• forksandspoons@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While there is definitely a bunch of content popping up now thanks to to influx of actuve users, there still are some more niche communities that were pretty active on old reddit that i guess just can get to critical mass on lemmy and so are pretty dead. I hope that can change going into the future though.

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      1 year ago

      If the community you’re looking for exists but doesn’t contain posts, the best thing you can do is to start posting yourself, no matter the quality you think your content has.

      Humans tend to follow others, which leads to both positive and negative feedback loops. If nobody is posting, anyone discovering the community will think “oh this place is dead, no point in posting”.

      Being the first to break the ice and do something in a group setting is scary, but once somebody is doing it it’s much more likely others will join in.

      It’s often uncomfortable to be the first person to start dancing to the music, but have you noticed how much easier it is for everyone else to join in when that one guy starts going off?