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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 89 points 10 hours ago (14 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

[–] DopaDodge@lemmy.world 19 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

One of the things I feel like Lemmy is still missing or is under developed is the niche hobbyist and tech help communities. I'm referring to places users can go to ask questions and start to build up a knowledge base of sorts that people will find and reference. Kind of like how if you want to actually find useful information for something, you used to add "Reddit" to every search to get meaningful results. Hopefully, that can become Lemmy. Assuming of course search engines even index Lemmy well enough

One way to start could be just having people post small tutorials or solutions for popular problems or topics in respective communities. I know the internet has changed a lot but "back in the old days" that was a great way to get engagement going at least on tech forums.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

search engines hardly index lemmy unfortunately. Probably due to having too much repeated content on different URLs.

[–] DopaDodge@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Probably due to having too much repeated content on different URLs.

It seems like its gotten better in the last 2 years as I can at least get lemmy results now, and popular instances show up more but yea, still not great.

[–] henry1917@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Wouldn't that be closer to stackexchange?

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