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submitted 1 year ago by RampageDon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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So let's try this again. My last post sort of got derailed because I am an idiot and used instance instead of community.

Anyway I am here to see what's working for everyone else. I would like to help grow some of the smaller communities I am apart of and looking for ways to be helpful and interactive without straight up having to make my own video content.

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[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure, tbh. I'm feeling pretty doomy about Lemmy lately.

I've been involved in actively trying to build up an existing Community: I posted stuff, people saw it on All, and subscribed. From that point, growth should be exponential - if you get an extra 100 subscribers, at least 1 of them should be able to overcome their crippling insecurity and post something, but in reality, nothing happened. I kept posting, but repeated mining of my own sense of what's funny just revealed how far adrift my own sense of humour is from a universal sense, and that was that.

You can do what you like to try to grow a Community, but if the people you bring in are the same type of Entitled Toilet Browsers you already have, it won't mean much.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

I’m feeling pretty doomy about Lemmy lately.

We're definitely coming down from the optimism during Rexit. I think Lemmy can still find its vibe and become its own unique thing rather than being a little Reddit copycat. Though it depends on us users being more proactive about participating rather than lurking.

[–] pungunner@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Hey how did you know that I am sitting at the toilet?

In most social media I am a commenter (idk. As soon as I feel comfortable to post something the comments murder me)

But even so did not use Lemmy to much with jerboa. Not enough content. Buggy. Not nice.

Saw a new post about clients and found "thunder".

Feels like relay. Yes some functions may be missing. But feels nice enough that I can scroll through my subscriptions and have fun using it.

And in mastodon I have a feeling that the growth is linear and not exponential, so give it time.

Lemmy will probably not replace Reddit soon, but it will be a solid alternative for not super special content.