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Why are most of the communities so... Empty? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by TheChemist@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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For most communities, especially some of the smaller ones, have posts that are only as recent as 2 months ago at best. I noticed that there is frequent activity on The big communities such as "chapotraphouse", "chat" and "news"... but that same frequency of activity isn't replicated on most of the other communities.

For communities like "movies and tv shows", it feels like visiting a ghost town.

Is activity for people here mostly off this site and elsewhere? Did I not get an invitation or something? It feels like, with regards to activities such as playing games or watching a movie, I see no signs of people on this site doing anything.

So why are most communities lacking in activity?

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[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Most of the communities could be combined into one where people could funnel their posts which would help with the lack of activity

It's been a problem for a while

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was a problem on day 1. Admins should have waited months to make comms, with everything going on "main".

the_dunk_tank and electoralism were reasonable to add early for containment purposes. Makes sense to have a a couple of trans/LGBT and empoc groups as well.

Everything else should have been created organically by the userbase saying "this type of post is clogging the feed, let's spin off a comm for it". Instead we have this....

It's not really a big deal but I just think it was massively shortsighted .

[–] AtomPunk@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

I have to agree. It’s great seeing everyone’s hot takes about movies/tv shows but posts get very little engagement because they’re siloed off to a different community from CTH/main. The old subreddit ( yes-honey-left ) had lots of activity on most threads. It’s definitely the biggest thing I still miss from back then

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why is it a problem?

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The majority of the comms we have are dead/redundant

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Why is that a problem?

Edit: let me expand on the question. I'm subscribed to most of the hexbear comms. When there's a post in one of the "dead" ones I see it. When there's not a post, they don't trouble me at all. Why is this a problematic situation?