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Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee
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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.

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[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (12 children)

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.dev 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.com 3 points 6 months 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

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