I honestly never know what people mean by "niche", everyone seems to have a different cutoff. But also the word you're looking for is "communities", we users are the lemmings ๐
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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[email protected] started strong, but has definitely slowed down a little. [email protected] (everyday carry pocket dumps) and [email protected] have slowed down even more. Maybe they're too consumerish for Lemmy's culture.
Basically most of the niche communities are extremely slow or dead. It's understandable since the daily lemming user rate is 33,000 where seeing a post with 33,000 likes is not uncommon Reddit.
One has to appreciate that Reddit he organically and got segmented in subs over time, who knows how many empty subs died on the wayside before the many niches we hold dear took off.
The big stuff has transferred quite nicely, as have tech communities, but other niche communities seem to have floundered. Even ones that explicitly and openly made the switch died off, like r/streetphotography. It seems raw user count is pretty critical to supporting them.
The cordcutters subreddit was really nice, users constantly engaging in talks about better alternatives to cable/internet/streaming options.
The lemmy version is like an aquarium full of dead fish that nobody cares to clean out. The only 'poster' is a 'news' bot that just spams every article from cordcutters.com (most of which are just advertisements for deals/discounts).
At this point even ghost towns have more presence and/or engagement. If you block the 'news' bot, there's next-to-nothing there.
[email protected] is getting more and more active, with a spontaneous AMA ongoing.
[email protected] is quite active.
Nice community, thanks for the recommendation of casual conversation :)
any calyx c/
Curlyhair was (is?) so busy on Reddit that it needed heavy moderating, the mods had a discord chat, so many rules, a heavy hand. Here it's dead.