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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] 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (9 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.

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