this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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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.
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.
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.
Media and News is conservative through and through. Social media is more liberal because people are more liberal.
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