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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] 0 points 3 hours ago

How do I create a community on Sync? Can't find a button for that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

Thanks! I'm currently going through my hobbies and I'm gonna start posting and subbing to all of them.

You're right, I should be posting more if I want engagement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

This is the lifecycle of internet forums

"I'm sick of this place, I'm going somewhere new!" > "This place is deserted" > "Let's diversify and get more users" > "There are more users but they are all posting content I'm not interested in" > "I'm sick of this place, I'm going somewhere new!"

I've been through at least half a dozen such cycles, it's just a normal part of life when you live vicariously through an ethernet cable. Lemmy will grow, get old, go to shit, and die, and half the population will move somewhere else. Probably Pylon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Then post into the void until some other like-minded degenerate finds you. You need to create the meeting point!

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

The thing is, communities need people. People who post in the community. Most new communities get a few members, a handful of posts, and then just die.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: Sometimes you can kickstart a community that you want to see just by consistently posting content. [email protected] is my favourite example -- it was essentially one person who created that entire community (and it's since been diversifying somewhat -- at least there's traction in the comments).

But to reinforce your point: I did [email protected] and tried to do the same thing, but it sort of petered out. But it's way way more niche.

Rome wasn't built in a day. Just engage with the content you like and build some places for content you'd like to see.

[–] hex 7 points 11 hours ago

We're complaining because we don't want to be the ones to post, lol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Like you've been shown that there's no simple answer over and over again here, but one problem I face hasn't been mentioned. What if I want to subscribe to communities that I can't participate in? Not every community is about hobbies, some is people talking about their life which is totally unlike mine and I like to read that. One I always pick as an example is r/arrangedmarriage. I love(d) reading that subreddit to explore a world that is so foreign to me. I'm a white woman from Europe as far removed from marriage as one could be on this earth. Why should someone follow an c/arrangedmarriage I of all people created and mod? Not everyone joins niche communities because they are directly relevant to their life.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Making the community doesn't mean it has any activity. There's tons of communities already made for a bunch of niche topics. None of them are being posted in. There's also communities that aren't niches that also lack activity.

[email protected] only has about 3 active users, not including myself. The DLC is still pretty new and it's a massively popular game.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Why complain about lacking a community when you can create your own ghost town"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Is there any way we could talk about the niche communities, and promote them all at one place. I know it's already there but I don't remember where, it's clearly a broken system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

A community dedicated to all the niche communities, I like this. A post a day highlighting various ones or where people can announce the ones they’ve created. This is a good idea to at least spread the word of their existence

[–] [email protected] 32 points 23 hours ago

Exactly

Someone has already created my niche community, and there are 2 people in it, and it hasn't grown since I joined, and that makes the conversations in it boring af

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

You just reminded me to post in this new community I joined recently, so thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

This did remind me to create a community for the one subreddit I used the most before I left reddit, r/jakeandamir. Thank you, I did that today!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe the answer is a better search engine to find the communities.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I don't even know how to find new communities that aren't part of my instance. Is there some place that just lists them by date created?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Lemmy Explorer will do it...I think. "Newest publish time" sort is what you're looking for, I think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

On my instance you just click "Communities" at the top and it gives you a list of communities with three options at the top Subscribed/Local/All just like the main feed. Click all and you can browse or search the list of all communities, though the search is not great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Your instance does need to know about these communities existing first though. For recently created communities on another instance that might not be the case. Which is where services like Lemmy Explorer help.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

whoa, Lemmy explorer is a great resource, thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

I will not whine about the lack of this niche community, because both c/Indiana and c/[email protected] exist, but boy do I wish they were even close to as active as r/Indiana was when I was on Reddit.

There is just not a good place to discuss state politics that I can find and I learned a lot through discussion.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

Can't wait for 0 people to join my Haibane Renmei community that I don't have the experience or patience to mod, nor the understanding of the source material to justify creating it in the first place

ETA: I just searched, and found out one person already has made a Haibane Renmei community. It has one subscriber, the person who made it, who has been inactive since 2022. There are some things that simply can't be replicated in a smaller platform.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Post something and see if you can stir up activity?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago

Modding a niche Lemmy community is a breeze, honestly

Not much is happening, but not many troublemakers, either. Modding is pretty much zero effort.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The problem is that the niche community exist. In fact it probably exists several times, one in each instance with a small number of followers. Which makes really hard to go and decide in which community you want to invest.

It's one fundamental problem of federative systems and to be solved some of the federal nature need to be partially given away, but I think is necessary. I propose two solutions:

  1. Automatic merging of communities. All communities with the same name within a federation are de facto replicated. So a post in any community just replicate in all. It will make it seem like there's only one community.

2 Discourage. Everytime you try to create a community that already exists in other instance a pop up appears that encourage you to just go to the other community. For already duplicated communities messages are sent to concentrate in the biggest one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Kbin had a cool feature where you could see other subs where a link was reposted to, was great for finding what's active or dead.

Wish that one made it to Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

For someone whose major gripe is whining you sure seem to do a lot of it.

I take offense to it because you're suggesting that the problem is us, and not the system which resulted in empty communities

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I did. There's almost zero engagement. My most popular thread is a meta narrative about me being in there talking to myself. There were at least two other attempts that are even more inactive. Not enough of y'all are into synthesizers.

https://lemm.ee/c/synthesizers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

We need better discoverable tools. I subscribed to the community

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

😄😁👋

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think there are any" rant" communities?

Lemmy needs that kind of large general topic community to redirect users to smaller niches communities.

I too also wouldn't want to mod it, but I think it'd be great for herding up angry lemmy users sharing the same frustrations, so they could be redirected or start new communities for the particular topic.

The reason is that everyone enjoy reading and writing rants about something, so the rant community will automatically grow many subscribers coming in from all kinds of searches.

For example, a user ranting about "womens pants without pockets" would get much more engagement than someone just creating and posting about a community for womens pants. The rant comment section would also already often include the potential users for a new community.

The general discussion doesn't really cut it, because it's too nice and polite and weird angry rants don't really fit in there.

The thing is that (also in real life) when someone needs something bad enough, they'll get angry, and that anger can be channeled into something useful, because they're willing to collaborate with others who can help them or who at least supports them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

I mean, that redirection then needs to work. At the moment, nobody in the Movie/TV communities is redirecting me to a specific TV show community saying "hey this exists, you can also post there". Etc etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I keep looking where on my local ATM machine that I can exchange internet points to ducats

doubloons would be acceptable likewise as well

[–] [email protected] 173 points 1 day ago (12 children)

As a man whose started 7 different communities I'd like to defend those people saying, if you don't immediately get a good response it starts feeling like screaming into the void.

I started a meme community [email protected] and it immediately took off and is doing well. On the other hand other my worst community got 2-3 people making one or two comments after a month of 2 posts everyday.

Meme communities do well. Niche communities require lots of people finding it and being active.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 day ago (20 children)

This is kind of bullshit. On a big platform, like Reddit, where there are orders of magnitude more users, the likelihood is that there are a good number of people interested in whatever niche topic you want. That's a draw for a lot of people. I left Reddit for Lemmy for good, but we're just not up to that kind of user base.

And it's not zero effort to get a community going and keep it active, especially with a small user base. It's perfectly reasonable for someone to want a place that discusses their niche interest without wanting to be responsible for running that place. It doesn't make them bad or lazy.

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

I see this response all the time "create your own if you want to see niche communities and Reddit communities migrate here." Well, if I have the bloody time to moderate, or even if I do, will there be many people? And if there are many people, do I have the time to moderate? What if there are mod bickering and drama?

The question is time. Does anyone else have the time to moderate and put up with BS inevitable with most communities?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

I've been asking for a personal finance community for a while. The only US-based one I've found is on .ml, which...ew. I haven't made one because I do not have the time to mod a big, popular sub like that one will hopefully become.

Buuuuut I got tired of waiting for someone else to do it so I made it: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

I'm sure it will be a shitshow but at least I tried.

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