Yeah I see that differently. To me these forced posts for the sake of posting something, that are all being created by the same people are not necessarily that appealing to me, they don’t give me the impression that there is an actual community interested in the topic, you know? It’s kinda obvious that it’s really more “pretend active”.
While the plantid one, it seems like there is a community there, they just don’t post much, because there just aren’t that many people on Lemmy that have plantid questions. The community actually has a purpose and direction, it is active if activated and it gives good answers.
I would probably just suggest merging the plantid community to a more general gardening community.
I see where you come from with “forced activity”, but on the other hand, if someone wants to post and sees that the last post is 1 month old, they might doubt that the community is active or they are just going to post into the void.
That is just the reality on lemmy for people interested in niche topics. If i see a community where different users posts something once a month and there are even replies, that is more appealing to me than scrolling through three pages of content posted by the same person.
That’s an interesting question to be honest. There might be some psychological studies between those two scenarios, I’ll make a post about this question on !fedigrow@lemm.ee to see if people have any scientific studies on that topic.
Yeah I see that differently. To me these forced posts for the sake of posting something, that are all being created by the same people are not necessarily that appealing to me, they don’t give me the impression that there is an actual community interested in the topic, you know? It’s kinda obvious that it’s really more “pretend active”.
While the plantid one, it seems like there is a community there, they just don’t post much, because there just aren’t that many people on Lemmy that have plantid questions. The community actually has a purpose and direction, it is active if activated and it gives good answers.
I would probably just suggest merging the plantid community to a more general gardening community.
I see where you come from with “forced activity”, but on the other hand, if someone wants to post and sees that the last post is 1 month old, they might doubt that the community is active or they are just going to post into the void.
That is just the reality on lemmy for people interested in niche topics. If i see a community where different users posts something once a month and there are even replies, that is more appealing to me than scrolling through three pages of content posted by the same person.
That’s an interesting question to be honest. There might be some psychological studies between those two scenarios, I’ll make a post about this question on !fedigrow@lemm.ee to see if people have any scientific studies on that topic.