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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] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apologies for only arriving now. The app I use is pretty hit and miss with sending notifications and mentions are in another tab and rare. I really need to do some more shopping around for apps but I'm in a comfort zone with this one I've been using since before the API debacle on Reddit.

As far as discoverability goes, as a simple user I'm not sure it's so different from Reddit. On Reddit, niche communities coming through /r/all were rare and easy to miss. So the main way of finding these communities was by directly searching for them or coming across mentions of them in comment sections. I'm not expecting to come across a community for some random '90s show in the wild, so that's just something to search up if I think of it (and probably be disappointed because this platform isn't quite there yet).

As for more general communities, they'll have higher activity so will come through whatever feed you're looking at more often. I've found that by the end of the day, I'm just starting to scroll through the things I've seen before, so it's not easy to miss things. Plus users such as yourself do a fantastic service of pointing others in the right direction and making suggestions.

And I think that for now, super specific communities would probably flop. I would love a community for the Harley Quinn show, for example, with memes and discussions throughout the week and between seasons like on Reddit. But there's not enough people yet, so the DC Studios community for anything related to DC Comics adaptations is the way for now. Just as an example. Or to go with your example, a general JRPG community is going to do much better than a Golden Sun specific community.

Certain missing features here versus Reddit definitely play a role too though. If there were multicommunities or some sort of custom feeds for people to add, any niche communities that tried to take off would have a much better chance. Also, I don't see too many OnlyFans workers coming to LemmyNSFW as long as they can't make a post with all of their links to their own profile and pin it, and they can't pick up followers. It can't completely fill the role of a Reddit alternative as long as it only has half the features that Reddit has. At least as far as the end user is concerned.

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

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