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Since the vast majority of website users are minimally engaged, I would love for a few more active posters for stability of content and discussion, but not a massive influx of users just to have users.
I also don't want a plethora of users who get banned repeatedly for not being self aware that their behavior is the problem. The occasional crossed wires ban, no biggie, but thinking there are so many glass people that creating dozens of alts is necessary is not a good look.
Personally I don't find a huge difference with reddit and threadiverse, at least for larger subs. Sure, on paper there are hundreds of comments, but most are the same tired decade old memes. You can predict what the comment sections are gonna be like from the title alone. At worst you get similar comments here, but you don't have to dig through hundreds of comments before finding something worthwhile.
No.
People are the worst.
I literally do not care about getting more members. It is not on my radar at all as a goal or desirable thing or objective.
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No, not that one.
Absolutely. There's just fuck all to do here. I used reddit for fan communities a lot, and most of them stayed behind. (Unless you're a trekkie I guess. Then you're set.)
Nearly every niche community I've joined has essentially died due to not having the critical mass of users to support that community. Hell, even look at the large states like California or Texas: they're communities with only a few hundred active users and maybe a couple thousand joined. Feels like the lemmy is mostly us politics, star trek, Germans, and memes.
Which niches were they?
Some like [email protected] and [email protected] are quite active
[email protected] has several threads with different active communities on different topics
You know a platform is big when like nearly all states of a country have their own subreddit and their own userbase. It's like, that's impact there.
It's the same here, I check the front page and what do I see? Politics, politics, politics, a couple memes and maybe a news report that isn't politics.
If you don't like politics, block those communities
Otherwise
I mean, you are on a site built and maintained by Communists along Communist principles, there are going to be Communists.
Reddit already exists for liberals.
The "threadiverse" (i.e. lemmy-compatible communities), yeah. There are still many topics that I would find interesting to discuss, but that nobody talks about here; to the extent that there are communities for them, they get very little activity.
The microblogging fediverse (mastodon-compatible), I think, is popular enough by now, I have no real desire to see even more activity there, can hardly keep up with what I'm currently following there and currently tend to unfollow more accounts than I start following.
There are still many topics that I would find interesting to discuss, but that nobody talks about here;
Which ones are those?
For example on Reddit there is an active subreddit for learning my first language (German), where learners post questions about it and I frequently answer them.
There is such a community here too, and I am subscribed to it, but hardly anyone ever posts to it, so I have nothing to respond to.
i looked through mastodon and it seemed like everyone was just talking at each other instead if discussions. its worse than linkedin.
Mastodon is mainly a way to get updates from news sites, blogs, etc.
I wish there were more people in the fediverse, but not necessarily heaps more on Lemmy. I don't want Reddit numbers on Lemmy. But I wish there were more platforms and more people engaging with them, and no, if the answer is shit like Threads then I don't want any of it.
Yes.
Yes. Same old faces every time gets old
Find a good instance, it's nice that way. Hexbear is really nice to browse locally, I'm sure there are other instances with active communities like that with good local feeds. The issue isn't with magnitude of people, but the activity levels of people, otherwise you get instances dominated by a few people similar to Reddit.
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