Lemmy has to reach a critical mass of users before the more niche communities start to grow. Most of it is all tech communities which is expected. Lucky for me thats my interests.
Yeah, I like tech too but also enjoy cleaning ancient coins. It’ll be nice if someone else found my community and it would pick up. I’m trying to post ever so often so anyone that stumbles on it will know I’m still around
Wait… If pawn stars taught me anything… Don’t you not want to clean ancient coins?
If you are buying a coin that’s already on the market as a fully attributed coin then yeah you don’t want to clean it. I buy coins that are “fresh” out of the ground so they’re literally caked with mud. They look like this so they require cleaning. Properly cleaning 2000 yr old coins is a months long process involving microscope and very deliberate & precise application of effort. For some reason I find it very relaxing, almost like a form of meditation. It’s a hobby that I’d love to share the results and talk about with others.
Shameless plug: You can see some of my Before/After pictures over at !ancientcoincleaning@lemmy.world :-)
A good amount of the content posted to reddit was a small number of power users, and the reason you see certain communities show up more than others on lemmy is because of those power users.
Don’t be afraid to be that for your communities, even if you are the only one posting for awhile. The biggest discouragement to activity in a community is seeing the latest post is weeks to months old, and you wondering if there is anyone actually here.
The biggest problem for me is trying to make original content but I guess reddit also started with reposts from other social networks…
Seriously man. I’m trying to power user like 4 porn communities right now and recycling content is where to start. I just need someone to take up the banner for that non porn stuff like gaming and gaming circle jerk and it’ll feel like home! You can even reuse memes about Todd Howard for those! I’ll keep trying to keep people coming 😉 with the porn! You get em to stay in the refractory period!
I never feel like I have something worth posting. I’m pretty boring and unoriginal.
Yeah, see, I couldn’t even come up with that
Being as good and cool as a poster takes practice.
Stop being afraid of failure!
Are you promoting them?
Not really, I should start doing that but was hoping that people fleeing reddit would search for them.
Drop some links my dude!
Where would you promote communities for Lemmy? I dont wanna be the annoying poster posting on other communities that have nothing to do with the game my community is about; which is Dark Souls 3
Also, all the dark souls related communities I could find were pretty much dead looking too and I already posted about it in one of them and I think that’s still the most recent post about 3 weeks ago
I’d post them at !newcommunities
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !newcommunities@lemmy.world
This bot I hope is everywhere
