I suspect most people aren’t subbing/following communities on Lemmy. So post the community or topic you want to see pop off. And reader(that’s you) if you are interested in that community click the link and follow it.

👏Let’s 👏 start 👏 coordinating 👏 people.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    When I first stumbled into Lemmy I kinda gravitated to the medical communities, but from day one they’ve all been pretty dead. Just added a couple more subs now prompted by this thread to see if there was an active one. Here’s what I’ve got in my collection:

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    …sorted all of them by Top: Month, and there are a grand total of maybe 20 posts spread over only three of the communities. One of those three only showed a single post; and a pretty even split on the remaining two. The rest of them were empty. It’s spread way too thin: I’ve only run into a few other medical peeps here on Lemmy - we don’t have 12 communities worth of material.

    I kinda wish we’d merge them… which I know goes against the grain of how the fediverse is supposed to operate.

    [email protected] and [email protected] were the two most active ones. Mander.xyz seems like a better home for medical talk, but the rules in the sidebar are far too strict for a community this size. [email protected] seems the best at the moment.

    …and I’m 100% part of the problem I’m whining about. Outside of a couple introduction posts and questions for the community, I haven’t posted anything there either. I should.

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      This is great! I think the ones that get more subs will generally rise to the top and people will start congregating there.

      I’m seeing a bunch of upvotes on peoples comments here. I’m hoping that those people are also subbing to the communities they see in here.

      I’m gonna try to remember to post this kind of question maybe once a month and over time we’ll get communities popping off.

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      most of them are on reddit, and probably unaware that lemmy exists, plus there are still medical based forums out there too. probably hard to see out of the 50k users, which one will ask a medical based issue.