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Comment on Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users

Mereo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Exactly. Users who are involved in extremely niche communities will probably not find a place on Lemmy/Kbin yet. In 2008, reddit was the same. The politics subreddit only had 50,000 subscribers.

It’s all about momentum. The more users we have, the more engagement in niche communities, the more it’ll attract and retain users.

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ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And loads of people hear the buzz, try it out and leave when they grow bored.

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- romkube@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Just to chime in, please correct me if I’m wrong, but Lemmy only counts activity as someone who’s posting or commenting (citation needed), so as more people go back to their old ways of lurking, activity will drop as browsing isn’t counted as activity
  
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  - Redecco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Us lurkers are still here (hopefully) but it’s easy to go back to the ways of scrolling without engaging
    
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  - ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That is true.
    
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Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why I’m encouraging anyone who will listen to participate in their fledgling niche communities here. Even if it’s just a little bit.

One can simply lurk on the niche subreddits. Growing fediverse communities need active participation.

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