I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long.

Update: I took your advice and purchased a laptop for Linux, and now I care about it! Problem solved.

    • The Picard ManeuverEnglish
      17•2 years ago

      I believe Technology is the top active community.

      I feel you on gaming though. I try to be active in niche subs for games I’ve played recently, like Armored Core and Baldur’s Gate. The demographic on Lemmy is no doubt perfect for building up gaming communities - I bet a venn diagram of Lemmings and people who you would find at a con is practically a circle. I think we just need to get some more started.

      • @remotedev@lemmy.ca
        English
        10•2 years ago

        I bet a venn diagram of Lemmings and people who you would find at a con is practically a circle

        None taken

      • Aniki 🌱🌿English
        5•2 years ago

        I’m more likely to be at a ST con than a gamer con but then again the only actual conferences I’ve made it to were FOSS cons sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    • Snot FlickermanEnglish
      14•2 years ago

      Just gonna go out on a limb and say most cheap tech projects are probably running on some open source code.

      You are limiting yourself a little bit by not being at least slightly interested in it.

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      There’s a few specific gaming communities. They’re small, but I can say growing daily. I’m actually a mod of !satisfactory@lemmy.world for example. If one doesn’t exist and you feel up to it, make a community too. I’m sure there are people who are interested. The communities are small, but through nurturing we can grow them up to a nice size.

      Check out https://lemmyverse.net/communities, I don’t know how many are active but it only takes one person to make it active!

    • @yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      You need to follow more tags, like game-specific tags and specific tech tags. Sometimes I think federation fails to show all content in the tags, so following more people might help too