I feel like most users have switched back to Reddit, but I’d like to have an alternative to Reddit.
I might post memes here but I don’t want to keep this active by myself.
This is also a common issue within lemmy, and I did try to revive 2 other communities, but one barely succeded while the other just didn’t see much new posts.
I maintain a bunch of anime communities including this one. I used to post to these every day in rotation. In these 9 months I was basically the only one that kept them active save for like 2 other people that posted more than once. I got burned out a bit and stopped posting. In this time, no one else posted and no one seemed to care that all activity fell off a cliff.
To stop this negative feedback loop, I tried to be the one who does the initial work and hoped for people taking up along side. However, as you can see this did not work out very well. There are always way more lurkers than posters. Unfortunately I don’t think Lemmy has a userbase big enough for smaller communities like this to work out very well.
I do moderate these communities even when I don’t post (which just amounts to checking daily if nothing horrendous is posed). Lately I have started posting again and a azumanga post is in the schedule, but I don’t think I will return to my old output quantity.
To really answer the question “Is this place active anymore?” depending on your definition of active it might never have been active.
I agree, the larger slice of life lemmy community seems decemtly active tho
I wonder if there’s a decent portion of lemmy users on the azumanga subreddit that didn’t know that an equivalent lemmy existed, or that they didn’t want to join because of the inactivity
For a community to be active, there should be at least 200-500 ppl as far as I know
The larger slice of life community was completely dead in my absence as well, and is recently active again since I started posting again. Because it aggregates content from smaller more specific communities, regular activity resumes much quicker.
As for the amount of people needed for an active community, I think 500 is quite an optimistic estimation. I estimate less than 1% of subscribers ever post anything. If I quickly take an example, the Lucky Star subreddit has 12k subs and seems to have on average a few posts a day. A few thousand subs seems to be needed for regular activity.
I run a small discord server which has about 200 ppl and it’s fairly active (few messages per day), but that’s a different format/platform
As for getting new members on here, try asking the mods of those communities for a collab or affiliation or something