EDIT: Thanks for the replies, everyone. From what I’ve gathered, I just have to be more patient, so I’ll wait for the communities relevant to me to pop up. In the meantime, I’ll temper my expectations and continue using my community as a resource repository and continue linking them to people I meet online who need them.
Maybe I’m just using it wrong, but I’m returning for more than a minute after a few weeks due to having exams to study for, and there’s no notifications.
My community literally stopped in time after my last post, and I’m guessing it won’t resume until I work down my queue of things to post after my finals are over.
I’m subscribed to several communities I was interested in on Reddit, but even knowing I have to switch to my subscribed communities every time I log in, the feed seems very different, almost lacking in ways I can’t describe. For example, a big popular one about games hasn’t been posting any posts about any games I care about, and when I search for a community for the games I do care about, they simply don’t exist.
It’s just really jarring to try to engage after a few weeks of logging in here and there to check on anything I missed, and nothing of note has really happened.
So most content is just politics and memes atm?
Yeah mainly, lemmy doesn’t have enough users to maintain more niche communities on a large scale at least.
Darn. Well, I’ll just focus on my own community for now and wait for relevant communities to exist.
It’s the kind of pain that will always come with being the first mover. Every active community on Lemmy faced this hurdle at some point in history - it takes a little while to reach critical mass.
Engaging with small communities and encourageing people who are trying to make it happen is a huge help. In addition to manageing your own, of course. Thank you! :)
It’s honestly pretty poppin’ for how many people we have. It’s significantly more active since the first Exodus.
And furries.
Also furries with dongs those are cool.
So many furries
I’d know, I’m one of them
Sorry but that sample size is too small to draw any meaningful conclusions.
[email protected] has a weekly thread about people trying to grow their community
None of them are politics or news
[email protected] also has a pinned post for non political communities
Doing the Lords work as always
Trying to help!
It’s not just that. It’s also technology communities that aggressively push Linux.
…and justifiably so!