I remember posting here a lot about a year ago, mainly before I discovered other fedi sites, but looking at here, was it always a news community? Most of the posts here are articles
I think its because small communities have a hard time getting natural conversation. I am surprised that there aren’t more people asking questions or talking.
I agree but for a Lemmy community. Here is quite big
I really wish there was more traffic/discussion, but I think we are just general quiet people.
There is indeed quite a shift towards just posting articles. A lot of people don’t regularly post (at least it was like that on Reddit), and for those people, the articles are great.
It is hard to keep conversations active in smaller communities. As people will quickly stop posting new chats and questions if there are no replies.
Yea
A year ago was a weird time, given we were dealing with the Reddit fallout that wildly inflated engagement, with people trying to get a feel for the platform (both Lemmy in general and Beehaw).
I tend to use !chat for things that aren’t articles. Not that that has to happen, it’s just how the communities I’m active in have evolved.
Actually, did many people stay from the reddit fallout?
I stayed :)
came from reddit here, too. I often am too anxious to comment for a variety of reasons, so I mostly read. I try to post things when I get the courage to.
I came here from the reddit fallout, but I’m really bad about posting and commenting.
I did! 👋 Unfortunately, I mostly infodump about engineering in the comments, which is maybe not the kind of engagement we need.
Its a reddit style commintiy, infodumps are cool :3
