!movies@piefed.social is stable
A few people still post on !movies@lemmy.world, but I guess that's the usual
!simpleliving@slrpnk.net is getting some activity.
Good to see!
My community is very niche and probably won't grow till Lemmy/PieFed booms.
But I'm making a home for people to come to when it does happen one day.
It's a marathon not a sprint
I've been feeling a bit negatively lately. I know I've stated a lot of times over the last year that I feel I'm getting less traffic, but it usually stabilized after a week or so. But now I feel the weekends into Monday are super dead for me, and I'm having trouble getting posts to the like-count that I used to, and most importantly, I feel there are less people talking and asking questions in comments.
There are some great users who have been here forever now, and I'm extremely grateful for what they do add to the comments, but I don't think I'm getting as many questions asked, and I've been trying to share more varied content, but it doesn't move the needle all that much.
I've started reducing the amounts of things I share from 5 a day to 3-4 now. The lower interest has me spending time I'd be making posts on other things instead, so I haven't been preparing as much work or doing any deep dives into things like I was.
I'm still here all the time reading things and responding to the comments I do get, but like the comments on this thread from Captain Patrick, this place hasn't quite been what it was 2 years ago. So much angry and violent talk. Many obvious cases of people responding from emotion from headlines and not actually reading articles. More infighting in comments. Less debate and dialog, just arguing. There's still a ton of great content, but it's being eclipsed by so much negativity.
I still think I am doing something significant here, but I can't make people happy or to participate. If I look at my upvotes, I still see other old regulars here and upvoting content, but with them being quiet I either feel their interest is waning, or that they aren't in a good enough mood to just say some little comment on things now and then. I get incentivized by seeing you all have a good time, but if it's just me and 3 people talking every day, that only takes me so far.
Sorry to hear.
I feel a bit similar, but I am myself quite less active lately as I'm vacationing. I guess quite a few people in Europe are doing the same, or maybe just spending more time outside as it's summer.
Activity should probably raise again in September.
Good points. I'm but a summer person so I hide myself indoors, but lots of other people do enjoy it and everyone's kids are out of school and such as well. None of that applies to me so I tend to overlook it.
I don't think we have much traffic data available anywhere that one could see if it's ebb and flow or a steady change in activity, and I tend to assume the worst.
As usual, you've managed to put some more positivity into things, and I appreciate that.
!television@piefed.social should make it to 1000 subscribers by tuesday, or wednesday. Also, it's now the most active piefed community and brushing up on the frontpage of active communities per day/week as seen on lemmy.world.
Well done!
