What are some dying and dead niche lemmings?

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 😄

!flashlight@lemmy.world started strong, but has definitely slowed down a little. !edc@sopuli.xyz (everyday carry pocket dumps) and !knives@sopuli.xyz have slowed down even more. Maybe they're too consumerish for Lemmy's culture.

Feel the same. Leftist culture probably also frowns at knives and such stuff, and sopuli is a Finnish instance which means its a lot of Europeans that love their EDC gear and knives, and feels like either too much aggressive or a luxury in leftists' minds. If it were communicated that guns are not the kind of gear that EDC lovers congregate over, it could become more appealing to Lemmy.

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.

I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you mean Lemmy communities, Lemmy instances, or something else?

This confused me, too. I generally see"Lemming" used as the equivalent of "Redditor": someone who uses Lemmy.
Lemmy communities
- While I absolutely abhor the use of ‘Lemmings’ in regards to anything related to Lemmy, I have only seen it used to describe the people that use it, and not the communities.
  
  You took a dumb thing and made it 1,000 times dumber.

A lemming that has taken off is https://startrek.website/c/risa !

I love my stream of Star Trek shitpost.

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !risa@startrek.website
Besides rise which was doing fine months ago have anything else taken off?(I've noticed a buzz of activity by city lemmings and such)

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.

!cordcutters@sh.itjust.works

!casualconversation@lemmy.world is getting more and more active, with a spontaneous AMA ongoing.

!moviesandtv@lemm.ee is quite active.

Nice community, thanks for the recommendation of casual conversation :)

https://awful.systems/c/sneerclub

It's too bad; monitoring and dunking on capital-R "Rationalist" billionaire worshipers is a good time.

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !sneerclub@awful.systems

I like !edc@sopuli.xyz, it has the potential and needs to migrate from Reddit. Glad to get r/piracy and r/datahoarder migrated over to here, although datahoarder still mostly is a second home at Lemmy.

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.