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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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Flushed out niche communities. There was a real push to create communities a few months ago but it seems like a lot of them haven't been getting attention since the blackouts ended and a sizeable amount of people returned to Reddit.
It's understandable considering there's comparably less people. It would be harder to branch off from a gaming community to specifically a Splinter Cell community for example. That said a lot of the communities that were quickly created and seemingly abandoned aren't super flushed out with things like a logo or general information in a sidebar which might cause people to not post there to begin with.
I feel like these communities have a real decent chance especially if they are created in larger instances due to how many people sort by all/new on Lemmy compared to Reddit.
Maybe how easy it was to find posts on Reddit using a search engine? Like Googling "How to care for cast iron pans Reddit"
I don't think I'll miss the avatars, awards, the Redditisms, how much weight people put into upvotes, the sorting algorithms, and so on.
They shouldn't be created on larger instances, they really should be made on small niche focused instances to spread things out.
Where they'd be nigh impossible to find
And if lemmy.world went down it wouldn't be accessible, thus negating the reason for decentralization in the first place. Having everything placed in one instance is not good nor healthy for the future of the fediverse. Having things advertised in the new community community is a helpful way of doing so at least. Navigation of other instances needs to be improved upon though.
That's why I mentioned it. At least then they would show up locally for a group of people.
One thing that might help is advertising in a new-community community but afterwards it would require some extra effort to get it federated across different instances
This is something that will come as we build up numbers, and the fediverse is slowly getting there. I have tried breathing life into a few niche communities by adding some posts, going to have another go soon
I agree. I'm not rushing for it and try posting a lot more frequently than I did on Reddit. I think it's only a matter of time before the momentum really takes off
Same here. Can't count how many times I've thought, oh, I can ask online! only to remember that there likely isn't a community here fleshed out enough to provide useful information.
For example, I'm a Scout, about to turn 18, and I have a ton of questions regarding how I can be involved in the program after I become an adult. Can't ask reddit, and discussion related to scouting outside of Reddit is pretty limited.