There are Filipinos in Lemmy, even those who didn’t participate in this community back when it was more alive. I suspect there were more Filipinos in Lemmy that didn’t participate in the community than those who did. Perhaps it is the usual 90% lurker, 9% commenter, 0.9% poster mix, with the remaining percentage being what I call “community leaders” who set the tone and the stage for the community.

The problem, as far as I see it, is with the very nature of non-mainstream social media: it’s non-mainstream. Sherlock-level take, I know, but the problem is that while there’s a lot of Filipinos using social media, and some of them use non-mainstream social media (such as Mastodon and Lemmy), I doubt it’s enough to sustain a community (at this early state, at least) without some unholy level of effort and commitment not just from the community leaders, but also from the members. I am guilty of this lack of commitment myself.

Personally, I stayed here on Lemmy, but I wasn’t really the type of person that can comment and make posts that are meaningful and relevant to this community. Unfortunately, I guess there’s more people like me here than otherwise.

Moreover, I don’t think it’s easy to spot a Filipino in those non-mainstream media unless they tell you. And as far as my sample size of less than a handful is concerned, they aren’t really coming out of the woodwork just as easily to form a Filipino community in those non-mainstream social media. This is perhaps a consequence of Filipinos (of my generation at least, the 90’s kids) getting used to a social media not of their own, they’ve managed to blend in and are fine with it. Unless there’s a big reason to come out of the shadows and participate in, or create, a Filipino community, they won’t.

Considering how old Facebook has already been when it gained traction here in the Philippines, how old Reddit was when /r/Philippines really got active, I think this community is just before its time. The only kinds of communities here on Lemmy that I can consider self-sustaining and mature enough are the Linux communities and other more geeky-pop-culture communities (LotR, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc). These communities really paint a picture of what appeals to the ordinary Lemmy user right now, and perhaps an indication of what kind of users tend to adopt non-mainstream social media.

Oh, I forgot to answer the question:

Is there any hope for any move outside of the main social medias?

If what you mean by ‘move’ is something like moving /r/Philippines into [email protected], then no. I don’t think there was any hope of that happening to begin with. What I think might be possible is to have enough people here in Lemmy such that there’s enough Filipinos (or other people interested in the Philippines) to organically grow this community.

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EDIT:

I forgot to answer the OP’s question, my bad.