For most communities, especially some of the smaller ones, have posts that are only as recent as 2 months ago at best. I noticed that there is frequent activity on The big communities such as “chapotraphouse”, “chat” and “news”… but that same frequency of activity isn’t replicated on most of the other communities.
For communities like “movies and tv shows”, it feels like visiting a ghost town.
Is activity for people here mostly off this site and elsewhere? Did I not get an invitation or something? It feels like, with regards to activities such as playing games or watching a movie, I see no signs of people on this site doing anything.
So why are most communities lacking in activity?
Because we have like 100 people
Movies and tv is a lemmee comm and its main posters are from instances we arent federated with, thats why they are empty
!movies@hexbear.net is the Hexbear comm
Yeah, this is definitely an interesting question. I’m always astonished at the number of comments the megathreads get. If every one of those comments was a post in a community on the site, it would “feel” more “active”. I wonder how many communities active users actually subscribe to. Sometimes I’ll post something, and it feels like it goes to the void, even though the community might say it has a number of subscribers.
I have no idea how someone can follow the megathread comment section. With thousands of comments, maybe hundreds of top-level comments, it seems really daunting to dive into.
What communities would you like to see more action in @TheChemist@hexbear.net ???
the site isn’t really big enough to fill all those communities with content every single day, and most of the long term users browse All anyhow, and the default in years past at least was to auto-subscribe new users to all but a couple comms. In fact there’s a contingent of people who strenuously opposed adding any comms other than main/chapotraphouse. I don’t see it as a problem because I never really browse by comm and don’t particularly care if a comm “looks dead”. because it’s just a way of tagging posts so people can filter out what they don’t want to hear about, and distributing the moderation workload
Plus, a ton of the activity day-to-day is happening in the megathreads, not in posts. If I went and saw a new movie and wanted to talk about it, unless I had a meme to share or a lot of thoughts/an effortpost, it would probably just go in the mega. People seem to see posting as a bigger hurdle than commenting and so do it less.
In terms of playing games/watching a movie together, there are some off-site discord and matrix chats that may do that, idk. And there are the stickied posts almost every day about what’s being watched together on the cytube @ live.hexbear.net/c/movies
Plus idk about everyone else but, I don’t dedicate much of my time to games or movies anymore. Less and less as I’ve gotten older. I’d rather do things with other people IRL typically, including gaming/watching tv. and frankly nobody needs to hear my takes on the sopranos 25 years after release and well after it was watched in cytube
