57k active users on Lemmy, Casual Conversation seems a pretty common topic, and still there aren’t that many people around here.
I posted on !newcommunities@lemmy.world , we are probably the most populous community with this name.
Maybe it’s because LemmyWorld communities do not appear on Lemmyverse.net any more?
What do you think could be the issue?
Meh. Let it grow organically. Mods have to seed new threads with interesting topics. Over time, people will come.
In my limited experience on Lemmy, communities let to themselves then to organically die rather than grow.
About interesting threads, casual conversation is usually driven by user submitted content rather than mod driven.
!chat@beehaw.org is an example of a successful one, and almost completely based on user submitted content
Without wanting to get into spicy flame-war territory … having a successful casual chat community sounds like the sort of thing beehaw would do better at than the rest of lemmy, in part, because community creation is closed, so arbitrary content naturally goes into the chat/lounge community, rather than into the very specific niche community it’s most aligned with despite no one being in there and no one ever seeing the post (exaggerated but you get my point).
It completely makes sense, I agree with you.
Hence my questioning about just redirecting there as there community is quite active already
I mean, I just got here and this place is already talking about moving.
I’m confused by your comment… threads left to users tend to die, but successful ones are successful because they’re left to users?
That’s how I’m reading it…
Are you just saying it’s random?
I’d highly prefer a community that’s successful and active because it just happened to sprout up on its own than have an active community that was nurtured and encouraged by modsto become that way. Which is to say I think I agree with you :)
I said communities, not threads :)
Communities that no ones take care of (active posting, promotion, etc.) tend to die.
Threads created by users are a sign of growth.
I hope it’s more clear :)
That’s very uncommon on Lemmy due to the hard discovery of content. If people don’t know a community exists, it’s hard for them to randomly stumble upon it