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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Crul to c/fediverse
 

Hi, I'm focusing on generating content for a few communities that I feel can be successful and have less content than I expected:

EDIT: I did not create any of those communities

I would encourage anyone to participate if you like those topics.

Do you know any other niche-but-not-too-niche communities in which we could focus efforts?
Please, don't post very long lists, I'm already subscribed to almost 300 communities and the idea is to focus on a few ones.

Thanks!

EDIT: Added descriptions for each community.

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[–] Hyggyldy 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's the entire instance of sffa.community. It stands for Science Fiction Fantasy Alliance. I'd love to see it get off the ground. Right now it's mostly just Brando Sando stuff. I've been considering maybe starting a community called SFFA Gaming, but I don't have any content to actually contribute.

[–] Crul 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm in. Thanks

[–] Hyggyldy 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! Great piece!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

More hobbits are always welcome at: [email protected]

[–] 2tone 11 points 1 year ago

I've just created

Both can be very active communities once people are there

[–] LazaroFilm 10 points 1 year ago

Cassettefurutism!! Man that one was so active on Reddit. The other one I miss is WeirdWings.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been trying to participate in [email protected]. It had a decent sized community on Reddit and it would be great to have some weekly discussion here.

[–] Crul 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck!

I don't have much to contribute to that community... I had never heard of that game :/.

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

It's a fun time-killer or toilet game, seemingly simple but with surprising depth for what it is. It's free to try, if you're interested.

[–] seacocker 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I created [email protected], which has over 300 subscribers, but limited interaction.

[–] Crul 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] seacocker 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! Plenty good will and community on Lemmy :-)

[–] Crul 3 points 1 year ago

That's our only advantage over the big sites :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'll chime in with the communities in my new instance 4wd.social:

[–] Aarrodri 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Crul 5 points 1 year ago

Good luck!

I'm personally focusing on non-meme communities, but that's just personal preference.

[–] LeftRedditOnJul1 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd really love to see /c/[email protected] get off the ground

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

If you format the link as [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) it will be a clickable link (in this case it would be [email protected]).

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

Isn't [email protected] doing pretty good? I see it reaching top of All quite often

[–] Crul 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed, that's one of the most promising ones... and it still only has 2 or 3 posts a day :/.

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

I mean, people have lives too I guess :)

[–] Crul 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't mean that I expect the same user to be posting all day. If different users send 1 post each, they still should have a lot of time for other things :)

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

For sure, but I am at 500 posts on my main account, and to be honest posting so much content can sometimes be a bit tiring. I'm trying to get other people on my community to do it too but it's not that easy.

[–] Crul 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

posting so much content can sometimes be a bit tiring.

Agree. What I'm doing (in case it helps) is, instead of going for quantity, go for quality and try to focus the efforts on a few communities that interest me. That way I am posting about things I really like in just a few places and it doesn't become a chore.

I'm trying to get other people on my community to do it too but it's not that easy.

Indeed, it's HARD. This is one of the reasons I haven't created a community yet, it seems too much effort-VS-results-ratio. I know I'm taking the easy path because I'm not so invested in any specific community. So thanks to all of you who create and moderate all the communities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Definitely!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This seems like a good place to ask, but is there a handwriting or cursive community on the go yet? It's my latest obsession, so I could see myself helping grow it.

I've searched around, but haven't had any luck finding an existing communities

[–] Crul 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, I really appreciate you taking a look! I did already find those, but I don't know anything about writing with ink. 😬

I'll keep looking, as you suggest. Once I get a little more settled I may even start my own.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

[email protected] and [email protected] are my personal niches, so if anyone's interested please come over and get stuck in

[–] Crul 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tuuuurn around and look at what I see!

[–] Crul 3 points 1 year ago

The song is the only reason I'm forced to acknowledge that there are film adaptations of the book, but I have already ranted about that on the other comment thread :).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've created and have been the only curator (so far) of [email protected]. My idea is to have a good set of ideas around the idea of human scale development, "smol tech" and anything that can give some relief to hyperglobalist and soulless worldview that is so prevalent today.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Subbed! Though I'm not the contributing type, I love to see these kinds of posts

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

I had been trying to grow these two:

They were reasonably popular on reddit, 3m+ and 2m+ subscribers respectively. I started posting once per day to each of them soon after I migrated over, though my meme stash has mostly run dry at this point (I do have a bit more to post to anime_irl). There are some regular posters in anime_irl now, but animemes has been pretty dead since I stopped posting. I've also promoted them in the usual places.

There's also my own community, kbin.social/m/specialized_instances / /c/[email protected], for cataloging topic/location focused instances. It works fine as a solo project, but I wouldn't mind having more suggestions of things to add to the list.

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

Thank you, 3 out of 4 interested me so I subbed :-)

I got only one on my own server, low posting, starting out with the legendary Gir "Moebius" works [email protected] and I'm working on one for "artistes en herbe" (artists on uh grass? It means us, people who like and try and have fun creating)

Cheers and long live Lemmy and the fediverse!

[–] waterbogan 2 points 1 year ago

[email protected] - Post pictures of spotted cars that you cannot identify.

[email protected] - for classic car enthusiasts

[email protected] - self-explanatory

[email protected] - also self-explanatory, a bit more active than the others. Submit your dashcam footage here of idiot drivers

I dont own/mod any of these but would like to see more people active in them

[–] giacomo 2 points 1 year ago

Give it time

[–] Reverendender 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Can you explain what these things are? The only one I understand is obviously comic strips. Also, join us at [email protected] Also, how do I make that a link?(Thanks!) (Or type italics, bold, or strikethrough here on lemmy?)

[–] Crul 8 points 1 year ago

My bad, you're right, I should have added a small description (done!):

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Also, how do I make that a link? (Or type italics, bold, or strikethrough here on lemmy?)

Lemmy uses Markdown, though not all apps handle the full syntax yet (I know sync struggles with Spoiler and Code for example).