Comment on Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
part of the reason why some communities stick and some dont is because the type of people who were willing to jump to lemmy. Users who jumped to lemmy generally were more tech forward, privacy forward, or was part of some ostracized community not very welcome on reddit, as the typical casual user does not care for site politics.
its really hard to start a small community with one main poster, and requires a few to get the ball rolling. its a game of converting those in the niche communities to make the jump
Yeah I figured go/baduk would be a hard community to start, which is one of the reasons I chose the Chiefs.
But this isn’t just the difficulty of growing a community from a small start, this is seeing a community grow then shrink. Going through many niche communities the post rate and comment rate seems down across the board, outside of the biggest communities on the site. Combatting a shrinking community seems even more difficult than growing from a small start.
still part of the network effect – some users were willing to give up Reddit and start a new community on Lemmy but the rest of the community stayed behind – the ones heading back to Reddit are more about the community than about where it’s located
UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I personally made the jump, caz I’m trying to more conscious about my digital life. When I hopped on here, asked this and that, read/wrote comments the community was just so much better (still is). This wholesome, selfless, helpful bunch in one place. I really can’t care about not being a terraria fandom alive here (one of my most active subs for a while). I stay for the people.
also lemmy memes suck, wtf guys, post funny things pls
sock@lemmy.world 11 months ago
i think lemmy isnt a bastion of hope for media its just another thing to doom scroll on. people think theyre fighting the good fight because theyre doom scrolling another app. stop thinking about the company exploiting you. youre literally exploiting yourself by wasting so much time scrolling.
this app will likely never grow because theres no necessity this fills except for niche linux bros. at least theres a place for those weirdos to congregate now.