Don't get your hopes too high

Be the change you want to see!
- Precisely! I try to comment and post partly for the purpose of generating activity
  
  Me too. I'm doing my part!
  
  The great thing (though it's sometimes a curse) is that posts in any community will show up in the local and all feeds on the host instance, and the all feed on remote instances so long as at least one user is subscribed. So even communities with low subscribers can reach a wide audience.
  
  Commenting for the purpose of generating activity is my favorite activity
- I want to see reddit mods "expanding" their subs to Lemmy. I'm making a new reddit account expressly for subtly shifting people here. Make friends and invite people to specific servers. Skip the server that overloads some people and just send them to lemm.ee, programming.dev, ani.social, etc...

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.
- Can confirm I'm sitting in many communities waiting for content, and always delighted to see it.
  If I was interesting, maybe I'd make some of my own.
  
  Agreed! I'm a boring person (that's why I'm on social media)
- 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.
- Duplicate comment
  
  Thanks, deleted the other.
  My app (or instance?) has been acting a little buggy today.

- That’s what I’ve been doing at !czechrepublic@czech-lemmy.eu and it isn’t growing :( Czechs seem to be comfortable with Reddit.
  
  Did the same with !dota2@lemmy.ml and same situation :) but it doesn't matter, I've met some great people there :)
  I've noticed that there's only a small percentage of overall people that I think have the "right" views about the world, and it's totally fine that it's only 1% of all people or whatever. As long as there's one other person I think it's all worth it, but in reality, there are likely millions, just hard to find them under billions.
  
  Have you tried promoting your community on the subreddit? People might not know about it. I occasionally visit the Czech Republic, definitely subbing to your community.
  
  I feel your pain. I've subbed to the czech-lemmy communities btw
  
  going outside
  they're the one who won't leave reddit

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.
- Please link it
  
  Edited my original post
- Subbed!
- thanks for a great tip, did not know about this community!
- True. They helped me a few times and I'm very impressed

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.

- 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.

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

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?
  
  https://lemmy.ml/comment/4236457
- 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.
  
  Unless you had a previous account, I definitely saw someone else complaining about the lack of active disc golf communities recently. Hope you find each other and talk about disc golf.
  
  What mma community are you watching? I want to find a place to talk about mma
- That’s what I’ve been doing at czech-lemmy.eu and it isn’t growing :( Czechs seem to be comfortable with Reddit.
  
  How bout your friends or Czech spaces elsewhere on the Fediverse?
  Just trying to be helpful and optimistic

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!
- 💪 💪 💪 💪 💪 💪 💪 💪💪

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?

be the change you wish to see!

Hey I got c/goblincore going again singlehandedly. Post! People will participate.
- !goblincore@lemmy.blahaj.zone
  This is how you link to communities
  
  Thank you.
- 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.

Subreddit? More like Sublemmy
- Actually "communities". But terminology really is beside the point here.
- I like sublemmits lol

Did you post tho
- Do my best

I was so excited to find a scuba group.
Then it just kinda went nowhere.
- I feel like a "sinking" pun was right there.
  
  Just keep breathing, it'll be ok.
  
  Well, it was a minute ago.
  
  They were so close to saying "Then it just kinda went under"... so close....
- It just ran out of air.
  
  This belongs to !dadjokes@lemmy.world Seriously

damn it's me every time to find a circle :^)
- Your mouth floating away may or may not be related.
  
  "We have determined that your injuries are not service related."

On one hand, it's a great sigh of relief to not see so many communities contaminated with shallow interactions that are harbored by typical Redditquette behavior.
The other hand, it's depressing to see so much wasted potential. I mean, there was supposed to have been a big revolution, wasn't there? The fediverse did gain a large chunk of users. But, most of the time, it was treated like a temporary vacation resort or some airbnb to most users that are "so tired" of reddit. No, they were only tired of reddit because it was both the cool thing to do and it was for a short period.
But they can't escape the crack, they know it is addicting. The karma farming. The alt-account abuse. The drama. No, they want it all back and can't fathom a part of social media where none of that is existent, save for a bare minimum. Hell, millions of people still somehow use Twitter today even though Musk has done a wonderous job taking a daily dump on it.
People really are afraid of change.
I feel a lot more contributory towards other platforms not Reddit. On Reddit, I just feel like I just say things until I hit walls. Those walls being, being confronted by shithead mods, dumbass trolls or feeling claustrophobic from where I can post because of the karma.
- Yeah, the reddit "protest" died pretty quickly and now its all but forgotten
  
  The protest is forgotten, or reddit is? Cuz I haven't touched reddit since my app stopped working 🤷‍♂️
  
  died? murdered by admins
  the alternative protests (john oliver, topic change, etc.), those died on their own iirc
- The largest problem I see is that I would use reddit to keep up on local events, since at the time I preferred it to using Twitter or FB for the same. Now I avoid all three but the community that posted for the local stuff in my city didn’t move to Lemmy or Mastodon. I don’t have a way to post the local stuff myself because if I had a good way to keep track of it I wouldn’t have needed reddit for it in the first place!
  Which I guess is just me unhappy that more of the communities didn’t move over, I really don’t have a solution to the problem. Other than continuing to engage here as often as I can and hoping for the best.

Sad !anime noises... I miss episode discussions.
- FYI the episode discussions on anime@lemmy.ml are automated by a bot (the same used on Reddit in fact) and us Kbin users can't see bot posts, so it looks like there are none. I have high hopes that the next big Kbin update remedies this issue.
  
  Kbin is an absolutely fantastic platform that has held up remarkably well given that it was not ready for the sudden influx of new users.
  Plus side: a lot of bugs are being identified and quickly.
  Minus side: Poor ernest can only do so much about them in a given time frame.
  I still want to make this my primary Fediverse account simply because I like the idea of being able to use one account for both Lemmy and Mastodon content, but I have a backup on SDF that I need to use sometimes because things just don't work right here.
  Also not being able to see bots is a massive downside. Rather, not being able to see the formally declared bots; the dodgy bots masquerading as actual users slip through just fine.
  
  Thanks for the hot tip. I had no idea. I already had a duplicate username over on Lemmy.World so it's not too hard of a jump. Even still 13 hours, 4 days, 16 day old posts being the top posts doesn't bode well lol.
  https://lemmy.world/c/anime for the lazy

Or all it is a bot that reposts reddit posts with no comments
- or FOSS nerds flooding in any post to do with technology that isn't FOSS, ruining the discussion and downvoting everyone who even mentions anything that isn't FOSS.
  Like the post about Windows Paint getting layers and transparency support, and every person trying to discuss it is downvoted, and there's a flood of comments talking about how you should use Linux because Microsoft is spying.
  Like ok? Or lets discuss the fucking topic?
  
  I mean at least there's some related conversation. You could just ignore that comment or down vote it.

This might go slightly against the spirit of Lemmy, but for subreddits that act like a content feed where losing comments isn't a problem, I've created a reposter bot to mirror subreddits on Lemmy.
It has proven quite popular on !100yearsago@sh.itjust.works . If anyone wants me to mirror a similar sub just drop me a comment
- HistoryPorn please!
  
  There already seems to be one that has activity: !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world
  I guess we could ask them if they'd like my bot to repost stuff from the subreddit there too though
  
  Sure!
- You sir are doing god's work!
  Can you do it for gymemes?
  
  Here ya go! !gymmemes@sh.itjust.works
  
  Ofc!
- I personally real like this idea, keep it up!
  
  Thanks!

I'm hoping I'm able to stick with the community I made, even if it never gets anywhere. It feels nice to be working on some kind of project. I need new ideas for content, though. I doubt scanning RSS feeds for relevant articles every day is gonna keep things interesting.
Edit: Guess I oughtta plug. SFF Gaming is for sci-fi and fantasy gaming of all types, from video to tabletop and larp and anything else SFF gaming related that I may not know about.
- What community is it? Maybe people here will have some ideas for you
  
  SFF Gaming is for sci-fi and fantasy gaming of all types. It's kinda broad scope but I don't really wanna narrow it too much. Something I'm wrestling with is how "mainstream" of news should I post? I won't stop others from posting things as long as they're relevant, but for example would it be constructive for me to post the story about the Talos Principle 2 release date? It's cool news but I'm sure most people will see it elsewhere so I feel like me posting it to my community would only serve to clog feeds.
- Keep it up!
  
  Thanks!
- What's your community?
  
  SFF Gaming is for sci-fi and fantasy gaming of all types. It's kinda broad scope but I don't really wanna narrow it too much. Something I'm wrestling with is how "mainstream" of news should I post? I won't stop others from posting things as long as they're relevant, but for example would it be constructive for me to post the story about the Talos Principle 2 release date? It's cool news but I'm sure most people will see it elsewhere so I feel like me posting it to my community would only serve to clog feeds. I would like to mainly focus on smaller stuff, though. Projects that might not other get many eyeballs.

I just miss femboymemes :(
- You're lucky, at least you have !femboy_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz, !femboymemes@lemmit.online, !rolereversal@lemmy.ml, !femboy@lemmy.blahaj.zone, !femjungenmaimais@feddit.de, !195@lemmy.world, !femboy@lemmit.online and lots of other trans-adjacent communities. We Czechs have !czechrepublic@czech-lemmy.eu and !czech@kbin.social and they’re both dead.
  
  The thing is, what exactly would you want from a czech-specific community? I mean "my" German one is decidedly not dead, but I see no reason to participate because I just don't care about "Germany" as a concept that much. It's the actual topics that interest me, and there it doesn't matter where someone is from.
- The battle won't be won until there are active communities for every fetish, I'm talking butt expansion, breast expansion, inflation, weight gain, bondage, body swapping, body part TF, ALL OF THE WEIRD STUFF!
  
  I think many major instances prohibit NSFW communities.

Sometimes it feels like I'm writing a journal entry for myself because no one else posts.
- Actually, this is a valid use of Reddit or Lemmy, a blog =)

Oof. We all have that one Lemmy community. I really like uncle jokes community but I’m one of the few who’s posted. Oh well, I’ll keep adding content here and there.
- Maybe you could link the community so others can join?
  
  My 2 favs are: dadjokes@lemmy.world or unclejokes@lemmy.world (it’s like a nsfw dad jokes sub). Check them out, it’s goofy humor.
- Do you like it more than Dad Jokes? Haven't tried Uncle Jokes

!philosophymemes, where you at

I take great solace in going to the Neoliberal attempts at communities here and finding them to be ghost towns.
Stands to reason, as most people are here literally fleeing capitalist greed rot. Im glad most neolibs trusted the free hand of the market and are probably still on Reddit for Spez to fuck with as he wishes.
Republicans are bastards, but Neoliberals are the constant, painful reminder that we once had a pro-labor party in the US pre-Reagan, and they betrayed us to take the oligarch money along with Republicans.

you find your favorite subreddit on lemmy
it's from lemmit.online:

I often find a community i was looking for and there are often no posts. When the last post is 3 months ago, at least there is something but sometimes nothing is there.

Same. that's why I'm commenting on posts that are several months old.There's nothing else to see here.

🥺 I feel sad when I see lemmy's dwindling numbers...
- Be not sad. Numbers are growing.
- Lemmy's admins is partially at fault here. Like, you go into the Fediverse to give users refuge from the burnout and dissastifaction as to what they have seen and experienced on bigger social media platforms. Where distrust is at an all time high.
  And then you go and decide to host your main announcements over on a platform where people have stirring feelings of contempt for the platform that is centralized. You are going to alienate your audience.