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SmuttyLad @lemmynsfw.com

Do you want LemmyNSFW to be more active?

Why or why not? If yes, do you have any suggestions on how to achieve that?

28 comments

  • I just want other people to post and share more stuff, yeah. I built my collection off of seeing what other people like, but the return is pretty poor right now especially when I could just go to Reddit for everything instead.

    Looking at analogous subreddits for comparison, people don't comment much other than praising works they particularly like or hornyposting about how sexy a set of tits are, so that'd be the most I'd expect here, which feels unlikely when 2-4K upvotes there nets maybe 2-3 comments.

  • I just don't think there's enough active userbase for that, and it really isn't something you can fix on the fly. The ratio of Like/Upvote > Share > Comment > Post is always an issue for online social spaces, its just that a few website got big enough to make it seem like its easy to get people to contribute.

    The architecture of Lemmy is also a little bothersome at times, especially when it comes to displaying media and making gallery posts.

    Probably one thing I'd like for LemmyNSFW to have is a Admin owned community for people to share communities and talk about merging, managing, sharing, etc. Something like https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities but for our side of the pond, and now just for new but also talking about present communities and what can be done for them.

    • Lemmy's problem is so many groups just don't have enough regulars that look, maybe post, or maybe comment. You go back every few days you seen almost nothing new and you just stop going. I've noticed that a group will regain some life only because a new user will start posting interesting stuff. But then they get board and also move on.

      1. Suggestions - turn this group into a combination of sex questions, sex gifs and pictures, sex stories. It could be made into THE group for sex stuff on Lemmy.
      2. Offer frequent group members the ability to be mods here. Many frequent users got board and left. A person is more likely to stick around if they are a mod and dedicated to the growth of a group

      • There are already communities for all that kind of content. Creating one more would just increase the bloat. We don't need to change existing spaces into something else, just concentrate users and have a way of guiding new people into existing communities, to avoid even more duplicates.

        I also don't see the point on promoting people to mods, or why that would make anyone want to stick around. The average user already doesn't want the responsibility of uploading content, why add the responsibility of moderating content on top of that? Not only that, but there's nothing correlating mods to helping a community grow. What matters in that is people interested in contributing.

  • Well, I block any of the pic/vid based communities because that's just not my thing.

    But the key to any activity is an active posting culture.

    Porn and porn-ish communities have to have either self posters that want to be seen, or someone "feeding" external content via link or gif, same as on reddit. In a lot of cases, even there, you'd have one poster making the sub have content, often for their own use, and users were passive. Trying to "boost" activity of posting porn related content like that is kinda difficult because you have to be motivated to post, and you can't really externally generate motivation.

    Text based communities like this one, you just need to hit a degree of awareness, so that even users that don't think of the instance as somewhere you'd go for discussion will think of specific communities and use them instead of a general purpose instance's communities. That does take "seeding" questions for this specific community, or otherwise making posts for other types of text based nsfw content.

    Now, as far as my personal wants regarding activity levels, I think the instance is doing fine on average. It's not unusual to see a new community of image posts pop up here and there that I'll then block. And it's fairly common that this community has a post often enough that I think of it as being one of the more active communities on the instance. Which means I don't have a want regarding activity.

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