Subscribed to Imaginary Witches, thanks!

Crossposting from popular posts is also a good way to promote your smaller communities!

What I’ve been running into is that even if it’s the same link, if you change the body text it won’t list the crossposting.

lemm.ee has been great, very level-headed administration.

Welcome! Hopefully you know about Lemmy Explorer, I’ve found it very useful in finding communities of interest to me.

We’re doing our best!

If you’re in a niche community, don’t be afraid to put some content out there. Niche communities are generally so happy to see any conversation. The amount of criticism/downvoting I’ve seen on topics in slow communities has been very low.

Yep. I’m on lemm.ee and I don’t even think about what content I might be missing.

Unfortunately, the shadow of Voat still looms over this conversation. Redditors are wary of platforms that have a perceived radical userbase, and Lemmy as a whole has been painted as far left.

lemmynsfw also banned CNC and is hostile to the drawn/animated side of the medium, which, if Pornhub’s numbers are anything to go by, is going to cut your participation big time. People love hentai and kink.

lemmynsfw’s admins never seemed to get that running a successful porn site means hosting content that might turn you off personally and trusting your mods to handle content control in categories unfamiliar to you.

Not surprising at all to me that a bunch of reposts and sex work ads what they were left with.

One big thing that hasn’t changed from reddit is that lemmy instances are still based on an autocratic power structure. Whether or not your content gets seen or you get to see other content depends on the relationships between those leaders. That means choosing your leadership is of utmost importance, and I eventually settled on lemm.ee because it was the first instance I came across that both a) seemed like it had actual adults running the show, and b) was large enough for that leadership have already faced some challenges and have an established track record.

That’s the downside to a niche instance.

I think the biggest value Reddit had to humanity was its original content. The kind of stuff that has people putting “reddit” in their Google searches for myriad topics.

As such, I’m not hung up on the numbers. If one really looked at it, that content generation is such a small fraction of what activity goes on over there. I’ll take quality over quantity here.

Why I’m encouraging anyone who will listen to participate in their fledgling niche communities here. Even if it’s just a little bit.

One can simply lurk on the niche subreddits. Growing fediverse communities need active participation.