A week ago I was all excited… It looked like we had momentum. I even created a few local communities and the people came. Fast forward to today: my local communities are dead (no posts in many days) and 90% of the posts I see on the All: Hot have zero comments, 9% have 1 comment, and 1% have 2 or more comments. Despite the news of “2M active users and growing”.
The only posts that have lots of comments are talking about Lemmy itself or the “Reddit implosion”.
It’s frustrating
Lemmy is not Reddit. It would be weird if 1/100th of the population could recreate Reddit in a week on a different platform.
For now a lot of former Reddit lurkers are going to have to elevate their game and live without the dopamine hits of getting a lot of upvotes and comments on their posts.