Basically looking for a Lemmy version of craigslist.
Unfortunately, Lemmy users are probably from all over the world and while there might be a handful of big cities that are relatively represented by a bunch of users, even that probably maxes out at like, say, 50 people from New York City or maybe L.A.
And that tiny sliver of citizens from each city is as big as you’ll find because those cities are over-represented in all things. If you live in bumfuck nowhwere? Rest assured, you’re probably the only person from your local area on Lemmy. I’ve seen numbers as low as 70,000 active users on Lemmy.
70,000, stretched all over the whole planet because there’s actually a lot of European Lemmy users as well as other countries, even though like usual, Americans are over-represented.
Like, that’s the population of the city I live in, and I don’t expect to run into any locals here. It’s just incredibly unlikely with so few active users.
Yeah, there’s a moderately active lemmy.ml community for Denver. By moderately active, I mean there’s about a post or two every day and they tend to get 10-15 upvotes.
By contrast, the Denver subreddit gets about 15 posts an hour with popular posts having 2-600 upvotes. There are also highly active subreddits for surrounding areas such as Boulder, where popular posts garner 150 or so upvotes. I’m aware of 3 different attempts to create Lemmy communities for Boulder. The only one with ANY activity had a post 15 days ago that garnered 15 upvotes. The previous post is from 5 months ago.
I think what works better are whole instances dedicated to a local area. I know there’s an instance based in Atlanta for Atlanta.
yall.theatl.social
However, the communities dedicated to local Atlanta news get posts maybe every 10 days or so. So it’s still pretty low numbers of locals.
