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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.
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
Or if an otherwise popular community seems dead- maybe your instance just isn’t federating them right, or was never federated before you browsed to it.
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Thanks, deleted the other.
My app (or instance?) has been acting a little buggy today.
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.
True. They helped me a few times and I’m very impressed
thanks for a great tip, did not know about this community!
I can’t decide if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, honestly. I joined the initial wave of people leaving Reddit when RiF died. I was excited to see my niche communities like Skyrim Mods and ObsidianMD pop up here, but over time they stagnated as people slipped back to Reddit.
At the same time, I came to realize that I spent a lot of time on stupid subs browsing stupid content that just sucked away my time. And for even my niche subs that I missed, I realized that 75% of that new content is the same reposts, the same arguments, the same debates. I do cheat every once in awhile and go back to Reddit, but now it’s to see the top posts of the month to see what I’ve missed. Turns out, I haven’t missed much.
It has taken a while to get Lemmy where I want it. I’ve filtered a ton of communities and users that do nothing but talk about Russia and socialism and whatever the fuck tankies are, and there sure were a lot of cartoons of animals with enormous NSFW bits I had to filter, but it’s starting to come together now for me.
There were/are a lot of dumb subs full of dumb content for sure, but what I miss about Reddit are the subs that have a super deep expert knowledge base. The plumbing sub, the mechanic advice sub, the vacuum sub, the fountain pen sub, etc. I’ve saved a lot of money and heartache by asking knowledgeable people naive questions in niche subreddits. Lemmy just plain doesn’t have the numbers for those kinds of subs to exist here at that level yet. But I hope we get there because for me that was the best thing about Reddit (though I also have a soft spot for the big “what’s your true real life paranormal experience” mega-threads that would pop off every few months.)
Your comment resonates with me on more than one level. I joined Lemmy after Apollo went down, and incidentally was also excited to see ObsidianMD (hello, fellow Obsidian user). I was hoping people would migrate over from Reddit but alas, I still have to go where the discussion is. I kind of feel bad about it, but still do it. I also feel like moving away from Reddit saved me from hours of mindless doom scrolling,although I suspect that now I am doing that when reading Lemmy local.
So you make a post, right?
Right?
Well, yeah, but sometimes I don’t think I can make a high-quality post to a community like “Data is Beautiful.” I was mostly a watcher. But you are right, of course, it’s in our power to bring communities to life.
Yeah true, but chances are you’ll post on a smaller “”“dead”“” sublemmy and it’ll get upvotes and responses within hours. Do the same with an active reddit and you’ll be lucky if anyone responds
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.
When I first arrived in Lemmy the top posts were about 100 likes and 5 comments. It has grown so much since then that I was already super happy but then this week they launch Boost for lemmy (I was a boost user on the before times) and now my life is finally complete again. Have faith guys, things will get better!
Boost is best! 🚀
I am more of a lurker. I browse and not post. I don’t have anything to add really.
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
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?
I wish you the best of luck in your spiritual journey, but the idea of getting a definitive answer to the God question is something humans have been working on for thousands of years. I wouldn’t beat yourself up about not having one lol
I feel like the mystical, the supernatural, is something that doesn’t exist, but it’s “supposed to”, and we’re witnessing the timeline where they don’t… a timeline that is for that reason… defective.
Ever feel that way?
It depends on what you’re looking for but it seems like they hang out on general servers like lemmy.ml or lemmy.world. The Lemmy Community Browser should help you look for any communities you want to find out more about.
Lemmy Community Browser is cool, that’s a great resource I did not know about. Thank you.
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?
Not even, on reddit it’s just reposts of cool but rehearsed tricks.
There was plenty of wtf talent on there too. It wasn’t all the 7000th try to make a basket from the top of a building.
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.
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 am! If you have screenshots to share !photomode@feddit.uk is a great place, too!
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Hey I got c/goblincore going again singlehandedly. Post! People will participate.
I love that place, it’s so soothing.
I absolutely love it! Want to see all the nuts I’ve harvested lately? Because, nuts.
I’m not interesting enough to post…
You seem plenty interesting.
be the change you wish to see!
Subreddit? More like Sublemmy
Actually “communities”. But terminology really is beside the point here.
I like sublemmits lol
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Did you post tho
Do my best
