I’ve subscribed to a plethora of communities that really interest me and actually have posts and discussions in them, but I have to go to the specific community to see this. My “Subscribed” feed only contains a few of the same posts that I’ve seen for weeks in Hot, the same posts from even longer ago in “Active”, posts from the same communities as the ones in “Hot” in New and no other communities, and pretty much only posts from the Meme’s community I unsubscribed from when sorted by “All”. I also see a majority of posts barely have upvotes or comments on them at all from the “bigger” communities. Is this just the growing pains of this site? Am I still doing lemmy wrong? Is it the instance I’ve chosen to join?
UPDATE I want to thank everyone who posted and gave me helpful advice on this matter. It turns out that there are still lots of people here on Lemmy with me, I just couldn’t see you because I was sorting my feed incorrectly. I’m excited that there are more people here and I’m excited to continue to contribute to Lemmy with you! Thank you all for the help, I really appreciate it.
This type of ‘post or you’re the problem’ comment really gets on my nerves too. If no one replies, people won’t post again, and if a sub is nothing but single posts no one’s coming back.
It’s great you’re putting in the effort to post, and people should appreciate that. I’m autistic and I can’t post. I can give incredibly detailed information in response to a post or a comment if it relates in any way to any of my special interests. And I do. And so do people like me. It’s why you can find the answer to basically any question on the internet. These ‘post more’ people need to cool it, because the reason people like content like this is depth and engagement and it’s not going to happen without people engagine with the content too.
Yeah, I’ve made some posts trying to start discussions on a game I played or the likes. Posts that, to the extent of my knowledge, have literally never been made on Lemmy before (I searched – though admittedly the search system makes Reddit’s search look like Google). I actually did get a couple of replies to some and some were really great replies too. But it’s barely a trickle compared to what I’d get from even a middling popularity post on Reddit. I want waaaay more discussion, especially for novel topics.
And there’s so many niche posts that I can’t make. I really enjoyed communities like AITA or Best of Legal Advice or the likes. What, should I make up scenarios? I’m happy to contribute to comments of posts in such communities, but they basically don’t exist here.
Yes. You put more into a post, so it hurts more if you don’t get anything out of it. If I were to make a post i’d agonize over the wording and set aside time in front of an actual keyboard to respond and then i’d be completely overwhelmed anyway if there was even a modest response to the post. It’s a pretty self centered, basic misunderstanding of people to think that everyone can or should make their own posts.
If I reply to someone, I assume at least they read it. As a person who requires little social interaction that’s enough for me, even if I wrote an extremely detailed wall of text.