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  • Orrrrr…pick a non-active community. Or both. And start posting in your local community. By that, I mean I live in Cleveland. There are 3 Cleveland communities. All dead. I’m the only one posting in one. I still get replies and upvotes. So people are there. They just all lurk until I post.

    Do that. And post in a dead community. And post in an active community. We need activity basically everywhere besides tech/politics/news.


  • I agree with everything that you’ve said. I would also add:

    Find your nearest non-political non-tech hobby community and start posting things people actually want to see

    Because if we’re going to cast the same net reddit does, people with a more varied set of interests need to come here. Can’t be all linux, politics, and news. We’re going to need people who like baking. We’re going to need sports fans. We’re going to need music.

    I could type new communities we need to be active all day. Humans are surprisingly a diverse set of creatures. You have one set of interests, I have another. Different set of interests. And both are totally valid.

    The thing people here don’t seem to grasp is that OTHER interests and OTHER people using the fediverse isn’t a bad thing. If a bunch of boomers come here, and make their own communities to talk about Taylor Swift, and whatever else they talk about on facebook. That’s good that it would be here! Not bad!

    They could talk about gardening, and model trains, and whatever else. It wouldn’t appeal to you, and thats ok.



  • I’d just like to have a bit of time that isn’t miserable and awful. Seems like since 2012 every day is a new episode of “Oh what fresh hell is this?”

    And it just keeps getting worse. 2012 it was just “republicans are being assholes on twitter”.

    Today it’s “The government is actively killing people, and sending them to camps for going against their agenda”.