I’m in a similar situation in !ultralight@lemmy.world. Getting people engaged is a bit like getting people to dance at a party, many people want to but someone has to break the ice… things I’ve tried is pinning a post asking people to stop by and say hi, also comment on each post so there’s something to latch onto, people won’t click in with 0 comments. You can also try a joke post to break the ice, in the case of SpacePorn you could combine a picture of a galaxy and a swimsuit model and say “Am I doing this right?!?” or something; it’s stupid but hopefully it makes someone laugh.

Made the !half_life community yesterday and it does feel like this. The only other post is a post my friend made so I could promote him to moderator. I don't have much experience so I'm not sure I'm able to fully understand your situation though.

Same. I‘m missing a lot of niche hobby subs (duh) over here which I’m mainly active on, and that‘s about it, honestly. Design and performance could be a lot better too. I‘ll stick around and see where it goes.

Exactly. This right here is a microcosm of that. I discussed poetry with someone last night. I haven’t discussed that in years! It’s nice here.

Ps, I just saw how many posts you’ve created and wanted to thank you for all the effort you are putting in here. I spend a ton of time surfing, and appreciate all the work that the technical people are doing to allow us to have a new home.

You can say that :D

Begun, the clone wars have

50 thousand registered users all at once on an instance with no posts and no activity. Lurkers usually don't need to make accounts. It's very suspicious.

There are servers with 6-7 thousands accounts all created almost at the same time and no user activity at all.

Did lurkers decide to select some servers to be "lurking-only" servers? Hardly.

Already dropped 10 or so comments :)

Made a community :)

I'm not sure what you mean about no option to select an instance. Here is an example instance with open signups: https://libre.video. You can find more here: https://the-federation.info/platform/29

Youtubers could gradually switch to PeerTube by uploading videos to both sites for now. They would make money the same way they do currently - through sponsorships and donations. I'm sure many of them can afford to host their own instance. It would actually benefit them, because if YouTube suddenly bans them for some reason, they would have an alternative that their fans would know about.

It is a bit unnerving to have bots to human ratio that high on the network. I hope they will never activated and many compromized servers get cleaned before something bad happens.

That's what brought me in. Used sync for Reddit, wanna be familiar with how this works for when I use sync for lemmy

While Relay was my preferred app, Sync was definitely another beautiful option. And likely the app I'll hop to as soon as it becomes available.

Ironically, you've double posted this comment.

As an AI language model, I can't imagine at all.

thats actually a smart way to see it.

That's what I was hoping/assuming, but it does worry me at the same time.

I hope that's the case, all this decentralized social media is really confusing, esp mastodon, some suggest to pick non-crowded instance but then your post wont appear on other instance (cmiiw)

Is there something I'm missing here?

I'm kind of new to the Fediverse, but since their username does not have a "@instance-name" it means he is on the same one as yours, right? Which would be "lemmy.world".

I hope we get to find out if that's true!

@jennwiththesea @oneofsix

I'm curious how this is working, since I commented on Jenn's post on Lemmy.world but don't see it here.

Is there some 'behind the scenes' magic at work that I've yet to decode?

The Lemmy Explorer is a really cool new project to find communities

Testing a few, amd Memmy is what I'm going with for now. Active dev, always adding features and squashing bugs