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It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million (lemmy.world)
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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90

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[–] 105 points 3 years ago (17 children)

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.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I think part of the problem is finding communities.

    I search for things, but they all look so small I assume that can't be the proper one and end up not joining it. I'm not convinced I'm seeing the full list of what's out there.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So much this! Can there really be only a dozen or so posts in a community as wide as cars? Like seriously? I must have some setting messed up.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Take it easy. Reddit has more than 400 millions users, Lemmy hasn't even broken into 70k MAU. The long tail is not yet that long here.

    If we want to get rid of the walled gardens, we need to have patience and cultivate our own. Join the communities you care about and stick with a discipline of posting one or two posts every day, no matter the source. Even if you have to browse the equivalent subreddit, get the link, send a DM to the original author about it to let them know they can post on Lemmy as well.

    People are not going to jump over night to here, but slowly we can win this one out.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This has been super helpful for finding communities outside of my instance lemm.ee, as many of them may not be discoverable without 1st searching for the exact community link

    https://lemmyverse.net/communities

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's a really useful site.

    I'm not sure why it's showing such a small number when I search for it using my instance. e.g. searching for "games" shows !games@lemmy.world has 83 subscribers, while your link shows 19,400. Is it just showing the number of subscribers from my instance on there, or some number when it was first found by my instance or what?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Is it just showing the number of subscribers from my instance on there

    Yes, that's exactly it. It's an unfortunate product of how the backend works right now, as far as I understand it. I don't think there is a way to see the total sum of subscribers to a community from all instances right now. I think the issue has been raised on GitHub, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    Okay. I'm going to be stupid and ask the basic question

    I'm on lemm.ee and my feed is interesting enough so if I fuck with it I could make it worse.

    But let's say I want to see more of https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy (or something smaller) on my feed how do I do that?

    I was going to wait for an app and go from there. But I'm not sure which one has swam to the top of most recommended (I used rif on Reddit and enjoyed that)

    Edit: I'm going to try sync. I'll work it out from that

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    True, I think the "lemmy is so confusing to join" concerns are overblown (just make an account?), but admittedly the community finding part is... not intuitive. People really aren't seeing everything that's out there through the standard search if their instance isn't federated with the instance where the target community is hosted, or no one on their instance has searched for that community before. Having to go offsite for tools to find communities is a poor experience.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'll message my dude Mark to join up, mother fucker loves anything mechanical.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Looking forward to having Mark on here

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I also choose that guy's Mark

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Where tf is Mark?!?!

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Most of us are probably computer nerds right now.... And I think a lot of people are afraid of posting their own post. It's safer to just comment. But Lemmy is a very friendly community, so I think maybe people need to adjust from reddit a bit.

    If you are reading this and haven't made a post, make one now. :) Even if it's just about asking why nobody posts in a specific community. Usually gets replies.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Please give the names of the communities. I'm not a home owner, but I love cars, DIY and tinkering :)

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, this is my experience with Lemmy so far: it has replaced the "all" experience for me, but all my hobby / interests subs are completely dead.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    That's ok though, because that's how Reddit started too. They didn't add subreddits from the start. So as long as it is providing an /all experience then I don't see why it shouldn't grow from there.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What are some of those communities you're in for cars and tinkering? I was subscribed to both of those topics on reddit and am looking to join. I think there are probably lots like me who are here but not quite up and running.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I used the Communities link and searched for cars and DIY and engineering and subed to any of the ones which seem to have even a little bit of traffic (in the hopes that maybe things would increase eventually). For car ones, literally just "Cars" and "electric vehicles" are the only real one I bothered to sub to. Tried looking for Subaru or WRX stuff and that came up basically empty. For tinkering there is "3d Printing" and "woodworking" but I think the woodworking one is moving servers so it might disappear. Also "Machinist" but there's no traffic in that one. Which is the case for far too many of the ones that come up.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Those niche communities will remain dead for years (assuming Lemmy grows and doesn't die). It takes a long time to build these up.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Seems like every major transition from social media platform reduces that length of time for niche communities. It also took Reddit a while to get there as well. But people are already looking for identical communities on lemmy, like the tree ents

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    We're near critical mass and the more we share the apps and website, it'll pull more people in. There's some resistance to leaving Reddit for many, but not much.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

    I'm right here, where are you guys? Still looking for a good homeowner and DIY community on lemmy.

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