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Be the change you want to see!
Precisely! I try to comment and post partly for the purpose of generating activity
Me too. I’m doing my part!
Content!
Somewhat but I could be happier.
Commenting for the purpose of generating activity is my favorite activity
The great thing (though it’s sometimes a curse) is that posts in any community will show up in the local and all feeds on the host instance, and the all feed on remote instances so long as at least one user is subscribed. So even communities with low subscribers can reach a wide audience.
Which also gives the all page it’s purpose in some form because it does exactly what promised, show everything. This gives everyone a chance at being seen
In my experience, a lot of these subs aren’t abandoned and have plenty of subscribers, so if you post, people will jump on it.
Can confirm I’m sitting in many communities waiting for content, and always delighted to see it.
If I was interesting, maybe I’d make some of my own.
There’s no better feeling than making a post to a dead community, and then suddenly tons of posts start flooding in lol.
Same. that’s why I’m commenting on posts that are several months old.There’s nothing else to see here.
🥺 I feel sad when I see lemmy’s dwindling numbers…
Be not sad. Numbers are growing.
Lemmy’s admins is partially at fault here. Like, you go into the Fediverse to give users refuge from the burnout and dissastifaction as to what they have seen and experienced on bigger social media platforms. Where distrust is at an all time high.
And then you go and decide to host your main announcements over on a platform where people have stirring feelings of contempt for the platform that is centralized. You are going to alienate your audience.
@nodimetotie Pretty much any topic that I enjoy, I try and add a new post when I subscribe to it and see if people are just waiting for new posts.
Me: single handedly keeping 9 communities alive
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I need help
Hero
Hey, I see u doin numbers, too!
Oh, you’re the lifeblood of @gameart, aren’t you? I tried to contribute once, but then my favorite screenshot I ever took never even federated at all and I got too discouraged.
Still sad about it, tbh. No idea if it would happen again or not. I should dig through my folders again. I don’t think I have much, but I must have something
We gotta get niche communities that aren’t just programmers and socialists… I’m a socialist, but I wanna talk to some people about how Porygon is one of the greatest Pokemon of all tiem.
We have the science folks over and mander.xyz and slrpnk.net. Lemmy.world also seems like a very diverse instance to star whatever you want on
Oh cool, where do I find the spirituality folks? Cause I have this on-off relationship with God that I should probably get a definitive on or off answer to. I mean at this point I’m worried I"m making the coupling toxic with this indecisiveness, ya dig?
It depends on what you’re looking for but it seems like they hang out on general servers like lemmy.ml or lemmy.world. The Lemmy Community Browser should help you look for any communities you want to find out more about.
give it time, people will come to their favorite instances with time. The best thing you can do is make your own posts to your favorite subs and cross post posts you see to other subs they fit into as well.
I am more of a lurker. I browse and not post. I don’t have anything to add really.
be the change you wish to see!
Subreddit? More like Sublemmy
Actually “communities”. But terminology really is beside the point here.
I actively try to post when I see this happen.
What communities are you experiencing this with? Maybe we share some interests.
That’s what I’ve been doing at czech-lemmy.eu and it isn’t growing :( Czechs seem to be comfortable with Reddit.
How bout your friends or Czech spaces elsewhere on the Fediverse?
Just trying to be helpful and optimistic
your friends
I don’t have friends. I’m a Lemming (former Redditor), after all.
elsewhere on the Fediverse
Good point.
There’s [email protected] but federation with Lemmy does not really work at this point.
There are several Mastodon instances like witter.cz which are reasonably alive but I prefer Reddit-style social media. I might need to compromise on this, though.
Hive and Dread have been suggested but I can’t imagine the crypro-heavy or dark web platforms attracting a meaningful crowd.
On one hand, it’s a great sigh of relief to not see so many communities contaminated with shallow interactions that are harbored by typical Redditquette behavior.
The other hand, it’s depressing to see so much wasted potential. I mean, there was supposed to have been a big revolution, wasn’t there? The fediverse did gain a large chunk of users. But, most of the time, it was treated like a temporary vacation resort or some airbnb to most users that are “so tired” of reddit. No, they were only tired of reddit because it was both the cool thing to do and it was for a short period.
But they can’t escape the crack, they know it is addicting. The karma farming. The alt-account abuse. The drama. No, they want it all back and can’t fathom a part of social media where none of that is existent, save for a bare minimum. Hell, millions of people still somehow use Twitter today even though Musk has done a wonderous job taking a daily dump on it.
People really are afraid of change.
I feel a lot more contributory towards other platforms not Reddit. On Reddit, I just feel like I just say things until I hit walls. Those walls being, being confronted by shithead mods, dumbass trolls or feeling claustrophobic from where I can post because of the karma.
The largest problem I see is that I would use reddit to keep up on local events, since at the time I preferred it to using Twitter or FB for the same. Now I avoid all three but the community that posted for the local stuff in my city didn’t move to Lemmy or Mastodon. I don’t have a way to post the local stuff myself because if I had a good way to keep track of it I wouldn’t have needed reddit for it in the first place!
Which I guess is just me unhappy that more of the communities didn’t move over, I really don’t have a solution to the problem. Other than continuing to engage here as often as I can and hoping for the best.
