Upper note: This post is not about Lemmy. It’s about this specific community :)

Why YSK: because if you’re seeing this, you’re probably subscribed to it :) we need more posts & activity if you want to keep it alive and thriving! It’s been dead in the last 2 days.

Please follow our rules(which are very few) if you decide to support & create activity. And please don’t hurry. We don’t want the main page to be sick of us, do we? Haha.

edit: Thanks to everyone sharing their opinions as to why this might be & helping create activity! I did not expect this to pick up so fast haha. As always, your suggestions and opinions matter.

edit 2: As the level of activity on this post and the immediate boost of activity caused by it was unexpected, it will be locked in hopes to prevent flooding the site. Again, thanks to everyone for helping our community and sharing your opinions. You are loved!

edit 3: thrice the amount of content in a day. this post worked innit? ;)

  • deeroh@lemmy.world
    1181·
    1 year ago

    I agree that people need to post to keep communities alive, but it’s okay to grow slowly! I feel like people are still trying to understand what their daily flows are like without Reddit. Going two days without new posts, especially with how early this all is, doesn’t feel like a bad thing to me

    edit: oops double post

    • Chairished@kbin.social
      51·
      1 year ago

      hard agree. no need to flood the site with unneeded memes and just posts “for the sake of it”

      speaking of which, this very comment of mine is rather superfluous lol

  • deeroh@lemmy.world
    25·
    1 year ago

    I agree that people need to post to keep communities alive, but it’s okay to grow slowly! I feel like people are still trying to understand what their daily flows are like without Reddit. Going two days without new posts, especially with how early this all is, doesn’t feel like a bad thing to me

  • B4tid0@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 year ago

    I am be honest and say i am having a hard time keeping up with the content on Lemmy now haha which is a king of cool issue to have.

    I am busy with life so that’s doesn’t help but like I wake up now and there is a lot going on Lemmy.

    Still thanks for being vocal about your concern for the community and its activity.

    Maybe I should post and then lurk later? Probably 😅 There is a lot of habits and adjustments after Reddit.

    One thing is definitely tru tho. I go back to Reddit and oh boi do I feel bored and just think “I wonder what are the Lemmings ups to”, you all are doing fantastic here.

  • polaroid@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    These places were just born to begin with. Can’t be dying if you haven’t yet been growing!

    • /JJ@feddit.uk
      4·
      1 year ago

      its fun to watch. i think a few people have taken the opportunity to take control of famous subreddit names .

  • khoplex@lemmy.one
    6·
    1 year ago

    There is a lot to be said for the current UX on the mobile environment when compared to what most of the Reddit refugees are used to. The web app, for me, is a miserable experience and I find the iOS apps are more user friendly even in their infancy. That said, due to how new they are, the apps are still missing key features - they great for browsing but I don’t see that either are able to make new posts as of yet. That means either making due with the web app for all usage or bouncing between the apps and the web. It’s definitely going to hamper people from posting OC, especially because a good portion are likely heavy mobile users.

    To clarify, I am not ragging on the devs for the web app or mobile apps, this is a young project by comparison to what most of us are used to and I appreciate all the hard work they are doing. Yes, many former lurkers like myself need to step up the OC game, but the community as a whole needs to be patient and understanding as well. No community will die so long as there is an interest in the subject matter.

    Anyways, that’s just my two cents as a former heavy lurking redditfugee.

    • the8thbit@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m using the mobile web version of kbin for the first time right now and it’s pretty dang solid… I honestly might like it better than the desktop web interface. I spent this morning writing a stylus script to get something closer to old.reddit. (less whitespace, mostly, but a few other changes too)

  • gorkx@kbin.social
    93·
    1 year ago

    @clueless_stoner it’d help if the fedverse was more seemeless. like in wow: realms, zones, and servers all crosstalk without any issue at all. I fail to get how somewhat less competitive but equally socially “challanged” group of people aka geeks and nerds. can’t refactor the code to do so. or maybe that’s in the works.

    • brianlenz@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      Maybe I’m missing context, but it kinda is seamless? And the OP doesn’t seem to be suggesting that it’s a fault of the fediverse, just that there isn’t much content going into this specific community.

    • Kara@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      I don’t see what your complaint is? You are on Kbin responding to someone on lemmy.world. Of course that hasn’t been perfect, but Lemmy and Kbin have only really had this amount of traffic for like a week

    • moon_matter@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      I think there are already proposals for allowing both communities and profiles to be federated. That would mean that a community’s data would be managed and replicated across servers.

      But as of right now the issues are really:

      1. Server cost - There has been such an influx of new users to lemmy because of reddit that the smaller servers cannot handle the traffic of the larger ones. So they have been (hopefully only temporarily) forced to de-federate from the larger servers in order to reduce traffic.
      2. Quality of life - Lemmy is too new and there are lots of quality of life enhancements that still need to take place. The biggest being around how cross-instance viewing, linking and subscriptions work from a user experience POV. Right now someone could link to another community on a different instance and it takes you off-site and that needs to change.

      The reality is Lemmy isn’t completely ready for the masses yet and still needed to cook for a few more years. People need to be willing to put up with the jank. Reddit and other social media platforms had 10+ years to evolve and improve the user experience.