I am always a bit surprised by the lack of activity in this community, are we doing something wrong?
I am always a bit surprised by the lack of activity in this community, are we doing something wrong?
57k active users on Lemmy, Casual Conversation seems a pretty common topic, and still there aren't that many people around here.
I posted on !newcommunities@lemmy.world , we are probably the most populous community with this name.
Maybe it's because LemmyWorld communities do not appear on Lemmyverse.net any more?
What do you think could be the issue?
Meh. Let it grow organically. Mods have to seed new threads with interesting topics. Over time, people will come.
In my limited experience on Lemmy, communities let to themselves then to organically die rather than grow.
About interesting threads, casual conversation is usually driven by user submitted content rather than mod driven.
!chat@beehaw.org is an example of a successful one, and almost completely based on user submitted content
Without wanting to get into spicy flame-war territory ... having a successful casual chat community sounds like the sort of thing beehaw would do better at than the rest of lemmy, in part, because community creation is closed, so arbitrary content naturally goes into the chat/lounge community, rather than into the very specific niche community it's most aligned with despite no one being in there and no one ever seeing the post (exaggerated but you get my point).
I mean, I just got here and this place is already talking about moving.
i think people do a lot of casual conversing IRL and come to forums to talk about specific topics
!casualuk@feddit.uk and !chat@beehaw.org are still pretty active
As I remember, casual conversation on reddit was also a bit low on traffic compared to other communities. Maybe we need to be more proactive by plugging relative communities in other threads.
Ah, that may be, I still remember it being pretty popular though.
What may be is that local instances have their own casual communities such as !casualuk@feddit.uk, and people might want to prefer discussing there
It's just a numbers thing. The subreddit was fairly low comment, compared to subscribers. It succeeded very well at being casual. This C/ is doing fine compared to most of the niche communities overall, imo.
We're keeping it casual.
Does anyone know why lemmy.world communities don't appear on lemmyverse.net anymore?
See this issue: