It was better before people absolutely fucking insisted on scraping reddit posts to bring over here. Post after post after post of regurgitated bot posts, without a single comment, no engagement at all. Fun!
But but but… I want the little offshoot niche community to grow! I also want content to get seen by more than 5 people.
In reality there just isn’t the user mass to make small/niche communities viable right now, so you see more general communities filling the void.
An easy example is 3D printing. There are two 3D printing communities in the lemmyverse. There’s also a ‘fix my print’ community that’s a ghost town and a few printer specific communities that are also ghost towns. Posts in these more specialized communities tend to get a consistent level of votes, but very few comments.
I’ve intentionally been trying to seed more content, but it’s hard without literally posting the same thing in two spots.
It was better before people absolutely fucking insisted on scraping reddit posts to bring over here. Post after post after post of regurgitated bot posts, without a single comment, no engagement at all. Fun!
And then you find the same post on FIVE separate communities! Fun²
But but but… I want the little offshoot niche community to grow! I also want content to get seen by more than 5 people.
In reality there just isn’t the user mass to make small/niche communities viable right now, so you see more general communities filling the void.
An easy example is 3D printing. There are two 3D printing communities in the lemmyverse. There’s also a ‘fix my print’ community that’s a ghost town and a few printer specific communities that are also ghost towns. Posts in these more specialized communities tend to get a consistent level of votes, but very few comments.
I’ve intentionally been trying to seed more content, but it’s hard without literally posting the same thing in two spots.
Maybe there should be a community that boosts all those smaller niche communities? I think that could help spread the traffic around lemmy
I do wonder what the solution to this problem even looks like. Cuz I agree issa problem
I wish we could not have those
You can easily block them