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.
For !jrpg@lemmy.zip, it’s a big enough category that it should be more active than it is. The corresponding subreddits for JRPGs and retro gaming aren’t super far apart at 255k and 404k subscribers respectively, but !retrogaming@lemmy.world is more active by orders of magnitude here on Lemmy.
I’ve started to focus more on discussion prompts in the community as news isn’t enough; the JRPG community has been an excellent news aggregator for over a year now (although it’s a slow news time for the genre currently). I’d love to hear from other niche communities about what’s worked and what hasn’t to drive engagement.
I might be completely wrong here, but could it partly being an issue of people not thinking about searching the term JRPG?
There are a few other threads in this community on how to drive engagement. Feel free to open another one if you feel like it!