Yeah I don’t blame you. Despite how big lemmy has gotten lately I think people lose sight of the fact that there’s a lot of niche communities that have absolutely 0 engagement here but on reddit are pretty active.
And yes, you can say “well start creating content for those” and you’d be right, but it still doesn’t fix the activity issue right now. It just builds it for later.
Indeed it’s a paradox of needing users to create content, but also needing users to read said content. Nobody likes wasting time putting effort into something that is likely to go into the void.
Once such communities hit critical-mass, it becomes self-sustaining.
Step 1 I believe is either joining the communities of your interest or making said communities if they do not exist. Over time the users will join and once enough of an audience fills the theater, the content will come.
Yeah I don’t blame you. Despite how big lemmy has gotten lately I think people lose sight of the fact that there’s a lot of niche communities that have absolutely 0 engagement here but on reddit are pretty active.
And yes, you can say “well start creating content for those” and you’d be right, but it still doesn’t fix the activity issue right now. It just builds it for later.
Indeed it’s a paradox of needing users to create content, but also needing users to read said content. Nobody likes wasting time putting effort into something that is likely to go into the void.
Once such communities hit critical-mass, it becomes self-sustaining.
Step 1 I believe is either joining the communities of your interest or making said communities if they do not exist. Over time the users will join and once enough of an audience fills the theater, the content will come.