Don’t miss one, I want to hear it all.
malicious compliance
while curbing the number of “challenged the cook to test my spice tolerance and lost” posts
Lately I’ve been having to go back to Reddit to look at the gloryhammer and Dyson sphere program subs. The 2nd one has been more used after the recent update, just wish I could load any mods
At this point, it’s not the communities, it’s the engagement.
Bingo.
All the niche communities exist it’s just that nobody comments or posts anything for months on end. I actually think that the existence of many of the same communities on different instances is the main hurdle here. Drawback of the concept of the fediverse I suppose but it does make the experience on Lemmy much poorer in that regard.
This is a double edged sword. If we had enough people that the smaller communities filled out the main communities would be overridden with people instead of the small community feel we have now everywhere you go.
What’s the draw of having such a small community though? And why do you think that main communities would be overriden? Honest questions here I don’t quite understand what you are concerned about. I personally think that it’s the main problem with the fediverse right now, it’s only flavorless general posts and nothing from small niche interest that drew me to reddit in the first place.
just that nobody comments or posts anything for months on end
I post regularly in some magazines, yet nobody reply or interact
Some very nische anime communitys, but that would require more users in the first place.
Essentially all of the ones that I used. r/Minecraft, r/minecraftsuggestions, r/conlangs, r/vexillology, r/pixelart, etc.
The thing is that all of these have communities and magazines on the fediverse — it’s just that there’s little, if any, activity on them. I don’t think you can really say that these communities are here if they have one person posting on them regularly.
The only communities that actually have a solid amount of activity here are ones about memes and news. If that’s all that you used Reddit for, then the fediverse is doing great, and such people will act baffled at how anyone could stay on or miss Reddit. But for everyone else, the content just isn’t there.
Yeah, it’d be nice to see an active Geometry Dash community given that 2.2 just released. /m/geometrydash is in the abandoned magazines section, so I might request ownership and try to get a bit of activity going there.
Same thing for ttrpgs. That was pretty much all I used reddit for the last few years. It has since just gone away. I’ve functionally stopped accruing new rpg creators and news.
Also comics. I followed a lot of new creators in the last few years. Most of them only post on Reddit.