Attempts to create niche communities that ended up being the owner talking to himself and receiving 2 upvotes. (niche coms appear to be gaining steam)

  • krayj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I don’t think anyone disagrees with that…I just think it’s important to be realistic here. For niche communities to thrive the way they thrive on reddit, it’s just a numbers game. They have the numbers. Lemmy doesn’t. Lemmy is about two orders of magnitude short of the numbers of users needed to achieve the critical-mass / synergy that would be needed to make most niche communities actually viable here. And even then…it’ll probably take even more users than that because the very nature of lemmy is fragmentation/distributed - so having the total numbers still might not be enough.

      • Brainsploosh@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 months ago

        A lot of the niche subs died over time as well, it’s rare to see activity in any of the subs you googled to find

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Yea it’s going to take a while before some of the communities get going.

      I think at this point, each community is going to take a little bit of work with the other spaces where people for that niche are gathered. Having good quality content here, setting up a sister subreddit-community thing, etc.