• Dave@lemmy.nz
        1·
        9 months ago

        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.

        • Micromot@feddit.de
          1·
          9 months ago

          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

  • LolaCat@lemmy.ca
    4·
    9 months ago

    There’s no better feeling than making a post to a dead community, and then suddenly tons of posts start flooding in lol.

  • ItzLiftin@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    I often find a community i was looking for and there are often no posts. When the last post is 3 months ago, at least there is something but sometimes nothing is there.

    • snownyte@kbin.social
      1·
      9 months ago

      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.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • Daryl76679@lemmy.ml
      1·
      9 months ago

      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

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        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?

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • snownyte@kbin.social
    1·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • Savaran@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      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.

  • Trekman10@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    9 months ago

    I actively try to post when I see this happen.

    What communities are you experiencing this with? Maybe we share some interests.

    • Einar@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 months ago

      Actually “communities”. But terminology really is beside the point here.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      The battle won’t be won until there are active communities for every fetish, I’m talking butt expansion, breast expansion, inflation, weight gain, bondage, body swapping, body part TF, ALL OF THE WEIRD STUFF!