There is not much getting posted, it is becoming emptier and emptier.
It feels like that party where I was one of the first people in, then people came and it was cool, and then suddenly it’s nearly empty.
There is not much getting posted, it is becoming emptier and emptier.
It feels like that party where I was one of the first people in, then people came and it was cool, and then suddenly it’s nearly empty.
There’s a lot getting posted, but niche communities are indeed getting less popular. The big blocker for Lemmy getting popular is the ability to group communities together (the most popular proposal is communities being able to follow eachother which would be amazing).
Until then, it’ll always feel kind of difficult to navigate when there are 5 communities with the same name, and it’s not clear which one is the popular/best one. Most of my posts are crossposts, there’s no way to get around that if you want to get a bigger audience. I think the reason you’re not seeing a lot of content is because it’s not clear where the content is, and a lot of good stuff has less than 5 upvotes because nobody knows that community yet.
But no, I don’t think it’s dying. There’s a pretty healthy and nice community here, but we are waiting on an important feature to make life here so much easier and attract more people.
Agreed on community follows, as - IMO - it would do so much to fix the scattering of discussions. Instead of having 5 posts of the same link, each with only one or two comments, you would have only one post with all the comments.
This could solve not only the lack of activity problem, but also the duplication of posts on the frontpage.