I’m pretty sure I’ve commented more within the last 2 days than my 8 years on Reddit lol. Engagement is definitely higher
Yeah same. When the network errors level out it will be better as well. For example anytime I comment I see an error but it actually posts.
I’m guessing you’re on lemmy.world? I’m on a smaller instance so I don’t get any of those errors
Yup. Hopefully it gets resolved soon, I don’t want to resubscribe to everything from another instance.
What kinds of posts do you comment on? I’m finding it a bit difficult to find always active communities and discussions, which is the only thing preventing me from commenting as much as I used to with Apollo. Things like tipofmytongue, cringe, IsitBullshit, and outoftheloop along with movie and tv discussions were my frequent haunts, particularly when I can’t sleep at night, but sadly I’m not finding the same amount of engagement here. Hopefully as we grow we can find that same level of engagement.
I’m just going on r/all (idk what the Lemmy term is called) and sort by new. Whatever I see that interests me, like news about the world or a photo I find looks good. For now I’m just talking in whatever I find because I want to increase engagement overall. Later, when my niche communities become big enough to the point I don’t need to constantly talk, I’ll probably relax on my engagement.
Reddit had so many users that hyper specialisation was possible.
There was a subreddit for every tv show. And people are coming here expecting the same. I think we’ll see similar content but a bit less niche.
For instance instead of a community for every tv show it might be better to just post about any tv show in /c/television
I used to follow /r/pizza but I’ve seen tons of home made pizza photos in /c/foodporn
For most niche topics you can probably think of a more general community which will help drive content and critical mass.
Using broader top categories is great advice.
I’ll add that I’m using lemmit.online for some of my really, really niche subreddits where there were only a handful of active posters from all of Reddit’s users. It just mirrors posts from those subreddits into Lemmy communities, and does not sync comments.
For posts which are links to articles or videos which I want to be aware of but don’t need to discuss, that’s enough for me.
For posts which are topics I might want to discuss, I can either repost them to the broader Lemmy community I joined or (if the topic is too specific) know I’ll have to open “that other site” if I feel the need to talk about it.
Note that some Lemmy instances have blocked lemmit.online because they feel mirroring is spammy (especially for non-niche subreddits where a Lemmy alternative is available) so YMMV.
Only way to grow these communities with niche topics is to interact with them yourself. If you want c/pizza to grow, post content and interact in it!
I gotta permabanned a few months ago from r tip of my tongue because I gave an answer that the OP eventually edited into their comment to say “no” to. Fuck whichever mod did that. I really hope we get a good version or ten or that community here. I really enjoyed it back in the day. Something changed in the last couple years.
https://lemmy.film/ communities could be interesting to you
Me too. Has more of a small town feel. Usually, because I’m in Australia, my comments are buried and never get replied to because the US is sleeping. Here, people are actually engaging. Loving it so far.
Wish the sorting worked a little better in wefwef so I’m not scrolling past the same posts each time, but otherwise feels like the reddit I joined 16 years ago (or slightly thereafter when comments were added)
I was wondering about this on WefWef. Is scrolling by the same posts a few times a sorting problem or a “there hasn’t been any new posts yet” problem?
I’m pretty sure it’s related to how the default sorting algorithm works, the default sort typically being Active. If the description in the docs is still accurate, I think maybe there’s something a little off in the decay time*, making it so posts linger, people keep commenting & conversing in comments, which keeps posts propped up, until finally at some point activity subsides enough for it to allow other posts to show up.
*-(possibly taking too long to take effect or not being weighted heavily enough?)
Most of the reddit apps I’ve tried have a “hide seen” function that I feel like wefwef could really benefit from
