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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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[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 182 points 3 weeks ago

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 !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz 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.

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 3 weeks ago

But even aneurysmposting, the most successful wouldn't survive if I wasn't regularly posting. Partially bc people just forget a community exists. I end up posting in the same 10-15 communities since I can't think of relevant communities to post in; even if they exist very often.

I enjoy running aneurysmposting and !inmymind@lemmy.dbzer0.com since there only I can post and there is no pressure. It basically is like posting to local, but I have an archive if everything I post.

Similarly !shortstories@literature.cafe is another community I made and enjoy posting on, but my posts are like 50% of that instance and 80% of that community. But its a great community otherwise.

The other 4 have been different levels of disappointing.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago

Hey fam, go to !fedigrow@lemm.ee and check out the weekly "How are you doing with your communities?" post if you haven't already. It's like a support group for people keeping niche communities alive.

[-] variants@possumpat.io 16 points 3 weeks ago

Hi my name is variants and I'm a niche community mod

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[-] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

I feel you as I too struggled to keep small community afloat and alive. And it sometimes does feel like you are screaming in to the void. I was kinda fortunate in a sense that my community got atleast some trafficin votes/comments and that motivated me to stay and post.

My point is that it's always better to try to do something (even if it fails) than just whine about it.

I also want to salute you (and people like you), we are all here in part because you take time of your day to find\make and post stuff. Even if in the moment it doesen't get noticed or feels like it's in vain, know that it is never for nothing - you're making the hour\day or even week of 100s of people better

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[-] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago

And still, the community I started ( !dontdeadopeninside@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ) somewhat exists alongside it. Although Im afraid you've won.

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

Well you started later and used a reddit import as a template which people can be a little averse to. But the community is doing really well and you've taken good care of it. Keep it up mate!

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 weeks ago

Absolutely this. I've started a few, and after being the only one to ever post on one of them, I have practically given up. It also burned me out of a hobby.

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[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 125 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago

Especially if you didn't have a lot of spare time. With an active community you can just dip into discussions when you have the time. With a community you're trying to establish yourself you absolutely have to provide a steady stream of content until it (hopefully) takes off.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Right, exactly. And let's not forget that a healthy percentage of all online communities is made of lurkers who don't really want to post at all, but they enjoy reading stuff they're interested in.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You could always go one level up. Like instead of a crochet community and a knitting community you could have a yarn community that incorporates all types of weaving with yarn.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

For sure, though that really doesn't solve the problem. If I'm really into sports-themed shot glasses, making a post in a community for drinking ware, or for sports merchandise, isn't going to mean I get more content about sports shot glasses, and it doesn't increase the number of people on the site who have something to say about them. On a platform with millions of users, there might be enough other people with the same interest to generate a critical mass of content.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah but everyone seems to be expecting Lemmy to just turn into the high point of Reddit. Reddit wasn't built in a day and neither will Lemmy be built in a day.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Completely agree. I personally I'm fine with the trade-off I made. There's even some benefits to a smaller site. I remember on Reddit there were lots of times I didn't make a comment, even when I had something to say, because there were already literally thousands of comments, some with thousands of upvotes, and I figured anything I said would be lost in the din. Here, if you've got something to say, it's very likely to be seen.

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[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 82 points 3 weeks ago

The problem isn't that they won't create them, there's insufficient biomass to populate them.

If I want to talk about a 5-year-old video game with myself, I'll just open Notepad.

[-] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

As @Zombiepirate@lemmy.world said in a comment here, we can use general communities to find "biomass needed" to populate small communities

Although I can see the point you are making, and I agree to some extent. I still think it is better to try

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 80 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 weeks 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

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[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 69 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'd never seen this community before. Subscribed!

I'm terrible at keyboards, but I do like to play with 'em.

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 51 points 3 weeks ago

I've moderated communities before. No thanks.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah the level of effort to keep the community engaged and to moderate the content is a tough job and really only possible for people who are really dedicated.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 39 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

!eldenring@lemmy.world only has about 3 active users, not including myself. The DLC is still pretty new and it's a massively popular game.

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[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago

I wish instead that people would post in the general communities first, then spin off into a new community if there is interest.

Like, we don't need a whole community for the new Dragon Age game or whatever, but we do have a games community that would benefit from the post. Then if there are 20 Dragon Age posts every day it could obviously support it's own community.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

This. All of us Reddit Refugees (me included) fucked up when we arrived and put the cart before the horse. Lemmy is like a small town; you may simply not get all the specific communities you want, but there's probably somebody with a similar enough interest that they'll talk to you about the stuff you like, and they probably have things that you would like to talk about if you saw it. Higher-level categories should do fine unless and until a certain type of content starts to annoy other users by its sheer prevalence.

As someone else said, Lemmy is the niche community.

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, there's no use in speed-running Reddit.

Let's make our own thing.

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[-] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

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?

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[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

whining about whining. classic!

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 14 points 3 weeks 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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[-] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

Going against the post's spirit, but...If you're not finding a community for your interests (or only finding abandoned/inactive ones), and don't want to create one (or try to get existing ones going), you're welcome over in !general@lemmy.world. Post about whatever, find likeminded folks, then if ya think there's enough of ya, you can make a separate community without it being one person posting into a void.

Also there's !justpost@lemmy.world. Similar vibes.

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[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

Who gonna operate the sinkpissers community

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 weeks ago

That one comment on the asklemmy post radicalised my man.

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[-] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

No one is gonna engage lol

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[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

During the initial mass migration from Reddit I got the impression a lot of people were starting communities on Lemmy that had been successful on Reddit but put no effort into them. I'll bet there is a statistic yet to be figured out that says you need a million platform members before you can have enough members to sustain a niche community like c/gothcountry.

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[-] ddplf@szmer.info 19 points 3 weeks ago

Sure man, lemme just real quick create a whole ass community, spend countless hours striving to attract people and moderate it when these guys try to post some horrifying shit... all that to find the location of the one missing collectible from the game that I'm currently trying to complete.

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[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

Counterpoint: Sometimes you can kickstart a community that you want to see just by consistently posting content. !science_memes@mander.xyz 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 !spacemusic@lemmy.ca 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.

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[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Lemmy is my niche community

[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

communities require people. if ur the only one posting its not a community

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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] kraftpudding@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy-ass weights."

Ronnie Coleman

[-] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Can recommend. Sometimes it does really well, sometimes it doesn't. Its worth a try anytime anyways

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