Well, I block any of the pic/vid based communities because that’s just not my thing.
But the key to any activity is an active posting culture.
Porn and porn-ish communities have to have either self posters that want to be seen, or someone “feeding” external content via link or gif, same as on reddit. In a lot of cases, even there, you’d have one poster making the sub have content, often for their own use, and users were passive. Trying to “boost” activity of posting porn related content like that is kinda difficult because you have to be motivated to post, and you can’t really externally generate motivation.
Text based communities like this one, you just need to hit a degree of awareness, so that even users that don’t think of the instance as somewhere you’d go for discussion will think of specific communities and use them instead of a general purpose instance’s communities. That does take “seeding” questions for this specific community, or otherwise making posts for other types of text based nsfw content.
Now, as far as my personal wants regarding activity levels, I think the instance is doing fine on average. It’s not unusual to see a new community of image posts pop up here and there that I’ll then block. And it’s fairly common that this community has a post often enough that I think of it as being one of the more active communities on the instance. Which means I don’t have a want regarding activity.
Well, I block any of the pic/vid based communities because that’s just not my thing.
But the key to any activity is an active posting culture.
Porn and porn-ish communities have to have either self posters that want to be seen, or someone “feeding” external content via link or gif, same as on reddit. In a lot of cases, even there, you’d have one poster making the sub have content, often for their own use, and users were passive. Trying to “boost” activity of posting porn related content like that is kinda difficult because you have to be motivated to post, and you can’t really externally generate motivation.
Text based communities like this one, you just need to hit a degree of awareness, so that even users that don’t think of the instance as somewhere you’d go for discussion will think of specific communities and use them instead of a general purpose instance’s communities. That does take “seeding” questions for this specific community, or otherwise making posts for other types of text based nsfw content.
Now, as far as my personal wants regarding activity levels, I think the instance is doing fine on average. It’s not unusual to see a new community of image posts pop up here and there that I’ll then block. And it’s fairly common that this community has a post often enough that I think of it as being one of the more active communities on the instance. Which means I don’t have a want regarding activity.