Kind of a companion thread to the recent one on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com asking people which community there were missing.

I had a quick look, and most of those seem to be niches that can’t be filled until we reach a higher population.

There is still maybe some potential improvement about some less well-known community that other people are interested in and that could some additional activity.

I try to help to make less known communities known with the regular threads on !newcommunities@lemmy.world (now moving to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.

One example is !jrpg@lemmy.zip, it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.

Similar with !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, or !showsandmovies@lemm.ee. I posted a thread about Ted Lasso a few days ago, it got some nice comments, but probably not enough to have a full fledged dedicated community.

  • Bassman1805@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The expectation that a social media that optimistically has 0.1% the user base of reddit, can support the same level of community fragmentation, is not realistic. I’ve been here long enough to see numerous failed attempts at starting a community for My Favorite Niche, rather than just posting about it in More General Community. You usually get a single “welcome” post by the creator, and then nothing more. If you’re lucky, the creator will make a small handful of their own posts before giving up.

    Post about your favorite TV show in a tv/movies community, don’t make a new one just for your show. You’ll get way more engagement

    • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Post about your favorite TV show in a tv/movies community, don’t make a new one just for your show.

      I agree, but I also don’t want to spam those communities lol.

      Like !deus_ex_randomizer@lemmy.mods4ever.com or !stauf_mansion@lemmy.mods4ever.com would be too much spam for one of the gaming communities, or patient gamers.

      And it’d be even more spammy for the communities that are in-between in specificity (like !adventuregames@lemm.ee or !deus_ex@lemmy.ml)

      I just do rare cross-posts for the most notable posts

      • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Oh yeah, if you can sustain those communities by yourself, that’s great! This advice is more for people who don’t know where to post about a specific topic

        • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I think it’s a comm where some guy posts whatever they’re interested in at the moment. Kind of like c/Gondaily

          • scsi@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            nod the point was (in fun) to exemplify not doing what the GP comment to this thread was talking about; here we have a positive example of a user creating a single space to post any/all of their “niche” (eye of the beholder) content, rather than creating tiny communities for each interest. It was a light-hearted comment “see, like this”. :) (disclaimer: I’m subscribed)

            • Vespair@lemm.eeEnglish
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              2 hours ago

              And I think this is how people should start thinking of Lemmy communities maybe, or at least as an option for Lemmy communities; to be less like subreddit ls and more like personal pages frankly more akin to Myspace. Part of the appeal of Lemmy, to me at least, is the decentralization and reclamation of some level of ownership. So maybe lemmy is less a place where you go to join c/deathmetal and c/crotchet and c/vintagesmurfpornography, but instead it’s a place where you start c/yourusername and declare it your personal shrine to needlepoint, cannibal corpse, and blue cartoon-fuckery.

              But I also smoke weed, so I might just be having a moment