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The biggest problem people run into is a lack of thier niche communities here, and that's mostly due to a lack of overall numbers. Reddit, while a festering hellhole, still has that. I'd be thrilled to see that change one day, but it's definitely gonna be a while.
another issue is: most of the people want to consume, very few contribute and most "contribution" is a link-posting, even without a personal opinion for it.
Ironically, right now Lemmy is better for contributors than lurkers. The limited amount of content means than any post/comment that I submit is more likely to be seen and get engagement. I already get more comment replies on Lemmy than I usually did on Reddit.
your profile says that you created 1 post. And this is just a link post.
Yep I mostly comment. Back on Reddit I used to almost never post because most posts would get buried in New. I might post more here since there is a need of content.
commenting is a a contribution. but posting is more important, at least so far - no posts -> nothing to comment.
I’m optimistic that more niche stuff will come with time
Lemmy has been growing alot lately, so there's certainly reason to have optimism. It's really just a numbers game to get more niche communities here.
Reddit's jumped the shark and will continue Tod slowly bleed users until everything of value's over here
Agreed, the top suggestion here is a community I've been subscribed to from day 1 and it's always felt dead. Lemmy is good for specific tech niches but outside of that it feels like the same generic meme stream that /r/all is. Also a red flag that nearly all of the communities listed here are attempts to recreate a reddit niche 1:1 which obviously was never going to work as long as the main reddit version is still around
Unfortunately I don't think recommending dead communities with 9 MAUs and 1 post/month is the solution to building up Lemmy's userbase but I respect the attempt