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.

I never feel like I have something worth posting. I'm pretty boring and unoriginal.

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.

Be the post you wish to see in the world.

-Mahatma Lemmy

Don’t forget, the best way to get accurate information and stimulate discourse is to post horribly wrong information.

My biggest concern is that Memes are the most prevalent content in Lemmy. Its like I'm back on 9gag in the mid-2000s.

Well... With this meaningful comment, I'm doing my part.

It's actually getting better this week, artporn fake history and true crime are finally coming to life

Same thoughts. I've mostly lurked from my 10 yo reddit account, but now since we're the pioneers, gotta till the soil and work hard 'n all that.

Are you promoting them?

Well, you've posted two things, both memes, and given that one was talking about people not posting and the other talking about niche communities not getting traffic -- and I assume that memes@lemmy.ml isn't niche -- I assume that you haven't posted to whichever community you'd like to see more traffic in. You could do so. Each new post also helps make the community more visible, at least on kbin, since it can show up in the random threads section on kbin instances.

Good work posting this.

Except I see a million memes compared to anything else

Yep it's a little frustrating some days, I have lots of posts with 100+ up votes and...1 comment...

If we want this place to thrive people need to contribute to the conversations more not just doom scroll and shit post

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I see communities with 50 subscribers thinking "there is no way this is sustainable" for years.

First time commenting. Hello fwiend

This is my first comment just to say that complaining about lurkers reminds me of when I first joined reddit 12ish years ago. Coming full circle!

I admit I am being a lurker on Lemmy. But I also always have been a lurker on Reddit...

"If you build them, they wil come ..."

I'm doing my part!

same

but I’m shy

I don't have anything to say, I would've posted otherwiseeee