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there's no communities for my niche interests!!!

more like "i want a ready-made community where other people already putting effort into posting cool and intersting stuff, and all I want to do is sit on my ass and shower posts generously with """muh upvotes™""""

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

But even aneurysmposting, the most successful wouldn't survive if I wasn't regularly posting. Partially bc people just forget a community exists. I end up posting in the same 10-15 communities since I can't think of relevant communities to post in; even if they exist very often.

I enjoy running aneurysmposting and [email protected] since there only I can post and there is no pressure. It basically is like posting to local, but I have an archive if everything I post.

Similarly [email protected] is another community I made and enjoy posting on, but my posts are like 50% of that instance and 80% of that community. But its a great community otherwise.

The other 4 have been different levels of disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Hey fam, go to [email protected] and check out the weekly "How are you doing with your communities?" post if you haven't already. It's like a support group for people keeping niche communities alive.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Hi my name is variants and I'm a niche community mod

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah I gotta go do that sometime

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel you as I too struggled to keep small community afloat and alive. And it sometimes does feel like you are screaming in to the void. I was kinda fortunate in a sense that my community got atleast some trafficin votes/comments and that motivated me to stay and post.

My point is that it's always better to try to do something (even if it fails) than just whine about it.

I also want to salute you (and people like you), we are all here in part because you take time of your day to find\make and post stuff. Even if in the moment it doesen't get noticed or feels like it's in vain, know that it is never for nothing - you're making the hour\day or even week of 100s of people better

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Comments come in which keeps the motivation. The issue is if I'm busy for a week or month I come back to a dead community. (And I'm not gonna use a bot to keep regular activity, that idea grosses me out.)

But yeah I do think a lot more people could try and perhaps don't go super niche, but try making a community for a genre or subgenre. Music will get more traction than folk music which will get more traction than Bob Dylan and yet you can post the same thing you want from the niche in the other 2.

PS. This is the kind of situation where you should link your community so people like me can join in.