Well, maybe not even everybody here would agree if I said “Burggit needs more users” but I feel like it’s turned into kind of a ghost town. You can see right in the sidebar we’re sitting at 100 users a week. I certainly wish there were more people here. Especially if you hide NSFW, there’s only a few posts a day and almost all of them have 0-2 comments. That sucks because I think this is cool as more than just “the loli lemmy”. (Even though that’s good too).
Of course, Lemmy quickly fractured into mass defederation and basically every instance is pretty atomized now, even the “big” instances. I don’t think we get a lot of people checking out from other instances. I would bet with the way modern Google works, nobody is coming here from a google search either lol.
So, is there anything that’s fun to link to Burggit on other sites that you guys have been sharing? I sometimes link people here from Reddit if they’re looking for real incest stuff, since I always was bothered about how Reddit has an unwritten rule that it’s banned but never says so explicitly, and there’s posts at least once a week from people looking for it who often get told that if it’s not on Reddit it must not exist. More importantly, I think the same is true for some SFW topics.
Of course, the front page is full of loli and people are kinda hostile to that these days. I just wish we could get 1% of the people who used to subscribe to all the loli themed subreddits (including SFW/memes) that were banned in the unofficial big loli purge, that would be enough to make it lively here lol.
Because the Reddit protests faltered because of spineless powermods who wanted to hold onto their little bit of power, I think this is all the users we’re going to get. I’ve been messing around on our sister kbin instance because it gets us a better view of the broader fediverse that’s outside of the narrow scope of what are admittedly mostly 1:1 Reddit clones Lemmy seems to cover. Outragebait included.
I feel like we’ve turned into mainly a porn dumping ground and less of a discussion oriented community which decreases people’s willingness to engage with others on here. It’s a mostly 20:1 lurker to contributors ratio. I definitely lurk here most of the time too, so I’m just as guilty as the lurkers who are too shy to say anything on here.
It’s all word of mouth at this point. Anybody who had interest in migrating away from Reddit has already done so. It takes a lot to get someone who’s firmly entrenched on another platform to sign up for a different site anymore. If you so much as mention a requirement to sign up to partake, they almost immediately will shoot you down. We have easy SSO solutions like Google to thank for this amount of laziness and apathy. If you can’t sign in to a site with just a Google account to start chatting, you might as well not exist.
I really wish I knew of an easy solution to draw more users here, but I don’t think there is, sadly, because of the aforementioned above.
I feel like a better way is to use kbin more. Like you said, at least we’re able to reach out to other instances with similar tastes. With Lemmy, you’re only locked in to the threadiverse or whatever it’s called.
I only used kbin for a day or two when Reddit announced their API changes, so I’m not very familiar with it.
Can you explain why it’s easier to reach out on kbin than on Lemmy?
Kbin can federate with more software than lemmy, so there are more places to reach out to. Lemmy can pretty much only federate with other lemmy instances (or at the very least, it’s not very good at federating with non-lemmy instances). Based on what I’ve heard, kbin should also provide a better experince when federating with mastodon, pleroma, etc. since its UI’s more suited to it, but I haven’t used it for more than a few minutes.