I think its because small communities have a hard time getting natural conversation. I am surprised that there aren't more people asking questions or talking.
I agree but for a Lemmy community. Here is quite big
I really wish there was more traffic/discussion, but I think we are just general quiet people.
A year ago was a weird time, given we were dealing with the Reddit fallout that wildly inflated engagement, with people trying to get a feel for the platform (both Lemmy in general and Beehaw).
I tend to use !chat for things that aren't articles. Not that that has to happen, it's just how the communities I'm active in have evolved.
Actually, did many people stay from the reddit fallout?
I came here from the reddit fallout, but I'm really bad about posting and commenting.
I am also still here from then, though I don't often comment in some spaces - like this one. Sometimes I feel that I don't have much to offer, comment-wise, due to being a member of several of the most privileged groups of people and (possibly unnecessarily) being acutely aware that some spaces don't really need more opinions from the intersection I inhabit. 
I also started using Lemmy during the Reddit fallout, and stayed for a few weeks. After that I started seeing less posts that interested me, and I took a break from Lemmy for a while. And finally returned a week ago.
Even on Reddit I see less interesting posts now. Especially the amount of discussion posts also seems to be lower there now. The official Reddit app is also a lot better for reading than for writing.
I did! 👋 Unfortunately, I mostly infodump about engineering in the comments, which is maybe not the kind of engagement we need.
Its a reddit style commintiy, infodumps are cool :3
came from reddit here, too. I often am too anxious to comment for a variety of reasons, so I mostly read. I try to post things when I get the courage to.
DW, here is a really nice space :3
I stayed :)
I made a post about this nearly a year ago. It's unfortunate that this still persists here.
Yea I agree
While i like beehaw. Its a good social network but a bad instance-most beehaw traffic from my experience is other beehaw stuff.
I get beehaw is meant to be safe, but maybe that has been taken to the extreme?
Don't get it wrong, I like this instance, but like you said, it feels kinda dead, I've ranted about this before I think
I'd be happy to see Beehaw become more active, but not at the price of compromising the place's ethos. That's the whole point.
To be honest though I'm not sure what kind of thread would be nice to have in this format. It's a difficult question.
There is indeed quite a shift towards just posting articles. A lot of people don’t regularly post (at least it was like that on Reddit), and for those people, the articles are great.
It is hard to keep conversations active in smaller communities. As people will quickly stop posting new chats and questions if there are no replies.
Yea
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