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It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Paulius@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90

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[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago

Man, I really hope more traffic starts heading into some of the more niche communities because getting a new thread every day or there and getting 1 or 2 replies - if that - is not how you sustain a site.

Are there really that few people into cars or engineering or DIY stuff on Lemmy?! Where the fuck are my fellow car and tinkering nerds at? And no one does projects around the house? So few posts in some of the home owner communities as well.

[-] pseudonym 8 points 1 year ago

I think the biggest problem with bootstrapping niche communities is that people interested in those topics have to search for and find the communities. There are a few resources for finding new communities such as https://lemmyverse.net/communities and the Reddit migration community, but it takes some effort.

[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes and it doesn't help that communities change servers or something and apparently if you don't change the settings you lose them from your subscribed list.

Seems like a rather shortsighted way of doing things if you ask me.

Also someone posted that the same name can be used on multiple instances, so like do you have to subscribe to all of them? Why have so many? Why would that be allowed? Makes little sense.

[-] pseudonym 2 points 1 year ago

That's just a consequence of decentralization. That's why all names are qualified by the instance name as well. It's not perfect, but we'll, on Reddit if someone picked the sub name you wanted then you're sol and have to choose a different name, so there's pros and cons to each. Simply subscribe to the most active version of the community you're interested in and network effects will pick the winner.