So one thing I miss about reddit is the idea that I can just find any random topic, and there’s an active sub for that.
Reddits biggest problem is knowing these subreddits exist. I was there over 10 years, and still finding new subs until the end.
Lemmys biggest problem is that these communities DON’T exist, and even if they did, theres no audience to support them. No point in making a niche community if theres 0 posts, and 1 subscribber.
But, I found one small fix. This won’t be the thing that boosts Lemmy to the top. This will be more like the small spark that could lead to a bigger fire. Without more steps, this won’t be the answer. But think of this as one step of many.
So over at !Nostalgia@lemmy.ca they have a content bot. I assume it’s just reposting the posts on reddit from a predesignated source.
But, what if we did that all over Lemmy? Start up /c/Archer and repost everything from ArcherFX. I don’t see a place to post Archer stuff to.
Now do this for thousands of different subreddits over here.
Yes, at first the content bot would have 0 posts. But thats where WE come in. We all start posting on these threads, to give them the sense of activity. Activity breeds activity. And soon enough you’ll have enough organic activity that you slowly start reducing these bots roles. But thats years from now.
There are a few communities with auto content bots.
There’s more content, but look at the way Reddit communities interact with that content.
Mostly just a mob saying the clever comment a commenter is expected to post that 100 other people have already commented.
I’m much more comfortable with Lemmy growing into itself organically than trying to turn it into something like Reddit.
I do also like that there was a subreddit for everything, so I started a community here for animorphs, and I’ll probably start other niche communities.
I think building what you want to see here is key.