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Yep it's a little frustrating some days, I have lots of posts with 100+ up votes and...1 comment...
If we want this place to thrive people need to contribute to the conversations more not just doom scroll and shit post
One percent content vs votes. That is a healthier community than you think. The ratio of reads to posts will be even higher.
We just need to create a sustainable level of content while people discover that Lemmy exists,
The biggest problem is “join a server / start a server”. There needs to be a “join any server, still see the best of all communities” option. People come knowing they have heard they should sign-up for Lemmy. They have no idea what server they are looking for. Regardless of what they choose, there needs to be a way of getting a snapshot of “what is happening on Lemmy”. People will self-select and gravitate towards individual communities later.
The magic of places like Reddit was immediate access to a lot of content first and specific content second. People started with Trending before they even knew what a sub was.