Well, I don't know if "niche" is the best term, but I'm still pretty alone posting on
- !avatar@lemmy.world
- !lego@lemmy.world
- !football@lemmy.world
- !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee
- !yurop@lemm.ee
I also started two others recently
Part of the problem is the smaller instances don't even see those communities when you post, I was unaware of 75% of the communities you just listed. I have a micro instance, and if I don't subscribe I don't see it.
It's probably not much of an issue, given that most people are on a couple mega instances...
Hey, nice to see you here!
I know community discoverability can be an issue. When I launched !imaginary@reddthat.com and !dragonball@ani.social, I used my alts on the top 10 instances to subscribe to them so that they would show in the All feed of those instances.
For small instances, I tried to post too to !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, but beyond that there isn't really much I can do.
There was a tool that could help address that (I don't have the name right now), but last time I tried it, it wasn't working, so I'm not sure it's that useful.
Checking !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl can be useful sometimes
Yeah you pretty much have to use https://lemmyverse.net/communities
There's a feature request here that would help https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951
Consider participating in lemmy-federate.com/ ? That should help.
Dragged Dragonball over to my instance.
Thanks!
@rgullis@communick.news can you create !football@soccer.forum so we can try and transition that community over to there blaze is doing amazing work in terms of making it feel active, but I'm all about decentralization. I also think @kameecoding@lemmy.world and @baatliwala@lemmy.world would both be great as part of the moderation team.
To be honest as mentioned elsewhere I'm not the most convinced about having all of the theme instances managed by rglullis.
Raphael, don't get me wrong, you are doing a very good job, and I really hope you'll succeed with your new NLNet grant, but having all of those instances depending on you, even if you seem to have a backup person, seems risky.
@sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al, also the Euro 2024 is starting later this week, I think it's just too late to migrate now if we want a decent level of activity during the event. We can always revisit later, but I wouldn't move now.
I do own lemmy.futbol if someone would want to co create an instance, but frankly I do not have a lot of free time so I could only help out in a supporting capacity
You really dislike "main", huh?
There is also !talk@soccer.forum, if you prefer.
I've been most invested into helping !jrpg@lemmy.zip get going. It seems like there are plenty of lurkers and a growing amount of engagement by comments, but people are still shy about posting links or discussions. News in the genre has been slow the past couple months, though.
I tried with !gamemusic@lemm.ee. As a general rule, I'll prioritize posting content to smaller instances, and I picked out that community on my home instance to do so, but I think it's just not happening. I'm moving over to !vgmusic@lemmy.world.
I'm also glad !houseplants@mander.xyz is doing well. Seems like they've got a good plan going on over there, with relevant stickies, a useful sidebar, and link exchange.
Houseplants community seems great!
I like the houseplants stuff. I will add something useful to the bicycletouring sidebar too.
I started to post recently to !linux@programming.dev, good activity over there (after all, it's Linux on Lemmy), other people have started posting there too
I'm really digging the Linux content on Lemmy, it's already pretty lively
To be fair, that's probably the one topic the vast majority of users care about ha ha
Kinda happy how at the start of the season !bicycle_touring@lemmy.world got a bit of traffic. But i'm not all that hopeful really because the regular bicycling subs with way more subscribers have also very little traffic. I sometimes wonder if all that even makes sense here if it isn't about computers, memes or politics.
The camping, ultralight, outdoor communities are pretty much just dead.
Kinda happy how at the start of the season !bicycle_touring@lemmy.world got a bit of traffic. But i’m not all that hopeful really because the regular bicycling subs with way more subscribers have also very little traffic.
Nice that you got a bit of traffic. Maybe it stays low because people interesting in bicycle touring aren't that much on Reddit, without even mentioning Lemmy?
The camping, ultralight, outdoor communities are pretty much just dead.
Can you please provide links? Should they maybe try to consolidate at first, to get more activity in one place?
Yeah it is a niche activity, sure.
!camping@sh.itjust.works
!outdoors@lemmy.ml
!ultralight@lemmy.world
!solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net
!outdoor@slrpnk.netCamping i think theoretically has some actual users, the solarpunkers seem to mostly repost stuff, not do or plan to do something. I don't think consolidation will do much.
Good activity on !movies@lemm.ee, thanks to post from @Emperor@feddit.uk and
There is some progress on a potential bot, that would help for sure
Still a bit frustrating to see that the moderation team on !movies@lemmy.world isn't doing much with that place, but that's life I guess
Good activity on !movies@lemm.ee, thanks to post from @Emperor@feddit.uk and @UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk
Happy to have somewhere to post film news - I get a tonne in my feed but there are so many film communities I hadn't got round to figuring out which to commit to. You helped that choice along.
Still a bit frustrating to see that the moderation team on !movies@lemmy.world isn’t doing much with that place, but that’s life I guess
In the end, you can only worry about your own communities.
Yeah, I have a habit of sharing news that only really interests me. That's why I don't share everything I come across. A friend and I used to run a website together, and I got quite used to posting the latest film trailers and interesting news that I came across. Although sometimes I found it really hard to post news about films I didn't really care about. I had to write something to accompany the video.
In the end, you can only worry about your own communities.
We still managed to got !starwars@lemmy.world locked down, so there is an extend of influence we can have even on other communities
What about !moviesandtv@lemm.ee?
They permabanned me a while back for suggesting pinned posts in the community: https://lemm.ee/modlog/408863
I provided more explanations in this post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/13874713?scrollToComments=true
Other people have had the same kind of treatment. I even discussed with the lemm.ee admin about this, and he told me that even though he understood I got upset, he didn't want to interfere with community moderation.
So we started !movies@lemm.ee. Still feels a bit sour about this, I guess I was among the top contributors to !moviesandtv@lemm.ee
I've been trying to get a bit of life into !starwarsfigures@lemmy.world and !legostarwars@lemm.ee - Rome wasn't sacked in a day though and experience suggests bloody minded persistence is the key.
I also started !starwarshunters@lemmy.zip - still early days.
A couple weeks ago I started occasionally posting to !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip when the main daily poster said they were taking a week off. That worked out nicely. They were offline for a week again recently and I "filled in the gap" again with daily posting.
I was posting music links daily to !gothindustrial@lemmy.world last August but ran through my main playlist by March. I've been trying to post at least once a week since then.
!synthwave@lemmy.world only gets sporadic posting. I'm trying to post once a week.
On !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee the regular poster said they were out of content. A couple of us said we'd post, but personally I only have like 4-5 more posts worth of content.
Nice communities!
!superbowl@lemmy.world is still doing ok, though not quite at its peak. I don't think new subs are going up by much these days. I have seen comments by a few new names, which is very nice to see. Overall comment levels are about the same. Upvotes seem steady, but not as high as they were around the new year. I do think the year end festivities really boosted things though.
I'm happy to be ahead of !opossums@lemmy.world again though (no offense, I love opossums too, but I want to be #1 wild animal sub!) and I look to be top of the 2nd page of communities overall, so even though I'm not doing quite as well as I perhaps feel I should be doing, I feel I can't complain too much.
I still get a few positive compliments each week and people are sharing their personal stories with owls, which is always nice to hear. As long as I know the content is making people happy, I feel it's worth the work.
I've enjoyed having a few things to share with the !digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world community. I've gotten some great recommended reading materials from that group in return. Maybe I'll have to look into more collabs and get some cross promotion going.
It's hard, we probably made too many communities too quickly lol. But then again if you have a topic you're obsessed about then it's nice to have somewhere to post without worrying about spamming. Like I can't just endlessly post things about The 7th Guest or Deus Ex Randomizer to a normal games community, but spamming my own communities I do get some upvotes so I guess some people enjoy these posts.
I feel like people have been conditioned by Reddit to be hesitant about making posts. There's no reason for posting to have a high barrier of entry. Maybe we need to be more willing to post things, like people chatting in Discord.
And comments too, especially comments in old posts, Lemmy handles it way better than Reddit so feel free to drop comments in year old posts lol. Occasionally sort your feed by "New Comments" or "Active". I have a widget on my phone's home screen that shows my Subscribed feed sorted by New Comments. It was fun with old school forums and it's still fun on Lemmy.
Everyone else is linking their communities so what the hell https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/communities
Also !retrostatus@retrolemmy.com
And I post a lot to !idm@lemm.ee and !speedrun@sh.itjust.works even though I'm not a mod
Trying my best to keep casual HistoryLemmy alive. Sometimes I get contributors with great stuff in HistoryPorn, but I'm almost entirely alone in HistoryArtifacts, HistoryIllustrations, HistoryRuins, and HistoryMemes.
!Historymemes@lemmy.world
Drive by negativity for niche communities can have a outsized chilling effect, moderation tools to help the smaller discussions grow would be useful here too.
Drive by negativity for niche communities can have a outsized chilling effect
What do you mean? Sorry English isn't my first language
If a smaller community has people who don't like it, they can turn that small community into a place to be negative about what that community is trying to be.
So when people want to talk about that community, they go into the post, and they see negativity, and they're less likely to participate. They don't want to deal with the negativity, they don't want to deal with the naysayers
I guess that's the downside of being able to land on all with a topic posted to a niche community, which basically would never happen on reddit.
I'm pretty comfy and nappy on my two kbin / mbin magazines ( @fakemon@fedia.io and @pokemonfanfiction@fedia.io ), waiting for people to arrive. Yeah, unfortunately they are like three or four layers deep within "niche of a niche of a niche of..." but what'ya gonna do? it's the stuff that interests me that doesn't already have tons of people going about it already (hi, Linux communities!).
Good luck with those!
Are there active generic Pokemon communities on Lemmy/Mbin? I think I've never seen any
Danke!
I know there are a few generic Pokémon communities on lemmy. !pokemon@lemmy.ml is the one I see more content in but 80% of the time is just news announcements. We do have !pokemon@lemm.ee at home, too! And there's communities for Pokémon on both kbin.social and lemmy.world but they seem to be having federation issues (or I am), as I can't see full threads / posts from most of my instances, instead having to visit them directly.
