On Reddit, I was mainly subscribed to a few niche subreddits. By reddit's standards, that's still like 100k subscribers. But over here, even though there might be 1000 people subscribed to those same niche communities, the 90-9-1 rule still applies. Either the community has one super-spammy power user trying to boost life into the community, or there's just no one actually posting anything.

I'm getting enough of a fix to stay on Lemmy and wade out the peace and quiet, but I do long for the engagement of 50k+ users on a truly niche topic. My willingness to stay on Lemmy has been helped by me starting to re-utilize off-site forums specifically to those niches. But I can totally understand how it just feels dead to a lot of the Reddit exodus.

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's my problem with Lemmy right now, I don't see the discussions I am used to finding on Reddit.

For example- the new balance datasheet for Warhammer 40K came out, and I wanted to see what the changes actually were and what they meant for my faction (Leagues of Votann), but that conversation wasn't happening. I could start it myself, but I am ignorant - I still don't know enough about Warhammer to understand the effects of the changes. I checked the Leagues of Votann discord, but couldn't find any reasonable conversations. I tried going back to when the datasheet was released to follow the conversation, but it was hard to follow, and the app kept resetting me to the newest statements. I had to go back to reddit to see what people were saying.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I used to hit some niche subreddits but after about a year the recycling of the same posts and the same predictable comments became mind numbing.

[–] alcamtar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I actually preferred the subreddits that were kind of quiet, where 50 votes was a super popular post and got maybe two dozen responses at most. Any more than that and it starts to become noise. But then I have niche interests and I'm older. Zoomers seem to thrive on the chaos and have no problem with a rapidly scrolling chat window or a 1000+ comments on a post. I prefer a thoughtful audience to a large one, and longer well formed posts. (Not meaning zoomers aren't thoughtful, they just maybe communicate it differently)