EDIT: Thanks for the replies, everyone. From what I’ve gathered, I just have to be more patient, so I’ll wait for the communities relevant to me to pop up. In the meantime, I’ll temper my expectations and continue using my community as a resource repository and continue linking them to people I meet online who need them.

Maybe I’m just using it wrong, but I’m returning for more than a minute after a few weeks due to having exams to study for, and there’s no notifications.

My community literally stopped in time after my last post, and I’m guessing it won’t resume until I work down my queue of things to post after my finals are over.

I’m subscribed to several communities I was interested in on Reddit, but even knowing I have to switch to my subscribed communities every time I log in, the feed seems very different, almost lacking in ways I can’t describe. For example, a big popular one about games hasn’t been posting any posts about any games I care about, and when I search for a community for the games I do care about, they simply don’t exist.

It’s just really jarring to try to engage after a few weeks of logging in here and there to check on anything I missed, and nothing of note has really happened.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    18 days ago

    Most of your engagement seems to be in your own community, mental health, this community, shower thoughts, and scientific memes. This community, shower thoughts, and scientific memes get plenty of traffic now from what I have seen. But most engagement is in the news and politics communities. If you want engagement of other kinds you’ll just have to continue posting like you have been until about 300,000 more people join. Its not reddit. There won’t be an infinite breadth of topics yet. Especially for specific games and more niche communities. I myself have a notification or twelve on 2/3rds of my logins.

  • rouxdoo@lemmy.world
    13·
    18 days ago

    I’ve found that if you want engagement then most communities are fairly quiet. This is not /r so there are fewer around. If you want to engage then find a post that resonates with you and engage with it. Lemmings are conversational but you need to poke them to get something back.

  • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    18 days ago

    Be the change you want to see. Post more often etc. Content isn’t farmed the way it was on Reddit. There are no ads and no corporation pushing content. Sad truth is there aren’t many people on Lemmy, and it is going to take a while to gain any major growth in userbase, if at all. All we can do is be resilient and try to create meaningful content, and hope people gradually start joining, to the point where niche communities start being filled.

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    18 days ago

    I browse the All feed sorted by New and just block/filter everything I’m not interested in. There’s always new stuff.

    This is my post title filter in the Eternity app:

    Orban,Trump,Vance,Elon,Musk,NATO,Scholz,Merz,Habeck,AOC,Thunberg,Tunberg,Greta,Mr. Beast,MrBeast,Bitcoin,Putin,Russia,Kremlin,AfD,Grünen,Gaza,Israel,Palestine,Democrat,Republican,Surpreme,Abortion,Taliban,China,Chinese,Harris,Biden,Genocide,Tory,Brexit,Google,Microsoft,Windows,Apple,iPhone,Android,OpenAI,ChatGPT,Lora,intel,nvidia,arch,mint,ubuntu,framework,raspberry,pihole,pipewire,linux,bezos,amazon,fairphone,Europeans,Brics,leyen,swift,immigrant,Santis,California,Youtube,Montag, Laberfaden,G’sudert wird,Bluesky,Twitter,Montagslaberfaden,blsky,bluesky,isglitch.com,Gaetz,Kulturfreitag,Jimmy Carter,Boebert,Pokemon,Pokémon,Dunkelflaute,tar pit,Teergrube,Microplastic,Flatpak,Steam,tarpits,DeepSeek,Taylor Greene,Climate Change,CVE-,Vulnerability,data breach,ransom,DOGE,lemmyvision,Unser Song für Lemmy,reddit,Reddit,MTG,Guten Morgen,Netanyahu

  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    18 days ago

    I am subscribed to 30-40 communties. I only use subscribed, sorted by Hot. I am pretty happy with what I am seeing, the content changes from the morning to the evening pretty much. Yes, a lot is member, but there is also tech and politics. I even blocked .ml and still have enough content…