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.

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (19 children)

Community discovery 100% needs to be improved somehow. No matter how many popular posts you make you will heavily struggle getting the ball rolling, if you ever do.

This practically guarantees the death of niches, which is [obviously] not good for the fediverse as a whole.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Is this a community discovery issue, though? If it's a popular post in an unpopulated community, people must be seeing it. So, it doesn't sound like an issue with impressions.

It's an issue with conversions. With visibility not translating unto subscriptions. And that's a totally different problem. If I see a post in Local or in All, and it's interesting, I'll upvote it, but that's not going to get me to subscribe. For that, I need to a) be interested in the community topic according to its name (because I am not clicking into the community), and b) I need to see multiple interesting posts from that community. And if those thresholds are reached, and I subscribe, that doesn't secure my engagement. Just that you'll show up in my Subscribed feed.

All of those are hurdles for a nascent community, and neither are a discoverability issue.

There could definitely be better ranking options for feeds, but if the posts in question are already "popular", that doesn't seem to be the issue.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People will only see it if someone from their instance is subscribed to that community though, so even popular posts don't necessarily reach the All feed.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

https://lemmy-federate.com/ solves that for most of the instances.

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