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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.