Kind of a companion thread to the recent one on [email protected] 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 [email protected] (now moving to [email protected] ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.

One example is [email protected], it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.

Similar with [email protected], or [email protected]. 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.

  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    111·
    2 天前

    Don’t people use the Subscribed feed for their niche communities? So once they are subbed, it’s all good?

    If the issue is people not knowing about communities, then those posts on [email protected] should help

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      2 天前

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule influences this heavily imo

      I think it’s both. On latin for example i have 120 users (35 are lemmy federate bots) but i’m the only one posting there, despite some posts getting a lot of upvotes or comments.

      This can heavily discourage mods and force them to quit which kills the community.

    • FundMECFS@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      2 天前

      My reflex moving over was to subscribe to everything I’m interested in and never use all, because I’ve never used it on reddit.

      This created a problem where since lemmy’s sorting all basically sort by most popular (except scaled but that sort is problematic for other reasons), I basically only saw the meme and news communities I subscribed to on my feed and the niche stuff never made it.

      I know @[email protected] is working on an algorithmic alternative [email protected] but it’s not got support on any apps.

      • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        4 小时前

        I usually use scaled for my subscribed feed and it works decently. Recently was advised to try out “newest comments” sorting for the subscribed feed and I like that even more!

      • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 天前

        have you tried Scaled sort? I use Scaled for my subscribed feed and it does a great job showing new posts in niche communities

      • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        1·
        2 天前

        Yes, I have several accounts due to that issue. Comes back to the lack of personal feeds mentioned elsewhere.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      2 天前

      Oh! Today I learned about community promo. Yeah, I guess we could use awareness raising about the existence of that community. Sounds like an awesome resource.