The people who say there’s no activity tend to be lurkers and they mean post activity not comments.
If you’re on a big community that’s usually not a problem but for the small ones it is. If you have a hobby, then chances are its biggest lemmy community still doesn’t see enough new activity to feel alive.
Agreed. I have more than enough responses in political subs to be satisfied on Lemmy, without all the bullshit that makes up 3/4 of any political post on Reddit - bots, trolls, puns, Russian propaganda farmers, idiots, etc.
But i really miss the active guitar subs. Lemmy’s go days or even months and years between posts. I’m so desperate, I’m starting to browse guitar forums on Facebook (gag!).
There is a noticeable lack of niche content though, so Redditors saying that aren’t willing to see how the style of interactions on the Threadiverse is different.
Yeah but that’s still an example of where we’re at, though: niche subs rely on single committed users doing 99% of the posting to sustain enough activity.
There’s nothing much to do about it at this stage though except try your best to be that user. We probably need to at least double our userbase for that to no longer be the case. Maybe more.
To be fair, we’ve got two committed users modding and submitting regularly now with a smattering of semi-regular post contributors and a good number of commenters.
Your point stands though, most of the comparable niche communities on reddit are far larger at least in user count.
It’s just the 90-9-1 rule in effect. We’re only at just under 60k MAUs. It’s a great number and makes for decent activity in the larger subs but if 1% of those are regular posters that’s… 600. That’s not really enough to spread across niche interests, so it figures that most of them lack active subs.
Reddit shares that but fair has nothing to do with it: people are grandfathered into existing Reddit subs and for them to switch, they want it to be painless. Also, niche subs with fantastic mods are particularly where Reddit’s toxicity problem is least apparent, as compared to coming to Lemmy and browsing by All. Otherwise new visitors go back to Reddit and complain in e.g. r/RedditAlternatives about what meanies we have over here… which is a true statement, as Lemmy was literally created by the same people who were kicked out of Reddit for being too toxic, and created this Reddit 2.0 (but decentralized, making it worthwhile).
Being told that e.g. having a bank account makes them equivalent to supporting genocide does NOT endear people to us. Take a look at Lemmy.ml, and/or hexbear.net, if you don’t believe me - tbf there were far more of such BoTh SiDeS sAmE posts back prior to the USA election, and pretty much every election in a Western nation, but they still persist today. We are a Nazi bar here, by federating that content everywhere. Also, the last time I checked out that join-lemmy website, it literally gave me the advice to join… wait for it… Hexbear.net, making even defederation from such instances as Lemmy.world insufficient so long as people are being told to come here via that website.
People do not enjoy being made fun of - should they though? - hence Lemmy will never gain a mainstream audience of non-technical users from the primarily centrist or even right-leaning userbases of Reddit or X/Twitter. We can be okay with that, or do something about it, but either way those are the options, not the middle ground of just hoping that people will ignore the trolling that is far too often allowed here.
I think having hexbear and .ml is a good thing, because those users are on those servers. They can be blocked (and properly on piefed :) ), so people who want to interact with them can, and those who don’t, don’t have to.
The thing I used to use Reddit for that I miss most is news on specific games I was interested in. If I wanted to actually post news about games, I would need to actively search for the news elsewhere (often times exclusively on Reddit) and regurgitate it here. This defeats the point of the me wanting the community or leaving Reddit in the first place.
The people who say there’s no activity tend to be lurkers and they mean post activity not comments.
If you’re on a big community that’s usually not a problem but for the small ones it is. If you have a hobby, then chances are its biggest lemmy community still doesn’t see enough new activity to feel alive.
Agreed. I have more than enough responses in political subs to be satisfied on Lemmy, without all the bullshit that makes up 3/4 of any political post on Reddit - bots, trolls, puns, Russian propaganda farmers, idiots, etc.
But i really miss the active guitar subs. Lemmy’s go days or even months and years between posts. I’m so desperate, I’m starting to browse guitar forums on Facebook (gag!).
Funny I come here every day, and every day there are thousands of fresh posts.
There is a noticeable lack of niche content though, so Redditors saying that aren’t willing to see how the style of interactions on the Threadiverse is different.
I didn’t like the lack of micromobility content, so I made !micromobility@lemmy.world and we have close to 3,000 subs now.
Be the change you want to see is my advice to them.
Yeah but that’s still an example of where we’re at, though: niche subs rely on single committed users doing 99% of the posting to sustain enough activity.
There’s nothing much to do about it at this stage though except try your best to be that user. We probably need to at least double our userbase for that to no longer be the case. Maybe more.
To be fair, we’ve got two committed users modding and submitting regularly now with a smattering of semi-regular post contributors and a good number of commenters.
Your point stands though, most of the comparable niche communities on reddit are far larger at least in user count.
It’s just the 90-9-1 rule in effect. We’re only at just under 60k MAUs. It’s a great number and makes for decent activity in the larger subs but if 1% of those are regular posters that’s… 600. That’s not really enough to spread across niche interests, so it figures that most of them lack active subs.
Plus there’s a bit of a toxicity problem.
Reddit shares that but fair has nothing to do with it: people are grandfathered into existing Reddit subs and for them to switch, they want it to be painless. Also, niche subs with fantastic mods are particularly where Reddit’s toxicity problem is least apparent, as compared to coming to Lemmy and browsing by All. Otherwise new visitors go back to Reddit and complain in e.g. r/RedditAlternatives about what meanies we have over here… which is a true statement, as Lemmy was literally created by the same people who were kicked out of Reddit for being too toxic, and created this Reddit 2.0 (but decentralized, making it worthwhile).
Being told that e.g. having a bank account makes them equivalent to supporting genocide does NOT endear people to us. Take a look at Lemmy.ml, and/or hexbear.net, if you don’t believe me - tbf there were far more of such BoTh SiDeS sAmE posts back prior to the USA election, and pretty much every election in a Western nation, but they still persist today. We are a Nazi bar here, by federating that content everywhere. Also, the last time I checked out that join-lemmy website, it literally gave me the advice to join… wait for it… Hexbear.net, making even defederation from such instances as Lemmy.world insufficient so long as people are being told to come here via that website.
People do not enjoy being made fun of - should they though? - hence Lemmy will never gain a mainstream audience of non-technical users from the primarily centrist or even right-leaning userbases of Reddit or X/Twitter. We can be okay with that, or do something about it, but either way those are the options, not the middle ground of just hoping that people will ignore the trolling that is far too often allowed here.
I think having hexbear and .ml is a good thing, because those users are on those servers. They can be blocked (and properly on piefed :) ), so people who want to interact with them can, and those who don’t, don’t have to.
The thing I used to use Reddit for that I miss most is news on specific games I was interested in. If I wanted to actually post news about games, I would need to actively search for the news elsewhere (often times exclusively on Reddit) and regurgitate it here. This defeats the point of the me wanting the community or leaving Reddit in the first place.
I guess that depends on your reasoning/purpose for being here, but the more capable people who contribute to this place, the better it will get.
A lot of Redditors are lazy consumers though, not wanting to put forth any effort to making their spaces better.
Oh well, guess they’ll just have to stay on Reddit then… 😉
Yeah, I view it as a double edged blade.
Only one way to start it. :)