Mental Health

Oh damn, an old school internet forum? Is that one any good?

I get you, but there just doesn't seem to be much of a crowd here for anything but politics and tech in the first place, same for the whole of the fediverse tbh, the few people that have tried hosting more "normie" communities here on lemmy always fizzle out, I saw a community where it's just one person posting by themselves and at most they get a few comments and that's about it, most of the time they don't get anything beyond some upvotes and downvotes, things don't seem to go anywhere here unless your preaching to the existing choir, so not sure how I or you would be any different in that regard, this is the only mental health/safe space community on here that's even remotely populated and it's not even close to the amount of the tech and political stuff.

If people here cared about this stuff then I think some of them would've already tried all of this, wouldn't they? Again the few that've tried fizzle out very quickly and move on, people here seem generally content with things as they to the detriment of us causals trying to escape the usual social media platforms, not many "normies" here it seems, so no idea how you'd even get a ball rolling when there's no audience for it here beyond like, maybe 4 people or something at best lol.

It's a chicken and the egg sorta situation, there's not many active normal communities here because there's not many normal people around, and because of that no normal person will want to come here unless they literally have no choice, and so you get an echo chamber of like, 2 topics and not much else, with an audience that's totally fine with that but puts normies off even more as a result, so how exactly do you break that cycle? Copy and pasting open ended questions somewhere here might not do anything if there's no one around interested in it in the first place, I'm a nobody so I don't know much about how to go about this exactly, this stuffs beyond my capabilities, but so far mastodon was the closest we got to something niche turning mainstream, and even then it didn't really go anywhere for long before people just ended up flocking to bluesky if they even bothered leaving twitter, people already know what they want and want to only stay with that, very difficult to overcome or change that it seems.

Though don't get me wrong with all this rambling, not against it at all obviously by my presence here alone, I'd love to stick on lemmy and actually use it as a viable alternative to reddit (I'm hoping for it infact). You can go for it if you want, I'm not objecting, just being honest and saying that it's an uphill battle from my perspective as someone looking at all of this from a causal perspective, so personally I'd rather just be in preexisting groups and communities then play the long "host a community about a very neglected topic and hope people give a damn" game in a niche environment that already has it's priorities set, don't think I have that energy in me tbh, also, I feel like it's a bad idea for a "mentally ill" person to be in a leading/authority role, but that's just me. I envy those who managed to catch the train and into those private support groups, cause this sucks out here, goddamn...