Get people to build more apps? There aren’t that many Lemmy apps and even fewer people who want to sit and discuss them. 🤷🏽♂️
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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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.
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 ?
I don’t use this community, but what exactly is your intention with it?
Like I use a Lemmy app, why would I ever need to talk about it unless I’m having an issue and if I’m having an issue, I’d rather find the dev and talk to them about it.
So if you want to make the place more active, you need to have a strong reason to want to continually use and engage with it.
I don't know i wanted to update the megathread ao just slid this question in too.
Oh yeah I’m just trying to provide some food for thought as to how you can get the place more active.
You need to have a clear purpose if you want to generate activity, otherwise just the mega thread would suffice many users needs for visiting.
Maybe do a weekly review on an app, like a book club almost? Get people to discuss what they like and don’t like about that weeks app.
Hmm that is a good idea .ty
From what I’ve seen It’s mostly been:
- New Lemmy users trying to find an app
- People looking for an app with specific features
- New app announcements
- Bigger releases and changes to existing apps
I think that content all depends on how many users and apps there are—not much you can do about that.
Maybe we could have a monthly post asking people what they want in Lemmy apps (features, ideas, likes and dislikes)? That might be a good way to bring all devs and users together to think of ways to make the ecosystem better
Good idea! I would like to discuss about what features to implement, depending on what users perceive as most valuable. And the idea to coordinate between developers is great...
Yeah definetly
I think this community was very active when all the Lemmy apps keep popping out (and the Reddit clients dying out, what a beautiful time lol).
Anyway, aside for updating the mega thread and cross posting the update announcements from their respective communities I can't see how much we can use this one nowadays.
I mean, we could always be discussing the apps and such, but it makes more sense to go to the respective community.