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What kinds of posts do you comment on? I’m finding it a bit difficult to find always active communities and discussions, which is the only thing preventing me from commenting as much as I used to with Apollo. Things like tipofmytongue, cringe, IsitBullshit, and outoftheloop along with movie and tv discussions were my frequent haunts, particularly when I can’t sleep at night, but sadly I’m not finding the same amount of engagement here. Hopefully as we grow we can find that same level of engagement.
Reddit had so many users that hyper specialisation was possible.
There was a subreddit for every tv show. And people are coming here expecting the same. I think we'll see similar content but a bit less niche.
For instance instead of a community for every tv show it might be better to just post about any tv show in /c/television
I used to follow /r/pizza but I've seen tons of home made pizza photos in /c/foodporn
For most niche topics you can probably think of a more general community which will help drive content and critical mass.
Only way to grow these communities with niche topics is to interact with them yourself. If you want c/pizza to grow, post content and interact in it!
I only ever posted like 3 times in the last 10 years on Reddit, but I realized that in order to see this community grow I'll probably have to step up and start posting stuff too like what others have been doing for me.
I'm just going on r/all (idk what the Lemmy term is called) and sort by new. Whatever I see that interests me, like news about the world or a photo I find looks good. For now I'm just talking in whatever I find because I want to increase engagement overall. Later, when my niche communities become big enough to the point I don't need to constantly talk, I'll probably relax on my engagement.
Yep, same approach I'm taking.
For now browsing all is a good starting point. If I come across an interesting community while doing that, then I'll add it to my subscriptions.
As things grow, I'll switch more to browsing my subscribed communities.
I gotta permabanned a few months ago from r tip of my tongue because I gave an answer that the OP eventually edited into their comment to say "no" to. Fuck whichever mod did that. I really hope we get a good version or ten or that community here. I really enjoyed it back in the day. Something changed in the last couple years.