So, I love this site. Iโve been here more-or-less since the beginning, across various accounts. I also have accounts on other Lemmy instances.
One common pattern I see is that instances branch out their communities too soon, and overly dilute the conversation. It makes an instance that is ultimately not that active (compared to any of the big sites that donโt need naming, really) appear to be even less lively, due to so many instances with either nothing at all, a few month old posts, or a generic post linking to a projects blog.
Note that I am not criticizing the instance by pointing out the low activity levels - I really do love this place. Itโs just a fact at the moment. You can switch viewing posts by new and scroll down a little to see we get around 5 - 6 posts per hour, occasionally a bit more and occasionally a bit less.
I think that having lots of inactive, dead looking communities is off-putting. I know that I certainly donโt feel encouraged to post in them. I worry this might have a similar effect on other users too.
I do understand that c/programming is deemed as something of a catch-all community, and so anyone could post there rather than the niche communities, but Iโm not sure that this is totally obvious to everyone.
Personally, I feel we should purge all the tiny communities that have no posts (or just a single blog post, for example) and encourage people to post in c/programming. Then, new communities can be made when a particular topic becomes large enough to warrant divergence, either because itโs clearly a subject of interest to many users or because it ends up dominating c/programming. c/rust is an example of such a community, as is c/programmerhumor.
I am nobody here, and I was not asked for my opinion, but I just wonder if this topic has been thought about much? I really want this place to thrive. Do any other users here have an opinion? What do the instance admins think?
dead communities
None of the communities you have mentioned are dead. In fact according to the January stats, all the communities you mentioned have above average usage.
Noted that you ignored this comment of mineโฆ
itโs been worthwhile
Take your gaslighting somewhere elseโฆ
None of the communities you have mentioned are dead. In fact according to the January stats, all the communities you mentioned have above average usage.
Iโm sorry, youโre trying to blatantly lie with statistics.
โAbove averageโ means nothing if the majority of communities is already dead. Youโre just arguing that some communities are more dead, which is pointless.
Youโre also lying regarding what traffic is being posted to !dotnetmaui@programming.dev. All posts ranging back to the last two weeks come from a single user account: https://programming.dev/u/SmartmanApps .
To make this even more pathetic, the bulk of the posts going into !dotnetmaui@programming.dev were posted by your account after I pointed out the community was dead and already dead on arrival.
Youโre not refuting the point: youโre proving the point that the community is dead.
Iโm sorry, youโre trying to blatantly lie with statistics.
No, youโre lying by using a different definition of โdeadโ. See screenshot I already posted. It comes from this very Community. Itโs based on how many monthly users there are, not how many posts there are. BTW the number of users has gone up since you made your previous comment - the MAUI community now on 35 users a month (only 1 of them is me), which is well on the way to being classified as โmoderateโ rather than just โquietโ. Sorry to break it to you, but youโre still wrong. As I said, take your gaslighting elsewhere.
No, youโre lying by using a different definition of โdeadโ.
Now youโre being silly and acting defensively. I donโt need to do anything for the !dotnetmaui@programming.dev group to be dead or remain dead, as it was expected to be. Anyone can take a look at it and see that if they filter out your personal inorganic traffic, which is already of dubious relevance, nothing remains.
You can stay up all night arguing otherwise, but it is what it is.
Itโs ok if you feel that itโs your personal mission to generate traffic for a particular channel on a lemmy instance. Just donโt try to pretend itโs something thatโs relevant for anyone beyond yourself.
