A good amount of the content posted to reddit was a small number of power users, and the reason you see certain communities show up more than others on lemmy is because of those power users.
Don’t be afraid to be that for your communities, even if you are the only one posting for awhile. The biggest discouragement to activity in a community is seeing the latest post is weeks to months old, and you wondering if there is anyone actually here.
The biggest problem for me is trying to make original content but I guess reddit also started with reposts from other social networks…
I’m just reposting local news stories to my local community. It ain’t much, but it’s something.
That is everything. Local, regional, national, world. That’s how we share news.
Seriously man. I’m trying to power user like 4 porn communities right now and recycling content is where to start. I just need someone to take up the banner for that non porn stuff like gaming and gaming circle jerk and it’ll feel like home! You can even reuse memes about Todd Howard for those! I’ll keep trying to keep people coming 😉 with the porn! You get em to stay in the refractory period!
And my biggest problem here is that my community is a place to post trade requests for items in a game and well, I don’t need anything and I’ve already posted that I’ll answer requests for free
I also did a post mentioning the lurkers but also pointing out that they could just be people wanting to help fulfil requests too and 1 person commented saying they were and idk about the other (currently) 13 people :)
I never feel like I have something worth posting. I’m pretty boring and unoriginal.
Yeah, see, I couldn’t even come up with that
Being as good and cool as a poster takes practice.
Stop being afraid of failure!
You just lack self confidence
Don’t forget, the best way to get accurate information and stimulate discourse is to post horribly wrong information.
Wait… is this comment accurate information or horribly wrong information? 🤔
Doesn’t matter. Now we’re engaging, which means it’s working.
Pedantic autist here. You’re entirely too correct.
Be the post you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Lemmy
My biggest concern is that Memes are the most prevalent content in Lemmy. Its like I’m back on 9gag in the mid-2000s.
just block the memes community
There’s plenty of other content to contribute too. It just takes a little bit more effort to find it now that we’re all starting fresh.
How do you block communities? I’m getting sick of seeing memes and political content
start subscribing to things you actually want to see, then only look at those, not /all
If you are on web, there’s a literal “Block community” button, if not, you have to say which app you are on.
I am on Voyager. It is in settings.
Well… With this meaningful comment, I’m doing my part.
It’s actually getting better this week, artporn fake history and true crime are finally coming to life
Same thoughts. I’ve mostly lurked from my 10 yo reddit account, but now since we’re the pioneers, gotta till the soil and work hard 'n all that.
Good work posting this.
Are you promoting them?
Not really, I should start doing that but was hoping that people fleeing reddit would search for them.
Drop some links my dude!
Where would you promote communities for Lemmy? I dont wanna be the annoying poster posting on other communities that have nothing to do with the game my community is about; which is Dark Souls 3
Also, all the dark souls related communities I could find were pretty much dead looking too and I already posted about it in one of them and I think that’s still the most recent post about 3 weeks ago
I’d post them at !newcommunities
Just finished work for the week so I’ve posted it on there now
fingers crossed, hopefully I get some positive engagement, thanks :)
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This is my first comment just to say that complaining about lurkers reminds me of when I first joined reddit 12ish years ago. Coming full circle!
First time commenting. Hello fwiend
Well, you’ve posted two things, both memes, and given that one was talking about people not posting and the other talking about niche communities not getting traffic – and I assume that memes@lemmy.ml isn’t niche – I assume that you haven’t posted to whichever community you’d like to see more traffic in. You could do so. Each new post also helps make the community more visible, at least on kbin, since it can show up in the random threads section on kbin instances.
I see communities with 50 subscribers thinking “there is no way this is sustainable” for years.
The effective community size is bigger. We just need to start figuring out how to harness the overall Lemmy community. The ecosystem will start to take shape as we use it.
You and I are from different communities but I am commenting on your content through the magic of the “front page” via Voyager.
