So let’s try this again. My last post sort of got derailed because I am an idiot and used instance instead of community.
Anyway I am here to see what’s working for everyone else. I would like to help grow some of the smaller communities I am apart of and looking for ways to be helpful and interactive without straight up having to make my own video content.
I’m not sure, tbh. I’m feeling pretty doomy about Lemmy lately.
I’ve been involved in actively trying to build up an existing Community: I posted stuff, people saw it on All, and subscribed. From that point, growth should be exponential - if you get an extra 100 subscribers, at least 1 of them should be able to overcome their crippling insecurity and post something, but in reality, nothing happened. I kept posting, but repeated mining of my own sense of what’s funny just revealed how far adrift my own sense of humour is from a universal sense, and that was that.
You can do what you like to try to grow a Community, but if the people you bring in are the same type of Entitled Toilet Browsers you already have, it won’t mean much.
We’re definitely coming down from the optimism during Rexit. I think Lemmy can still find its vibe and become its own unique thing rather than being a little Reddit copycat. Though it depends on us users being more proactive about participating rather than lurking.
Hey how did you know that I am sitting at the toilet?
In most social media I am a commenter (idk. As soon as I feel comfortable to post something the comments murder me)
But even so did not use Lemmy to much with jerboa. Not enough content. Buggy. Not nice.
Saw a new post about clients and found “thunder”.
Feels like relay. Yes some functions may be missing. But feels nice enough that I can scroll through my subscriptions and have fun using it.
And in mastodon I have a feeling that the growth is linear and not exponential, so give it time.
Lemmy will probably not replace Reddit soon, but it will be a solid alternative for not super special content.
We don’t have that many active users yet which means it’s probably 100x harder to grow a niche community here compared to Reddit. Just keep it up, perhaps at slower, more comfortable pace, and next time there is a sudden increase of new Lemmy users (e.g. something happened again on Reddit) those new people might found your community.
Reddit is where the idea that it’s OK if 95% of the userbase doesn’t engage comes from.
I don’t want those kind of Reddit migrants. An influx of lurkers who finally got fed up of the advertising or whatever are no use to anyone. I want people who will to take advantage of the smaller size, realizing that’s their post isn’t going to get buried in New.
Right now, there’s lots of new communities, and the longevity of nearly every one can be measured in the length of time it takes for its creator to get disillusioned with posting into the void.