There might be a significant number of users here waiting for everyone else to switch over to lemmy. If you start a niche community, it's a little easier for someone else to be like "It's kind of empty, but it exists on lemmy too." What you need is a critical mass of people. It usually takes time and effort to reach that, and someone must be first.
I think the problem is that theres a lot of niche communities created for an exodus from Reddit that didnt really happen.
If you search for a certain community and find that yeah it exists but nobody has posted there in 6 months...
It didn't happen in one big exodus, no. But maybe in the future someone will find those old posts and decide to make a new post instead of just concluding there's nothing and not doing anything.
I do wonder if its a help or a hinderance though.
If someone wanted to start a community they might actually do something to generate interest, nobody wants to put the effort in to build up a community that the mod can just ban them from or they look and go "Its not that theres nothing, theres just no interest."
If you search for a certain community and find that yeah it exists but nobody has posted there in 6 months...
I've come across this multiple times, and have had (or seen) some success with the following:
Start posting to the dormant community. There are usually still some people subscribed, so you'll get a few upvotes.
Reach out to the moderators. If they don't respond, reach out to the instance administrators to request the community.
After a few weeks of posting regularly, promote the community in !newcommunities@lemmy.world, and any related communities with more subscribers.
I think the "if you build it they will come" adage applies quite well here.
There might be a significant number of users here waiting for everyone else to switch over to lemmy. If you start a niche community, it's a little easier for someone else to be like "It's kind of empty, but it exists on lemmy too." What you need is a critical mass of people. It usually takes time and effort to reach that, and someone must be first.
I think the problem is that theres a lot of niche communities created for an exodus from Reddit that didnt really happen.
If you search for a certain community and find that yeah it exists but nobody has posted there in 6 months...
It didn't happen in one big exodus, no. But maybe in the future someone will find those old posts and decide to make a new post instead of just concluding there's nothing and not doing anything.
I do wonder if its a help or a hinderance though.
If someone wanted to start a community they might actually do something to generate interest, nobody wants to put the effort in to build up a community that the mod can just ban them from or they look and go "Its not that theres nothing, theres just no interest."
I've come across this multiple times, and have had (or seen) some success with the following:
I think the "if you build it they will come" adage applies quite well here.
!cranetrainexcavators@lemmy.world baby. Does reddit have that? No. Didn't think so! ;)