There’s an Aztec city building game called Tlatoani. It’s in early access, but has enough meat on the bone that it’s one of my goto games.
Out of curiosity I checked Steam DB for active player numbers. I have discovered at any given point I am 10% to 25% of the given player base BY MYSELF. I am 1 of 4 people playing this game right now in the world. With the prevalence of the internet I always assume whatever weird bullshit you’re into there’s at least a thousand people talking about it; making memes outsiders could never comprehend. It’s actually novel to fly under the radar for once.
What do you do that doesn’t have a community associated with it?
Crypto, LLMs, and cars.
Yeah they’re popular outside of Lemmy, but mentioning that your a fan of any of those things on here is a great way to get your inbox flooded with hate. Everybody on here hates those three things with a burning passion.
Only reason why I still have a reddit account is so that I can talk about these things without getting berated for my hobbies.
It’s interesting this is upvoted, because yes, Lemmy hates all those things.
You can at least find devils advocates for crypto and LLMs, I guess. Cars are right out.
Its fine as hobbies if you dont force it on others really. I hate llms but I also hate pop and rap music, as long as im not forced to use it im fine.
Everything shoving llms in my face (that really dont work at all) is the equivalent of a car driving by blaring rap at 110 db. Instant anger.
Im into cars as well, I think lemmy is more hating that we are forced into having to use cars, and assholes who drive unneeded trucks. I dont think anyone on here cares about people who are mechanics or tinkerer. Its more the system that forced us to be reliant on cars.
It’s totally understandable why people think AI is slop, the stuff that isn’t is unnoticeable. And because most of it is slop. Even the “good” stuff sucks most of the time. But you can get gold out of them there hills. But you gotta mine it. Which means a lot of shoveling dirt. These companies don’t give a fuck. They’ll feed you dirt happily.
Right, its a tool. I think of it like autotune or daws. Sure, id much prefer to make music on a tape machine and artists not have to use autotune, but we dont have the time or money any more to do that.
Authenticity will truly suffer because of the use of llms and image/video generation, as will the internet as a whole (its already dead except for small pockets). So to me, is a net negative on society, but it was inevitable.
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There are dedicated communities on Lemmy to these things – and they’re pretty quiet. Post new content there and engage in conversations and be the change you want to see.
Already tried. No community exists for my car. So I created one and tried to convince some redditors to join me and they basically gave me the finger (and then a mod deleted my post.) Gave up and abandoned the community. I don’t want to waste time screaming into the void. There aren’t enough 350Z owners on Lemmy to even get a basic conversation started.
Same reason why my radio station, !radiolemmy@lemmy.blahaj.zone is failing before I’ve even launched it. There aren’t enough DJs on Lemmy, so I have no staff, which means there’s no one to play something on air. I’ve been reaching out via PMs to anyone I can find. It’s been a 3 month search to no avail. I was supposed to launch yesterday.
Lemmy is just too small, plain and simple.
Fair, but you can still post about it in the more general cars communities, no?
Even Reddit didn’t start with all these specialized subs. It started without subs at all, actually. And then the big general subs were born, and only later the niche subs were born because the signal to noise ratio in the big ones got too bad. Post your content here in the general communities until the signal to noise ratio warrants a dedicated offshoot.
This advice generalizes. There aren’t enough fans of each sports team here yet to have team specific communities, but there are enough fans of each sport to have general communities for that sport. Branch later.
If I ask a specific question regarding my specific car in a general car community, I’m going to get generalized answers. That doesn’t do me any good. I need a specific community for my specific car, populated with people who actually own that specific vehicle.
Lemmy has radio?
Yes it’s something I’ve been working on all summer. A radio station for Lemmy users, by Lemmy users. Anyone can be a DJ or help build playlists for rotation. Problem is that I can’t find anyone willing to do that.
That said, I do plan on launching soon, with or without DJs. Check out the community for updates: !radiolemmy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I’ll definitely check it out, very cool!