I’m not gonna lie, sometimes it feels a bit lonely. I try to post on a few generic communities
- !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee
- !casualconversation@lemmy.world
- !movies@lemm.ee
- !lego@lemmy.world
- !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
- !comicbooks@lemmy.world
- !avatar@lemmy.world
Sometimes I can be the only poster for a few weeks. Makes me requestion the relevance of posting at all. I started posting to !pics@lemmy.world recently just because at least my posts are widely seen, and other people post there as well.
It’s definitely demotivating. I think the biggest issue, and this is something I’ve heard a lot from outside the Lemmy sphere is the very divisive and niche politics that seem so prevalent on Lemmy world and Lemmy ML. I have tried to bring people to Lemmy and they’ll usually see the LW front page and not return. Communism/far left is not popular with the general public and will scare most people away. The top posts of Lemmy can also be very negative.
I try to practice what I preach and have joined reddthat and try to run positive communities with no negativity allowed.
Your posting has definitely helped and most of my posts get a decent amount of upvotes which is what keeps me going. I hope more of the general public joins Lemmy and the extremist politics aren’t so front and center.
Hello,
Good to see you here! On the same as you for everything, especially trying to run positive communities
I think alongside trying to foster more upbeat/constructive communities, it may also help to have a mixture of novel/different posts and if relevant, helpful posts.
For example, a few communities I’ve noticed are…
!amateursatellites@lemmy.world
!pocketknife@lemmy.world
!wallpapers@lemmy.ca
The first is definitely niche, second is maybe somewhere between, and the last benefits from being widely appealing, but what they each have in common is that there’s something different to come across from their posts. First is satellite imagery, second courtesy of a couple posters is some weirder pocket knives, and the last is more or less like pics but with a bonus of being a variety of images you could use on your phone or PC.
A tricky part with each of these so far has been that despite some upvotes, you may not see posts from them too often depending on your sort setting as they don’t often draw too many comments to each post.
I think discoverability of niche communities is another big issue. It’s hard to find them and even when you do a lot of the times the algorithm won’t show them to you.
My biggest issue here as well. Can’t find new communities and then when I do join I never see them in my algo.
That’s odd. Even when browsing by subscribed and sorting by new or scaled?
Scaled subscribed feed works for me to show most of the niche communities I sub to
I’m probably sorted wrong. I either do top 6 hours or hot.
Top 6 should show them. Are you sure the communities federate correctly with your instance? Have a look at them on their home instance, then from your instance, and see if posts are missing.
If yes, copy the link of the missing post, and paste it into the search bar. It should then appear and “unblock” the federation
Wow, I had no idea this existed. @thomasdouwes@sopuli.xyz, you could definitely do more to promote this one. You should post in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca.
You also might consider the occasional crosspost to !spaceflight@sh.itjust.works, as I imagine there is some overlap in user interest. Would you like me to add a link to your sub in the sidebar?
That’s interesting, I knew none of those before your posts. We definitely need a place to better advertise communities. I know !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world exist, but they are probably underused at the moment
I tend to agree. I think both of those communities are good for communities starting out or just opening up after adjusting some settings mishaps (e.g. whoops set to NSFW, mods only, or language settings), but they don’t really fit for trying to get additional attention after that.
I made a small attempt over in General Discussion with this post encouraging people to share active communities, but nobody’s added to it with their own lists of active communities or mentioning a single or couple communities they’ve been enjoying. 🤷♀️
Oh, that’s a nice post (I missed it too) Would you like to crosspost to !casualconversation@lemm.ee ?
I take it this is okay? 😅
Definitely, thanks!