1y ago

what are some dying niche lemmings?

Attempts to create niche communities that ended up being the owner talking to himself and receiving 2 upvotes. (niche coms appear to be gaining steam)

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Most of them? The fact that most niche communities failed to successfully migrate away from Reddit is the reason why Lemmy isn't really something I frequent as often as I would like these days.
Heck, it would probably be a whole lot easier to list the three niche communities here that may be thriving.
- It’s not like Lemmy had one shot and missed it. Reddit is almost 20 years old, your favorite communities probably weren’t poppin overnight. Lemmy is growing in daily posts and comments, give it time.
  https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=120
  
  I don't think anyone disagrees with that...I just think it's important to be realistic here. For niche communities to thrive the way they thrive on reddit, it's just a numbers game. They have the numbers. Lemmy doesn't. Lemmy is about two orders of magnitude short of the numbers of users needed to achieve the critical-mass / synergy that would be needed to make most niche communities actually viable here. And even then...it'll probably take even more users than that because the very nature of lemmy is fragmentation/distributed - so having the total numbers still might not be enough.
- Risa and...

!contract_bridge@lemmy.world.
Yes, literally the owner/mod talking to himself, sometimes to a wall. (sob)
- Well I don't know much about bridge and after watching Chico Marx play for a while on the 1950s televised bridge tournament I'm even more confused. Good articles though i wish you luck finding that partner.
  
  Much appreciated !

I think of the specific Lemmy communities especially when a more general community already exists. For example if there's a gardening community people may not post to the succulent community because it has a smaller community.
One nice thing about Lemmy though is as long as the community is created on a larger instance it should show up when users sort by all within that instance. It's not like Reddit where you have to to hope your initial self promotion really takes off and snowballs.
Due to this I continue to post content that fits smaller communities even if it's not going to get much attention.
- as long as the community is created on a larger instance it should show up when users sort by all within that instance
  This is an issue for communities that are on smaller instances, and with the current algorithm it's like a brick wall trying to break through to feeds of users on the big instances. For example, the most active college football community is !cfb@fanaticus.social but the abandoned community on lemmy.world keeps gaining subscribers (even with no content).
  As a whole, niche-driven instances (e.g. sport, film, literature, aviation) and geography-focused instances (e.g. midwest, dmv) just aren't gaining much traction.
  
  I mean I don't know about a lot of people but if I am searching for a community chances are I'm subscribing to all similar communities.
  There's also promotional communities within other instances where as long as one individual federates with it everyone should start to see it

I really wish my sports communities migrated over. Even a few dozen users would be better than talking to the play by play bots, although I think the bots here are much better than the ones on Reddit.

The two I most wish were more active are
!taskmaster@feddit.uk - The new series of Taskmaster UK is coming up and the 4th series of Taskmaster NZ just finished.
!oxygennotincluded@lemmy.world - I am very addicted to this game

r/obscuremedia was one of my favorite Reddit subs. There are communities on .world and kbin but they never took off.
- Hey, I'm trying!
  
  Thank you! I need to start pulling my weight.

c/lineageOS

Feel free to advertise your communities here:
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca
I requested the community a few days ago to get it rolling again. It's much harder to find and discover communities compared to Reddit, so communities need a lot more promo than they would have otherwise.
It doesn't have to be your community, and you don't need to say a lot. You can also just stay subscribed to see the cool communities that get posted.

Maybe most of mine. The more niche ones which nobody else ever posts to:
!yoursinclair@retrolemmy.com
!kfc@lemmy.world (this was actually abandoned so I just took it over so I could post weird kfc products to it!)
!teletext@fedia.io
!lemmings@lemmings.world (it did get some other posters at the start, now it's just me and everything I post gets at least one downvote almost immediately)

c/DunderMifflin@kbin.social

Still trying to make c/klipper a thing.

!thebrewery@Lemmy.World
I made it because it was one of my favorites to go to back on Reddit. But I'm the only one that has posted. I get very little to no replies on each post and I don't even know what else to post.
- The capitalisation was throwing errors for me too. Try: !thebrewery@lemmy.world
  
  I'm not sure what you mean? It takes me to it, but I must admit I don't know exactly how to link on lemmy. I just copied someone else's format

I add two of mine: !tennis_fans and !wimbledon

There's one dude named Maple who seems to be single handedly running a community called videogamebutts. His posts occasionally hit hot at like 2 am, for some reason.

!100yearsago@lemmy.world
Dying implies it was alive to begin with. But I'm not too bothered, because even the original 100yearago sub isn't super busy. It was when it first started because it was documenting WWI, but not so much now.

Oh so mine?
!pillow_talk@lemmy.world
- Hey, just a heads up, but the capitalisation creates a broken link:
  "The server returned this error: couldnt_find_community."
  !pillow_talk@lemmy.world is clickable (everything in lowercase)

what

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