i don’t post much… i make a comment every now and then, but i enjoy reading what the posters put out there. not everything has to be plenty for me to enjoy, nor does it have to be like reddit, facebook, twitter, etc. but i get it.
I’m a fairly prolific poster. At least commenter. I started a community here for a subreddit I miss. I’ve even got 97 subscribers. Three of us post anything, and I am by-far the most active of those three. I highly suspect that’s an expected ratio of lurkers to posters. Meaning, if I want a reasonable number of engagement, I need to get like thirty times as many subscribers. I can’t see that happening any time soon unless Reddit actually collapses.
Biggest problem for me is that the community I’m most active in (/r/hockey) didn’t even try to move away from Reddit and since that’s where I’m the most active, I don’t make those posts here because I can’t, its just not worth it because nobody will see it. Same goes for some video game communities, they also did not even try to move and some of the devs actually read those niche subs, so there’s no point in moving. I like kbin/Lemmy, but its just not at the same level with some of those subs.
Where am I gonna post? One of the 12 meme communities that make up 99% of posts, or one of the 12,000 communities where the last post was four months ago and it had two comments, one of which was a bot summary?
Are you complaining about the niche communities not having any activity, but not posting anything there yourself? I could’ve sworn i saw a meme about just such a thing, if only i could find it.
But in all seriousness, most “dead” communities have many lurkers that are joined but not posting, so posting there isn’t necessarily a waste of time
Exactly. Look at my post history for example. I’ve posted to some larger communities like Cats, but also to smaller ones like toads, mushrooms, and mycology to try to breathe life into them or to keep them alive.
If you want to see more content in certain areas, be the change you want to see in the Lemmy.
I know that I for one am probably alone here, but I’m really getting tired of the meme only content. I get it, it’s funny but in most cases it just turns lemmy into a tumblr clone with furries and nsfw (so like an old tumblr clone).
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