Don’t miss one, I want to hear it all.

    • guylacaptivite
      12·
      11 months ago

      Bingo.

      All the niche communities exist it’s just that nobody comments or posts anything for months on end. I actually think that the existence of many of the same communities on different instances is the main hurdle here. Drawback of the concept of the fediverse I suppose but it does make the experience on Lemmy much poorer in that regard.

      • Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social
        3·
        11 months ago

        just that nobody comments or posts anything for months on end

        I post regularly in some magazines, yet nobody reply or interact

        • CharlesReed@kbin.social
          1·
          11 months ago

          Same here. It’s content about a thing that I want to see. Even if I get little to no engagement, hopefully whoever stumbles upon it will be somewhat entertained.

      • Seraph@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        This is a double edged sword. If we had enough people that the smaller communities filled out the main communities would be overridden with people instead of the small community feel we have now everywhere you go.

        • guylacaptivite
          4·
          11 months ago

          What’s the draw of having such a small community though? And why do you think that main communities would be overriden? Honest questions here I don’t quite understand what you are concerned about. I personally think that it’s the main problem with the fediverse right now, it’s only flavorless general posts and nothing from small niche interest that drew me to reddit in the first place.

    • TheArstaInventor@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      11 months ago

      True, but I was still curious about what communities get mentioned here. And also, without communities catering to different users’ interests, there will be no engagement.

  • nicetriangle@kbin.social
    9·
    11 months ago

    Art/design related communities. I made a few here but I was the only one posting. Also miss the model making/diorama/mini painting subs. And some other little niche hobby communities.

    Oh also local city communities are basically nonexistent here and it will prob take years for that to become viable here.

  • QualifiedKitten@kbin.social
    6·
    11 months ago

    I miss the regional/local subs. While there’s technically a few for my region spread across different instances, none of them have much, if any, activity.

    Of the more “niche” communities, the one I miss the most is r/fosteranimals. I started one here, and have posted a few times, but given the already limited audience, plus my inexperience at growing/moderating a community, and my tendency to be mostly a lurker, I have not managed any engagement in the community beyond up/down votes.

  • glennglog22@kbin.social
    5·
    11 months ago

    There are some small, niche reddit communities I miss. Unfortunately since this part of the fediverse is small, the niche communities are even smaller. Either moderated by one person and no posts, or it just doesn’t exist.

  • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    malicious compliance

    while curbing the number of “challenged the cook to test my spice tolerance and lost” posts

  • FoundTheVegan@kbin.social
    4·
    11 months ago

    A populated am I the asshole. That one really needs a critical mass of all sorts of people to be fun. When my GF and I go out to eat we generally pull the top posts of the week and talk em over while we eat. It’s a great conversation starter and a wonderful way to find out little stories that don’t come up in everyday conversation.

  • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social
    4·
    11 months ago

    Essentially all of the ones that I used. r/Minecraft, r/minecraftsuggestions, r/conlangs, r/vexillology, r/pixelart, etc.

    The thing is that all of these have communities and magazines on the fediverse — it’s just that there’s little, if any, activity on them. I don’t think you can really say that these communities are here if they have one person posting on them regularly.

    The only communities that actually have a solid amount of activity here are ones about memes and news. If that’s all that you used Reddit for, then the fediverse is doing great, and such people will act baffled at how anyone could stay on or miss Reddit. But for everyone else, the content just isn’t there.

    • Neato@kbin.social
      3·
      11 months ago

      Same thing for ttrpgs. That was pretty much all I used reddit for the last few years. It has since just gone away. I’ve functionally stopped accruing new rpg creators and news.

      Also comics. I followed a lot of new creators in the last few years. Most of them only post on Reddit.

      • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social
        2·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, it’d be nice to see an active Geometry Dash community given that 2.2 just released. /m/geometrydash is in the abandoned magazines section, so I might request ownership and try to get a bit of activity going there.

      • PotentialProblem
        1·
        11 months ago

        Thanks for the tip! I didn’t realize nosleep was getting mirrored. I had blocked that bot early on due to it cluttering up my feed, but I’ll unblock it and see how things are.

  • theJWPHTER88@kbin.social
    3·
    11 months ago

    It’s deffo r/Flairwars and r/Num for me, despite not having been in the latter in the time I was on that site.
    Both have their own unique inside jokes, battling systems, lore, fanworks, and most of all, a slow yet steadily thriving community that’s accepting of everyone. I often wonder how my first aforementioned community would thrive in this vast federated space, especially with all the new possibilities out here… Maybe new lore expansions, and a reinvigoration on the way?

  • saltnotsugar@lemm.ee
    3·
    11 months ago

    There are some small niche communities that I miss interacting with because the people were pretty cool. Mostly warhammer and some smaller game communities.