When I first stumbled into Lemmy I kinda gravitated to the medical communities, but from day one they’ve all been pretty dead. Just added a couple more subs now prompted by this thread to see if there was an active one. Here’s what I’ve got in my collection:

!Surgical@lemm.ee

!medicine@lemm.ee

!medicine@lemmy.world

!medicine@mander.xyz

!medical_professionals@midwest.social

!medicine@lemmy.ml

!health@lemmy.world

!healthcareworkers@lemmy.ml

!nurses@lemmy.world

!nursing@lemmy.world

!NursingMatters@kbin.social

!nursingresearch@chirp.social

…sorted all of them by Top: Month, and there are a grand total of maybe 20 posts spread over only three of the communities. One of those three only showed a single post; and a pretty even split on the remaining two. The rest of them were empty. It’s spread way too thin: I’ve only run into a few other medical peeps here on Lemmy - we don’t have 12 communities worth of material.

I kinda wish we’d merge them… which I know goes against the grain of how the fediverse is supposed to operate.

!medicine@mander.xyz and !health@lemmy.world were the two most active ones. Mander.xyz seems like a better home for medical talk, but the rules in the sidebar are far too strict for a community this size. !health@lemmy.world seems the best at the moment.

…and I’m 100% part of the problem I’m whining about. Outside of a couple introduction posts and questions for the community, I haven’t posted anything there either. I should.