Yeah I don’t blame you. Despite how big lemmy has gotten lately I think people lose sight of the fact that there’s a lot of niche communities that have absolutely 0 engagement here but on reddit are pretty active.
And yes, you can say “well start creating content for those” and you’d be right, but it still doesn’t fix the activity issue right now. It just builds it for later.
Indeed it’s a paradox of needing users to create content, but also needing users to read said content. Nobody likes wasting time putting effort into something that is likely to go into the void.
Once such communities hit critical-mass, it becomes self-sustaining.
Step 1 I believe is either joining the communities of your interest or making said communities if they do not exist. Over time the users will join and once enough of an audience fills the theater, the content will come.
r/softwaregore lmao
But also, I know Sync is gone but there are other third party apps still clinging on like Relay. So why are you still using the official app?
Sync? Gone? Sync moved to Lemmy and it’s gorgeous.
And then there’s the cracked sync client that just works… https://github.com/Liz-chan/sink-for-everyone/releases/
Apparently it’s using the API key of some official function (or even app?) and spoofs the corresponding user agent, so it can’t be easily detected.
Sync won’t be updated any longer, so once reddit messes with the API again, functions will break eventually. But for now it works.
Why are either of you still on reddit at all?..
I’ve only just started to properly find my footing on Lemmy by creating this account two days ago. This takes a bit of time haha.
Yeah I don’t blame you. Despite how big lemmy has gotten lately I think people lose sight of the fact that there’s a lot of niche communities that have absolutely 0 engagement here but on reddit are pretty active.
And yes, you can say “well start creating content for those” and you’d be right, but it still doesn’t fix the activity issue right now. It just builds it for later.
Indeed it’s a paradox of needing users to create content, but also needing users to read said content. Nobody likes wasting time putting effort into something that is likely to go into the void.
Once such communities hit critical-mass, it becomes self-sustaining.
Step 1 I believe is either joining the communities of your interest or making said communities if they do not exist. Over time the users will join and once enough of an audience fills the theater, the content will come.