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Am i the only one who feels like it's the same handful of users posting and commenting on lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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At least on the communities i follow. Every so often I come across a thread where i recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members and I haven't even been on lemmy that long.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

One dedicated person is sometimes all it takes to Kickstart a community. Every lemmy comm or their subreddit ancestors started the same way

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've started a few communities. I have to admit that attempting to be the one dedicated poster has burned me out of a hobby and made me not want to post anything anymore. It certainly isn't for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The way I do it, is not to stress about keeping up a posting schedule. I just keep posting interesting stuff I find in the community and eventually more people gather. It's how I started /r/piracy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

One person can suffer from "shouting into the void". Finding at least one other regularly poster helps a lot