To be completely honest, Lemmy is kinda dead outside the politics subs and some of the tech ones. When I deleted my reddit account I came here and joined some of the communities I was using reddit for: Pathfinder 2e, RPG, memes, anime. Out of all of them I only see an occasional post from memes while the other ones are literal ghost towns.
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI’ve told people about Lemmy before. I got the same reaction everytime.
“It looks like it’s just people talking about computers.”
And their interest dies. Which tells me there needs to be more diversity of active communities. No one wants to come to a small platform, create a new dead community, and talk to themself.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Shameless plug.
If you are into computer RPGs (CRPGs), we have a relatively active community:
!crpg@lemmy.world
The JRPG community is also pretty active:
!jrpg@lemmy.zip
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
they should link to each other in the sidebar so people know how to find them
einlander@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lemmy communities could benefit from a webring concept.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Waiting in my insurance to update to Piefed 1.4, I will add the World of JRPGs to the sidebar once that happens.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
See, the 3 newest posts being 3 over a day old being considered fairly active is one of my issues with Lemmy/fediverse. My whole subscribed feed is like that. Open app, check feed that’s not exclusively doom and gloom politics, and nothing has moved since I checked it the day before.
fizzle@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Yep.
Even the politics stuff, it seems to lag behind reddit by a half day or so.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
sometimes a 1-2 days.
fizzle@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Yeah. I lurk reddit via a redlib instance - so I can browse content but can’t log in or of course comment. Often I see some situation unfolding and want to discuss it, but there just isn’t any relevant posts on the fediverse.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
ive seen less movies, entertainment, tv shows posts than before, when ee was still alive.
Blaze@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
!movies@piefed.social and !television@piefed.social are still around
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s kind of a chicken and the egg problem though, that happens on any new place, so it’s tough to sell them on that unless they already like what’s being talked about. I think it’s probably better to stick to the fundamentals of the fediverse and what makes it better than a centralized platform. In this phase of Lemmy’s popularity we need people that stick around and build communities, and they can only really be enticed to do that based on the merits of the platform.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Agreed. If news headlines and Linux are your jam you’re all set already. That’s enough to keep me coming back but I aggressively join new communities as they’re made to support them. I only post rarely though, do I only do so much as of now
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
We need comments, that is the problem. Small communities don’t get any positive feedback via engagement, which causes them to die as the owner/sole poster feels like no one cares.
Simply link dumping (effectively what most posts are on content aggregators) is the easy part.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Now this I do and I’m glad it helps
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Thank you for your service o7
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
75% of small communities, if not higher, don’t use lemmy-federate to expand the visibility of their community. The user makes the community, broadcasts a few posts locally and then gets sad that no-one replies (because it can only be seen locally).
I use lemmy-federate a lot to help this, but it’s sometimes too late after they set the comm up.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
That’s another good point. PieFed has at least taken some steps to work on this, with it automatically posting new communities to NewCommunities and auto-subbing the instance to those posted there.
If the Lemmy devs stopped pushing ML propaganda and actually worked on the software, we might be in a better place today.
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I have proposed piefed instances be able to opt into automatic federation with other selected instances when a community is made. I think it might work like that now via a toggle. Rimu would confirm.
Obviously smaller, personal instances would opt out of that but for general-use instances it makes sense.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Good idea, thanks!
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3757
rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 3 weeks ago
Then again if it’s some guy in his corner doing stuff on his own, is it really a community ?
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is my analysis too. And why, instead of just upvoting posts that interest me, I try to think of something to say about them too. The dreaded “0 comments” is never a good look no matter how we much we tell ourselves that it doesn’t matter.
For this reason I tend to believe that many communities just have too much primary content. Too many posts and not enough comments.
Thought experiment. 2 communities:
Which is the healthier community?
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
My experience is that it’s more like this:
Not every post is a hit, so if you cast wide you’re likely to get a greater return on comments as something is bound to attract attention. The way the sorting works is that the 5 posts with 3 comments will show at the top and the 0 posts will drop off view, showing an active community.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m trying to think of something to say in riposte in order to boost the comment count.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
So saying something without much effort under a post wothout comments actually helps that post to become more populated?
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
As long as it’s relevant, yes.
If you just posted say “I agree” or “Totally this” I don’t think that would drive any further engagement.