Yeah, there’s a moderately active lemmy.ml community for Denver. By moderately active, I mean there’s about a post or two every day and they tend to get 10-15 upvotes.
By contrast, the Denver subreddit gets about 15 posts an hour with popular posts having 2-600 upvotes. There are also highly active subreddits for surrounding areas such as Boulder, where popular posts garner 150 or so upvotes. I’m aware of 3 different attempts to create Lemmy communities for Boulder. The only one with ANY activity had a post 15 days ago that garnered 15 upvotes. The previous post is from 5 months ago.
Yeah, there’s a moderately active lemmy.ml community for Denver. By moderately active, I mean there’s about a post or two every day and they tend to get 10-15 upvotes.
By contrast, the Denver subreddit gets about 15 posts an hour with popular posts having 2-600 upvotes. There are also highly active subreddits for surrounding areas such as Boulder, where popular posts garner 150 or so upvotes. I’m aware of 3 different attempts to create Lemmy communities for Boulder. The only one with ANY activity had a post 15 days ago that garnered 15 upvotes. The previous post is from 5 months ago.
I think what works better are whole instances dedicated to a local area. I know there’s an instance based in Atlanta for Atlanta.
yall.theatl.social
However, the communities dedicated to local Atlanta news get posts maybe every 10 days or so. So it’s still pretty low numbers of locals.