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Get people to build more apps? There aren’t that many Lemmy apps and even fewer people who want to sit and discuss them. 🤷🏽♂️
Hmm i was thinking more along the way of discussing when an app got updated or asking for reccomendation etc.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
I did post some didn't get much engagement
Your account is 8 days old. Perhaps you’re expecting Reddit-like engagement? Unless you’re a mainstream community, you’re going to be hard pressed to get engagement on such a niche topic. IMO, forcing engagement will only have the reverse effect.
Have patience, my friend.
I have multiple accounts check my bio (3 actually ). Also i had another 2 month old acc sadly i had to delete it. But yeah i maybe over expecting.
You can't do anything to encourage others to come here asking for suggestions. Visibility of the community will do that, which means more posts, but the only way I can see that happening organically is if you go out to each app developer that isn't already posting updates here and ask them to do so.
There's not much to do here beyond that, honestly. You can't force engagement on a topic like this. People come, get the info they need, and leave. People that want to keep discussing the apps after they've picked one are a small percentage of users, mainly developers or enthusiasts. Or really picky people like me that are looking for specific things and waiting for an app to meet those needs.
Anything to add about my second question ?
There are actually quite a lot of Lemmy apps, but not every dev posts here. They prefer to use their own communities. Maybe get them to make a post here or something when they push updates, or post one for them.
But you're right: there's no much to actually discuss here so there's no real reason for activity. It's a community you check every once in a while at most.
One person’s “quite a lot” is another person’s “not that many”. 😉
Relatively speaking there is lot of Lemmy clients compared to other (federated) social medias. Only mastodon comes near it.
It's directly proportional to the userbase. In the iOS world, many of the devs lost interest (or started needing to monetize thier apps beyond usefulness..) after the intial Reddit API exodus.
Thanks for being one of the few devs that continues maintaining your code long after the hype.