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HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 day agoWith respect, “it’s not as active” for a Home Assistant community as in what? You don’t get replies to your questions? People don’t ask you enough of them?
If the former, that is a genuine problem, but hasn’t been my experience on Lemmy. There are fewer responses, but they are more thought out and less likely to be puns, references, and other low-hanging-fruit jokes.
If the latter, then proactively make guides so people will be more likely to join? Someone has to be the first on the dance floor.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That’s a fair point and it is the latter.
I have only posted one question about a problem that I had and I got an answer that resolved my issue.
Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to help build up the community. I have a very small and basic setup and don’t have time to build it up let alone make posts about building it up.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If 100% of posed questions are answered, I don’t think it makes sense to call it any flavor of inactive.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
A sample size of one isn’t sufficient to conclude that every question gets answered.
Also, I didn’t say that it was inactive. I said that it was nowhere near as active as Reddit.
There are about two or three posts per week which includes all the release announcements for home assistant and various components.
On Reddit there was at least five or ten times that activity with posts every day including questions, automations and dashboard ideas.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Okay? The ocean has more water than my sink, but you don’t see me complaining that my sink has too little water.