Be the change you want to see!

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.

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.

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.

give it time, people will come to their favorite instances with time. The best thing you can do is make your own posts to your favorite subs and cross post posts you see to other subs they fit into as well.

So you make a post, right?

Right?

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.

Me: single handedly keeping 9 communities alive

...

I need help

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.

be the change you wish to see!

Hey I got c/goblincore going again singlehandedly. Post! People will participate.

Subreddit? More like Sublemmy

Did you post tho

I was so excited to find a scuba group.

Then it just kinda went nowhere.

damn it's me every time to find a circle :^)

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.

Or all it is a bot that reposts reddit posts with no comments

Sad !anime noises... I miss episode discussions.