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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] 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] 4 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

Is this a community discovery issue, though? If it's a popular post in an unpopulated community, people must be seeing it. So, it doesn't sound like an issue with impressions.

It's an issue with conversions. With visibility not translating unto subscriptions. And that's a totally different problem. If I see a post in Local or in All, and it's interesting, I'll upvote it, but that's not going to get me to subscribe. For that, I need to a) be interested in the community topic according to its name (because I am not clicking into the community), and b) I need to see multiple interesting posts from that community. And if those thresholds are reached, and I subscribe, that doesn't secure my engagement. Just that you'll show up in my Subscribed feed.

All of those are hurdles for a nascent community, and neither are a discoverability issue.

There could definitely be better ranking options for feeds, but if the posts in question are already "popular", that doesn't seem to be the issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

I guess fxomt misphrased "how popular". You can have a "quite popular" post for your community (let's see, more than 100 upvotes), it will probably never break through the rest of the posts as people generally use Top Day or 12 hours.

Frontpage on LW is currently at 400 for the latest post: https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=TopDay

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

fxtom

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But this what I meant, yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Sorry, edited!

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