Attempts to create niche communities that ended up being the owner talking to himself and receiving 2 upvotes. (niche coms appear to be gaining steam)

  • PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Most of them? The fact that most niche communities failed to successfully migrate away from Reddit is the reason why Lemmy isn’t really something I frequent as often as I would like these days.

    Heck, it would probably be a whole lot easier to list the three niche communities here that may be thriving.

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        I don’t think anyone disagrees with that…I just think it’s important to be realistic here. For niche communities to thrive the way they thrive on reddit, it’s just a numbers game. They have the numbers. Lemmy doesn’t. Lemmy is about two orders of magnitude short of the numbers of users needed to achieve the critical-mass / synergy that would be needed to make most niche communities actually viable here. And even then…it’ll probably take even more users than that because the very nature of lemmy is fragmentation/distributed - so having the total numbers still might not be enough.

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    1 year ago

    Feel free to advertise your communities here:

    !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

    I requested the community a few days ago to get it rolling again. It’s much harder to find and discover communities compared to Reddit, so communities need a lot more promo than they would have otherwise.

    It doesn’t have to be your community, and you don’t need to say a lot. You can also just stay subscribed to see the cool communities that get posted.

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    There’s one dude named Maple who seems to be single handedly running a community called videogamebutts. His posts occasionally hit hot at like 2 am, for some reason.

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    1 year ago

    honestly I dont know. I dont visit the communities individually, I only see what’s on my feed. if a community contains no posts, or nothing new, I’d never see it.

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    1 year ago

    I think of the specific Lemmy communities especially when a more general community already exists. For example if there’s a gardening community people may not post to the succulent community because it has a smaller community.

    One nice thing about Lemmy though is as long as the community is created on a larger instance it should show up when users sort by all within that instance. It’s not like Reddit where you have to to hope your initial self promotion really takes off and snowballs.

    Due to this I continue to post content that fits smaller communities even if it’s not going to get much attention.

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      as long as the community is created on a larger instance it should show up when users sort by all within that instance

      This is an issue for communities that are on smaller instances, and with the current algorithm it’s like a brick wall trying to break through to feeds of users on the big instances. For example, the most active college football community is !cfb@fanaticus.social but the abandoned community on lemmy.world keeps gaining subscribers (even with no content).

      As a whole, niche-driven instances (e.g. sport, film, literature, aviation) and geography-focused instances (e.g. midwest, dmv) just aren’t gaining much traction.

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        I mean I don’t know about a lot of people but if I am searching for a community chances are I’m subscribing to all similar communities.

        There’s also promotional communities within other instances where as long as one individual federates with it everyone should start to see it