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Me, and this place is dead man. It's only about news and left vs rightwing politics for some reason. No niche sites active. I followed a lot of linux distros and sports pages on reddit that were really active. In here. Just bot posts..
We do our best in the /c/games community! It isn't niche by any means, but we have regular posters (including myself) and we have fair engagement on new posts and members also.
Unfortunately as is the nature of most social media, it can only be as active as the users. So for very niche subjects I can't see Lemmy ever being super viable (sadly)
I mean the general groups works in here, but since I only care about 1% of those general themed groups, I really miss the niche forums, where I care about 99% of the posts.
I agree about the niche posts I was heavily active in a bunch of art subreddits but here nothing
Yeah, it's mostly reposts of 2-year-old screenshots of other social media
It's suffering the same problem that all social media sites suffer. Less than 1% of people create the content. I kept the entire Jazz community afloat until I just gave up in exasperation, people want to be spoon-fed content, nobody wants to contribute for others.
There are far, far fewer bots on here than there are on reddit, proportionally.
Let's not blame it on bots only. Reddit is just a vast community. Biggest social media platformon the internet in terms of active users.
And how many of those "active users" are bots? There's been articles coming out that between 20-40% of reddits userbase are inorganic accounts.
Another large portion of them are Nazis and Zionists. I'd rather not be involved with any of that.
I have heard ablut these articles which is based on absolutely nothing. All estimates and theises. No evidence. However, I think there is ofc some truth to it. I just haven't met any one, being clear botish in their behavior.
Most of the people I interacted with, was sport heads and tech/software nerds on niche forums. So, must of the users was weekly active users responding sporadicly with a human way of communicating. I really doubt some of those guys were ai to be honest. And if they were, I actually enjoyed it so much, that I rather fill out a niche forum in here with types like that, rather than 0 people.