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Relatively new Lemmy user here, longtime reddit user. I saw a comment last week that sums this up. Lemmy just hasn't yet reached the critical mass to have spawned the niche groups that reddit has; certainly not with the activity they have.
I suspect that, for a while, many of us will keep one foot in reddit for those niche communities. In the meantine, we can try to foster similar commities in Lemmy.
Read my post about how reddit went from just 85,000 users in 2008 to 500 million active users in 2023: https://old.lemmy.ca/post/2780188. Reddit didn't grow overnight. It took 15 years to grow to where it is now.
Lemmy problem is lurkers and not the number of user in general. It's not normal to have communities with over 1000 followers where only admins are posting and commenting
that's pretty common on reddit
Reddit is the same. Nevermind the lurkers, just have fun with the people who post and comment
I feel you. I've been pretty much the only poster 1-3 times a day for months trying to keep the group going.
I'd love just one other person who could post maybe 3 times a week to take the pressure off a little.
We need to find other owls enthusiasts!
I look at the Lemmy.World Communities page, and I'm on the front page sorted by Users/Month. I'm bordered by what I would consider some very big groups, and I just think, am I doing good or is Lemmy doing that bad outside a few major players?
It feels like a busy place to me, because I'm putting the work in. But when I go to some of the things I'd think would be popular, they come up blank for Top 6 Hours. Even c/Dogs, when I made a crosspost there the other day didnt have anything for the day. I expect that to be way busier than SuperbOwl. I used to hang at Beehaw for the positive vibes, but when I would sort by Local, there's be like 10 posts with no comments for the day, so I stopped signing on.
I really want this to work. I like the smaller setting, I like recognizing the names of the regular commentors, but a channel can't be a one person show forever. I just feel it would get stale. I feel it still has the potential though. I feel my activity and comments per subscriber is much better than the Reddit version. They have 435000 subs and their upvote averages and comments per thread are not proportionately bigger than what I get with 2400.
I never posted at Reddit because I felt I couldnt stand out among millions of users. It isn't hard to post, just share something you like. I do some in depth posts and will research stuff and all that, but still many posts are, hey, here's a cool photo. People just have to step up if they want this place to stay around. It isn't hard, it isn't more time consuming than just scrolling through everything. Just try it and be the change you want to see.
Out of these 1000 followers, how many are still active? The 99-9-1 rule is probably valid here too
Only the admins
You're being generous. I'm part of a lot of communities that are clearly not being moderated.
What I meant is that 990 of those 1000 followers don't visit Lemmy anymore you can't expect them to post