It’s when the Americans already went to bed but the Europeans didn’t wake up yet. I’m in South Korea and around lunch even sorting by “New” doesn’t give me any new posts, sometimes up to one hour.

  • krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    29 days ago

    I know it’s a cliche but try posting yourself. That’s the only way places like this grow. I don’t particularly enjoy posting so I try my best to keep conversations flowing and add discussion to posts without much going on. Every little bit helps.

    To that end, what’s your favorite thing about South Korea? I don’t really know all that much about it. Are you from there or working there or what?

  • TheOakTree@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    27 days ago

    Hi Jeena, I’m visiting South Korea right now and also noticed the drought around that time. How can we get more Koreans to use Lemmy, I wonder?

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    29 days ago

    Greetings from China! I’m not much of a poster though, so admittedly my interactions are by and large restricted to comments.

    I’m always browsing Lemmy by /new though (with a well curated block, ban and keyword filter), and the Australians are quite active during those times.

    • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netOPEnglish
      2·
      29 days ago

      Hm perhaps I’m missing out on some Australian content? Any tiops on communities?

      I guess the content from China is mostly in Chinese?

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        25 days ago

        perhaps I’m missing out on some Australian content? Any tiops on communities

        There are Australians producing content on all the usual communities. Unless you’re interested specifically in content about Australia or aimed towards other Australians in particular, you’re probably not missing out on anything.

        If that is what you want, check the communities hosted on aussie.zone.

      • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        29 days ago

        I don’t think there are any actual Chinese communities, at least I’m not active in any. And I’m not actively following anything from Australia either really. I’ve come to terms with the fact that there’s fairly little stuff posted on Lemmy in general, so browsing all (instead of subscriptions) and sorting by new is how I find stuff.

        • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netOPEnglish
          1·
          29 days ago

          Yeah that makes sense. I’m on a single user instance where subscribed and /all is exactly the same which makes the problem even bigger.

      • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        Some instances are available, so federated content is visible if you’re on one that works. But external links often don’t, and you generally want to hide your online presence even if the sites you visit are not blocked, so I’m using a VPN near 24/7.

        • cobra89@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          27 days ago

          I’m surprised the great firewall doesn’t block known blocks of VPN IP addresses.

          • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            27 days ago

            Impossible, VPN providers rent server space in large data centers, just like any other “legitimate” service. If they were to blacklist entire blocks, they’d shut out a number of services people are, meant to use.

            So they’d have to surgically blacklist individual IP addresses - which they do, mind you - but it’s a matter of 3 clicks for the VPN provider to change to any other IP within the data center. And they operate in hundreds of locations globally, so even if one is shut down for good, you got plenty of alternatives.

      • CaptainKickass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        27 days ago

        I wish that Lemmy, or my app, had a translate options. I’m interested in the rest of the world, but I’m a product of the US education system so I only speak one language.

        • TheOakTree@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          27 days ago

          Agreed. It would be a very unique lemmy client feature to have! At the moment, I use lemmy almost entirely on my phone, so I’m able take a partial screenshot and have my phone translate the screenshot in its place. But I will admit, it’s still quite inconvenient.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    29 days ago

    I’ve found commenting later than the first batch of commenters isn’t as much a problem here are it was on Reddit. You’ll still get votes and replies.

  • Hjalmar@feddit.nuEnglish
    1·
    29 days ago

    And hello from Europe (sweden)! I visited Korea last year and whilst I wasn’t using Lemmy then those time difference really made it hard to talk to anyone who happened to find them self in Europe.

    And for a solution to the problem, maybe there are some Korean communities with a bit more activity during that time?

    • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netOPEnglish
      1·
      29 days ago

      Nope from what I know there is only one Korean instance with one community and I am practically the only one posting to it ^^

    • imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      Same dude. But you make me look like a God damned casual 😅

      Someone needs to make a leaderboard for the most active Lemmy users, that’d be really entertaining

  • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    29 days ago

    Nah mate this is the best time of the day to comment. All the shit we say becomes what they open their eyes to in the morning.