But, there is just one person posting in the community, and that is never a good sign. Some people may not even know what community a post belonged to, where things were posted, but still voted. So this is not a real evidence of a community being active, but a motivated poster.

[–] DonaldJMusk -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, I can't speak for him or his motivations, but lots (most?) of brand new niche communities on Lemmy start out with one poster.

It's usually based on their passion, and it's their hobby. Remember, that people are only doing this on a volunteer basis. If you wanna see more action in the community, and you count action as different people posting, then you are free post to that community.

I see this said on Lemmy a lot, and I agree: Be the change you wanna see.

Also, I have noticed that when it comes to conservative stuff, Lemmy would rather just hate and downvote rather than discuss.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i do not really downvote stuff. if i do not agree with something, i just do not react. if someone has said some outrageously wrong thing, then i could consider down voting, but i do not find much purpose for it (afaik downvoting is a method to seperate newer and less reacted upon stuff and stuff which people do not agree with and did not upvote).

lemmy has a mostly liberal and lefty leaning crowd (i do belong to it) but they are also a bit "too" vocal in some sense. partially it is because of current political climate, where they do not feel represented, hence a platform where they have like minded people (lemmy), they get emotional and let things out. this may come in form of hate towards their "opponents" (people with opposite philosiphy). I am from a third world nation, where idealogical governments are not really a thing, and so, I do not find people with opposing belief as opponents. this does not mean my country is a utopia, we jsut have different kind of division.

[–] DonaldJMusk -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

partially it is because of current political climate, where they do not feel represented, hence a platform where they have like minded people (lemmy)

Here in the US: Media, News, social media, Bluesky, Reddit, Threads, etc. All of those things are left-leaning. Lemmy is just mad they lost the election, so they cry about it. Even then there aren't very many conservatives on Lemmy, so nothing to cry about.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 2 points 5 days ago

there are multiple kinds of "lefts". if you go by political-compass.org, almost none of american media favors the economic left (socialism as opposed to capitalism). the social left (liberalism as opposed to conservatives) while is more represented in media, you can not deny that social right is growing. problem is that "elected conservatives" are doing a lot, and a lot not in postive direction (for society in general, imo), so i do not find that they are crying unneccesarily. i also do not like "us vs them", be it from left or right, us or them. it should be "us vs us", then people become more sympathetic. i do not support "death to all jews" but i also do not support "death to all nazis". I only support "no deaths".

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