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Really love the overall climate of lemmy so far
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Currently, the best way to find new interesting communities is through !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
We're still way, way too early for the kind of activity Reddit offered in the smaller niche communities. The best thing anyone can do right now is finding one or two small communities they care about and starting posting to help populate them with content, which will help slowly attract more users over time.
As an example, I've been trying to be active at !superautopets@lemmy.world, and we're still waiting for a third active user beyond me and the founder.
It's just going to take time.
Maybe my interest are too niche, but the trending communities stuff has felt too.... Bland/general for me. I'll keep trying it though, thanks.
The stuff I've seen has had communities with many posts but only a handful of comments. Maybe that only exists in those larger, more general communities for now though.
The formula for it is still being worked on, so I think just keep following that sub. I agree in general, but I still tend to find a couple of smaller more niche subs on the list every day.
I mean yeah, that's kind of what I was trying to say. For most of the small niche communities, we're still at a point where there will be one or maybe two people taking the initiative to post, a handful of people voting, and maybe a couple commenting here and there. That's just where we're at, population and growth-wise.
That's why everyone needs to take initiative to participate. Humans tend to follow the herd, so if a community has no posts or comments, new visitors - even those interested or even subscribed - will just think "this place is dead" and move on. If we populate them with content, we slowly lay the foundation for others to trickle in over time.