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[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It's the niche topics that need more activity. I love science - mostly space/physics - and it's mostly a ghost town. Once the unique corners grow their activity, it's going to be great.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

I would have assumed spacey topics would sell like hot buns.
I guess Physics are more of a niche and you would probably find more armchair physicists here than actual physicists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Agree.

Even simple things like subs for particular cars/car brands were thriving on Reddit but don’t exist here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

If things need more activity try posting, it works great

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish there was a better way to port communities over here. There are people complaining that Lemmy shouldn’t copy Reddit (I say, why not?), but then there’s legitimate complaints about homesteaders running to Lemmy and snatching up all the popular subreddit names.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are people complaining that Lemmy shouldn’t copy Reddit (I say, why not?)

Assuming you mean copying posts from reddit: Because, without the person that originally posted the question or topic, it feels like there's little point in discussing the topic. I was subbed to a cycling-related community that copied every post from an equivalent reddit sub, and it had zero comments. I'd start to write a comment from time to time and it was like, "What's the point? OP isn't going to see this response."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I meant more copying communities. Like people want Lemmy to replace reddit, but also to be completely unique from reddit or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I don't see a problem with that. Unfortunately there's just not much momentum in the hobby/specific interest communities yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

except no one comment and no one posts