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We've been trying to give an alternative to 3 very active communities:
While they are quite active, the .ml versions are still far more active (e.g. 6k MAU vs 3.7k MAU for !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com )
People just don't care enough to make the switch, or they prefer to post to the most active community.
It's an endless battle to try to fight network effect, and if people see that the established community with the most active users also has some content that the alternative doesn't get, there's just no way the alternative will ever succeed.
It's kind of similar to what Reddit is to Lemmy/Piefed as a whole. A lot of people crossposts content from Reddit, because to make Lemmy and Piefed potential alternatives, new joiners don't have to feel like they are missing out on content.
Yeah, maybe you're right and I'm the wrong person / have different needs. I'd rather take (for example) my news from a tech magazine, and use this place exclusively to talk to people and have discussions about things that matter to us. I have almost no fear of missing out when there isn't enough posts a day. Because I'm here for the comments. I rather they repost 5 posts less and write 15 comments to other people's posts instead. That'd grow the place in my opinion.
And I really strongly dislike it. Trying to make me engage with content to grow someone's platform or community, or use me and the users for some motivation is very close to what Reddit and other platforms do. And I've specifically left them for doing that. I get that this is meant to do good. But somehow it doesn't feel genuine to me. I don't get asked a question because someone would like to know my answer... I'm being used for another motive.
The goal is to make og posts sprinkled with some cross posts until the threadverse is bigger. I often find interesting articles on reddit first to share here.
Btw, I wanted to say sorry for my (now edited to be mainly crossed out) sibling comment here about you. That was a bit harsh and after paying some more attention to where you pop up, I've changed my opinion. Not 100% but enough to say that was really far from being the complete picture. And not amongst my best comments here.