Well... I think it's combination of two issues. As it's been said, this isn't Reddit (even if there's a piece of me that kinda wishes it shared a bit more with Reddit). In my opinion, the biggest part of that is the userbase size. The smaller your base is, the less need for multiple tribes. Sure I could post something in Skyrim, Gaming, and Videos... but there aren't enough users that care Skyrim more than Gaming to justify the separate category. Purely an example, of course, I've not even looked at the Skyrim tribe. My most visited subreddit was /r/Dota2... and while I made an effort to make several Dota related posts here on Snapzu to cultivate a userbase here... there just aren't that many people specifically interested in it. Which brings me to my next point...
Since the userbase is smaller and the desire for information/content for niche groups is low... I find myself hesitating to post stuff because I feel like it's not a big enough topic or a high enough quality submission for Snapzu. It's a curse and boon of the overall higher quality posting. Sure I could post something I found particularly funny, cool, or amazing... but unless I can think of a decently sized tribe that it would fit into, it feels kind of wasted. Don't want to make a content ghost town, if you get my meaning. I've actually backed out of posting something more than once because there didn't seem a good place to categorize it or I couldn't think of what to specifically call something.
I understand your pain, but I think the solution lies in the problem. The problem is small tribes with little activity, and the solution is increasing activity (since you can't increase tribe size yourself). You start out adding more content to the Dota2 tribe (and post those to gaming and dota2 every time) and eventually someone visiting the gaming tribe might see quite a few dota 2 posts. They will either follow you, or post as well. Because if someone new comes and sees that there's no activity in dota 2 (because you never posted anything) they won't post either. However, if you post, even if no one responds, it might drive up the incentive to post later, when someone finally visits the tribe.
I was on voat quite a bit earlier than most people, around 4 months ago, so I and others there have talked this problem over many times. Just make sure the semblance of an active tribe is there, and if you find someone saying something in an unrelated tribe like "I remember last week when I played dota..." you suggest they post in your tribe or something. Growth needs to start with content (which is why I've started posting things I normally wouldn't per se, like this news post about the Egypt/Gaza border opening. It might not help me per se (I get my news elsewhere, I usually don't like crowdsourced news since it can often be a lot more biased than any one news source) but if other users come to snapzu and see that /t/worldnews is active they might stick around and also post elsewhere.
Sorry for the rant and the disorganisation of the comment, it ended up longer than anticipated ;)
Well... I think it's combination of two issues. As it's been said, this isn't Reddit (even if there's a piece of me that kinda wishes it shared a bit more with Reddit). In my opinion, the biggest part of that is the userbase size. The smaller your base is, the less need for multiple tribes. Sure I could post something in Skyrim, Gaming, and Videos... but there aren't enough users that care Skyrim more than Gaming to justify the separate category. Purely an example, of course, I've not even looked at the Skyrim tribe. My most visited subreddit was /r/Dota2... and while I made an effort to make several Dota related posts here on Snapzu to cultivate a userbase here... there just aren't that many people specifically interested in it. Which brings me to my next point...
Since the userbase is smaller and the desire for information/content for niche groups is low... I find myself hesitating to post stuff because I feel like it's not a big enough topic or a high enough quality submission for Snapzu. It's a curse and boon of the overall higher quality posting. Sure I could post something I found particularly funny, cool, or amazing... but unless I can think of a decently sized tribe that it would fit into, it feels kind of wasted. Don't want to make a content ghost town, if you get my meaning. I've actually backed out of posting something more than once because there didn't seem a good place to categorize it or I couldn't think of what to specifically call something.
Just a chip-in from a relatively new user.
I understand your pain, but I think the solution lies in the problem. The problem is small tribes with little activity, and the solution is increasing activity (since you can't increase tribe size yourself). You start out adding more content to the Dota2 tribe (and post those to gaming and dota2 every time) and eventually someone visiting the gaming tribe might see quite a few dota 2 posts. They will either follow you, or post as well. Because if someone new comes and sees that there's no activity in dota 2 (because you never posted anything) they won't post either. However, if you post, even if no one responds, it might drive up the incentive to post later, when someone finally visits the tribe.
I was on voat quite a bit earlier than most people, around 4 months ago, so I and others there have talked this problem over many times. Just make sure the semblance of an active tribe is there, and if you find someone saying something in an unrelated tribe like "I remember last week when I played dota..." you suggest they post in your tribe or something. Growth needs to start with content (which is why I've started posting things I normally wouldn't per se, like this news post about the Egypt/Gaza border opening. It might not help me per se (I get my news elsewhere, I usually don't like crowdsourced news since it can often be a lot more biased than any one news source) but if other users come to snapzu and see that /t/worldnews is active they might stick around and also post elsewhere.
Sorry for the rant and the disorganisation of the comment, it ended up longer than anticipated ;)