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Disagree. I use subscribed and I get plenty of content, a couple hours worth a day. You may just be used to reddits firehose. If there's a missing community, you can always create it and start posting consistently
Well then I can tell you you're in the wrong place. There aren't algorithms. There aren't bots. Just people like me posting. It is run by and for individuals, and all posts are made by individuals. If you don't want to post then you are the one to be mad at for not enough content
And you are welcome to be part of adding to the critical mass by posting, but for lurkers this place is going to be empty for a very long time.
Don't know why people come here and get upset that we haven't provided enough free content.
Lol okay dude, sure, my fragility. I run a server for myself and a few others, I pay out of pocket for it, we here don't owe you anything.
Which I see that you comment a lot, which is great, it seems like you enjoy it here. Sure I'd like to see more posts, so I post a lot, and that drives up engagement. I've nurtured a few little communities that have grown steadily since I started them, but you don't just get that from being upset that there's not enough content. If you want more communities/posts around topics, then here you need to be the one post the stuff about it. So why so resistant to posting?
It's honestly easy, it was a mental block for me at first but it's just if you see an article/story about a topic you like, just post it to a community that applies. I started posting youtube vids that I thought were interesting. If there's not a community for your topic work with your admins to create one.
You're absolutely right that we're tiny, we don't have a critical mass - which is why I tell anyone who complains that there isn't enough content that we don't have the luxury of lurking here. If you want to be a part of building this platform then do your part. If you don't want to help build it, then at least for god's sake don't just complain here that there's not enough content to admins who run their servers for free when you can't even be bothered to post. So I guess that's probably what you're picking up on.
So it's not fragility - it's frustration. Frustration that we have devs who built these platforms (for mostly free), and admins who pay out of pocket to run them, and in result we get users who are upset they might need to just occasionally post to help keep engagment up. I mean, what more do you want from us? I pay monthly to keep my servers up, fedia I'm sure pays hundreds a month, Lemmy.World here probably into the thousands, and people want to complain that they just want to lurk and that we don't provide enough content. Well, then start posting!
Dude, okay I'm done. I didn't even insult you, in fact I rewrote that "wall of text" multiple times to try to explain my opinion as neutrally as I could. I've tried in honest faith to try to explain my point of view to you multiple times, and I don't know how else to explain it.