I, like many here, have migrated over from reddit and trying to recreate all the subreddits I’ve been subscribed to. The ones I miss the most are personal finance and investing. I found this one but there doesn’t seem to be much activity here?

  • Bluetreefrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Communities have to be nurtured and tended. Start posting content and see whether it grows. Be prepared for it to take a while though. People are still exploring and finding all the books and crannies.

    • lemming007@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I guess you’re right, we need to actually post content for others to join. It’s tough because I don’t necessarily have anything to post right now, but it was nice to scroll through the subreddit to find new things in the personal finance topics.

      • Bluetreefrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve come to realise that Reddit trained me to simply consume content rather than be an active participant in a community. This makes sense when you realise that they are selling advertising and have a small number of people who generate enough content for others to consume.

        Lemmy is meant to be a community, so I’m finding I’m having to step up and actually contribute by way of commenting, posting and modding.

  • Otherbarry@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Not dead, just a bit quiet. Maybe just a lot of lurkers at the moment? It’s actually the most active one in the Lemmy/Kbin fediverse.

    I’m still new so for now I subbed to all the personal finance communities. From what I found (listed in order of most recent activity):

  • Tygr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It will come alive as more switch to the fediverse. Just need patience. Reddit was once like this when Digg was massive.

  • DogMom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Yep, it’s pretty quiet here. What areas of personal finance interest you most? What sort of conversations are you looking to have?

    I got into the early retirement movement and subsequently optimizing my spending and investing. In general I like to talk about money matters because most people don’t like to discuss money IRL.