometimes think i might be at the wrong place. I blocked some of the communities that pull american politics in my feed but still. On reddit, i was good reading just my niche interest subs, but there is very little traffic here for niche stuff, so i end up reading the crazy talk too.

No i don’t believe you’d have to worry about that.

Lemmy.world seems to get a lot of flack, which i guess comes with its size, but i am very happy with what they’re doing. I think their team does a great job, thank you lemmy.world team!

Jumping in to ask if there’d be a good reason to use a stand alone feed reader instead of using the nextcloud “news” app?

Yeah, for the cirklejerk sub it would make a lot of sense to have its own lemmy community, since it doesn’t translate to other cycling subs.

That sub certainly gave me some good laughs, but i only checked it every now and then.

Hey, do you also know the /c/bicycle_touring@lemmy.world community? I saw you posting about your trips on /c/bicycle@lemmy.ca and was wondering.

Bicycles is a really nice sub though, i like the vibe, was exclusively posting there about my trips too. On reddit i never subscribed to cycling subs other than touring and bikepacking, since that really is what i’m most interested in, in cycling. So i was kinda hyped to see some traffic in the touring c and kinda switched, even though i’m unsure if it even makes sense to split the cycling subs yet, Bicycles is quite low traffic too. But i somehow ended up with mod status in the touring sub, so i feel partly responsible for it.

The traffic hasn’t gone, it’s in a tunnel below the promenade.

Oh rhank you, i had no idea.