Comment on lemmy should tots let you post things to your own user profile
JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoJust make a community. Build it, they will come.
This is exactly what I’ve done, but I must say that in the particular community’s case, it hasn’t been easy. We’re going on 1.5yrs now, 900+ subscribers, and I’ve personally contributed ~360 posts (most of them curated mini-articles) out of 466 total posts, yet the sub still essentially needs me to provide the content.
So IME, niche-type subs can take a hell of a lot of work to take off, and we’re not even that much of a niche.
Blaze@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Yes, there is definitely a limit to the “they will come” part.
It even applies to Lemmy as a whole, 44k monthly active users is nice, but you would expect more people for an ad-free alternative to Reddit with solid mobile apps
JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
The Lemmysphere sure seems to get slammed a lot at places like r/RedditAlternatives. I wonder if possibly some of that is sockpuppet-stuff, as unlikely as that sounds. Still, more than ever we live in the age of misinformation and manipulation by opposition groups & monied interests, so the idea & practice is certainly on the table.
Unfortunately, there’s also the reputation of at least one of the primary Lemmy coders. Seems like the sooner Kbin, Mastodon, etc can get better integrated, the less notable that should be. *knock on wood*