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

  • @danc4498
    10•1 year ago

    90% of the posts I see on the All: Hot have zero comments, 9% have 1 comment, and 1% have 2 or more comments.

    This sounds like that bug that causes massive numbers of new posts to show up where they don’t belong. When I refresh, most of the posts have multiple comments.

    I think you’re expecting too much from this thing. The active user base is still growing, but it’s a fraction of a fraction of what Reddit is.

    Also, If you want your community to be successful, maybe you should be making daily posts in it to try to increase engagement. As Lemmy userbase builds, the people that are looking for a community like yours will find it and gradually begin engaging.