EDIT: Thanks for the replies, everyone. From what I’ve gathered, I just have to be more patient, so I’ll wait for the communities relevant to me to pop up. In the meantime, I’ll temper my expectations and continue using my community as a resource repository and continue linking them to people I meet online who need them.
Maybe I’m just using it wrong, but I’m returning for more than a minute after a few weeks due to having exams to study for, and there’s no notifications.
My community literally stopped in time after my last post, and I’m guessing it won’t resume until I work down my queue of things to post after my finals are over.
I’m subscribed to several communities I was interested in on Reddit, but even knowing I have to switch to my subscribed communities every time I log in, the feed seems very different, almost lacking in ways I can’t describe. For example, a big popular one about games hasn’t been posting any posts about any games I care about, and when I search for a community for the games I do care about, they simply don’t exist.
It’s just really jarring to try to engage after a few weeks of logging in here and there to check on anything I missed, and nothing of note has really happened.
Most of your engagement seems to be in your own community, mental health, this community, shower thoughts, and scientific memes. This community, shower thoughts, and scientific memes get plenty of traffic now from what I have seen. But most engagement is in the news and politics communities. If you want engagement of other kinds you’ll just have to continue posting like you have been until about 300,000 more people join. Its not reddit. There won’t be an infinite breadth of topics yet. Especially for specific games and more niche communities. I myself have a notification or twelve on 2/3rds of my logins.
So most content is just politics and memes atm?
Yeah mainly, lemmy doesn’t have enough users to maintain more niche communities on a large scale at least.
Darn. Well, I’ll just focus on my own community for now and wait for relevant communities to exist.
It’s the kind of pain that will always come with being the first mover. Every active community on Lemmy faced this hurdle at some point in history - it takes a little while to reach critical mass.
Engaging with small communities and encourageing people who are trying to make it happen is a huge help. In addition to manageing your own, of course. Thank you! :)
It’s honestly pretty poppin’ for how many people we have. It’s significantly more active since the first Exodus.
!fedigrow@lemm.ee has a weekly thread about people trying to grow their community
None of them are politics or news
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca also has a pinned post for non political communities
Doing the Lords work as always
Trying to help!
And furries.
Also furries with dongs those are cool.
So many furries
I’d know, I’m one of them
Sorry but that sample size is too small to draw any meaningful conclusions.
It’s not just that. It’s also technology communities that aggressively push Linux.
…and justifiably so!
!fedigrow@lemm.ee has a weekly thread about people trying to grow their community
Just be like me and run a necrommunity whose only posts are old ones from yourself.
Be the change you want to see. Post more often etc. Content isn’t farmed the way it was on Reddit. There are no ads and no corporation pushing content. Sad truth is there aren’t many people on Lemmy, and it is going to take a while to gain any major growth in userbase, if at all. All we can do is be resilient and try to create meaningful content, and hope people gradually start joining, to the point where niche communities start being filled.
Yep normally if you post a thread people will reply. It’s not every time, but normally
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Lemmy feels dead to you?
Huh…
It certainly feels very lively to me.
I’ve found that if you want engagement then most communities are fairly quiet. This is not /r so there are fewer around. If you want to engage then find a post that resonates with you and engage with it. Lemmings are conversational but you need to poke them to get something back.
Yeah I’ve found browsing here and HN made me realize it’s more worthwhile to find content and ideas worth sharing before browsing. Rather than just engage slop
Give us a link to your community lol, we can’t read your mind
Click on their profile, look at the recent posts.
I am subscribed to 30-40 communties. I only use subscribed, sorted by Hot. I am pretty happy with what I am seeing, the content changes from the morning to the evening pretty much. Yes, a lot is member, but there is also tech and politics. I even blocked .ml and still have enough content…
Wait wait. Is all last 6 hours not good anymore?
Never used that. I only visit All Active from time to time to see the trending posts
If it’s notifications you’re after you can try saying positive things about capitalism or Elon Musk for example or simply go into a thread where everyone is outraged about anything and try making some sense in there.
I browse the All feed sorted by New and just block/filter everything I’m not interested in. There’s always new stuff.
This is my post title filter in the Eternity app:
Orban,Trump,Vance,Elon,Musk,NATO,Scholz,Merz,Habeck,AOC,Thunberg,Tunberg,Greta,Mr. Beast,MrBeast,Bitcoin,Putin,Russia,Kremlin,AfD,Grünen,Gaza,Israel,Palestine,Democrat,Republican,Surpreme,Abortion,Taliban,China,Chinese,Harris,Biden,Genocide,Tory,Brexit,Google,Microsoft,Windows,Apple,iPhone,Android,OpenAI,ChatGPT,Lora,intel,nvidia,arch,mint,ubuntu,framework,raspberry,pihole,pipewire,linux,bezos,amazon,fairphone,Europeans,Brics,leyen,swift,immigrant,Santis,California,Youtube,Montag, Laberfaden,G’sudert wird,Bluesky,Twitter,Montagslaberfaden,blsky,bluesky,isglitch.com,Gaetz,Kulturfreitag,Jimmy Carter,Boebert,Pokemon,Pokémon,Dunkelflaute,tar pit,Teergrube,Microplastic,Flatpak,Steam,tarpits,DeepSeek,Taylor Greene,Climate Change,CVE-,Vulnerability,data breach,ransom,DOGE,lemmyvision,Unser Song für Lemmy,reddit,Reddit,MTG,Guten Morgen,Netanyahu
With hall that filtered, how does anything even show up? I feels like there’s 10 new posts a day, and 7 of them are about American politics. (Obvious exaggeration)
The All feed seems to have hundreds of posts throughout the day. I also have a lot of communities blocked, just because I’m not interested in them. There’s still coming a lot of other stuff through. Lemmy is just amazing with lots if content.
Maybe it’s because I’m not in IT and don’t write code, since an overwhelming number of posts seem to be directed at coders/IT professionals, but most posts on all just aren’t interesting to me.
Yeah, there’s a lot of posts like “Version X of program Y has been released” or other useless tech stuff, but that’s just like 20 users. Once you have blocked them, the good stuff is easier to find.
As others have said it works better in a more general way. I find its better to block things you are uninterested in completely and then browse all. Especially since I find the same communities will pop up again and again under various instances. I sometimes think folks make meme communities just for themselves to make memes. I would love a term blocker where I could dictate to block any community where X appears in the community name or description but like I don’t want to block X if it appears in a comment. I think there is some issue with what people are used to from like reddit. Like people are self limiting themselves because they don’t want to be going on about one specific game in games and want to instead make a community about just the particular game. Thing is stuff like that has to just be talked about in something like games until it becomes to much. if it is to much its ready for its own community.
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Follow lots of communities
Or just browse All
How do you browse lemmy? I use a 3rd party app that lets me sort by what’s popular, if you yse the default sorting everything is fron a day or two ago
Sort by “new comments”.
It is pretty dead. What 40k or so users but most don’t post. Maybe less than 1% post.
Most active are politics and ask coms. But those are both boring. Follow what you like and contribute.
I supplement with HN and Lobster
