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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] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

5.) Not being able to create your own custom feeds is also a massive problem because you can’t split your feed into types like memes/news/discussions/meta etc.

This is a big one for me - on R, one can create a "multireddit" (collection view of multiple subreddits in one combined feed) without subscribing to any of the communities; for example I have one called "news" that's 10+ news subreddits which I do not subscribe to; subscriptions are for my actual real direct interests only. Subscribing to news specific communities can quickly overrun and bury your Subscribed feed.

Lemmy as a software platform is missing the entire concept of a multireddit and detracts from it's usefulness for certain types of users such as myself; I still get most of my daily news from R and sadly gaming communities did not migrate en masse to lemmyverse so they're all still on R.

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

Working on it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The feature has been announced to have been funded a while ago, not sure when it will arrive, but I personally also think that this is going to be a game changer.

But to be honest, none of the other platforms (Piefed or Mbin) offer it either.

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

There are some genre communities here at least. The incremental community is just broken, but I can get into the Cinny Matrix chatroom just fine: https://incremental.social/.

[email protected] is active, I run [email protected], there were more that I followed and lost the list of when I lost access to my incremental.social account besides the Matrix stuff. But communities for specific games probably will be hard to find.

Does not help the Reddit otomegames sub shoves other community promo to a Self-Promotion Sunday nobody checks. I get it, constant spam is not fun, but it also sucks for visibility, especially since I asked them if they'd be willing to get off Reddit and move to Fedi and they said no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

shoves other community promo to a Self-Promotion Sunday nobody checks

Same feeling on another community I'm trying to promote Lemmy on. It's usually me and someone else on that Sunday thread that nobody reads.