Yeah. I don’t know what these “just post” types think it’s like. I tried making some relatively niche posts early on, trying to spark discussion in communities for some games I was playing. Got a single digit number of comments at most. Sometimes none. Small communities don’t get seen and niche posts in bigger communities are less likely to get votes.
Some folks here don’t seem to want to hear it because they badly want Lemmy to be better (and I kinda get that), but where niche communities are concerned, Reddit is unfortunately better.
Also, the “jUsT PoSt” replies are acting like everyone wants to post. Not everyone does and we shouldn’t be acting like they’re idiots because they don’t want to be the one to make the posts. It’s perfectly valid to want to read other people’s posts. There’s also some stuff you just can’t post and expect it to work. Eg, I read episode discussions on Reddit. Those can really only take off if you post them immediately when the episode airs. It feels like only Star Trek has those here. For every other show, I just go back to Reddit.
otter@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I agree there is more discussion on Reddit
Some of the Lemmy communities need some promo too. Maybe the few people subscribed don’t use those accounts anymore
Over time as you post more stuff, people subscribe from ALL or from the crossposted communities. You can also promote the community by talking about it in tangently related posts, or !communityPromo@lemmy.ca type places
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Which makes sense until they go to the community and it’s dead. So then they don’t interact. There’s 3 valheim subs. Each has ,20+ members. There’s no activity. I was trying post updates but it wouldn’t let me.