I really love community-driven social media like Reddit. Lemmy feels… too small. I really loved that Reddit let me jump into any niche hobby, and instantly I had a community. Lemmy, you’ll be lucky if that community even exists, and if it does, chances are nobody has posted in ages.

On the other hand, Lemmy is full of political content lately. I’ve basically been doom scrolling everything US election-related, and it’s really starting to take a toll on my mental health.

I know I can filter content. I know I can post and be the change I seek. Yet, it feels like an uphill battle.

Not sure what the point of this is, or if it’s even the right community to vent about this. I just really want to replace Reddit, but I find myself going back more and more (e.g. r/homekit is very active compared to Lemmy version).

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[–] flicker@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago (22 children)

You can still do that.

Start the conversation. That's what we all did, and where these communities got their start.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 5 points 9 months ago (21 children)

I've tried, believe me I've tried. Posting a bunch of threads out into the void doesn't suddenly manifest a like-minded community to reply to and engage with those threads. It won't truly be viable until there's a much larger userbase to begin with.

And honestly, it just comes across as patronizing to say the only reason my hobbies don't have traction here must be because I didn't try hard enough.

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Which particular niche topic(s) is it?

[–] missingno@fedia.io 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fighting games and Riichi Mahjong. !fgc@lemmy.world and !mahjong@lemmy.nerdcore.social exist, but are pretty barren. I'd also previously tried to start communities for them on kbin.social, but that's gone now.

Also arcade-style versus puzzle games, but those are so dead these days that even on Reddit they didn't have an active sub.

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 4 points 9 months ago

I hope you get more engagement in the community. But you should probably engage more with others posts as well.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 9 months ago

are pretty barren.

Have you tried promoting the fighting games community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and generic games communities? That could help you find at least a few other people who would like to discuss that topic in the fgc community

Also, !fedigrow@lemm.ee is a community dedicated to community growing, we have regular threads to discuss "shouting into the void"

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