At least on the communities i follow. Every so often I come across a thread where i recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members and I haven’t even been on lemmy that long.
Honestly, that’s one of the cool parts of old internet (forums, chatrooms, etc.) is getting to know people, you get to know the community 😊
Be the change you want to see. Post and comment. Start a sub.
That’s more difficult than it would seem. Especially since the niche stuff i would be interested in fostering is… well… niche. And lemmy isn’t that large. YET!
One dedicated person is sometimes all it takes to Kickstart a community. Every lemmy comm or their subreddit ancestors started the same way
I’ve started a few communities. I have to admit that attempting to be the one dedicated poster has burned me out of a hobby and made me not want to post anything anymore. It certainly isn’t for everyone.
The way I do it, is not to stress about keeping up a posting schedule. I just keep posting interesting stuff I find in the community and eventually more people gather. It’s how I started /r/piracy
One person can suffer from “shouting into the void”. Finding at least one other regularly poster helps a lot
What interest is it?
Have a look at [email protected] for list of existing active communities
[email protected] for people who make communities grow
Mostly just anime specific communities and other hobbies. Thanks for the info though. Maybe I’ll get around to making a community
[email protected] us usually fit for discussions about specific animes
Feel free, yesterday I discovered we had [email protected] , so sometimes it’s just there, but unknown
Might i say that you’re always doing a good job of promoting these communities as well. Kudos to you!
Happy to help !
Does anyone recognize me?! I need validation for my useless contributions. Valor and accolades!
I don’t see many users from the nsfw instance
Well it’s my porn account, and when my main user’s instance was seized by the Chinese or whatever, I thought I’d just stick with this. I have no shame now, it’s a little liberating.
Well congrats to you on your ummm… uhhh…
It is what it is
Mark Robinson, is that you?
It’s a smaller neighborhood here dude.
Yep! We smol.
Hey, it’s just the cold water.
“I was in the pool!”
“I’m a grower not a shower”…
“It’s not the size of the boat, it’s the motion of the ocean”…
IllegallySmol
But so fierce.
I see that now
cozy. lets just think of It as cozy, why don’t we… ahhh, much better!
Hey watch your hand!
Roll-call for the lurkers! (If u want, no pressure)
Be the change you want to see.
Got it. Creating bot accounts now
Without a doubt
Because it is dawg.
Total users are like ballpark 1 million, and most don’t post much or at all – e.g the 1-9-90 rule.
By comparison Reddit and twitter are the most trafficed sites on the internet
‘Had to look up the 1-9-90 rule
Important concept when it comes to communities like Reddit and Lemmy, and something to keep in mind when talking about online marketing and propaganda.
A handful of posters, relatively speaking, essentially shape global consensus, and many know that, so plan accordingly.
A place has to be seeded for a forest to grow…
Somebody has to do the job since normal person only reads, maybe upvote.
Agreed; and Lemmy communites require not only seeding, but tending by a dedicated poster. There are plenty of dead places where someone created the community, maybe made a post or two, then never posted again.
No I haven’t seen it
Do you also happen to have MPD?
Do you identify as being part of this class?
I comment quite a lot and post relatively often, so i do think i am one of the handful of users I’m referring to. Whether my contributions make any difference is what i don’t know
‘Make any difference’ in what sense?
I do recall an exchange where you gracefully bowed out of a discussion with another commented. I appreciated seeing that
What i mean by “make any difference” is whether specific discussions or communities would be any different if i hadn’t contributed. I’m also happy that you appreciate my concessions
Narrator: That night, GrammarPolice dreamt of a world in which they had not commented in any communities…
I have no idea what you’re talking about, says the chump who has a series of precisely 103 formulaic knife reviews posted here.
Want to know about a really weird knife? Go check out what a tecpatl is.
tecpatl
Those Aztec weapons are awesome. We need more movies taking place in pre-Columbian times.
There’s definitely regulars I recognize, but still plenty more I don’t.
There’s dozens of us. Dozens.
Yeah, there are a handful of extremely prolific posters who are awesome and keep the whole thing fresh. Then there are a couple dozen that I see at least a few times a week if not more. After that, I see a mix of familiar and unfamiliar faces.since I scroll All.
But even reddit had a similar pattern on a larger scale proportionate to the userbase. There were like a dozen prolific posters (or bots) whose threads got the most engagement even when they were reposts of someone else’searlier post.
I like to think of it like movies and tv, where a few prolific actors and actresses are everywhere and in things that get a lot of attention, but there are also a ton of people also participating but without as much attention because they are in fewer popular things.
If someone browses hot or new they will absolutely see the same few people the majority of the time since those are the most active people. Browse Active and there are a lot more that arrived a few hours after the post was made.
haha! oh wow!
Part of it is also because you will notice the people you recognize, but scroll past the people that you don’t.
Having to check over usernames from the moderation side, I notice a lot more variety than I’d think about otherwise
I recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members
Communities with 30k members could really do with pruning the completely inactive ones. It’s not like there’s any commercial reasons to pretend that places are busier than they actually are.
I’ve stopped referring to community sizes - especially when there hasn’t been a post for a year. Instead, monthly active users is where it’s at:-).
I disagree. There is nothing to be gained by removing people from a group. You can’t predict when they might suddenly become active and by removing them you’re abrogating their ability to participate.
It’s a trade-off, I guess. Admittedly, there’s not much benefit the user (though they could be warned via email if their account is going to be de-activated). There is however a benefit to the community, in that it can provide more reliable data to see if it’s trending in popularity (a 100 extra users isn’t significant if it thinks it has 30k users, but it moves the needle if that number is at a more realistic level).
Shouldn’t popularity be based on activity, not membership though?
It’s a useful metric. Maybe it’s the better one, but personally I’d like to see good data from both.
Lurkers need to subscribe for the content to appear in their Subscribed feed. Kicking them out may simply result in them rejoining again. It would be a constant struggle against that.
Plus, if such purges occur routinely, then what about a major poster who takes a break, even if for like a year (let’s say they have a baby)? Actively getting rid of lurkers sends a signal that they are not welcomed. Especially if in the future Lemmy adds the ability for mods to have to approve join requests.
Whereas simply using “monthly active users” avoids all of that. Do as you please with any of your communities - in which case it would be helpful for the sake of transparency to literally add it to the rules (those who don’t participate will eventually get purged) - but I thought I would list out some of these issues, in case it helped!:-)
thoughtful. my issue here is while a community is nascent, isnt building maintaining an honest reflection of the community important?
I have joined a few tiny locally communities based on one post/comment. I may never return and the community traffic is irregular.
in a situation like that I can see a mod pruning me away for zero comments in a year. however that is a form of censorship. so its back to the default of mods run their communities as they wish and, if you disagree find/create another community or instance.
thanks for the thoughful comment.
absolutely. careful pruning and caretaking is how you nurture good communities. excellent comment.
I’m not usually an internet commentor, but I try to chip in on Lemmy sometimes. I think most people just treat it like the rest of social media today, where the smart idea is to just lurk
I guess it makes sense that the majority of the userbase is just lurkers
It’s the rules.
Tres interresant
HEY, no frenchies allowed.
Putain 🙄
Oui
