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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)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not everyone follows that though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then I'll keep posting about it everywhere I guess

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Just followed it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I posted it on [email protected], is this were you heard about it?

I'll probably post on [email protected] next week, and probably [email protected] as well.

Maybe create a meme about it on [email protected] too.