Find anything, really. Look at your interests and hobbies and share your experiences with those.
I'm sharing photos I take in multiple communities: cats, aww, toads, birding, etc. I also periodically comment in the communities I'm subbed to so others have things to reply to.
Where am I gonna post? One of the 12 meme communities that make up 99% of posts, or one of the 12,000 communities where the last post was four months ago and it had two comments, one of which was a bot summary?
Are you complaining about the niche communities not having any activity, but not posting anything there yourself? I could've sworn i saw a meme about just such a thing, if only i could find it.
But in all seriousness, most "dead" communities have many lurkers that are joined but not posting, so posting there isn't necessarily a waste of time
Exactly. Look at my post history for example. I've posted to some larger communities like Cats, but also to smaller ones like toads, mushrooms, and mycology to try to breathe life into them or to keep them alive.
If you want to see more content in certain areas, be the change you want to see in the Lemmy.
Yeah... You're doing your part. Your part to the power of .05! HA!! GOT'EEEM!
Hahahaha. But seriously, I get it. Finding good/great content isn't that easy. But that's one of the best things we can do as an instance collective. Commenting adds to the discussion and can also enrich the posted content as well.
Just post about what you find interesting and try to put a funny spin on it. I've made posts about all sorts of topics/cultures that I'm genuinely curious about whenever I make an observation that I think could make people chuckle.
I'm a fairly prolific poster. At least commenter. I started a community here for a subreddit I miss. I've even got 97 subscribers. Three of us post anything, and I am by-far the most active of those three. I highly suspect that's an expected ratio of lurkers to posters. Meaning, if I want a reasonable number of engagement, I need to get like thirty times as many subscribers. I can't see that happening any time soon unless Reddit actually collapses.
Biggest problem for me is that the community I'm most active in (/r/hockey) didn't even try to move away from Reddit and since that's where I'm the most active, I don't make those posts here because I can't, its just not worth it because nobody will see it. Same goes for some video game communities, they also did not even try to move and some of the devs actually read those niche subs, so there's no point in moving. I like kbin/Lemmy, but its just not at the same level with some of those subs.
i don't post much.. i make a comment every now and then, but i enjoy reading what the posters put out there. not everything has to be plenty for me to enjoy, nor does it have to be like reddit, facebook, twitter, etc. but i get it.
Because it's like a dozen fucking people who post 90% of the content. I blocked like, I dunno -- 20 people, and it took care of MOST of the weird ass fetish stuff popping up in my feed, leaving the odd cutie here or there.
I'd rather have a severe lack of farmed content, for a lot more genuine posts. Regardless of if it's "dead" or not. If I see users with like 20k post points, and 100 comment points, I block them.
If there was a way to automatically do this (only show content from users with a certain ratio of posts to comments), I would.
How is that weird? Most normal people comment far more than they post content. It's content and link farmers, as well as bots who have the ratios that they do when it comes to posts vs comments.
Like you... thumbsnap, thumbsnap, thumbsnap, thumbsnap... same fucking domain over and over again. Just farming up hoovered content, stripping original authors and lacking credit on where the content came from. You're a great example, thanks for the reply.
You can post a fuckton and still be "geniue" like most of my shitposting is shit I see on Instagram. The fact of the matter is if there was no content then this site would go dead. And then you'd leave. Do you see the catch 22 of your attitude? Honestly, you seem like a extremely pretentious person. The kind of person that just looks for a vague idea of perfection and lives in a perpetual state of disappointment when nothing matches it.
I know that I for one am probably alone here, but I'm really getting tired of the meme only content. I get it, it's funny but in most cases it just turns lemmy into a tumblr clone with furries and nsfw (so like an old tumblr clone).