At this point, we’re beyond the big wave of new users in early- to mid-June with the protests against Reddit’s API policies. (I was one of them!). There was lots of enthusiasm, a bunch of new communities, and lots of posts.

But it seems like a lot of the activity is dying down. How are you (and your communities) doing? How have you been keeping your communities active?

  • b9999998@lemmynsfw.comMEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m continuing to post what I personally like for myself at various communities

    • those I started up,
    • those I help out on,
    • those I took over after “founders” have deserted them,
    • as well as on some where founders are clearly gone (banned, or desertion), but lemmynsfw admins haven’t gotten around to doing cleanups as they said they would a month or so ago, perhaps magically hoping that these folks will “come back”. Example: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/358044

    I generally don’t worry about upvotes or specific community membership numbers. On Reddit, many huge (and old) subreddits (including the ones I still help mod on) consist of (my unscientific guess) 60-70% dead weight accounts (including spam bot accounts) that are no longer active but are simply kept on the books to keep up the appearance of making the numbers “look good”. I’m sure the same is happening here based on account abandonments.

    The only complaint I think I have is with downvotes (especially of fetish or niche content) - my theory is that due to the lemmy newness and fediverse, I think most members still don’t know how to filter out and block NSFW communities or posters they are not interested in, so they end up downvoting stuff that come across their “all” feed, rather than just browsing past them. Just my observation, no scientific proof 😊

    • show_me_what_you_got_grrl@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I think this is the most important part - “I’m continuing to post what I personally like for myself at various communities”.

      I also agree with the downvotes part, to be downvoted for no apparent reason with no comments is probably the hardest part of posting here, it seems so random. Just leave it alone if you don’t like it. It takes time to get a post organized (has it been posted before, is there a better source, should I resize it, does it look good on mobile, has the model been posted recently, etc.) regardless of the community

      • b9999998@lemmynsfw.comMEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        My suspicion is that these “no apparent reasons” down votes are coming most from accounts outside of LemmyNSFW, so federation has it’s downsides

    • HellaGooned@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      The only complaint I think I have is with downvotes (especially of fetish or niche content) …

      Absolutely. Half the communities I post to aren’t mainstream so the posts fluctuate pretty heavily with upvotes and downvotes.

      Sometimes it’s predictable. For example, hentai of women with dicks get less downvotes than men with pussies. Other times, I feel like I’m playing the lottery.

      I do my best to ignore votes in the meantime. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯