Be the change you want to see!
Precisely! I try to comment and post partly for the purpose of generating activity
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.
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
In my experience, a lot of these subs aren't abandoned and have plenty of subscribers, so if you post, people will jump on it.
Can confirm I'm sitting in many communities waiting for content, and always delighted to see it.
If I was interesting, maybe I'd make some of my own.
Agreed! I'm a boring person (that's why I'm on social media)
I just uploaded a pic of my portable CD player from 1990 to a community for CD collectors. Nobody had uploaded in a couple months and the only person who had ever uploaded was the creator.
It proceeded to get quadruple the upvotes of the last post. People are there. You just have to share what you've got.
Now this is the inspirational content I want to see out of The_Picard_Maneuver
There's no better feeling than making a post to a dead community, and then suddenly tons of posts start flooding in lol.
I actively try to post when I see this happen.
What communities are you experiencing this with? Maybe we share some interests.
My favs from Reddit were "Data is beautiful," "Next fucking level," "Life pro tips," maybe their more active alternatives exist on Lemmy under some other names?
I know the other two, but what's "next fucking level"? Just crazy, over-the-top shit?
For me it's disc golf.
Funny animals.
Trackers.
A lot of the OC nsfw subs aren't nearly as active yet, especially if they're more niche.
MMA.
I'm holding out for ButtSharpies, not really the change I want to be in the world though.
be the change you wish to see!
So you make a post, right?
Right?
Me: single handedly keeping 9 communities alive
...
I need help
Hero
Hey, I see u doin numbers, too!
Oh, you're the lifeblood of @gameart, aren't you? I tried to contribute once, but then my favorite screenshot I ever took never even federated at all and I got too discouraged.
Still sad about it, tbh. No idea if it would happen again or not. I should dig through my folders again. I don't think I have much, but I must have something
I really wish the !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world community grows here on Lemmy. It was my all time favorite subreddit. No fighting, no toxicity, it's just straight up:
"I forgot this thing"
"You mean THIS thing?"
"Yeah! That thing!"
Everybody wins.
Hey I got c/goblincore going again singlehandedly. Post! People will participate.
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.
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
Subreddit? More like Sublemmy
Actually "communities". But terminology really is beside the point here.
Did you post tho
I was so excited to find a scuba group.
Then it just kinda went nowhere.
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.
Yeah, the reddit "protest" died pretty quickly and now its all but forgotten
Sad !anime noises... I miss episode discussions.
FYI the episode discussions on anime@lemmy.ml are automated by a bot (the same used on Reddit in fact) and us Kbin users can't see bot posts, so it looks like there are none. I have high hopes that the next big Kbin update remedies this issue.
I'm hoping I'm able to stick with the community I made, even if it never gets anywhere. It feels nice to be working on some kind of project. I need new ideas for content, though. I doubt scanning RSS feeds for relevant articles every day is gonna keep things interesting.
Sometimes it feels like I'm writing a journal entry for myself because no one else posts.
This might go slightly against the spirit of Lemmy, but for subreddits that act like a content feed where losing comments isn't a problem, I've created a reposter bot to mirror subreddits on Lemmy.
It has proven quite popular on !100yearsago@sh.itjust.works . If anyone wants me to mirror a similar sub just drop me a comment
Memes
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.