• Azzu@lemm.ee
        7·
        1 year ago

        Did the same with !dota2@lemmy.ml and same situation :) but it doesn’t matter, I’ve met some great people there :)

        I’ve noticed that there’s only a small percentage of overall people that I think have the “right” views about the world, and it’s totally fine that it’s only 1% of all people or whatever. As long as there’s one other person I think it’s all worth it, but in reality, there are likely millions, just hard to find them under billions.

      • nodimetotie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Have you tried promoting your community on the subreddit? People might not know about it. I occasionally visit the Czech Republic, definitely subbing to your community.

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
          2·
          1 year ago

          I know, you’re probably Czech because you replied to my post in perfect Czech. Do you think your Reddit repost bot, while not 100% ethical, could help boost that community?

          To be honest, Reddit’s practices are even less ethical (process known as enshittification so I don’t really care if we break their TOS. Too bad they don’t allow direct i.redd.it image linking anymore, it was annoying even before I left it.

          • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
            3·
            1 year ago

            Hmm, I think the bot works well for subs that are mainly a content feed so losing the comments isn’t a big deal (like eg. r/EarthPorn). But with r/Czech there is quite a lot of discussion so I’m not sure if reposting just the posts and losing the comments makes sense. I really don’t gaf about Reddot’s TOS, the thing I was ethically unsure about was if flooding Lemmy with Reddit reposts (ie. creating ‘fake activity’) wouldn’t be detrimental. But with !100yearsago@sh.itjust.works it seems to be going well.
            Also yes I am Czech (I can also speak a bit of German like you do).

  • AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
    74·
    1 year ago

    I really wish the !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world community grows here on Lemmy. It was my all time favorite subreddit. No fighting, no toxicity, it’s just straight up:

    “I forgot this thing”

    “You mean THIS thing?”

    “Yeah! That thing!”

    Everybody wins.

  • StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world
    611·
    1 year ago

    I can’t decide if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, honestly. I joined the initial wave of people leaving Reddit when RiF died. I was excited to see my niche communities like Skyrim Mods and ObsidianMD pop up here, but over time they stagnated as people slipped back to Reddit.

    At the same time, I came to realize that I spent a lot of time on stupid subs browsing stupid content that just sucked away my time. And for even my niche subs that I missed, I realized that 75% of that new content is the same reposts, the same arguments, the same debates. I do cheat every once in awhile and go back to Reddit, but now it’s to see the top posts of the month to see what I’ve missed. Turns out, I haven’t missed much.

    It has taken a while to get Lemmy where I want it. I’ve filtered a ton of communities and users that do nothing but talk about Russia and socialism and whatever the fuck tankies are, and there sure were a lot of cartoons of animals with enormous NSFW bits I had to filter, but it’s starting to come together now for me.

    • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
      18·
      1 year ago

      There were/are a lot of dumb subs full of dumb content for sure, but what I miss about Reddit are the subs that have a super deep expert knowledge base. The plumbing sub, the mechanic advice sub, the vacuum sub, the fountain pen sub, etc. I’ve saved a lot of money and heartache by asking knowledgeable people naive questions in niche subreddits. Lemmy just plain doesn’t have the numbers for those kinds of subs to exist here at that level yet. But I hope we get there because for me that was the best thing about Reddit (though I also have a soft spot for the big “what’s your true real life paranormal experience” mega-threads that would pop off every few months.)

    • nodimetotie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Your comment resonates with me on more than one level. I joined Lemmy after Apollo went down, and incidentally was also excited to see ObsidianMD (hello, fellow Obsidian user). I was hoping people would migrate over from Reddit but alas, I still have to go where the discussion is. I kind of feel bad about it, but still do it. I also feel like moving away from Reddit saved me from hours of mindless doom scrolling,although I suspect that now I am doing that when reading Lemmy local.

    • nodimetotie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Well, yeah, but sometimes I don’t think I can make a high-quality post to a community like “Data is Beautiful.” I was mostly a watcher. But you are right, of course, it’s in our power to bring communities to life.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
    551·
    1 year ago

    give it time, people will come to their favorite instances with time. The best thing you can do is make your own posts to your favorite subs and cross post posts you see to other subs they fit into as well.

    • MissJinx@lemmy.world
      291·
      1 year ago

      When I first arrived in Lemmy the top posts were about 100 likes and 5 comments. It has grown so much since then that I was already super happy but then this week they launch Boost for lemmy (I was a boost user on the before times) and now my life is finally complete again. Have faith guys, things will get better!

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
    522·
    1 year ago

    Yeah true, but chances are you’ll post on a smaller “”“dead”“” sublemmy and it’ll get upvotes and responses within hours. Do the same with an active reddit and you’ll be lucky if anyone responds

  • LolaCat@lemmy.ca
    44·
    1 year ago

    There’s no better feeling than making a post to a dead community, and then suddenly tons of posts start flooding in lol.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    We gotta get niche communities that aren’t just programmers and socialists… I’m a socialist, but I wanna talk to some people about how Porygon is one of the greatest Pokemon of all tiem.

    • Daryl76679@lemmy.ml
      111·
      1 year ago

      We have the science folks over and mander.xyz and slrpnk.net. Lemmy.world also seems like a very diverse instance to star whatever you want on

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Oh cool, where do I find the spirituality folks? Cause I have this on-off relationship with God that I should probably get a definitive on or off answer to. I mean at this point I’m worried I"m making the coupling toxic with this indecisiveness, ya dig?

        • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 year ago

          I wish you the best of luck in your spiritual journey, but the idea of getting a definitive answer to the God question is something humans have been working on for thousands of years. I wouldn’t beat yourself up about not having one lol

          • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I feel like the mystical, the supernatural, is something that doesn’t exist, but it’s “supposed to”, and we’re witnessing the timeline where they don’t… a timeline that is for that reason… defective.

            Ever feel that way?