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Decision fatigue? Almost everyone picks lemmy.world, and the UX is the same everywhere, specially if you use mobile apps.
Lemmy.world has about 40% of the pop these days.
I just signed up, and it's confusing. I used lemmy.world because it seemed like it was the only means to get my registration approved. It wasn't clear whether or not this account can still view and interact with other "instances", so I went with the website that had the largest userbase.
I agree. This place feels dead? I'm sure I'm just doing it wrong. But, I downloaded Blorp, went to 'Explore', and the amount of 'subreddits ' is so minimal. What am I doing wrong here? Lol
I’m the developer behind Blorp. The trouble with the threadiverse (a term that refers to Lemmy and PieFed) is it’s not tuned by big cooperations to get you addicted. That also means you gotta dig a little more to find the content you’re looking for. I’m happy to help direct you if you have questions!
Thanks for using my app!
Hi there! Thanks for developing the app, that's quite impressive. Not sure if there's a good answer to this, but what I was referring to was when I 'Explore' and search for something specific, it doesn't seem to be there. So I thought maybe I was doing something wrong? And if there is something specific that I end up finding, it sometimes only has ~1-10 members, if it's a 'Community'. If there are any tips surrounding these things, that'd be awesome!
I’m guessing you’re subscribing to more niche communities. For example, I really enjoyed r/homekit, r/WLED, and r/TvTooHigh on Reddit. I think some of those exist on Lemmy, but they are very very inactive compared to Reddit. But if you look at more broad topics like !news@lemmy.world or !technology@lemmy.world, those are way more active.
There are a few exceptions. Lemmy seems to attract lots of Linux and Star Trek fans. I consider those topics more niche, but here they are very active topics.
I know this is easier said than done, but I really want the niche communities here to be more active. If you see a community missing, create it. If you see the one you’re looking for but it’s inactive, post to it.